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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack — CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly — Benghazi terror attack. — Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens …
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Michele Catalano / Medium:
pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa, oh my! — It was a confluence of magnificent proportions that led six agents from the joint terrorism task force to knock on my door Wednesday morning. Little did we know our seemingly innocent, if curious to a fault, Googling of certain things …
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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops — Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists.
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Ordinary Times, TechCrunch, Hullabaloo, Dean's World and Associated Press
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
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The Switch, Crooks and Liars and susiemadrak.com, more at Mediagazer »
Michele Catalano / Guardian:
My family's Google searching got us a visit from counterterrorism police
My family's Google searching got us a visit from counterterrorism police
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Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story
Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online
New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online
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open areas, Gawker and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Weekly Standard:
The Soft Underbelly of Obamacare — For opponents of Obamacare, it almost seems like the law offers too many targets to choose from. Its effects on premiums and costs look to be highly unpopular, its perverse incentives are already harming employment, its state exchanges will hand …
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Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
Six Reasons Hipsters Will Bite on Obamacare
Six Reasons Hipsters Will Bite on Obamacare
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Balloon Juice and Via Meadia
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare
IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare
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Hot Air, White House.gov Blog, American Glob, The PJ Tatler and Politico
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Telegraphs Mass Filibuster Of Obama's Top Judges — Senate Republicans are standing firm by their threat to block every one of President Obama's nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, insisting on eliminating all three vacant seats on the country's second most powerful court.
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Todd Ruger / The BLT:
Patricia Millett D.C. Circuit Nomination Heads to Full Senate
Patricia Millett D.C. Circuit Nomination Heads to Full Senate
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Times Free Press:
Free Press editor Drew Johnson has been terminated after placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures. — Johnson's headline, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” appeared on the Free Press page Tuesday …
The Smoking Gun:
Hacker Forces Colin Powell To Deny Affair — Ex-Secretary of State told foreign diplomat to delete her e-mails — As a notorious hacker seeks to distribute “very personal” e-mails sent to Colin Powell by a female Romanian diplomat, the retired general is denying that he engaged …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Politico, The Hill and The Huffington Post
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Capitol Hill's Obamacare crisis solved — Lawmakers and staff can breathe easy - their health care tab is not going to soar next year. — The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, will issue regulations saying that the government can continue …
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The PJ Tatler and Twitchy
Mike Judge / The Christian Institute:
Gay couple to sue church over gay marriage opt-out — Wealthy gay dad, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, says he and his civil partner Tony will go to court to force churches to host gay weddings. — He told the Essex Chronicle that he will take legal action because “I am still not getting what I want”.
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NOM Blog, protein wisdom and The PJ Tatler
Seth Motel / Pew Research Center:
GOP views of Paul, Christie reflect fight over civil liberties — The debate over the government's data collection program has revealed internal splits in both parties. In the GOP, the fight has gotten personal: Kentucky senator Rand Paul has been a leading critic of the program …
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Ross Douthat, Mediaite, National Review and The Fix
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Andrew Doughman / Las Vegas Sun News:
Chris Christie finds a reason to visit Las Vegas in the dead of summer
Chris Christie finds a reason to visit Las Vegas in the dead of summer
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Colleen Henry / WISN Milwaukees Channel 12:
Armed agents raid animal shelter for baby deer — WISN 12 News investigates an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn. — “It was like a SWAT team,” shelter employee Ray Schulze said.
Guardian:
Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ — • Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden — • GCHQ expected to ‘pull its weight’ for Americans — • Weaker regulation of British spies ‘a selling point’ for NSA
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BBC, Yahoo! News, Salon, The Agonist and The Huffington Post
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sex, Money and Gravitas — Can a woman effectively run the Federal Reserve? That shouldn't even be a question. And Janet Yellen, the vice chairwoman of the Fed's Board of Governors, isn't just up to the job; by any objective standard, she's the best-qualified person in America to take over when Ben Bernanke steps down as chairman.
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Boehner's burden: ObamaCare — For Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Obamacare is the predicament that won't go away. — The Speaker is leading a House Republican conference that wants to dismantle President Obama's signature, contentious achievement by any means necessary but can't quite agree on the best way to kill it.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
The “anti-God” party — You can't be a Christian and a Democrat at the same time, Virginia's GOP candidate for Lieutenant Governor says — In a local radio interview this morning, Virginia Republican lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson said the Democratic Party is “anti-God” and that Christians should leave it.
New York Times:
Coming to an Old Friend's Aid, With an Eye on the Clinton Image — Moments before Huma Abedin stood amid a phalanx of television cameras last week and announced to a national audience that she was standing by her embattled husband, Anthony D. Weiner, she made a quick phone call to a trusted colleague.
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The Huffington Post
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Presidency's Political Price — Is politics a zero-sum game? — Imagine, for a moment, if Sen. John McCain (R) had somehow won the presidency in 2008. How might the country be different? — We would not have the Affordable Care Act. Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan would not be on the Supreme Court.
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Betsy's Page and A plain blog about politics
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Kentucky Voters Want McConnell Out — New poll numbers released Thursday suggested that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is entering his reelection campaign next year facing two perilous obstacles: an electorate that wants him out of office and a viable Democratic challenger.
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