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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. rebuts British report on LIbya — 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.
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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.
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Right Wing News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Riehl World News and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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.
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The American Conservative and Election 2012
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note)
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note)
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NationalJournal.com and Associated Press
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney owes an apology
Romney owes an apology
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McPartland / nation.foxnews.com:
Jimmy Carter Corrects Obama
Jimmy Carter Corrects Obama
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The Fix, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
New York Times:
Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests
Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests
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The Daily Beast, Taegan Goddard's …, americanthinker.com, Spectator, Hot Air and BBC
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
White House clarifies Obama's statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally’
White House clarifies Obama's statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally’
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: NBC chief foreign correspondent blasts Obama's “Egypt not an ally” statement
Video: NBC chief foreign correspondent blasts Obama's “Egypt not an ally” statement
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National Review, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Dish
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 …
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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 …
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CNN, Reuters, USA Today, The Hill, WMUR, Taegan Goddard's …, First Read and Election 2012
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 …
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.
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Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Politico:
Arab Spring: Tech as tinder — The Internet tools of the Arab Spring have become the weapons of a new Arabian nightmare playing out at American diplomatic missions across North Africa and the Middle East. — Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that spread an obscure movie trailer depicting …
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up! — They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs. — Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Althouse, Jammie Wearing Fools and New York Magazine
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 …
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National Review and Betsy's Page
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Married Voters Are Romney Voters — Marital status is strong predictor of voting behavior — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Married registered voters prefer Republican challenger Mitt Romney over Democratic President Barack Obama by 54% to 39%, according to Gallup data collected from June to August.
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Politico
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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Economy Watch, TheMoneyIllusion and Los Angeles Times
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?
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LewRockwell.com Blog
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Primary Results Close for 2 G.O.P. Legislators Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage — Two Republican state senators who provided pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage last year were fighting to preserve their political careers on Thursday as voters went to the polls for New York State's legislative primary.
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Runnin' Scared, Gothamist and Joe. My. God.
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.
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New York Magazine, L.A. NOW, Prairie Weather and Inside Higher Ed
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 …
This Just In:
Armed men storm Lebanon restaurant; German Embassy in Sudan on fire — Editor's note: Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world. Friday's protests follow ones Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy …
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The Jawa Report, Mediaite, CNN and Atlas Shrugs
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Islamic Bloc: We Told You This Would Happen If You ‘Hurt the Religious Sentiments of Muslims’ — (CNSNews.com) - The organization representing the world's Islamic nations on Wednesday condemned the attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt, saying it had consistently warned that …
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Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers and The Heritage Foundation
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Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Hurting Muslims' Feelings ‘Cannot Be Tolerated,’ Egypt's Ruling Party Says
Hurting Muslims' Feelings ‘Cannot Be Tolerated,’ Egypt's Ruling Party Says
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Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers