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1:50 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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Dallas Morning News:
Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970.  It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz Releases Birth Certificate  —  In an effort to repudiate suggestions that he is ineligible to be president of the United States, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released his birth certificate Sunday to The Dallas Morning News.  —  The birth certificate confirmed that the Texas Republican was born Dec. 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz releases birth certificate
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ted Cruz releases birth certificate
Discussion: Wonkette
Sean Sullivan / Post Politics:
Ted Cruz releases birth certificate
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
New Obamacare Enrollment Campaign Unveiled By Kathleen Sebelius  —  WASHINGTON — With precious time remaining before the health care exchanges established by the president's health care law are up and running, the Obama administration is rolling out new initiatives to encourage enrollment.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
One Reform, Indivisible  —  Recent political reporting suggests …
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Muslim Brotherhood must be removed like Nazis, Egypt's ambassador to Britain says  —  Exclusive: Egypt's ambassador to Britain has said the military-led offensive on the opposition set out to be no different from the British response to the 2011 London riots, but turned bloody …
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Fox News:
Report: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to be freed
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Right Scoop
Wall Street Journal:
Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016  —  Backers Consider Steps for White House—Even If Hillary Clinton Enters Race  —  Political allies of Vice President Joe Biden have concluded that he can win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination—even if Hillary Clinton enters the contest …
Angela Delli Santi / Associated Press:
Chris Christie To Sign Gay Conversion Therapy Ban  —  TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie plans to sign a bill Monday barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight, making New Jersey the second state to ban so-called conversion therapy, along with California.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Christie to give former rival in-person endorsement
Discussion: Ballot Box and New Jersey Online
John Fund / National Review:
Time for Answers from the NSA  —  It's time to ask tough questions about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities — even for conservatives who have given the NSA the benefit of every doubt up until now.  —  The Washington Post opened a can of worms last Friday when it reported that …
Discussion: Hot Air and Right Turn
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Abbott thanks ‘retard Barbie’ tweet writer  —  Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott on Sunday drew a rebuke from a Democratic Governors Association representative after appearing to thank a supporter who called Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis “retard Barbie.”
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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Bill Kristol: Sarah Palin Could Possibly ‘Rehabilitate’ Herself With 2014 Senate Win  —  During an exclusive to web interview with “This Week,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Sarah Palin — after having hastily stepped down as Alaska's governor in 2009 - might be able to rehabilitate …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bill Kristol: Sarah Palin can fix political career with 2014 run
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Gideon Resnick / Politicker:
Susan Sarandon on the Mayor's Race: 'You Can't Just Vote Your Vagina'  —  Cynthia Nixon, Susan Sarandon and the entire de Blasio clan.  —  At first, actress Susan Sarandon expected to back Council Speaker Christine Quinn in her bid to become the city's first female mayor.
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Al Jazeera America launches without significant advertiser base  —  When Al Jazeera America hits the air tomorrow, it will come with a big budget, a global network of 1,000 journalists and a mission to compete with entrenched rivals like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.  —  What it won't have?  Advertisers.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Seven Reasons You Will Click on This Article about 2016  —  When you see an article about the 2016 presidential race, your first reaction is probably, “Oh c'mon. It's three years away!  Do we have to start talking about this already?”  The first votes in Iowa and New Hampshire won't be cast …
Molly Ball / Associated Press:
America's Libertarian Moment  —  A longtime libertarian policy wonk talks about whether the philosophy can save the GOP — and why he still doesn't think Rand Paul can win the presidency.  —  Libertarianism is on the march.  From the rapid rise to prominence of first-term Senator Rand Paul …
Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
No, Conspiracy Theorists, Princess Diana Was Not Murdered  —  The Diana conspiracy theorists have struck again, and this time Scotland Yard is investigating.  Despite mountains of evidence to prove her death was an accident, Tina Brown says some fantasists just can't let it go.  —  Here we go again.
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Cameron Proves Greenwald Right  —  Readers know I have been grappling for a while with the vexing question of the balance between the surveillance state and the threat of Jihadist terrorism.  When the NSA leaks burst onto the scene, I was skeptical of many of the large claims made by civil libertarians …
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
What kind of city is the Mayor leaving to his successor?  —  Michael Bloomberg, whose third and final term as mayor of New York expires at midnight on December 31st, keeps a digital clock running in reverse in his City Hall office, counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left in his term.
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Bambi Meets Godzilla In The Middle East  —  President Obama has had a rude awakening in the Middle East.  The region he thought existed was an illusion built on American progressive assumptions about the way the world works.  In the dream Middle East, democracy at least of a sort was just around the corner.
 
 
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James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House
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When welfare pays better than work
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Sixty years later, CIA admits role in Iran coup
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Michael Alison Chandler / Washington Post:
Head Start eliminated services to 57,000 children in U.S. as a result of sequester
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Associated Press:
Marine Appeals NCAA Eligibility Ban
Manu Raju / Politico:
Lone Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor hangs on
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Sara Schaefer Muñoz / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Summer Months Unkind to Obama
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