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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP poll finds strong opposition to government shutdown — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE — A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of funding Obamacare.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Conservatives Finally Announce Alternative To Obamacare: Just Go To The Emergency Room — Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint continued his campaign to convince Republicans to shut down the government in a ploy to defund the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday …
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Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Meetings, rallies over health care law in Tampa
Meetings, rallies over health care law in Tampa
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The Political Carnival and Hullabaloo
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Do Have Ideas for Health Care
Republicans Do Have Ideas for Health Care
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The Incidental Economist, Washington Monthly and Paul Krugman
Ryan Kearney / The New Republic:
He Is Not Bradley Manning. She Is Chelsea Manning. Deal With It. — Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for leaking government files to WikiLeaks, announced Thursday in a statement to NBC's “Today” that he is, as of now, a she:
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Susan Donaldson James / ABC News:
Bradley Manning, Now Chelsea, Denied Hormones in Prison
Bradley Manning, Now Chelsea, Denied Hormones in Prison
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Chelsea E. Manning / TODAY.com:
‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement
‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement
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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obama's higher ed plan — a power grab, not a shake-up — President Obama has announced a plan that he claims will make “college more affordable, tackle rising costs, and improve value for students and their families.” The key elements of his plan are (1) a federal college-rating system …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET on the President's Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class
FACT SHEET on the President's Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class
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Connecting.the.Dots, NPR, ThinkProgress and White House.gov Blog
Washington Post:
Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College
Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obama Goes Back to School
Obama Goes Back to School
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Business Insider, Washington Monthly and PoliticusUSA
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Obama's ‘outside experts’ for NSA review are former intel and White House staffers — ABC reports that the Obama administration's surveillance review panel will include former intelligence and White House staffers, including Michael Morell, Richard Clarke, Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire.
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
White House to hold roundtable on bisexual issues
White House to hold roundtable on bisexual issues
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Obama phones Georgia school employee in hostage ordeal
Obama phones Georgia school employee in hostage ordeal
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs
White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs
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Guardian, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Lawfare, emptywheel, The Verge and Hillicon Valley
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
No, Chris Lane is not Trayvon Martin! — The white conservative media thinks it's found its “Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse.” Are you kidding me? — The white conservative media believes it has its own Trayvon Martin in the case of Chris Lane, an Australian baseball player …
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Wall Street Journal:
For ‘the Fun of It’ — The debate we aren't having about a murder in Oklahoma. — Three teenagers were charged Tuesday in the killing of a white college student in Duncan, Oklahoma, and part of the story is what didn't happen. There was no saturation cable TV coverage …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Los Angeles Times, Betsy's Page, New Orleans Times-Picayune and TheBlaze.com
Andrew Kaczynski:
Tom Coburn: Obama “Getting Perilously Close” To The Standard For Impeachment — “If it continues, I think we're going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency.” — View Video › — Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law — The Department of Justice announced today that it will file a new lawsuit against the State of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. sues Texas over voter ID (FURTHER UPDATED)
Justin Snow / Poliglot:
New Mexico Supreme Court rules photographer cannot deny services to same-sex couple
New Mexico Supreme Court rules photographer cannot deny services to same-sex couple
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ThinkProgress and Right Wing Watch
KNSD-TV:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned. — Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following …
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John_Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law — UPDATED: With Gov. Pat McCrory in the audience, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Rasmussen Reports Announces a Change in Management — For Immediate Release — Asbury Park, NJ, August 22, 2013 — The Rasmussen Reports, LLC Board of Directors today confirmed that founder Scott Rasmussen left the company last month. In part, the move reflects disagreements over company business strategies.
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Politico, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax — One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013
The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013
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Wall Street Journal:
Nasdaq Market Halts Trading — Large Chunk of U.S. Stock Market Paralyzed by Technical Problem — A trading halt on the Nasdaq Stock Market neared an hour after an unexplained technical issue, paralyzing the market for thousands of securities and raising new questions about the robustness …
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Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:
Pricing Problem Suspends Nasdaq for Three Hours
Pricing Problem Suspends Nasdaq for Three Hours
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Matt McGrath / BBC:
Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’ — Faulty seals on the storage tanks at Fukushima are said to be the source of the most recent leak — A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated.
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The Week and Vox Popoli
Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:
Sources: Koch Industries not buying LA Times, Chicago Tribune — Koch Industries will not be buying the Tribune Company's eight newspapers, which include the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, The Daily Caller has learned. — Sources with knowledge of the business proceedings told …
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Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama — I voted for Obama reluctantly, but never did I imagine he would become another Richard Nixon — What are you thinking, Mr President? — Is this really the legacy you want for yourself: the chief executive who trampled rights …
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The Atlantic Wire:
Some Newly Uncovered Nixon Comments on the Subjects of Jews and Black People — Richard Nixon was like many a Millennial (or middle-aged politician) who's gotten busted for sending racy emails or sexts — even though he knew everything he was saying would be archived forever, he still said really inappropriate things.
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Fox News:
Newly confirmed UN ambassador absent from Syria emergency meeting — Samantha Power, America's new ambassador to the United Nations, skipped a major Security Council meeting Wednesday on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, a move that drew sharp criticism considering …
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Business Insider, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, NationalJournal.com, Agence France Presse and Washington Free Beacon