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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.
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Jammie Wearing Fools and Power Line
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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Minneapolis Star Tribune and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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Yahoo! News:
Obama up by four points with likely voters: Introducing the Esquire/Yahoo! News poll — Who better understands American families, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? Who would you rather lead us into war? Who's a bigger liar? Are voters suspicious of Mormonism? And which candidate would win in a fistfight?
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Esquire:
Exclusive: Obama Up by 4 Points Among Likely Voters (58% of Americans Say He'd Take Romney in a Fight)
Exclusive: Obama Up by 4 Points Among Likely Voters (58% of Americans Say He'd Take Romney in a Fight)
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Politico, CNN, New York Magazine and The Daily Pulp
Marist Poll:
9/13: Obama Leads Romney by 7 Points in Ohio
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
Obama up 7, Klobuchar 19 in Minnesota
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The Political Carnival and KDVR.com
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Poll: Voters think Obama would beat Romney in a fistfight
Poll: Voters think Obama would beat Romney in a fistfight
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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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Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Mediaite
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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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The Raw Story
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
Obama alone: This president does not need intel briefers
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Media and Obama out to lunch — Romney had it right
Media and Obama out to lunch — Romney had it right
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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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CNN:
Violent protests erupt in Yemen and Egypt — Protesters chant slogans during a march to the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, September 13. One protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators who gathered around and inside the U.S. Embassy …
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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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Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Republicans question whether Fed carrying water for Obama
Republicans question whether Fed carrying water for Obama
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The Moderate Voice, Wall Street Journal, PoliticusUSA and The Maddow Blog
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 …
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.
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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Riehl World News
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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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
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Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Ryan gets hero's welcome from House GOP upon return to DC — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan got a hero's welcome from his colleagues on Thursday as he returned to the Capitol for the first time since being named by Mitt Romney to the GOP ticket.
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Politico, Ballot Box and The Hill
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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.
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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.
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.
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Fox News, Taylor Marsh and The Jawa Report
David Lat / Above the Law:
A Look Inside the Law Review Sausage Factory — and Possible Evidence of Bias Against Conservatives — Have you ever wondered how the law review sausage factory works? Perhaps you're a law professor or practitioner who regularly submits pieces to law journals for possible publication.
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The Volokh Conspiracy, NewsBusters.org blogs, ProfessorBainbridge.com and Althouse
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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Politico, The Hill and Tablet Magazine