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Can small-town North Dakota survive an oil boom?

By MICHAEL WARREN

Chicago is bereft of celebrity fans.

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Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013

5:04 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

At least for now (although a statewide referendum may be pending), Arizona governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, has succeeded in her efforts to implement a key part of Obamacare in her state.

4:14 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

Al Gore believes, as Johan Carlstrom at Bloomberg writes, that it is time for some reforming of capitalism. Mr. Gore has done all right under the old regime having recently:

3:03 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By JERYL BIER

On Tuesday, National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden moderated a conference call with two unnamed senior administration officials to provide background for reporters on today's transition in Afghanistan handing over the lead on security in the country to the Afghan National Security Forces.

2:32 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Brian Hughes, of the newly re-launched Washington Examiner, reports:

2:14 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

The Chinese organ Xinhua reports that Ecuador might offer asylum to Edward Snowden.

"Ecuador would consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who single- handedly disclosed the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s PRISM mass-surveillance program, a top Ecuadorian official said Monday," the outlet claims.

1:26 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

There is a lot in the farm bill not to like, which makes it like every farm bill of the last half century.

12:19 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

Senator Claire McCaskill has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and this is all the buzz (that is the right word, isn't it?) at Morning Joe and other places where the insiders gather and do careful, elaborate dissections of the day's essential news.

Why the House is voting on a bill restricting post-viability abortions.

11:04 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.

10:52 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By JERYL BIER

The House of Representatives is scheduled Tuesday to consider a bipartisan bill to add new seasonal flu vaccines to the IRS definition of taxable vaccines. The Senate has already reached an agreement to vote on its version of the bill without further debate if the House passes an identical version. If passed into law, all new flu vaccines would become subject to the 75¢ per dose vaccine tax, and also become eligible to be included in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). A summary of the bill provided by the House Republican Conference explains:

9:57 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

A corrected transcript just sent out by the White House of deputy national security adviser's Ben Rhodes comments to reporters yesterday includes this:

CORRECTED TYPO:

9:34 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

The authors of the Senate immigration bill are now openly admitting that citizenship for illegal immigrants — already a bridge too far — is no longer even being linked to strengthening the border. As Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner, Sen. Richard Durbin (D.-Ill.), a member of the Gang of Eight, told National Journal, “We have de-linked a pathway to citizenship and border enforcement.”

8:59 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

CNN reports:

A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll.

8:15 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Senator Dan Coats accuses his congressional colleagues of "grandstanding" about the NSA:

Obama: I hear folks saying, "Katie, bar the door, let's just go in and knock out Syria."

7:03 AM, Jun 18, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Charlie Rose last night asked President Obama his new Syria policy. The president first objected to it being called a new policy. "I'm not sure you can characterize this as a new policy. This is consistent with the policy that I've had throughout," he said.

Monday, Jun 17, 2013