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11:45 AM ET, June 14, 2014

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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner's Emails?  Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them  —  Obama needs to address this ‘phony scandal’ and the public trust with real transparency.  —  A sloppy mistake, the government calls it, but you couldn't blame a person for suspecting a cover-up …
Discussion: CBS News, Althouse and American Thinker
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waysandmeans.house.gov:
IRS Claims to Have Lost Over 2 Years of Lerner Emails  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 - April 2011.
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed Friday that it cannot …
Discussion: Power Line
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Blame Obama First  —  On June 12, as al Qaeda forces marched toward Baghdad, John McCain spoke on the Senate floor.  Noting that the al Qaeda affiliate ISIS has conquered a third of Iraqi territory, has overrun the city of Mosul, has captured abandoned American equipment …
Discussion: The New Republic and Hot Air
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
On Iraq, let's ignore those who got it all wrong
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Obama ‘urgently’ considering air assault on targets in Syria and Iraq
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP agenda on hold until the party analyzes Eric Cantor's loss  —  VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PARTY 2014 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS ERIC CANTOR MAGAZINE DAVE BRAT  —  It's only natural that a who's-up-and-who's-down leadership struggle would consume House Republicans after the stunning primary defeat of Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Brian Umana / Washington Post:
I'm a Democrat and I helped the tea party unseat Eric Cantor
WSB-TV:
Police: Waffle House employee shoots, kills customer  —  FULTON COUNTY, Ga. —  Police say a Waffle House cook shot and killed a customer after an argument Friday morning.  —  Officers said they were called to the restaurant on Fulton Industrial Boulevard and Shirley Drive just after 4:30 a.m.
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
Here's The Shocking Way Google Uses ‘Bigotry’ In A Sentence  —  Google has an odd way of looking at “bigotry.”  —  When you punch in the word “bigotry” into the Google search engine, here's what you'll find.  —  Interesting.  Why is “right-wing” a correlation to bigotry?
Stephanie Simon / Politico:
The fall of teachers unions  —  As the two big national teachers unions prepare for their conventions this summer, they are struggling to navigate one of the most tumultuous moments in their history.  —  Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: ‘Liberating’ to speak my mind  —  Hillary Clinton said Friday that she's “totally done” curbing her speech for political reasons and finds her new perspective “liberating,” following a week of bruising headlines over missteps in her first round of interviews to promote her new book.
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
Masters of Love  —  Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth.
Abby Simons / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Supreme Court endorsee's pending DWI case surprises the GOP  —  Only a few knew about Supreme Court candidate Michelle MacDonald's arrest.  —  Attorney Michelle MacDonald, the GOP's endorsed candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest …
Arizona Republic:
Horne threatens to sue feds over transporting migrants to Ariz.  —  Hundreds of migrant children are being housed in detention centers in southern Arizona that the Arizona Attorney General's Office will soon be inspecting.  Unaccompanied children have been crossing the border illegally.
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Alex Jones & Larry Pratt: Obama Training Military To Attack Tea Party  —  Conspiracy nut Alex Jones says the Obama administration has been hot on the heels of the Tea Party movement and will use tanks, drones and everything else to mount an attack on them.  —  Ever since the Bush administration …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
After hours of strife, lawmakers pass budget without Medicaid expansion  —  RICHMOND — The Virginia General Assembly adopted a long-delayed state budget late Thursday, acting after an hours-long debate among newly ascendant Senate Republicans who fought among themselves over whether …
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
THAD COCHRAN: I GREW UP DOING ‘ALL KINDS OF INDECENT THINGS WITH ANIMALS’  —  Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) provided his latest head-scratching comment in public, this time joking he engaged in illicit activities with animals as a child.  —  “[We'd] get back [to the Pine Belt-Hattiesburg area of Mississippi] …
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Kevin Bohn / CNN:
First on CNN: Chamber mounting new effort for embattled Cochran
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Juliet Williams / Associated Press:
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Wisconsin attorney general: Prosecutors could charge clerks for issuing gay marriage licenses
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Shawn Boburg / NorthJersey.com:
Port Authority acknowledges SEC probe into use of funds on N.J. road repairs