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5:05 PM ET, July 7, 2013

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Health insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims — The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law's requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers' income and health insurance status.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, NewsBusters and Instapundit

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

A Hidden Consensus on Health Care — TO follow what's happening with the new health care law right now, you have to understand that for all the deep divisions on the issue, there's actually a real bipartisan consensus about how the American health care system ought to be reformed.

Discussion: National Review and Brad DeLong

Yuval Levin / National Review:

Obamacare's Invitation to Fraud — When the Obama administration announced last Tuesday that they would be delaying Obamacare's employer mandate and its associated reporting requirements by a year, many observers (myself included) noted that this could create problems for verifying eligibility for subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges.

Discussion: Doug Ross and VA Viper

Avik Roy / Forbes:
Not Qualified For Obamacare's Subsidies? Just Lie — Govt. To Use ‘Honor System’ Without Verifying Your Eligibility

Discussion: americanthinker.com

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

McCain calls Morsi ouster a coup d'etat, urges blocking aid — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi a coup d'etat and pressed the Obama administration to suspend aid to the country on Sunday. — “It was a coup and it was the second …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, CNN, Politico and Boston Herald

New York Times:
Morsi Spurned Deals, Seeing Military as Tamed

Discussion: Mondoweiss, Los Angeles Times, The Reaction, Hot Air and Bloomberg

Fox News:
McCain: After thinking ‘long and hard,’ US should suspend aid to Egypt

Discussion: Post Politics, National Review, Booman Tribune, “The Lid” and The PJ Tatler

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Perry vows Texas will pass abortion bill — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Sunday promised his state will push through a law restricting abortion rights, which has gained national attention, within the next 10 days. — “We have a special session with some important issues in front of us.

Discussion: CNN and LifeNews.com

Kevin Cirilli / Politico:

Perry: 2016 an option — Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't ruling out another Republican presidential run in 2016. But he didn't announce on Sunday whether he'll seek a fourth term as governor. — Asked about 2016 on “Fox News Sunday,” Perry said: “Well, certainly, that's an option out there …

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. — WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, The Hinterland Gazette, Via Meadia, Balloon Juice, The PJ Tatler, The Volokh Conspiracy, americanthinker.com, The Moderate Voice, The Gateway Pundit and emptywheel

Tim Alberta / mobile.nationaljournal.com:

House Republicans Draft Their Debt-Ceiling Playbook — With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations, House Republicans are drafting what members call a “menu” of mandatory spending cuts to offer the White House in exchange for raising the country's borrowing limit.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog and Taegan Goddard's …

Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:

Louisiana Republican Introduces Bill To Ban LGBT Rainbow Flag From Public Buildings — A city councilman in Louisiana is drafting a new set of ordinances that would ban the flying of rainbow flags on any public property after a constituent took umbrage with one such flag that was raised by a local LGBT organization.

Discussion: Mediaite, theadvertiser.com and The Raw Story

Corey G. Johnson / Sacramento Bee:

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval — The Center for Investigative Reporting — Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals …

Bobby Cervantes / Politico:

Menendez: Snowden asylum anti-U.S. — Sen. Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any country that accepts Edward Snowden — the former national security contractor who leaked NSA program details — “is taking a step against the United States.”

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

NTSB chief Hersman: San Francisco crash could have been worse — National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman on Sunday said investigators were in the initial stages of their probe into the deadly crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport …

Discussion: Politico and The Hinterland Gazette