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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 …

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obama alone: This president does not need intel briefers  —  How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya?  After all, our adversaries are known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 14  —  Get that credit card ready for a late-night purchase.  Photo: John Bradley/Wired  —  Apple has confirmed to Wired via e-mail that it will begin accepting online pre-orders of the iPhone 5 during the wee hours of the morning beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Sept. 14.

Romney's Team Turns On The Press  —  A frustrating week in Boston.  “The polls are close, and so the media starts cheering on their guy,” says one adviser.  —  DULLES, Va. — As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage — with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving …