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9:25 PM ET, August 2, 2013

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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 232-185 to block the IRS from enforcing ObamaCare  —  The House voted Friday to prevent the IRS from enforcing any aspect of ObamaCare, a bill meant to exact revenge against an agency that Republicans say is incapable of neutral enforcement of the law.
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Michael Kitchen / MarketWatch:
Congress to get Obamacare exemption: report … LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The White House has approved a deal that will exempt members of Congress and their staff from some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, Politico reported late Thursday.  Under the law, popularly referred to as Obamacare …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:   House GOP Passes 40th Obamacare Repeal Bill Before Going Home For Summer Recess
Conor Friedersdorf / Reuters:
The Attack in Benghazi: Worth Investigating After All  —  CNN reports that dozens of CIA agents were on the ground there — and that they're being pressured to keep quiet.  Why?  —  Suddenly it is imperative that Congress investigate details surrounding the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
State Department Issues Global Travel Alert
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Charlie Rangel on Immigration, Pope Francis & His Successor  —  He's survived redistricting and a censure.  At 83, Harlem's controversial House stalwart is finally confronting retirement.  He won't be going quietly.  By David Freedlander.  —  Charlie Rangel barged into his office …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Charlie Rangel: Tea Party Is ‘Same Group’ Of ‘White Crackers’ Who Fought Civil Rights  —  In an interview with the Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers are the “same group” who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement.
Allegra Stratton / BBC:
Tories hire key Obama strategist  —  The Conservative Party has hired Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina for its general election campaign team, BBC Newsnight has learned.  —  Sources confirmed that he would act as a campaign strategy adviser to the Conservative party.
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jim Messina jumps across the pond
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Fox News:
Seattle officials call for ban on ‘potentially offensive’ language  —  Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms “citizen” and “brown bag” are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Obama Narrows Field for Fed Chairman to 3  —  WASHINGTON — This week, in a closed-door meeting of Congressional Democrats with President Obama, Representative Ed Perlmutter of Colorado bluntly said what has been on many politicians' minds: “Larry Summers.  Bad choice.”
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sex, Money and Gravitas
Talia Buford / Politico:
Martin family pushes Trayvon Martin amendment to black journalists  —  The family of slain teen Trayvon Martin said Friday they will continue to fight for an amendment to limit Stand Your Ground laws for as long as it takes.  —  “We understand sometimes it's a long journey to justice,” …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Neocon Revival  —  They say you can define what kind of conservative a person is by what year they want to go back to.  Some conservatives, apparently including some in Senator Rand Paul's office, want to go back to the 1850s.  They believe that Abraham Lincoln helped put us on the path to the leviathan state.
New York Times:
A Republican Case for Climate Action  —  EACH of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency.  We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally.
Washington Post:
Company with ties to Terry McAuliffe is under SEC investigation  —  An electric-car company co-founded by Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its conduct in soliciting foreign investors, according to law-enforcement documents and company officials.
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:
George Clooney To Hedge Fund Honcho Daniel Loeb: Stop Spreading Fear At Sony  —  EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney, who yesterday sent his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov to Hollywood to show Sony and Fox a first cut of their Oscar-season period film The Monuments Men, has spent …
Marina Galperina / ANIMAL:
Drunk Russian Soldiers Attack Lonely LGBT Rights Protestor, Fight Cops  —  Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers and pilots spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness.
James Arkin / Politico:
Alaskans don't back Palin for prez  —  There would be no home field advantage in Alaska for Sarah Palin if the former governor made a run for the White House in 2016, according to a new poll released Friday.  —  Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democrats in 2016 …
Discussion: CNN and Public Policy Polling
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
How fractured is the GOP?  —  Acombination of early presidential maneuvering and internal policy debate is feeding yet another iteration of that media perennial: the great Republican crackup.  This time it's tea party insurgents vs. get-along establishment fogies fighting principally over two things …
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time  —  When the payroll report was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly three years: that the US was slowly being converted to a part-time worker society.
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
New Nixon audio: “Aristotle was a homo... Roman emperors, fags”  —  This is brilliant.  They've found new audio of then-President Richard Nixon complaining about a TV show he stumbled upon that was glorifying homosexuality: “All in the Family.”  —  It's hard to imagine Nixon wasn't familiar with All in the Family.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Dem Senator: Obama Doesn't Offer Much to Middle America  —  Arkansas senator Mark Pryor blasts the president in new comments made to the Associated Press.  “[I]f you look at the president's policies, he just doesn't offer a lot to states like Arkansas,” Pryor, a Democrat, told the wire service.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Issa to subpoena IRS documents  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Friday that he would subpoena documents from the IRS over its scrutiny of Tea Party groups, accusing the agency of stonewalling its requests.  —  At a Friday hearing, Issa said that the IRS …
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Jake Tapper: Remember when Rand Paul asked Hillary about gun running in Libya?  —  Nearly a year out from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, CNN's Jake Tapper unveiled what looks like an enormous puzzle piece that's been missing from the “phony scandal.”
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Incoming Iranian Leader Calls Israeli Occupation ‘a Sore’  —  TEHRAN — Iranian leaders have often called Israel a “cancerous tumor” that “should be wiped from the pages of time.”  But on Friday, the country's incoming president, Hassan Rouhani, struck a relatively more moderate tone …
 
 
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Jobs and Taxes  —  Job creation and tax reform are two major challenges …
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BuzzFeed:
Senate Approves Several Out Gay Nominees, With No Opposition
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
New Links Emerge in the IRS Scandal
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Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senators spar over definition of ‘journalist’ in seeking to protect them
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Yahoo! News:
The ‘Straight Talk Express’ is back: McCain on his fears about the future of the GOP
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Putin's ‘zero-sum’ misstep
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Olivia Williams / Daily Mail:
'I'm a Pastafarian': Man who claims his religion forces him to wear a sieve on his head given …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Telegraphs Mass Filibuster Of Obama's Top Judges
 

 
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