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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 …
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Little Green Footballs, NewsHounds blog, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Politico and Boston Herald
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Businessweek:
News From Bloomberg — Obama Call for Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt
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The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers and BizzyBlog
Alarabiya.net English:
Cairo residents: ‘Heavily armed Islamists attacked us’
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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National Review and Brad DeLong
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Washington Post:
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.
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.
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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.
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LifeNews.com, ViralRead and CNN
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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 …
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The Hinterland Gazette
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.
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Booman Tribune, No More Mister Nice Blog, ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …
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 …
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 …
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Matt Ridley / Wall Street Journal:
Science Is About Evidence, Not Consensus — Last week a friend chided me for not agreeing with the scientific consensus that climate change is likely to be dangerous. I responded that, according to polls, the “consensus” about climate change only extends to the propositions that it has been happening …
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Power Line
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.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette
T. Steelman / addictinginfo.org:
Have We All Been Fooled By Edward Snowden? — At this point, the Edward Snowden saga seems to be running out of steam. The latest is that Venezuela and Nicaragua (out of at least 27 countries he asked) have offered him asylum so the story is almost at an end for now.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Huffington Post and CANNONFIRE
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