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Mark Murray / First Read:
Polls: Obama holds the edge in Florida, Ohio and Virginia — President Barack Obama has opened up a five-point lead in the Sunshine State and the “right track” number is now more than 40 percent. NBC's Chuck Todd reports. — After two political conventions and heading into the post-Labor Day sprint …
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Exclusive: Obama Up by 4 Points Among Likely Voters (58% of Americans Say He'd Take Romney in a Fight) — With fifty-four days to go, voter opinions are coming into focus, and Esquire and Yahoo! News have joined forces to examine how voters view the presidential candidates and how President Obama …
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Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama Leads Romney by 7 Points in Ohio
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up 7, Klobuchar 19 in Minnesota
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Poll: Voters think Obama would beat Romney in a fistfight
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
White House clarifies Obama's statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally’ — President Barack Obama didn't intend to signal any change in the U.S.-Egypt relationship last night when he said Egypt is not an “ally,” the White House told The Cable today. — In an interview with Telemundo Wednesday night …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Obama alone: This president does not need intel briefers — How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya? After all, our adversaries are known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: NBC chief foreign correspondent blasts Obama's “Egypt not an ally” statement
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Pentagon Denies Reports of No Live Ammo for Marines — A Marine spokesperson at the Pentagon denied reports that U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition in a statement to Fox News Thursday.
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Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Enough Appeasement Already — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced that she finds the anti-Muslim movie trailer that sparked violent and even murderous attacks on American embassies across the Middle East to be “disgusting and reprehensible” and that the United States government had nothing to do with it.
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New York Times:
Turmoil Spreads to U.S. Embassy in Yemen — SANA, Yemen — Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a contentious video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the United States Embassy, two days after assailants killed the American ambassador …
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AJE - Al Jazeera English:
Angry protests spread over anti-Islam film
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Media and Obama out to lunch — Romney had it right
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination — Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’ — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August suggests that economic activity has continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months. Growth in employment has been slow, and the unemployment rate remains elevated.
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Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Republicans question whether Fed carrying water for Obama
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Bloomberg:
With QE3, We All Win — Poor and Rich Alike
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Joshua Zumbrun / Bloomberg:
Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion Monthly MBS Purchases
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Mitt Romney tones down embassy critique in Va. — FAIRFAX, Va. — Mitt Romney didn't repeat his strong criticism of President Barack Obama over the response to protests at the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya at a campaign rally here Thursday. — He did note the death of four Americans …
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Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Barack Obama
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday
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Associated Press:
Feds ID California man's role in anti-Islam film — Associated Press/Hani Mohammed - A Yemeni protestor, left, holds a white flag with Islamic inscription in Arabic that reads, “No God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet,” in front of the U.S. embassy during ...more
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Anthea Butler / USA Today:
Opposing view: Why Sam Bacile deserves arrest
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Top Romney adviser: ‘Apology’ statement fit our narrative, so we ran with it — In a post that's generating some attention today, Josh Marshall pointed out that last night's New York Times story detailing the Romney camp's step-by-step thinking on the Embassy attacks was replaced with another version that was missing key reporting.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Limbaugh: Al-Qaida “gave up Osama” — He says the terrorist group wanted to “mak[e] Obama look good” so he would remain in the White House — Polite and serious pundits were shocked when Mitt Romney suggested, and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus outright declared, that President Obama …
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
House Republicans Start Circling Ryan's Budget Chair — New Jersey Rep. Scott Garrett becomes first to throw his hat in the race to take the reins of the powerful committee — if Ryan wins in November. — Image by Reuters/Joshua Roberts / Reuters — WASHINGTON - Rep. Scott Garrett Thursday became …
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Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Ryan gets hero's welcome from House GOP upon return to DC
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Whoa!... Democrat Kirstin Powers UNLOADS on Obama and Media After Mideast Embassy Attacks (Video) — Whoa! Democrat Kirstin Powers blasted this week's media jihad against Mitt Romney today on America Live with Megyn Kelly. Powers also slammed the Obama Administration for their weak response …
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BuzzFeed:
Romney's Team Turns On The Press — A frustrating week in Boston. “The polls are close, and so the media starts cheering on their guy,” says one adviser. — DULLES, Va. — As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage — with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving …
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Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Three Ron Paul-Supporting Electors May Not Support Republican Ticket … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Video, Electoral College, Electors, Mitt Romney 2012, Paul Ryan 2012, Politics News — At least three Republican electors say they may not support …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
EPA Sends Plagiarized Email for Hispanic Heritage Month, Featuring a Picture of Che Guevara — In honor of Hispanic heritage month, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out this internal email, featuring content plagiarized from this website and a picture of Che Guevara:
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Todd Akin: Obama Doesn't Like America — The pariah Senate candidate strikes again, this time commenting on the tragedy in Libya. — Zeke Miller — an hour ago — 34 responses
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Terrifying: Increases in Real Per Capita Federal Spending Over The Past 35 Years — The above chart put together by my frequent collaborator Veronique de Rugy is, simply put, terrifying. — It shows the growth in inflation-adjusted federal outlays per capita.
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Google's Flawed ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ Search [Updated] — When we read about a new Google Search tool that lets you calculate any actor's “Bacon number” — the number of degrees he or she is removed from a Kevin Bacon movie — we immediately started trying it out using names from the political world …
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