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3:25 PM ET, August 5, 2013

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Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans  —  (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Against Reality  —  Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time to repeal Obamacare.  Like the previous 39 votes, this action will have no effect whatsoever.  But it was a stand-in for what Republicans really want to do: repeal reality, and the laws of arithmetic in particular.
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Stan Collender / Stan Collender's Capital Gains …:
Budget Bedlam This Fall  —  August actually is a pretty good time to be in Washington.  —  Yes, the weather usually is awful.  But with Congress gone, getting to work isn't as stressful because there's less demand on roads and public transit.  You can get up later and still get to work on time.
Associated Press:
House GOP plans anti-Washington push in August
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Jillian Rogers / GOP.com:
RNC Chairman Calls on NBC and CNN to Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton  —  RNC will not partner with networks in 2016 primary debates  —  WASHINGTON - Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment …
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Mike Flynn / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE-RNC TO NBC, CNN: DUMP HILLARY DOCS OR WE WILL DUMP DEBATES  —  On Monday, RNC Chair Reince Priebus sent stinging letters to NBC and CNN concerning their recently announced decisions to produce films celebrating the life of Hillary Clinton.  The RNC sees the odd programing move …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
RNC warns networks: Drop Clinton movies or lose 2016 GOP debates
Lynn Sweet / Voices:
GOP threatens to ban debates on CNN, NBC if networks produce Hillary Clinton shows
Wall Street Journal:
Congress's ObamaCare Exemption  —  The President intervenes to give Members and staff a break.  —  To adapt H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class.  Witness their ad-libbed decision, at the 11th hour and on the basis …
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Health Care Law Raises Pressure on Public Unions
Discussion: msnbc.com, Wonkblog and Right Wing News
Associated Press:
Dead people gave nearly $600K to campaigns since 2009  —  WASHINGTON — The dead can't vote, but they can give money to politicians.  —  Thirty-two people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” have contributed more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates …
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Warning to Americans: Be Afraid, Very Afraid  —  It seems as if al-Qaeda, or its Arabian Peninsula branch, has succeeded in terrorizing the United States of America again, but this time without - as of this writing - detonating an ounce of C4.  It doesn't strike me as a wise idea …
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CBS News:
U.S. still on edge in face of uncovered terror plot
Discussion: CBS DC, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity  —  Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
Discussion: The Switch
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Firefox Zero-Day Used in Child Porn Hunt?
Discussion: Guardian, GigaOM and The Verge
blog.torproject.org:
Hidden Services, Current Events, and Freedom Hosting
Discussion: Firedoglake and Gizmodo
Prof Mark Post / BBC:
World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London  —  The world's first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a news conference in London on Monday.  —  Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty.
Discussion: Althouse
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New York Times:
The Last Temptation of Tina Brown  —  On Nov. 12, 2010, Tina Brown gathered the staff of her Web site The Daily Beast in the third-floor conference room at its Chelsea offices with its commanding views of the Hudson.  Brimming with the fervor she has brought to all her endeavors …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Governors Warn Party Members in Congress Not to Shut Government  —  MILWAUKEE — Worried about the potential impact on the fragile economies in their states, Republican governors this weekend warned their counterparts in Congress not to shut down the federal government as part of an effort …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Newt Gingrich sees major Mideast mistakes, rethinks his neocon views on intervention  —  Welcomes libertarian debate on U.S. military involvement  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a leading neoconservative hawk and staunch supporter of Israel, says the U.S. military interventions …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CBS DC
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
What Is Chris Christie Doing Right?  —  He's hugely popular in a state way to his left.  He's unafraid to take on a national party considerably to his right.  And he's most adored when he's acting reprehensibly.  —  In New Jersey, charisma is a blunt instrument.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Reaction
Christine McCarthy / KUTV-TV:
Beauty Queen Arrested For Throwing Homemade Bombs  —  (KUTV) Miss Riverton, crowned in June and set to compete in the Miss Utah pageant, was arrested early Saturday morning along with her three friends after allegedly throwing homemade bombs at people and homes.
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Olivia Nuzzi won't defend herself against the latest lies, so allow me  —  I'm no stranger to receiving hate and abuse on the Internet, and beyond.  I'm not going to link to any of it in this post.  But if you've been following my career or PandoDaily for a while, you've probably seen it.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Texas governor race 2014: Wendy Davis: I will run for reelection or governor  —  Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who skyrocketed to national fame after mounting a lengthy filibuster earlier this summer, on Monday said the only statewide office for which she's considering a run is governor.
 
 
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
76 senators sign letter demanding Obama take harder line against Iran
Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
Female economists: Pick Janet, but leave gender out of it!
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
Chad Scarborough / Politico:
Why the GOP's big money is failing
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
82 lawmakers ask for end to ban on gay men donating blood
Kirit Radia / ABC News:
Lady Gaga, Madonna Facing Punishment in Russia
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP pollster: Yes, Republican primary voters do support immigration reform
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Alan Chambers, Exodus International's Former President, On Sexual Labels, ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Cruz plans second trip to Iowa
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Rush Holt blasts Cory Booker in ad
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Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw
Discussion: GigaOM and Althouse
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
New study finds vast online marketplace for guns without background checks
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
McConnell slams GOP challenger as ‘Bailout Bevin’ in new ad
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CNN
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Steve Schmidt Says Republican Campaigns Haven't Changed. But They Will.
Discussion: The Fix