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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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Reuters:
U.N. inspectors reach Syria gas victims despite coming under fire
U.N. inspectors reach Syria gas victims despite coming under fire
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Telegraph:
Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria
Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria
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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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Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran — The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history — and still gave him a hand. — The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus.
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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 nonprofit investigative reporting group ProPublica is among …
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David Carr / New York Times:
War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist
War on Leaks Is Pitting Journalist vs. Journalist
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tea Party Now Covering News for Washington Post — The Washington Post's lead Sunday news story is one of the weirdest, and most weirdly biased, news articles I've ever read in my life. The point of the story — headlined “After six budget showdowns, big government is mostly unchanged” …
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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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RT:
Russia may bring back gay blood donor ban — Russia could soon reintroduce the ban on blood and organ donations for gay men, but offer them free treatment facilitating ‘conversion’ to heterosexuals, a senior Russian MP has said. — “We will suggest amendments to the law on donors …
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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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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Anti-Abortion Laws Take Dramatic Toll On Clinics Nationwide — More than 50 abortion clinics across the country have closed or stopped offering the procedure since a heavy wave of legislative attacks on providers began in 2010, according to The Huffington Post's nationwide survey of state health departments …
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Ron Fournier / The Atlantic Online:
The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It? — Young people are eager to serve and to change the world. They just have no faith that public service or elected office are the way to get it done. — Forget what you've read about the “Me, Me, Me Generation.”
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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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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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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
GOP 2016 hopefuls slated for NYC event — Six of the Republican Party's stars and potential 2016 nominees — including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — will jointly headline a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee in New York next month, POLITICO has learned.
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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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Taylor Marsh and AMERICAblog News
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Is Obama the worst president ever? — “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” — President Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 — So said President Obama again and again through 2009 and 2010 as he sold Obamacare to the country. He promised. He put his personal integrity on the line.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump: New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman ‘political hack’ — Donald Trump slammed the New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman on Monday for suing him over Trump University. — “He sits up in my office asking me for campaign contributions, he's been there numerous times.
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