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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
How the Obama administration bungled the Iraq withdrawal negotiations — The Obama administration is claiming it always intended to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year, in line with the president's announcement today, but in fact several parts of the administration appeared …
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal — Obama announces the full withdrawal of troops from Iraq but fails to persuade Nouri al-Maliki to allow US to keep bases there — The US suffered a major diplomatic and military rebuff on Friday when Iraq finally rejected …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
The Iraq War Ain't Over, No Matter What Obama Says — President Obama announced on Friday that all 41,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31. “That is how America's military efforts in Iraq will end,” he said. Don't believe him. — Now: it's a big deal that all U.S. troops are coming home.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Romney Opposes Troop Withdrawal From Iraq (UPDATED)
Romney Opposes Troop Withdrawal From Iraq (UPDATED)
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Opinion L.A., Zandar Versus The Stupid and 2012 US Elections
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney: Mission not accomplished
Romney: Mission not accomplished
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New York Times, Washington Post, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Maddow Blog, The Politico and CNN
Ben Feller / ABCNEWS:
Iraq War Over, US Troops Coming Home, Obama Says
Iraq War Over, US Troops Coming Home, Obama Says
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The Politico and The News Tribune
Frederick W. Kagan / The Enterprise Blog:
Obama abandons Iraq
Obama abandons Iraq
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Adam Andrzejewski / Big Government:
Lech Walesa Not Attending #OccupyWallStreet in New York After Discovering Hard-Left Organizers — The Polish champion of freedom and liberty, founder of Solidarity, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and first President of modern Poland Lech Walesa had been rumored to possibly be traveling …
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Matt Yglesias / The New Republic:
How Occupy Wall Street Is a Rational Response to a System That's Failed — The basic economic premise of modern American liberalism, as I understand it, is that with appropriate regulation and taxation a market economy can be made broadly beneficial to the overwhelming majority of citizens.
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Paul Wilson / NewsBusters.org blogs:
WaPo's ‘On Faith’: Jesus Would Bless ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
WaPo's ‘On Faith’: Jesus Would Bless ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
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God's Politics Blog, Washington Post and Weasel Zippers
thedp.com:
Protesters storm campus after Cantor cancels visit — Cantor's office was told Thursday that Penn security was welcoming protesters — Protesters gather inside Huntsman Hall after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor canceled his Wharton Leadership Lecture slated for Friday afternoon in Huntsman Hall.
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Eric Cantor / thedp.com:
Read the speech the House Majority Leader had prepared for his Wharton Leadership Lecture
Read the speech the House Majority Leader had prepared for his Wharton Leadership Lecture
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Cantor speech abruptly canceled
Cantor speech abruptly canceled
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Wall Street protests force Cantor to cancel economic speech
Wall Street protests force Cantor to cancel economic speech
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Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Key aide leaves Bachmann for Perry in mass exodus of N.H. campaign staff — The entire paid New Hampshire staff for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has resigned, in another blow to the Minnesota congresswoman's foundering campaign. — Jeff Chidester, Bachmann's former …
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John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
Primary Status: After NH mutiny, Bachmann national campaign manager re-emphasizes that her …
Primary Status: After NH mutiny, Bachmann national campaign manager re-emphasizes that her …
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Reuters:
Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign staff quit
Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign staff quit
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Spiegel Online:
Estonia Lives the European Dream — The Estonians, with little debt, an enthusiastic attitude toward Europe and a stoic approach to austerity measures, are a model EU nation in the midst of a crisis. They live in a digital republic defined by a business-friendly atmosphere and government transparency …
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Which States Are Most Enthusiastic About Obama's Reelection? — The Obama reelection campaign is very proud that it has now reached 1 million donors. As it should be! That's a lot of people who still believe strongly in the president despite, you know, How Things Are.
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cphpost.dk:
Islamists seek to introduce ‘Sharia zones’ — A majority of Danish Muslims distance themselves from small group of extremists — A fundamentalist Islamic group wants to set up zones in Copenhagen where Islamic Sharia Law should be upheld. — The group, ‘The Call to Islam’ …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Wall St. Protest Isn't Like Ours, Tea Party Says — At a Republican candidate forum outside Fort Worth last week, a Tea Party activist turned Senate candidate proclaimed the Occupy Wall Street protesters “unemployed, uneducated and uninformed.” To which the conservative radio host moderating …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Prairie Weather
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress:
Iraq By The Numbers: The World's Costliest Cakewalk — Powell's infamous presentation at the U.N. — The Obama administration's announcement of a withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year offers the possibility of a definitive conclusion for the U.S. military's involvement in Iraq.
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data — Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims.
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Lauren Bans / GQ:
The Hipster Cop: An Occupy Wall Street Conversation — The Ralph Lauren-obsessed plainclothes police officer spotted at the Occupy Wall Street protests has become an Internet sensation. We tracked him down to talk to the man about his personal style, how the protesters are dressing, and what exactly he's doing down there
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Cain's latest bizarre abortion comment — Herman Cain took another shot at clarifying his abortion stance on Fox News today, but in the process only added to the confusion. — Cain attempted to argue that when he said in a CNN interview earlier this week that the decision was ultimately up to the family …
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