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‘It takes balls to execute an innocent man’

The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait thinks some of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) weaknesses should he enter the presidential race are almost painfully obvious. 

The senator from Massachusetts rises to defend foreign aid
In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) can’t identify any national security benefits for foreign aid, Reason’s Jacob ! Sullum argues. 

Free advice on picking the debt-ceiling committee
At her blog Right Turn, Jennifer Rubin highlights some advice from her readers about picking members for the so-called “supercommittee.”

‘I changed 180 degrees’: Dicker mocks Gillibrand 2016 talk
Some commentators are skeptical to the idea that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is gearing up for a presidential run in 2016, Azi Paybarah reports at PolitickerNY.

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:

The economy and 2012 loom over Obama’s bus tour of the Midwest
President Obama will travel through the Midwest this summer to talk about his administration’s job-creation efforts, according to The Hill's Michael O'Brien.

! Obama campaign expects lower summer fundraising
Obama’s reelection campaign is lowering fundraising expectations for the summer because the president canceled a number of fundraisers to deal with the debt crisis, Ken Thomas of The Associated Press reports.