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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
From video to terrorist attack: a definitive timeline of administration statements on the Libya attack — “We are still doing an investigation.” — In any kind of confused overseas event, initial reports are often wrong. But the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi …
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Weekly Standard, Wake up America, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Sources: FBI can't get to Benghazi — (CNN) — More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.
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Michelle Malkin, Macsmind, Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway and Washington Free Beacon
Wall Street Journal:
The Libya Debacle — The more we learn, the more Benghazi looks like a gross security failure. — In his United Nations speech on Tuesday, President Obama talked about the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya and declared that “there should be no doubt that we will be relentless …
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Washington Examiner, ABCNEWS and Weekly Standard
Fox News:
US officials knew Libya attack was terrorism within 24 hours, sources confirm — U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that it was a terrorist attack and suspected Al Qaeda-tied elements were involved, sources told Fox News …
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Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Blazing Cat Fur and Los Angeles Times
First Read:
First Thoughts: Obama's closing ad (with 40 days to go) — Obama's closing TV ad of sorts with 40 days to go... Why? Because voters in 30 states are already voting in some form or fashion... The administration's evolving statements on Libya... Romney's evolving statements on health care …
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Weekly Standard, National Review and Taylor Marsh
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Clinton Suggests Link to Qaeda Offshoot in Deadly Libya Attack
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Politico, Fox News, The Heritage Foundation, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Right Wing News, Althouse, Weasel Zippers, American Power, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
6 Conservatives Who Think The Media Is Fixing The Polls For Obama — With six weeks until Election Day, new polling from Quinnipiac, the New York Times and CBS News shows President Obama leading in crucial swing states including Ohio, Florida and Iowa. As Obama's lead grows …
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Slate, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Hot Air and CNN
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Romney Is Flailing in Ohio — The GOP nominee's scattershot campaign and faltering poll numbers have Democrats in Ohio and elsewhere saying, “Thanks, Mitt!” — Reuters — KENT, Ohio — As I was leaving an Obama campaign rally here — roaring, enthusiastic, packed with gleeful liberals …
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The Reaction, The Caucus and Reuters
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
Romney ‘I Dig It’ Trust Gives Heirs Triple Benefit — In January 1999, a trust set up by Mitt Romney for his children and grandchildren reaped a 1,000 percent return on the sale of shares in Internet advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. — If Romney had given the cash directly …
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Brad DeLong
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
NEW ROMNEY VIDEO: In 1985, He Said Bain Would “Harvest” Companies for Profits
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
WATCH: Samuel L. Jackson debuts profanity-laced pro-Obama ad — He's hoping this scary bedtime story will make you run to the polls. — Samuel L. Jackson, whose video reading of the book “Go the F—k to Sleep” went viral on the Internet, is releasing a pro-Obama ad today in the spirit of Dr. Seuss …
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Business Insider, Jammie Wearing Fools, The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Examiner
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Adele Hampton / The Hill:
Samuel L. Jackson tells voters to ‘wake the f—k up’ in new ad
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CNN
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama's two-minute, direct-to-camera ad — In a new commercial that has the feeling of a closing argument, President Barack Obama outlines a four-point agenda to restore “economic patriotism,” moving to crystallize a positive economic message for the last weeks of the campaign.
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The Impolitic, Taylor Marsh and Israel Matzav
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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Now On-Air: A 2-Minute Obama Ad, Romney Coal Ad
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The Daily Caller, CNN and Towleroad News #gay
Associated Press:
Refs due back Thursday night — NEW YORK — So long, replacement refs. The NFL's regular crews will be back on the field starting Thursday night. — After two days of marathon negotiations — and mounting frustration among coaches, players and fans — the NFL and the referees' union announced …
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Hot Air, Firedoglake, The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com, Taylor Marsh and Patterico's Pontifications
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Lateef Mungin / CNN:
Deal ends lockout, brings real refs back to the NFL
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New York Times, The Monkey Cage, The PJ Tatler and This Just In
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney camp goes all in on ad touting concern for ordinary Americans — A Democrat familiar with ad buy information tells me that starting Friday, the new ad the Romney campaign rolled out today will begin airing at full throttle in all of Romney's media markets in nine swing states, and it will be the only Romney ad running in them.
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New York Times, The Reaction, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Politico, The Stranger …, The Caucus and Business Insider
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign: No, We're Not Backing Off Our Tax Plan
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Slate, Firedoglake and Brad DeLong
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's ‘Them’ Problem
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The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog and The Maddow Blog
CNBC:
Durable Goods Orders Sink Even as Jobless Claims Fall — New durable goods orders in August fell by the most since the recession and a separate reading on the broader U.S. economy came in much weaker than expected. But weekly jobless claims sank to a two-month low, in a hopeful sign for the labor market.
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Hot Air, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
US ECONOMY GREW 1.3 PERCENT IN SECOND QUARTER
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AEIdeas
The Fix:
Why Mitt Romney isn't going to get blown out — It's easy amid a slew of swing state and national polling that shows President Obama opening up a high single-digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to conclude that we could be witnessing an electoral blowout in the making.
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National Review, AEIdeas, The Daily Caller, Hotline On Call and Ballot Box
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Defiant Romney: 'I'm going to win Ohio, become the next president'
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CNN, Politico, The Reaction, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Democratic Daily and RedState
Bloomberg:
Why Undecided Voters Won't Be Deciding This Election — “It seems that more than 96 percent of voters have already made up their minds about this election,” the ad begins. — “Well, I guess some of us are just a little harder to please,” it continues. “We're not impressed by political spin and 30-second sound bites.
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Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed:
Romney's Supporters Reject His Soft Line On Obama — A failed golfer-president, not Che Guevera Lite? Shouts of “No!” in Toledo. — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters — TOLEDO, Ohio — Mitt Romney covered a lot of territory Wednesday — rhetorically and geographically …
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GOP 12
Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
Police Search for Jimmy Hoffa's Body in Michigan Driveway — “Where is Jimmy Hoffa's body?” is a question that has spawned thousands of theories. Now, one Michigan police chief believes a break in the famous cold case could be close at hand. — James Berlin, the police chief in Roseville …
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CNN, Scared Monkeys and The Agonist
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Netanyahu to aim fiery UN address at both Obama, Israeli public — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to deliver a fiery address to the United Nations Thursday calling on the international community to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
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Weasel Zippers
Philip Dorling / Sydney Morning Herald:
US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’ — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses a UN in event in New York via video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. — THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category …
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CANNONFIRE, The Talking Dog and Guardian
Philip Rucker / Election 2012:
Romney touts his health-care law, bashes Obama's law — TOLEDO — Over the course of a half hour on Wednesday evening, Mitt Romney put on a vivid display of his political flexibility on the lightning-rod issue of health care. — As his surrogates were warming up a crowd of 3,600 …
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Daily Kos, Politico and New York Magazine
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Nina Chestney / Reuters:
100 mln will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate - report — (Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.
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americanthinker.com, Right Wing News, The Agonist, Questions and Observations and Hullabaloo
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