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8:50 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.
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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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 …
Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama Up Five Points Over Romney in Virginia
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Hotline On Call
Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama Leads Romney by 7 Points in Ohio
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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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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservatives bash media for being mean to Mitt Romney
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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Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Hurting Muslims' Feelings ‘Cannot Be Tolerated,’ Egypt's Ruling Party Says
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
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
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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 …
New York Review of Books:
What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us  —  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson  —  End This Depression Now!  —  Norton, 259 pp., $24.95  —  The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future  —  by Joseph E. Stiglitz  —  Norton, 414 pp., $27.95
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
Discussion: Riehl World News
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Jawa Report
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.
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
Xinhua News Agency:
Chinese surveillance ships start patrol around Diaoyu Islands  —  Two Chinese surveillance ship fleets have arrived at waters around Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islets Friday morning and started patrol and law enforcement there.  —  It is the first time for Chinese surveillance ships …
Discussion: ABS-CBN News, CNN, Hot Air and The Agonist
 
 
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
USA Today to Introduce New Look
ekathimerini.com:
Jobless figures continue to rise at an alarming rate
Discussion: Guardian and Firedoglake
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Court Approves Schedule for Florida Early Voting
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Treasury Lowballs Settlement Against Standard Chartered, Despite Large Award to New York Regulator
Discussion: emptywheel and New York Times
Stephanie Gaskell / Reuters:
Veterans jobs bill stalls in Senate
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and The Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Ryan gets hero's welcome from House GOP upon return to DC
Discussion: Reuters, Politico, Ballot Box and The Hill
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Enough Appeasement Already
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Al-Monitor
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Terrifying: Increases in Real Per Capita Federal Spending Over The Past 35 Years
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Jesse Ventura: The Only Difference Between Bush And Obama Is “The Color Of Their Skin”
Discussion: USA Today and The Reaction
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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