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New York Times:
Obama's Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot — WASHINGTON — Confronted with evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, President Obama now finds himself in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Aide On Syria's Assad: 'If He Drops Sarin On His Own People, What's That Got Do Do With Us?' — President Barack Obama got ahead of himself and his advisers when he said that Syria using chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” the New York Times reports.
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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs, Ed Driscoll and Israel Matzav
CNN:
Syria: Attack on military facility was a ‘declaration of war’ by Israel — Damascus, Syria (CNN) — A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation's military research facility a “declaration of war” by Israel. — In an interview with CNN, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad …
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Washington Post, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, The Week and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Reuters:
Israel strikes Syria again, rocking Damascus
Israel strikes Syria again, rocking Damascus
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, americanthinker.com, The Long War Journal and FP Passport
Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
National Rifle Association Bans Bleeding “Obama” Target, Others Remain — Beyond the pale at the NRA convention. “They thought it looked too much like President Obama,” says a worker. — The Zombie Industries booth at the NRA Convention in Houston. — HOUSTON, Texas …
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Taylor Marsh, Wake up America and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Matthew DeLuca / U.S. News:
NRA's LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns’
NRA's LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns’
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Crooks and Liars and Wake up America
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Bra Holsters, Pink Guns, And Other Products For Women Sold At The NRA Convention
Bra Holsters, Pink Guns, And Other Products For Women Sold At The NRA Convention
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Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:
How wrong is Kathleen Parker about Plan B birth control? Let me count the ways! — Kathleen Parker's column in today's Washington Post, which is about over-the-counter sales of Plan B birth control, is a small masterpiece of sophistry. It's a virtual greatest hits collection …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Impolitic, Wake up America, Balloon Juice and Washington Post
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
James Carville Heaps Praise On Ted Cruz: ‘Most Talented And Fearless’ GOP Politician Of Last 30 Years — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is polarizing, to say the least. While the likes of Joe Scarborough have found Cruz to be a lying jerk, the senator received praise on Sunday from an unlikely suspect: James Carville.
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Crooks and Liars
Boston Herald:
FBI searches Tsarnaev apartment as uncle arrives — By: — The FBI returned today to search the Tsarnaev family's Cambridge home, as the uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visited a Worcester funeral home where the older brother's body lies awaiting a funeral.
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Jihad Watch and Daily Mail
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
King: Customs was not equipped to monitor student visas
King: Customs was not equipped to monitor student visas
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Mediaite and Scared Monkeys
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack “from the get-go” — (CBS News) “Everybody in the mission” in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror “from the get-go,” according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted …
Washington Post:
Poll: Cuccinelli has early lead over McAuliffe in Virginia governor's race — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has an early lead over businessman Terry McAuliffe in their race for governor, a new Washington Post poll shows, even as most voters in the commonwealth have yet to engage in the nationally watched contest.
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Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Taegan Goddard's …
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
China Is Censoring Jokes About Its Propaganda Machine's Penis-Shaped HQ — The People's Daily is the main state-owned newspaper of China's communist party, and everyone was pretty psyched about the paper's new Beijing headquarters. The building is massive, imposing, and, uh, currently shaped like a colossal penis.
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The PJ Tatler and Outside the Beltway
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Howard Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors — Howard Kurtz took to his CNN show “Reliable Sources” on Sunday to issue a lengthy full-fledged apology for his erroneous report last week about NBA star Jason Collins and for a string of past careless mistakes that he admitted he was sometimes slow to correct …
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Shubham Ghosh / Oneindia News:
Women who wear revealing dresses cause earthquakes: Cleric — Tehran, May 4: Women who wear revealing clothing and behave immorally are responsible for earthquakes, this is what a senior Iranian cleric has to say. — The cleric's unusual explanation for quakes follows the prediction …
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The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
House Dem: Benghazi talking points were a ‘victory of hope over reality’ — The Obama administration's talking points linking last year's terror attack in Benghazi to anti-American protests going on in other countries were a “victory of hope over reality,” a key Democrat said Sunday ahead of this week's hearing.