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Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Samantha Power on the Duty to Intervene — This week, the Barack Obama administration's most eloquent and ardent advocate for humanitarian intervention overseas, Samantha Power, the ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted the following about the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack …
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Telegraph:
Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria — Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's forces against his own people.
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Eliot A. Cohen / Washington Post:
Syria will require more than cruise missiles — Eliot A. Cohen teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He directed the U.S. Air Force's Gulf War Air Power Survey from 1991 to 1993. — In 1994, after directing the U.S. Air Force's official study of the Persian Gulf War …
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BBC:
Snipers ‘attack UN convoy in Syria’ — Snipers have opened fire on a convoy of UN inspectors heading to the sites of suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria's capital, the UN has said. — The UN did not say who fired the shots, but the first car in the convoy was hit and the team returned to a checkpoint.
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Foreign Policy, The Verge, Guardian and NPR
New York Times:
Confident Syria Used Chemicals, U.S. Mulls Action — WASHINGTON — Moving a step closer to possible American military action in Syria, a senior Obama administration official said Sunday that there was “very little doubt” that President Bashar al-Assad's military forces had used chemical weapons …
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Bloomberg:
No Tolerance for Russia's Anti-Gay Games — The International Olympic Committee is letting Russia off far too easy. Russia has argued nonsensically that its new anti-gay law is in keeping with the Olympic Charter's protections against discrimination, and the IOC simply has accepted it.
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: 'It's Going To Backfire' — On Face the Nation this Sunday, Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, warned his fellow Republicans that the continuing push to restrict voting rights is going to “backfire” and harm the Republican Party:
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Colin Powell warns Republican voter ID laws will backfire
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Hot Air and The Moderate Voice
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Challengers to South Carolina Senator Are Lining Up on the Right — LAKE WYLIE, S.C. — Some of the early shots in the Republican primary battle against Senator Lindsey Graham have been fired from this tiny community on northern border of the state where the Civil War began.
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Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
Market innovation, not government regulations, are the key to keeping college costs down — “Over the last month,” President Obama said in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday, “I've been out there talking about what we need to do as a country to make sure that we've to a better bargain for the middle class …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama — When President Obama follows in Dr. Martin Luther King's footsteps on Wednesday with an address at the Lincoln Memorial, he will face a nation where race remains the great divide. — Black lawmakers say the election …
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Jammie Wearing Fools
Ben Smith:
ProPublica Joins NSA Chase — Broadening the journalistic front on the National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden. — A new National Security Agency facility in Utah. — George Frey / Getty Images — The non-profit investigative reporting group ProPublica is among …
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New York Times, The Huffington Post, Pressthink and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
TheBlaze.com:
SHOCK VIDEO ALLEGEDLY SHOWS AL QAEDA-LINKED TERRORISTS STOPPING TRUCK DRIVERS ON SIDE OF ROAD THEN EXECUTING THEM FOR NOT BEING SUNNI MUSLIMS — Editor's note: This story contains extremely graphic content that may be offensive to some readers. — New video posted on YouTube purports …
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The Jawa Report
Washington Post:
Despite backlogs, VA disability claims processors get bonuses — Mary Shinn/News21 - Sean Meade was an Army National Guard soldier who was deployed to Iraq during 2006 and 2007. He filed a disability claim in 2008 for back problems and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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