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5:40 PM ET, July 10, 2013

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Hate All Legislation Now  —  Kill them all, actually.  —  One of the novel developments in conservative thought during the Obama years is a burgeoning hatred not merely for government but for lawmaking.  Before the Obama era, the ends of crafting laws divided the parties, but the means did not.
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Immigration Reform Has No Pulse  —  Let's kick things off on a high note today: A body doesn't become a corpse until sometime after it loses its pulse.  That might not be strictly correct biologically speaking.  Biologists probably don't refer to dead bodies as corpses.
Politico:
Immigration reform heads for slow death
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor  —  A conservative mogul worth $43 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people.  According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’  —  The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
Trishula Patel / Washington Post:
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms  —  Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.
Emad Mekay / Al Jazeera English:
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists  —  Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president.  —  But a review of dozens …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Public documents reveal US bankrolled Morsi opponents
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Egypt at the Edge  —  In every civil war there is a moment …
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Week
Steve Saleeba / CBS Boston:
‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court  —  BOSTON (CBS/AP) - A small group of demonstrators showed up at Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston on Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  —  Tsarnaev appeared in court for his first public hearing.
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests  —  Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
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Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions  —  (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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New York Times:
The Decline of North Carolina  —  Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate.
Discussion: @NCCapitol, Hullabaloo and msnbc.com
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Take cameras out of the courtroom  —  As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television cameras out of the courtroom.  —  Or at least, judges might be encouraged to exclude electronic media from high-profile trials.
Discussion: FishbowlDC and TheBlaze.com
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Associated Press:
John Kerry: Wife's condition improving  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry has paid tearful thanks for the outpouring of good wishes for his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and says her condition is improving.  —  Kerry, looking weary, was speaking at the opening of U.S.-China talks at the State Department Wednesday.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Kerry chokes back tears in first comments on wife's health scare
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
HISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA  —  A Senate committee made history on Wednesday by approving for the first time a trans-inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and picking up key Republican support from Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’  [VIDEO]  —  PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET  —  ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Begich: Is Palin even a resident?  —  Sarah Palin “quit on Alaska” as governor and “ has lost touch” with her home state, Mark Begich told POLITICO.  —  The Democratic senator said Palin, who said Tuesday she's considering challenging him for his seat in 2014, might not even be a resident …
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
McDonnell's corporation, wife allegedly benefited from $120,000 more from donor  —  RICHMOND — A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
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First Thoughts: On the ropes?
Felix Salmon:
Wage deflation charts of the day  —  NELP, the National Employment Law Project, has taken a detailed look at what happened to wages during the recovery — specifically, between 2009 and 2012.  They looked at the annual Occupational and Employment Statistics for three years — 2007 …
Lori Mitchell / WKRN-TV:
Naked wife distracts victim while husband burglarizes home  —  A woman distracted a man by skinny dipping in his pool while her husband burglarized the man's home.  —  The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 27 at the victim's home on Canterbury Lane in the Camelot subdivision in Crossville, about 100 miles east of Nashville.
Discussion: CNN, KDVR.com, Gawker and The Daily Caller
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan.  And nobody to use it.  —  The U.S. military has erected a 64,000-square-foot headquarters building on the dusty moonscape of southwestern Afghanistan that comes with all the tools to wage a modern war.  A vast operations center with tiered seating.
Lee Drutman / Sunlight Foundation:
Why the 2012 election was unusual — and why it wasn't  —  Back in the days after the 2012 election, when it became clear that despite losing the popular House vote, Republicans had actually won a sizeable majority in the House, plenty of speculation set in as to why: Was it gerrymandering?
 
 
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
The NSA slide you haven't seen
Discussion: CNN and Hot Air
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Appropriations committee responds to Jay-Z, Beyonce Cuba trip
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Wall Street Journal:
Ruling Against Apple Could Affect Media Negotiations
Telegraph:
Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian photographer who chronicled his own death
Rachel Maddow / PolitiFact:
Rachel Maddow says that Ohio budget includes requirement for transvaginal ultrasound
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
George H.W. Bush to visit the White House on Monday
Discussion: CNN
John_Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
House committee OK's new version of abortion bill
 Earlier Items: 
WMUR:
Romney to headline NHGOP fundraiser next month
Yahoo! News:
America no longer world's fattest developed nation, UN report says
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Daily Caller
Talking Points Memo:
Mike Lee Slams Obama For Trying To Fill Judicial Vacancies
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Explaining Eliot  —  He's bonkers — and always was
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Politicker
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Linchpin for Obama's plan to predict future leakers unproven, isn't likely to work, experts say
 

 
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