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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Experts to Obama: Here Is What to Do in Syria — A big group of foreign policy experts, from across the ideological spectrum, is calling on President Obama to impose “meaningful consequences on the Assad regime” for their use of chemical weapons. — “At a minimum, the United States …
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
“Experts” Who Are Always Wrong About Everything Want to Bomb Syria — The Weekly Standard has an open letter explaining that blowing up lots of stuff in Syria is a great idea: … The “other people” include Max Boot, Paul Berman, Dr. Clifford D. May, Marty Peretz, and Danielle Pletka.
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Hit & Run, CANNONFIRE, Balloon Juice and Outside the Beltway
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Kucinich: Syria strike would turn US into 'al Qaeda's air force' — Air strikes on Syria would turn the U.S. military into “al Qaeda's air force,” former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) told The Hill. — The outspoken anti-war activist said any such action would plunge the United States …
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National Review
New York Times:
Pentagon Sees Syrian Military, Not Chemical Sites, as Target
Pentagon Sees Syrian Military, Not Chemical Sites, as Target
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WorldViews, Israel Matzav, Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Shadow League and National Review
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iranian Official: Israel to Be ‘First Victim’ of U.S. Attack on Syria
Iranian Official: Israel to Be ‘First Victim’ of U.S. Attack on Syria
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LobeLog.com, CNN, National Review and The Daily Caller
George Packer / News Desk:
Two Minds on Syria — So it looks like we're going to bomb Assad.
Two Minds on Syria — So it looks like we're going to bomb Assad.
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The Volokh Conspiracy, The Dish, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, The Week, Guardian, Truthout Stories and Taegan Goddard's …
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Military Strikes Are an Extremely Expensive Way to Help Foreigners
Military Strikes Are an Extremely Expensive Way to Help Foreigners
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Washington Monthly
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: We're not seeking ‘regime change’ as goal in Syria
White House: We're not seeking ‘regime change’ as goal in Syria
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Outside the Beltway, CNN and Politico
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Architect of Syria War Plan Doubts Surgical Strikes Will Work
Architect of Syria War Plan Doubts Surgical Strikes Will Work
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American Prospect, Reuters, Yahoo! News, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Hullabaloo, The Dish, BBC, Guardian, New York Times, FP Passport and Mediaite
NBCNews:
Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say
Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say
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Fox News:
Ben Bradlee's daughter-in-law reveals (almost) all on Facebook — Ben Bradlee, one of the great men of American journalism, celebrated his 92nd birthday yesterday, and his daughter-in-law paid tribute by posting a photo of them and saying “it is a dream to be part of his family.”
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Erik Wemple:
Pari Bradlee and the brilliance of Fox News's Howard Kurtz — No one cared about the Facebook photos of one Pari Bradlee. No one cared that one of them portrayed her in a “Swiss-cheese bra.” No one cared that another showed her posing nude, “shot from the back, twisting one arm behind her.”
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The Huffington Post and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Robertson: Gay People Deliberately Spread HIV/AIDS By Cutting People With Special Rings — Today on the 700 Club, Pat Robertson told co-host Terry Meeuwsen that gay men in cities like San Francisco attempt to spread HIV/AIDS to others by cutting them with a special ring when shaking hands.
WPXI-TV:
Teens face ethnic intimidation charges after brutally beating woman in North Side — PITTSBURGH — Three teenage girls are facing several charges, including ethnic intimidation, after police said they brutally beat a 32-year-old woman Sunday in Pittsburgh's North Side.
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Rush Limbaugh:
Why are Feminists Judging Miley Cyrus? — RUSH: This Miley Cyrus incident from Sunday night, “twerking” on the MTV Music Awards, continues to be discussed. I ran across something today I really want to share with you about the curriculum at many (one particularly, but I'm sure at many other) universities and colleges in this country.
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Althouse
Washington Post:
New Jersey's Cory Booker: A perfect senator for ‘This Town’? — “That's really a phenomenon of the last two years,” Booker acknowledges, “when people started projecting me, not as this guy working in the inner city, but maybe as somebody who was going somewhere.”
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story, Joe. My. God. and Right Wing Watch
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Brian Lewis Speaks Out: Roger Ailes and Fox News Should Fear Him — Brian Lewis's attorney Judd Burstein just provided this statement to Gawker: … Fox News President Roger Ailes fired Lewis in late July following accusations of “financial irregularities” and “multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract.”
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Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Politico, msnbc.com and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
ABC News:
Twerking: A Scientific Explanation — Twerking is such a complex, technical subject, only a Ph.D. researcher can explain how the body does what it does to make it happen. — Twerking is a combination movement involving a deep squat and a pelvic tilt, Michelle Olson, a professor …
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The Gateway Pundit and Colorlines
Daily Mail:
Rape victim, 93, bravely speaks out after she was ‘attacked by 17-year-old boy who kicked in back door of her home as she slept’ — A 17-year-old boy has been charged with rape following a sickening assault on a 93-year-old woman. — Iquise Taylor of Anderson, Indiana …
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
August 2013 Ratings: MSNBC Down Double Digits — MSNBC continued its rough 2013 in the ratings, continuing to lose significant audience from 2012. The problems were particularly prevalent in primetime, with some shows losing close to -50% of viewers. — The ratings for August 2013 (Nielsen Live + Same Day data):
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon and NewsBusters
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Michaud leads in Maine Gubernatorial race — Mike Michaud is the new leader in the Maine Governor's race, benefiting from the continued unpopularity of incumbent Paul LePage and declining support for independent Eliot Cutler over the last seven months. Michaud is at 39% to 35% for LePage and 18% for Cutler.
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Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
Boston Magazine:
Behind the Scenes of The Hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — All photographs by Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Sean Murphy — It was likely the most terrifying manhunt in Boston history. With the city under lockdown and armored vehicles rolling through Watertown, the alleged Boston …
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Guardian, CBS New York, NBCNews and TalkLeft
Dan Popkey / Idaho Statesman:
Boehner visits Boise; vows to succeed with entitlement reform this fall — The House speaker predicts ‘a whale of a fight’ but he says the timing is right. — House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that getting the GOP-controlled House to agree to raising the U.S. debt ceiling will only come …
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CNBC, PoliticusUSA, msnbc.com, Business Insider, Washington Wire, Daily Kos and Goppers
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Al Jazeera America Launch Ratings — Al Jazeera America launched last week, and we have the ratings from Nielsen for its first few days. — Not surprisingly given the low-rated channel it replaced (Current TV), and the fact that it lost a few million homes from AT&T before launch …
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Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post and National Review
Alec Luhn / Guardian:
Bubonic plague outbreak feared in central Asia — Health officials on alert after teenager who ate infected barbecued marmot dies and three others are admitted to hospital — Health officials fear an outbreak of bubonic plague in central Asia after a teenage boy died from the disease …
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The Daily Caller
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Michigan Medicaid Expansion In Legislative Limbo — A Michigan bill to expand Medicaid under Obamacare is currently in legislative purgatory after a state senator refused to cast a vote, therefore stymying its passage. — The bill needs 20 votes out of the 38-member Senate to pass.
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Eclectablog
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Wal-Mart will offer health coverage to workers' partners starting in 2014 — The largest private employer in the United States will provide health insurance to the domestic partners of its U.S. workers starting next year in a major victory for gay rights activists.
Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits:
‘Revenge Porn’ Could Be Criminal Offense in California — On a recent episode of “The Newsroom,” on HBO, the character Sloan Sabbith, a financial reporter, was mortified when an ex-boyfriend posted compromising pictures of her online, which then went viral.
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The Week, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Los Angeles Times
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama Taps Former Aides for Intel Review Panel — President Barack Obama on Tuesday named the members of a new intelligence review panel aimed at boosting public confidence in U.S. surveillance programs, tapping a group of former White House officials and academics with close current and past ties to his administration.
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Associated Press and The Volokh Conspiracy
John Harwood / The Caucus:
10 Questions for Jacob Lew — Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has been part of Washington's fiscal battles for three decades, since he served as an aide to then-House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill. But soon he will be the Obama administration's point man on an unusual convergence of fronts …
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Daily Kos, New York Times, ThinkProgress and AL.com
Jonathan Martin / The Caucus:
Ickes Returns to Democratic Committee's Rules and Bylaws Panel — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Democratic National Committee's summer meeting here late last week was starkly different from the gathering of its Republican counterparts earlier in the month. There were no surefire news-making speakers …