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2:50 AM ET, July 31, 2014

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Way More Obsessed With Impeachment Than Republicans  —  House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that Republicans have no plans to impeach President Obama, and that all the impeachment talk was driven by Democrats hoping to stir up their base.  —  Boehner's statement isn't literally true …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
21 Emails From the Democratic Party About Impeachment  —  President Obama's supporters are using fringe threats as a potent fundraising tool.  Here's what it looks like.  —  By almost every indication, President Obama is not going to be impeached.  —  Sure, there are rabble-rousers …
CNN:
Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment  —  Washington (CNN) - Congressional Democrats say they're the gifts that keep on giving.  —  Rep. Steve Israel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Wednesday that conservative calls …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama  —  The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225 to 201 on Wednesday to authorize Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to sue President Barack Obama and others in his administration for failure to fully implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
Lauren French / Politico:
House votes to sue Obama  —  The House voted along party lines Wednesday to move forward with a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, escalating tension between the executive and legislative branches months before the pivotal midterm elections.  —  The 225-201 vote authorizes Speaker John Boehner …
Politico:
House GOP in border-crisis chaos  —  House Republicans will vote to rein in the Obama administration's power to halt deportation for undocumented immigrants — a surprise move that comes as they struggle to attract support for their bill to address the crisis at the border.
Discussion: CNN
CNN:
GOP-led House authorizes lawsuit against Obama
Discussion: New Day
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Lawsuit first step down ‘road to impeachment’
Discussion: Roll Call and Real Clear Politics
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to GOP: Stop hating
Nathan Schacht / Media Trackers:
Secretive Leftwing Network Discovered through WI Records Law  —  A low-profile Google Group used by over 1,000 state and national leftwing leaders and activists has been discovered thanks to Wisconsin's open records law.  A Media Trackers inquiry into the actions of a University …
Discussion: The Mahablog, RedState and Vox Popoli
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
We Never Tried To Impeach Bush, Says Democratic Lawmaker Who Co-Sponsored Bush Impeachment Bill  —  “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority.”  —  View Video ›  —  Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee argued Wednesday …
Discussion: Mediaite
ABC News:
US Condemns Shelling of UN School in Gaza  —  The White House condemned the shelling Wednesday of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that was sheltering Palestinians displaced by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.  —  The U.S. didn't assign responsibility for the shelling …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Gawker
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David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
An Apology: On Images From Gaza  —  I questioned the authenticity of a photo from Khan Younis hospital.  It was a mistake.  —  I made a mistake earlier this week in a series of Twitter posts.  It's not a mistake to which Atlantic editors were party in any way.
David Dayen / Salon:
Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin.  The consequences are all around us today"  —  From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible
Paul Rolly / Salt Lake Tribune:
Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’  —  Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
PROBE EXPOSES FLAWS BEHIND HEALTHCARE.GOV ROLLOUT  —  FILE - This Nov. 5, 2013 file photo shows Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer woes that paralyzed the president's …
David Wasserman / Washington Post:
The most frightening candidate I've met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls  —  As a House analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, I've personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years, both to get to know them and evaluate their chances of winning.
Roger Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Yes, It Could Happen Again  —  Pessimism is a useful prism through which to view the affairs of states.  Their ambition to gain, retain, and project power is never sated.  Optimism, toward which Americans are generally inclined, leads to rash predictions of history's ending in global consensus and the banishment of war.
NBC News:
Analysis: Impeachment Talk Becomes a Cynical Game  —  So both sides are playing this cynical game, turning the midterms into a base election that will be decided by who best motivates their base rather than by trying to fix the country's problems.  (Republicans: “This President is breaking the law!”
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Sean Kennedy / CNN:
Climate group attacks Ernst on tax pledge, not climate
Associated Press:
Bush 43 writing about Bush 41  —  NEW YORK — His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.
Mitch Ginsburg / The Times of Israel:
3 IDF soldiers killed in booby-trapped UNRWA clinic  —  Forces were trying to safeguard building before demolishing a tunnel there when device exploded, also injuring 15 other troops  —  Three IDF soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic that housed the opening of a tunnel.
Associated Press:
POWELL MAYBE NOT TOLD EARLY ABOUT CIA TECHNIQUES  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the dark about harsh techniques and secret prisons …
Discussion: NewsBusters
Todd Gaziano / National Review:
Top Ten Myths about the House's Proposed Suit Against Obama  —  The House is set to vote this week on H.R. 676, which would authorize the chamber to file a lawsuit against the president for his failure to faithfully execute the laws as the Constitution commands.
WSOC-TV:
CMC: Patient traveling from Africa shuts down ER  —  A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center - Main's Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.  —  A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
Discussion: The Raw Story and myfox8.com
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Rand Paul: MSNBC has ‘partisan cranks and hacks’  —  Arlington, Virginia (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul lambasted MNSBC on Wednesday, pledging not to be a guest on the network until it “apologizes” for airing “lousy lies” about his positions.  —  “So I was having a great day today, then I went to MSNBC …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Occupation of Detroit
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
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Associated Press:
Lawyers File Motion to Dismiss Penis Amputation Suit
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John Dickerson / CBS News:
Why the GOP's class of 2016 hopefuls may be the best in generations
Brad Smith / Wall Street Journal:
We're Fighting the Feds Over Your Email
Discussion: The Daily Caller and emptywheel
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Weighs in on OH, WI Voting Cases
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan on Immigration, Inversions, Impeachment and 2016
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Mystery Campaign Publishes Names, Addresses Of Opponents Of LGBT-Discrimination Ban
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Former IRS Official Called GOP ‘Crazies’ in Email
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
Satanists Troll Hobby Lobby
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Evan Thomas / The Atlantic Online:
The Untapped Secrets of the Nixon Tapes
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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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