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2:20 PM ET, July 2, 2014

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Emily Rudisill / A Bullseye View:
Target Addresses Firearms in Stores  —  Every day at Target, in everything we do, we ask ourselves what is right for our guests?  We make all of our decisions with that question in mind.  Questions have circulated in recent weeks around Target's policy on the “open carry” of firearms in its stores.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Two Guys With Guns Have Showdown On First Day Of Georgia's New ‘Guns Everywhere’ Law  —  A “misunderstanding” between two armed men in a Georgia convenience store led to an arrest on the very day that the state's new expansive gun rights law went into effect, according to The Valdosta Daily Times.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Dean Poling / Valdosta Daily Times:
First day of new gun law leads to arrest  —  On the first day of the new Georgia Safe Carry Protection Act, a misunderstanding between two armed men in a convenience store Tuesday led to a drawn firearm and a man's arrest.
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:   Big Win For Gun Control Groups: Target Bans Guns In Its Stores
Paul Horwitz / New York Times:
Hobby Lobby Is Only the Beginning  —  TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — THE United States Constitution speaks of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over “cases” and “controversies.”  But when social controversies do come before the court, its powers are limited.  In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores …
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ThinkProgress:
The Most Partisan Supreme Court Justice Of All  —  In mid-November of 2012, hundreds of tuxedo-clad Republican lawyers gathered at a hotel ballroom in Washington, DC.  They were a mix of heads hung in dejection and chests puffed out in compensatory bluster.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Hobby Lobby Is Already Creating New Religious Demands on Obama
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Exclusive: A Liberal Organization's Post-Hobby Lobby Battle Plan
Discussion: National Review
Politico:
Changed America This Year
Discussion: aflcio.org
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Male-female pay gap remains entrenched at White House  —  The White House has not narrowed the gap between the average pay of male and female employees since President Obama's first year in office, according to a Washington Post analysis of new salary data.  —  The average male White House …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: No regrets on waiting for GOP
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Hullabaloo
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Immigration advocates to Obama: Go big
Discussion: neo-neocon and New York Times
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Poll: Obama worst president since WWII  —  A plurality of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, a new poll says.  —  According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 33 percent of voters think the current president is the worst since 1945.
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Another federal judge tells IRS to explain itself on lost emails  —  IRS attorneys will be even busier than normal next week, because another federal judge has told them to show up in court July 11 to defend the federal tax agency.  —  They will have to explain to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:   More on the IRS's Illegal Destruction of Evidence
Reason:
Selling Obamacare  —  The weird, misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law  —  Mark Hemingway from the August/September 2014 issue  —  It might seem odd that Joanna Coles, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan, was invited to the White House for lunch.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP has lost O-Care fight
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Nazi ‘perfect Aryan’ poster child was Jewish  —  Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish  —  When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis.
Fox News:
Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest  —  A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.
thegazette.com:
Clinton, candidates: Come to Iowa  —  In her book “Hard Choices,” Hillary Clinton wrote, “The night of the Iowa caucuses, when I placed third, was excruciating.”  —  Clinton might be surprised to know many Iowa activists and caucusgoers felt similarly regarding her 2008 campaign in the Hawkeye State.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and BuzzFeed
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:   Without even running, Hillary Clinton achieves an Iowa victory
Charles Murray / Salon:
Charles Murray's new disgrace: “Bell Curve” author has a “liberal” obsession  —  But here's what's really behind the disingenuous game  —  There was a time in the not so distant past when the “L” word ("liberal") was so toxic that only the most die-hard, Birkenstock-shod, soy latte swillers would even dare to identify as such.
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Last Time the Supreme Court Meddled in Women's Health, It Was a Big Setback for the GOP  —  By ruling that family-owned businesses can deny contraceptive coverage to their employees, the Supreme Court handed a victory to a handful of businesses whose owners equate contraception with abortion.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Layoffs at Wall Street Journal as Part of Newsroom Re-evaluation  —  The Wall Street Journal has cut between 20 and 40 staff members in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, as part of a re-evaluation of its newsroom that came at the end of its financial year.
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook Lawyer: That Emotion-Manipulation Study Was About Customer Service  —  ASPEN, Colo.—During a session on freedom of speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival, hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic, Facebook's Head of Global Policy Management, Monika Bickert, was asked …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Give Scotusblog a Seat in Court  —  At a few minutes past 10 a.m. on Monday, as the Supreme Court began to issue the final rulings of the term, 60,000 people — including journalists at major news outlets around the country — were following the live feed of Scotusblog, a website devoted …
Hillary Clinton / Guardian:
what question would you ask her?  - video  —  What one thing should we ask Hilary Clinton?  Ahead of an exclusive video interview with former US secretary of state, Guardian readers have the opportuity to get involved.  The former first lady won't speculate on whether she will run for president in 2016 …
 
 
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
As Numbers Grow, Single Women Emerge as Political Powerhouse
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Pittman / Politico:
Experts: Health records hack coming
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Panelist: Single Women Depend On Gov't Because They Don't Have Husbands (VIDEO)
Associated Press:
Gary Johnson gets into pot
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The new Bloomberg Media  —  Last weekend, Bloomberg L.P. held …
Grant Gallicho / Commonweal Magazine:
Archbishop Nienstedt under investigation.
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Rick Perry to Obama: Come to the border
Discussion: Monitor and The Gateway Pundit
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
A Solar Show With Mixed Reviews
Discussion: Althouse
Dion Lefler / Wichita Eagle:
Sens. Moran, Roberts: Don't go back to Iraq now
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon sends attack helicopters to Iraq
Discussion: RedState and ParaPundit
Lina Khan / Washington Monthly:
Thrown Out of Court  —  How corporations became people you can't sue.
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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