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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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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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Taylor Marsh and Booman Tribune
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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U.S., Citing ‘Moral Obscenity’ in Syria, Weighs Response
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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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New York Times:
Kerry Says Chemical Arms Attack in Syria Is ‘Undeniable’
Kerry Says Chemical Arms Attack in Syria Is ‘Undeniable’
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Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Drone crashes into Virginia bull run crowd — An aerial drone, a pilotless aircraft of the type that has aroused intense public discussion in recent months, crashed Saturday into the stands at a public event in Virginia that has also aroused heated discourse.
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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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Washington Monthly, Hit & Run and The Fix
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TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE — When the news broke—"cleveland kidnapping victims free"—Rachel Maddow wasn't sure she had much to add. It was the kind of story that cable news loves: three women had been abducted and held hostage for years, until a garrulous local man named Charles Ramsey helped kick …
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Controversial rodeo clown speaks out after death threats — A rodeo clown's controversial Missouri State Fair antics went viral after wearing a President Barack Obama mask and mocking the nation's leader. — It divided people across the country on whether Tuffy Gessling's stunt was disrespectful to Obama.
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How America Spies on Europe and the UN — President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries.
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Hot Air, Techdirt, emptywheel, The Switch, NPR and Taegan Goddard's …, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Patrick Leahy:
Leahy: SJC Will Hold Hearing On Federal And State Marijuana Laws In September — WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Monday that the Committee will hold a hearing next month on the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.
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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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Tea party: Obamacare is now ‘BoehnerCare’ — Tea party activists are planning to rally outside of House Speaker John A. Boehner's Ohio office on Tuesday, telling the Republican speaker that if he doesn't use this year's spending fight to defund the health care law, it will hence be known to them as “BoehnerCare.”
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Marco Rubio / CNN:
GOP stars to headline party fundraiser — (CNN) - They're a half dozen of the biggest names in the Republican Party, hailing from different wings of the GOP. — And they're all teaming up next month to help the Republican National Committee raise money. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
GOP 2016 hopefuls slated for NYC event
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NY AG Dismisses Trump: Obama and I ‘Have More Important Things to Talk About’ — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman appeared on CNN's New Day Monday morning to refute the attacks Donald Trump has been making against him since he filed a $40 million fraud lawsuit over “Trump University” on Saturday.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump: New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman ‘political hack’
Donald Trump: New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman ‘political hack’
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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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Left, right invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to their own ends — What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of gays, drones and Republicans? — It's anyone's guess, of course. — But that isn't stopping groups spanning the ideological spectrum and representing an array of interests from seizing …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama
Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Julian Assange Sang And Danced In A Parody Rap Video For Some Awful Reason — The WikiLeaks founder raps and sings and it's really strange. — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange guest-starred in a satirical music video (he shows up around 3:30) and parodied an Australian '80s pop hit... while wearing a mullet.
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Under Obama, Little Progress on High-Level Jobs for Women — WASHINGTON — Behind the roiling conversation over whether President Obama might make Janet L. Yellen the first female leader of the Federal Reserve is an uncomfortable reality for the White House: the administration has named …
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BuzzFeed, Wonkblog and National Review
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury tells Congress nation will breach debt ceiling in mid-October — The Treasury Department has told Congress it must raise the $16.7 trillion national debt limit by mid-October. — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in a letter sent Monday to lawmakers said his department would exhaust the …
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Weekly Standard
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Report: Snowden stayed at Russian consulate while in Hong Kong — MOSCOW — Before American fugitive Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow in June — an arrival that Russian officials have said caught them by surprise — he spent several days living at the Russian Consulate in Hong Kong, a Moscow newspaper reported Monday.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Iowa GOP Not Conservative Enough? — At the New York Times yesterday, Jonathan Martin wrote a catch-up piece for those who haven't been paying attention (or reading Political Animal) to the early 2016 GOP skirmishing over and in Iowa. Long story short: Iowa Republicans are nervous …
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