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Nation

Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?’: Twitchy
The Sandbagging of America: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Tyranny Advances by Nibbles: Joy Overbeck

Lois Lerner: The Face of ObamaCare: Greg Richards
Levin hammers Jeb Bush, Rubio, Ryan, Rove on Amnesty: Jeff Poor
Sarah Palin Lampoons DC at Faith and Freedom conference: Lyndsey Layton

DATA Dystopia. The NSA Scandal and Beyond.: John Robb
Warrants? The NSA Don’t Need No Steeenking Warrants: Ed Driscoll
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants: Declan McCullagh

Economy

NLRB defies Court, sanctions newspaper: Sean Higgins
Michelle Obama's Irish/German/African Pre-Summer Vacation: DeAngelis
Cali Legislature passes $96.3B Democratic budget: Judy Lin

Scandal Central

No Smoking Gun: Ace
MSM-BHO: All in the Family: Ed Driscoll
Secret Service Raids Man For Criticizing Obama On Twitter: WZ

Climate & Energy

How data revisionism hypes global warming: Christopher Monckton
The Continuing Collapse of the Global Warming Hoax : Alan Caruba
Al Gore presses Obama on power plant carbon rules, calls Keystone ‘atrocity’: Ben Geman

Media

Palin Blasts NSA: “Couldn’t Find Two Pot-Smoking Deadbeat Bostonians With Hotline to Terrorist Central”: GWP
I smell B.S. and it's coming from the White House: Regis Giles
Ramirez on US clean-election credibility: Greenroom

AP Tries to Frame NSA Surveillance Issue as ‘Far Left and Right’ vs. Everyone Else — Part 1 of 2: Tom Blumer
Judge Jeanine Pirro: The Real Losers of DC: Scoop
New York Times: no global warming in the last 15 years, despite CO2 increase: Wintery Knight

Washington Post: Eric Holder’s Kind Of An Awesome AG, Isn’t He?: Pirate's Cove
IRS Officials Lerner and Miller Receive Violent Threats: Mandy Nagy
We been HAD folks, but it wasn’t by Glenn Beck: Lady Raven

World

Thanks to Islam, purses, seat cushions, coolers banned from NFL games: Creeping
Imams of Sacramento's two biggest mosques declare music forbidden by Muhammad: Robert Spencer
Turkish protesters remain defiant amid police crackdown: USA Today

Sci-Tech

Israeli researchers find new predictor of heart disease: Meital Yasur Beit-Or
Google and Twitter Aren't Impressed with Facebook's Disclosure Dump: Connor Simpson
Can a week living with Android convince an iOS die-hard to make the switch?: TechRadar

Cornucopia

BRF: It's a Bitch: MOTUS
15 Fun Facts About Father’s Day: IMAO
Full Speech: Sarah Palin at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 2013 Road to Majority Conference: Scoop

Image: Turkish protesters remain defiant amid police crackdown
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QOTD: "[On Saturday Night Live, they] have this skit where they do this fake newscast, and they read this completely absurd news report and finish it with an incredulous ‘Really?

As in, our government spied on every single one of your phone calls but it couldn’t find two pot-smoking, deadbeat Bostonians with a hotline to Terrorist Central in Chechnya. Really?

The IRS says it can’t figure out how it managed to spend more than $4 million on training conferences because it didn’t keep its receipts. Really?

We’re gathering in a town that is awash in scandal. In other words, just another Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C.” --Sarah Palin