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• Jul 30, 2014 Steve King manages to attack Obama for birth control, rape and refugee crisis in just one sentence Steve King blames the unholy trinity of rape, refugee kids, and birth control pills on President Obama. Rep. Steve King of Iowa pulls off a perfect trifecta on CNN this morning: This is a man-caused disaster, and the man that caused it is Barack Obama with his DOCA policy, with his Morton Memos...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 ADP estimates 218,000 new private jobs were created in July, down by nearly a quarter from June Automatic Data Processing, which, among other things, handles payrolls for hundreds of thousands of clients, reported Wednesday that the private sector created 218,000 new jobs in July, considerably fewer than the 281,000 ADP reported last month. The report marks the fourth consecutive month ADP...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Reid pledges support for open-internet rules Last month, Daily Kos and other net neutrality activist organizations wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asking him to sign on to the efforts of more than a dozen members of his Senate caucus and House Minority Leader Pelosi and dozens of House Democrats to demand that the Federal...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 House Democrats and Calgary Cruz come out against Boehner's 'Deport Refugee Kids' legislation So now we know what it takes to unite House Democrats, former Canadian citizen Sen. Ted "Calgary" Cruz, and the right-wing Heritage Foundation: House Speaker John Boehner's plan to accelerate the deportation of refugee children. Of course, the reasons that House Democrats oppose the measure,...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Second-quarter GDP beats expectations. Revision shows first quarter not as awful as earlier thought Even the most pessimistic analysts had predicted that second-quarter growth in gross domestic product would show a strong rebound over the dismal results of the first quarter. All but the most optimistic missed just how strong it would be. According to the Commerce Department's Bureau of...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Yahoo News Democratic Party
• Jul 30, 2014 Freed cop killer told to stop coaching youth In 1988, a group of men beat an off-duty Chicago-area cop to death with a baseball bat.     Yahoo News Democratic Party        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 ‘No intact bodies’ in grim AH5017 investigation Dressed in protective white overalls, French experts sift through the debris of the Air Algerie plane that disintegrated over the northern Mali desert last week, killing all 118 on board. Yet for days of meticulous searching across the shifting sands of the remote crash site at the southern edge...     Yahoo News Democratic Party        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Ebola outbreak: Liberia shuts schools, quarantines towns Liberia announced on Wednesday the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record. Security forces in Liberia were ordered to enforce the...     Yahoo News Democratic Party        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Going inside Gaza U.S. reporters head into Gaza with the Israeli Defense Forces’ 188th Armored Brigade.     Yahoo News Democratic Party        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Argentine FA chief Julio Grondona dies at 82 Julio Grondona, the veteran president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and FIFA vice-president, died on Wednesday at the age of 82 in a Buenos Aires clinic, AFA sources reported. The all-powerful figure, who had been in charge of Argentine football since 1979, had been taken to...     Yahoo News Democratic Party        more   
• Slate
• Jul 30, 2014 Finding Mr. Right Too Soon In this week's video Prudie counsels a young woman who thinks she's with the man of her dreams but also wants to sow her wild oats.     Slate        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Big Data Is Overrated Today, we live in a world of data. Twenty years ago, we didn’t. Just as computing power has exponentially increased over the last 50 years, doubling every two years or so, the amount of computational data has been doubling at a similar rate. Ninety percent of all the data in human history was...     Slate        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Mike and Mike on Michael Sam Last week, former NFL coach Tony Dungy said he wouldn’t have drafted Michael Sam—not “because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it.” Sports radio yakker Mike Francesa defended Dungy against charges of homophobia, saying...     Slate        more   
• New York Times Op-Ed
• Jul 30, 2014 Taking Note: The Required White House Response on Marijuana Under a decades old law, the Office of National Drug Control Policy must oppose all efforts to legalize any banned drug.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Room for Debate: The Power of Climate Change Fiction New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 The Times’s Evolving View on Marijuana Highlights from the Editorial Board’s changing view of marijuana over six decades.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Op-Talk: Why We Love Dinosaurs New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 Taking Note: Do California’s Gun Laws Prevent Gun Deaths? Surrendered handguns at a gun buyback event in Los Angeles on May 31, 2014.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
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• Jul 30, 2014 DealBook: Bank of America Ordered to Pay Nearly $1.3 Billion in Mortgage Case Rebecca Mairone, a former manager at Countrywide, led a mortgage-writing program nicknamed the "hustle."     New York Times        more   
• Jul 30, 2014 DealBook: Snapchat Said to Have Had Talks With Alibaba on Potential Investment Snapchat lets people send photographs that vanish after viewing.     New York Times        more   
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