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Wall Street Journal:
Romney Offends the Pundits — Doesn't he know he's not supposed to debate foreign policy? — Tuesday's assaults on the U.S. Embassies in Benghazi and Cairo have injected foreign policy into the Presidential campaign, but suddenly the parsons of the press corps are offended by the debate.
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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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New York Post:
The media lash out — The murders of US diplomats in Libya and the attempted storming of the US Embassy in Cairo took place 56 days before the election of America's next president. — Apparently, it is the view of much of the mainstream media and foreign-policy establishment that discussing …
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Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Barack Obama — President Barack Obama's national security team had every reason to believe they'd be spared a Bibi eruption before Election Day. — Earlier this year, U.S. and Israeli officials had informally agreed to stop airing their well-documented disagreements …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Mitt's Major Meltdown — Mitt Romney broke our deal. — Perhaps he didn't know he'd made it, although, really, I thought it was pretty clear. — He could do anything he wanted during this campaign as long as he sent out signals that once he got in the White House he was not likely to be truly crazy.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday — Yesterday, as the American consulate in Libya was smoking and the rioters were returning in Egypt, the President of the United States flew off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser while his spokesman was telling the American press corps that yesterday wasn't really a normal political day.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Inside the public relations disaster at the Cairo embassy — One staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was responsible for the statement and tweets Tuesday that have become grist for the presidential campaign, and that staffer ignored explicit State Department instructions not to issue the statement …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How the media turned Obama's foreign policy bungle into a Romney gaffe … We're still learning more details about the events leading up to and surrounding the attacks by Islamic radicals on the U.S. consulate in Libya and embassy in Egypt, but the media has already agreed on one thing: Mitt Romney is the political loser.
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Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Romney Misstates Facts On Attacks — WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened in a statement accusing President Barack Obama of …
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New York Times:
A Challenger's Criticism Is Furiously Returned — WASHINGTON — The deadly attack on an American diplomatic post in Libya propelled foreign policy into the forefront of an otherwise inward-looking presidential campaign on Wednesday and presented an unexpected test not only to the incumbent …
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First Read:
First Thoughts: A tricky situation — Obama now faces tricky foreign-policy situation... And he has new questions to answer... Why Romney went there... And why it backfired... Obama piles on... Conservatives blame the media... New NBC/WSJ/Marist polls coming out tonight at 6:30 pm ET …
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The Moderate Voice, The Fix, The New Republic and Talking Points Memo
Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:
Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen — Associated Press/Hussein Tallal - A vehicle burns during clashes outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing ...more
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CNN:
Foreign policy dominates campaign for second day
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Mitt Romney won't stop attacking
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New York Times:
Egypt May Be Bigger Concern Than Libya for White House
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Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
Portman Comes To Romney's Defense On Libya But Concedes Lack Of Awareness Of Sequence Of Events
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Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
Cairo, Benghazi and Obama Foreign Policy
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National Review and Hot Air
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
White House: anti-Islam film ‘truly abhorrent’
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Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Time's Joe Klein: Netanyahu's Comments On White House Are ‘Outrageous And Disgusting’
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Chicago Tribune:
Hope spreads from bargaining table to teacher picket line — As talk of progress spread from the bargaining table to the picket line, striking Chicago teachers said this morning they hope their actions will be a good lesson not just for their students, but for other unions across the country.
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Christian Schneider / City Journal:
Beware of Backfire — If Wisconsin governor Scott Walker …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Students Over Unions — The most important civil rights …
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
In Chicago, Rahm Emanuel is in a showdown against teachers
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Anthea Butler / USA Today:
Opposing view: Why Sam Bacile deserves arrest — Words have consequences. I know that because one of my tweets asking “when Sam Bacile would be arrested” drew wide attention on Wednesday. — My initial tweet about Bacile, the person said to be responsible for the film mocking the prophet Mohammed …
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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
California man confirms role in anti-Islam film
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Flashback: Major-party nominee uses war deaths to score political points — Remember that time when a major-party presidential nominee went on television immediately after the deaths of several Americans abroad to attack the policies of the current administration and his opponent?
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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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CNBC:
Weekly Jobless Claims Jump; Producer Prices Gassed Up — The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week, with several states reporting an increase related to Tropical Storm Isaac. — In a separate report, a sharp rise in gasoline costs drove …
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose More Than Forecast Last Week
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Health Board Approves Ban on Large Sugary Drinks — Seeking to combat rising obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health approved on Thursday a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, enacting the first restriction of its kind in the country.
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Roger Alford / The Republic:
APNewsBreak: US Sen. Mitch McConnell hires tea party strategist to lead re-election campaign — FRANKFORT, Ky. — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reached into the upper echelons of the tea party movement for a campaign manager to head his bid for re-election to a sixth term.
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Joseph / Plunderbund:
Kasich at Romney Event: Our wives are “at home doing the laundry” — Governor John Kasich has been criticized many times for his anti-women decisions and statements. Today we can add another doozy to the list. — Last year Kasich defended his very low number of female cabinet appointments …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 12: Polls Since Conventions Point to Decline in ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ — Why did President Obama get a bounce in the polls following the Democratic convention? — Part of it may simply be one of the functions that conventions have long served: to motivate voters who are generally loyal to the party …
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