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9:20 AM ET, September 14, 2012

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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
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Mike Allen / Politico:
U.S. denies premeditation report in Libya attack  —  The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a “continuing security breach,” and that “credible information” about possible attacks had been ignored.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Non-Denial Denial From the Obama Administration  —  The Obama administration is denying the Independent's report that it had warnings of possible attacks on diplomatic installations in the Middle East, but failed to act.  Steve and I both wrote about the Independent story.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney  —  President Obama holds a narrow three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.  —  With their back-to-back political conventions behind …
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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 …
Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True'  —  With the first Presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors.  In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …
Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama Up Five Points Over Romney in Virginia
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama with Advantage Over Romney in Florida
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up 7, Klobuchar 19 in Minnesota
Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
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Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas panel delays ballot decision on Obama  —  Kobach seeks Democrat's birth records from Hawaii  —  Three of the state's top elected Republicans on Thursday determined they lacked sufficient evidence of President Barack Obama's birth records to decide whether to remove the Democratic nominee from the November ballot in Kansas.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy  —  Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.
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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Romney on Iran: Share Same ‘Red Line’ As Obama  —  Mitt Romney has skewered President Obama's Iran policy.  But in an exclusive interview, days after the Israeli Prime Minister criticized the U.S. for not putting “red lines before Iran,” Romney told me he would draw the same line in the sand as Obama.
Discussion: Election 2012
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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: NBC chief foreign correspondent blasts Obama's “Egypt not an ally” statement
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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CNN:
Arrest made in Libya attack
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Hurting Muslims' Feelings ‘Cannot Be Tolerated,’ Egypt's Ruling Party Says
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman:
A Quick Note on the Fed  —  I was airborne until late, so no chance until now to weigh in on the Fed's new move.  And now I really need to get some sleep to fight off this cold!  So just a few points:  —  1. It's good to see the Fed moving, finally.  —  2. It certainly sounds as if Bernanke …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since …
Larry Gordon / Associated Press:
UC to pay settlement in Davis pepper spray case  —  UC leaders agree to pay settlement to 21 UC Davis students and alumni who sued over campus officers' use of pepper spray during a November 2011 protest.  —  A UC Davis officer pepper-sprays Occupy protesters in November.
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 …
John Cook / Gawker:
There's a Simple Solution to the Public Schools Crisis  —  The ongoing (but maybe soon to end?) teachers' strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education—stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The iPhone Stimulus  —  Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak?  If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.  —  So is the new phone as insanely great as Apple says?
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
McPartland / nation.foxnews.com:
Jimmy Carter Corrects Obama  —  President Carter spoke to Drake University in Des Moines and was asked if he agrees with what Obama said about Egypt:  —  Carter: “Egypt is an ally of the US, we know Egypt well.”  —  President Obama had earlier stated during an interview: Obama: 'Ya know …
Discussion: The Fix, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservatives bash media for being mean to Mitt Romney  —  There is an astonishing amount of complaining among conservatives about how unfair the media was to Mitt Romney yesterday in reporting on — and calling out — his criticism of Obama over the Embassy attacks.
Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Mr. Romney, Trust Your Pants  —  Obama tells Americans the terrible things the Republican will do to them.  The Republican remains silent about what he would do.  —  In the classic 1968 film “Once Upon a Time in the West,” a villainous Henry Fonda shoots one of his lackeys …
Discussion: National Review and Betsy's Page
Ryan J. Reilly / Talking Points Memo:
On The Road To Prison, Alabama's Ex-Governor Still Has A Few Things He Wants To Say  —  Former Alabama Gov. Don Sieglman is pleasant, almost cheerful, as he speaks by phone on the long drive toward the small town of Oakdale, La. It's not the tone you'd expect to hear from a once-powerful man who's …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
David Shepardson / detroitnews.com:
Teamsters leader compares GOP to Cambodian dictator  —  Washington — Teamsters President James Hoffa on Thursday compared the recent Republican Party convention's downplaying of the Bush administration to Cambodian leader Pol Pot, who infamously wiped from history books anything that happened before he rose to power.
Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Statement on the Deaths of Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty in Benghazi, Libya  —  Press Statement  —  Washington, DC  —  The attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya on Tuesday claimed the lives of four Americans.  Yesterday, I spoke about two: Ambassador Chris Stevens and Information Management Officer Sean Smith.
New York Times:
The Energy Rush: Fossil Fuel Industry Opens Wallet to Defeat Obama  —  WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama first ran for president, being green was so popular that oil companies like Chevron were boasting about their commitment to renewable energy, and his Republican opponent, John McCain, supported action on global warming.
 
 
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Jobless figures continue to rise at an alarming rate
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
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Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Ryan gets hero's welcome from House GOP upon return to DC
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Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Enough Appeasement Already
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Whoa!... Democrat Kirstin Powers UNLOADS on Obama and Media After Mideast Embassy Attacks (Video)
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