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Need to Know: Insurgents seize Mosul as troops flee
- David Ignatius, The Washington Post / The Director    

 

Big Picture Politics Panel:
- David Hogberg PhD, National Center for Public Policy Research  
- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator  
- Lisa De Pasquale, Breitbart & Townhall / Finding Mr. Righteous  

 

Best of the Rest: We need a Federal Media Shield Law
- Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL, 9th District)  

  

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: Time to halt open carry?
- Noel Flasterstein, Gun Rights For You.

Article: "Facebook Posts Reveal Vegas Shooter Thought Bundy Ranch Was 'Start Of Revolution'" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Student killed, teacher injured at Reynolds High School" by Michael Rollins & Teresa Blackman.

Article: "Castle doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stand-your-ground law" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alleged Las Vegas Cop-Killers in 'Patriot' Movement, Warned of 'Sacrifices'" by Mark Potok.

 

Article: "Indiana First State to Allow Citizens to Shoot Law Enforcement Officers" by Noel Brinkerhoff, June 11, 2012.

Article: "Gun Fail" (series of articles by David Waldman).

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "'The True Alpha Male': Elliot Rodger and Aggrieved White Male Entitlement Syndrome" by chaunceydevega.

Article: "Virginia Tech massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Luby's massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Attica Prison riot" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Small Penis Gun Club".

Hour Two: Is Obama asking millionaires to pay for student loans?
- Brittany Corona, The Heritage Foundation  

Article: "VIDEO: Reagan Called For An End To 'Crazy' Tax Loopholes That Let Millionaires Pay Less Than Bus Drivers" (June 6, 1985) by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Wealthy Austrians Are Demanding Their Taxes Be Raised" by Rob Wile.

Article: "Buffett Rule" by Wikipedia.

Site: Daily Signal.

Article: "Merkley Teams Up With Warren on Bill to Reduce Debt Burden for Student Borrowers" by Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Article: "Obama Calls Out 'Millionaires' to Pay for Student Loans" by Kelsey Harkness.

Article: "The Government's Bailout of College Grads Continues" by Lindsey Burke.

Article: "Media Attacks On Obama's Student Loan Proposal Ignore Economic Ripple Effect Of Expanding Debt" by Michelle Leung.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "Oregon high school shooting: 'This is not a drill'" by Dana Ford and Jason Hanna.

Site: National Science Foundation.

Article: "H. Rap Brown" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chicago Seven" (originally Chicago Eight) by Wikipedia.

Case: "Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants" (McDonald's coffee case) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Las Vegas shooting was 'false flag' operation, InfoWars founder claims" by Nicky Woolf.

The good: "Steyer unveils $2M climate relief fund" by Laura Barron-Lopez.

The bad: "Texas GOP Endorses 'Reparative Therapy' For Gays" by Paul J. Weber.

The very, very ugly: "George Will Says Being A Rape Victim Is A 'Coveted Status' In College" by Jack Mirkinson.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Definitions of terrorism" by Wikipedia.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "June Agenda: Read Cantor's Memo on House GOP Plan" by Matt Fuller.

Article: "Eric Cantor's Unusually Expensive, Surprisingly Negative Primary Campaign" by Jack Fitzpatrick.

Article: "Obama's day: Taking a Tumblr" by David Jackson.

Article: "DOJ Backs Proposal To Make Drug Sentences Shorter Retroactively" by Ryan J. Reilly.

Article: "Gore at Southland: Snowden revealed far bigger violations than the one he committed" by David Sirota .

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/10" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/10" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: GOP thinks rationing boards are next
- Lucy Caldwell, Goldwater Institute  

Article: "VA Hospital Care Rationing Mirrors What's in Store in Obamacare, according to lawsuit in 9th Circuit Tues " by Goldwater Institute.

 

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy" by Brendan James.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "New Low: Just 14% Think Today's Children Will Be Better Off Than Their Parents" by Rasmussen, July 29, 2012.

Article: "Is the American Dream dead?" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "The Return of Karl Polanyi" by Margaret Somers and Fred Block.

Site: Progressive Democrats of America.

 

Article: "Obama to sign executive order easing student loan woes" by Reuters.

Article: "The Government Crackdown On Offshore Tax Dodging Just Got Real" by Alan Pyke.

Article: "Michigan senate passes bill to ease pension cuts as part of Detroit bankruptcy deal" by Monica Davey.

Article: "USDA To Georgia: You Can't Drug-Test Food Stamp Recipients" by Nicole Flatow.

Article: "Illinois Passes Landmark Progressive Voting Reform" by Scott Keyes.

 

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