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6:00 PM ET, June 14, 2013

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Daniel W. Drezner:
Why Obama is arming Syria's rebels: it's the realism, stupid.  —  Red line!!  RED LINE!!!  RED LINE!!!!: … Naturally, this will feed the “return of the liberal hawks” meme that's spreading in some quarters.  Other commentators will gnash their teeth or decry that this is the first ill …
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Micah Cohen / New York Times:
Polls Show Chemical Weapons Affect Public's View on Syria  —  The Obama administration, which had long resisted sending weapons to antigovernment forces in Syria's civil war, has announced plans to supply the rebel forces with small arms after concluding that the troops of President Bashar al-Assad …
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Obama to press Putin on Syria when they meet Monday
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Gun groups try to ‘terrify’
Discussion: Daily Kos
James Hohmann / Politico:
Santorum: Why Romney didn't win  —  Rick Santorum ripped Mitt Romney's campaign Thursday for mishandling President Barack Obama's “you didn't build that” gaffe last summer.  —  The former Pennsylvania senator recalled all the business owners who spoke at the Republican National Convention.
Will Weissert / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Texas gov. signs ‘Merry Christmas’ law; says religious freedom is not freedom from religion  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Surrounded by sleigh bell-ringing Santa Claus impersonators, Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in Texas public schools …
Erik Wemple:
CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson's computer  —  CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised.  When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Obama's $100M Africa trip ‘great bang for our buck’  —  President Obama's $100 million trip to African offers “great bang for our buck,” the White House said Friday.  —  Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes defended the cost of Obama's upcoming trip to South Africa …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Obama will defend Internet spying to Europeans
Discussion: CNN
Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic:
Franks firestorm spurs fundraising
Discussion: Politico and Post Politics
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Some Questions For and About Edward Snowden  —  Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that a number of people are pushing back against Glenn Greenwald's insistence that the PRISM program allows “direct access” to servers from Google, Microsoft and other tech companies.  I'm glad to hear that, because it raises some questions that deserve answers.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Religion and Inequality  —  About a century ago, Walter Judd was a 17-year-old boy hoping to go to college at the University of Nebraska.  His father pulled him aside and told him that, though the family had happily paid for Judd's two sisters to go to college, Judd himself would get no money for tuition or room and board.
Reason:
Tap It: NSA Slow Jam (featuring Remy)  —  Government surveillance never sounded so smooth...  Government surveillance never sounded so smooth.  —  Song written and performed by Remy.  Produced by Meredith Bragg.  About 2:45 minutes.  —  Scroll below for downloadable versions and subscribe …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and The Daily Caller
Michael Riley / Bloomberg:
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms  —  Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
The Bell Tolls for the ‘New Majority’  —  Next year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be.  —  Obamacare, a “train wreck” about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular IRS as enforcer.  —  The Obama media feel betrayed …
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Jeb Bush: U.S. economy needs immigrants because they're ‘more fertile’  —  Former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) argued Wednesday that the United States should pass immigration reform because the U.S. economy needs the labor of young immigrants, and immigrants are “more fertile.”
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Jeb Bush touts ‘fertile,’ pro-family immigrants
Discussion: Politico and CNN
IMF:
Concluding Statement of the 2013 Article IV Mission to The United States of America  —  1. The U.S. recovery has remained tepid over the past year, but underlying fundamentals have been gradually improving.  The modest growth rate of 2.2 percent in 2012 reflected legacy effects from the financial crisis …
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Freedom: The Unfolding Revolution  —  'Why are there no libertarian countries?  In a much-discussed essay for Salon, Michael Lind asks: “If libertarians are correct in claiming that they understand how best to organize a modern society, how is it that not a single country in the world …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
Do low taxes on the rich leave the middle-class with lower wages?  —  Raising taxes on the rich often gets proposed as a way of combating the rise of financial inequality.  But how important is tax policy, really?  —  Andrew Fieldhouse, a federal budget policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute …
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Paul Ryan explains GOP's 2012 loss  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday that he and Mitt Romney lost in November in part because they were arguing against the “empty promises” of the not-yet-implemented Obamacare law.  —  “This was the challenge that Mitt Romney and I had in this last election …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Al Gore: NSA's secret surveillance program ‘not really the American way’  —  Former vice-president - not persuaded by argument that program was legal - urges Congress and Obama to amend the laws  —  The National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and emptywheel
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cornyn emerges as key to 70-vote threshold for immigration reform  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is the big prize in the quest for more than 70 votes for immigration reform, but the Gang of Eight is split over whether he's worth wooing.  —  Cornyn told Republican colleagues at a meeting Wednesday …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Marsha Blackburn to Take the Lead on Revised Bill Restricting Late-Term Abortions  —  Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, told THE WEEKLY STANDARD Friday afternoon that she will manage the floor debate on a bill that would prohibit most abortions during the final four months of pregnancy.
Josh Margolin / ABCNEWS:
Christie, Bill Clinton Warm to Latest Bipartisan Presidential ‘Bromance’  —  What is it with Chris Christie and Democratic presidents?  —  First, the Republican governor from New Jersey surprised his party by embracing — both figuratively and literally — President Obama.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Voters still mad about lack of gun legislation  —  PPP's newest national poll finds on the 6th month anniversary of Newtown that voters are still angry with Congress over the lack of action on expanded background checks.  They continue to have overwhelming bipartisan support with 71% of voters favoring them to only 22% who are opposed.
Discussion: Business Insider
 
 
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chelsea Clinton: Girls need STEM role models
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama's Approval Rating Isn't Higher
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sympathy for the Luddites  —  In 1786, the cloth workers of Leeds …
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