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12:00 PM ET, August 4, 2014

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Jen Psaki / US Department of State:
UNRWA School Shelling  —  Press Statement  —  Department Spokesperson  —  Washington, DC  —  The United States is appalled by today's disgraceful shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000 displaced persons, in which at least ten more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed.
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Haaretz:
Tractor rams Jerusalem bus in apparent terrorist attack
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Maurice Possley / Washington Post:
New evidence revives concerns that a man was wrongly put to death in 2004  —  CORSICANA, Tex. — For more than 20 years, the prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his three young daughters has insisted that the authorities made no deals to secure the testimony …
Discussion: Shakesville
Steve Latourette / Politico:
The Grifting Wing v. The Governing Wing  —  While the Tea Party is busy lining their pockets, the rest of the Republicans are actually trying to get things done.  —  Vocabulary.com defines a grifter as: A grifter is a con artist—someone who swindles people out of money through fraud.
Politico:
Barack Obama to reporters: 'I'll take a question'  —  President Barack Obama had just done the unthinkable.  —  He took questions last week from the White House press corps — not just once, but twice.  He didn't call only on the reporters who were selected ahead of time by his senior aides.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Holder exclusive — ‘Proud to be an activist’  —  Only two years ago, House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.  Recently, Senate Republicans have trashed the former head of his civil rights division, Thomas Perez, and blocked his current choice to run the division, Debo Adegbile.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and National Review
Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Military eradicates Hamas's crown jewel  —  Terrorists spent 5 years building cross-border tunnel network, army destroyed it in 2 weeks.  —  The IDF has destroyed Hamas's flagship terrorism project: its network of tunnels that snuck into Israel.  —  Hamas spent five years preparing …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
John Fund / National Review:
Don't Impeach Obama, Censure Him  —  Forty years ago this coming week, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency shortly after the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against him.  The consensus is that Nixon had committed wrongs that amounted to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” …
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David Jackson / USA Today:
WH: Obama undecided on immigration steps
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
The Hill:
Lott: Miss. GOP could use shake-up  —  Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) says Mississippi Republicans may need a regime change after the damaging primary fight between Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel.  —  “This has shown the fissures that are there and I do think the party leaders …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Rebecca Younger / Mirror.co.uk:
Ebola fears: A passenger died at Gatwick after getting off a glight fromm Sierra Leone  —  Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick.  —  Workers said they were terrified the virus …
Kevin Jenkins / Spectrum:
Bundy: Showdown with feds a spiritual battle  —  ST. GEORGE -  —  Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy told members of the Independent American Party gathered to hear him Saturday that the April confrontation between his family, federal agencies and Bundy's armed militia supporters was part of an age-old battle between good and evil.
Associated Press:
US SENT LATIN YOUTH UNDERCOVER IN ANTI-CUBA PLOY  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Watching the Eclipse  —  Ambassador Michael McFaul was there when the promise of democracy came to Russia—and when it began to fade. … “All of my work deals with the theme of exclusion.”  —  BUY AS PRINT » … BUY AS PRINT » … October 7, 2002"Melanie, find me a little pro-bono case to cleanse my palate."
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Netanyahu doesn't deny telling Kerry 'don't second guess me again'  —  Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not deny a report that he told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro “not to ever second guess me again” …
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Spiegel Online:
Israel Eavesdropped on John Kerry in Mideast Talks
Jon Prior / Politico:
Valerie Jarrett: Israeli strikes on civilians wrong
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and Mediaite
 
 
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The Do-Even-Less Congress
Lisa Bartley / abc7.com:
INVESTIGATION: SERIAL PLAINTIFF ALFREDO GARCIA DEPORTED TO MEXICO
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Public servants acting as public masters: Column
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Fox pundit rips Heritage CEO for creating a group of ‘all white’ impeachment supporters
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CNN anchor clashes with Perry over border crime statistics
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