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Robin Wright / Los Angeles Times:
The risk of taking on Syria — Quick strikes rarely achieve enduring political goals — and often produce more costs or unintended consequences than benefits. — So the U.S. launches a military strike. Then what? — As the Obama administration and the U.S. military plot military action against Syria …
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New York Times:
U.S. Facing Test on Data to Back Action on Syria — WASHINGTON — The evidence of a massacre is undeniable: the bodies of the dead lined up on hospital floors, those of the living convulsing and writhing in pain and a declaration from a respected international aid group that thousands …
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PBS NewsHour / Online NewsHour:
President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria — President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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Associated Press:
AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’
AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’
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Los Angeles Times:
Syria chemical weapons response poses major test for Obama
Syria chemical weapons response poses major test for Obama
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Putin's Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack
Putin's Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack
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Fred Pleitgen / CNN:
Obama: U.S. concludes Syria carried out chemical weapons attacks
Obama: U.S. concludes Syria carried out chemical weapons attacks
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Clara Ritger / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Affordable Care Act Looking a Bit Unaffordable — Independent National Journal analysis finds premiums higher under Obamacare as employers weigh dropping coverage. — Republicans have long blamed President Obama's signature health care initiative for increasing insurance costs, dubbing it the “Unaffordable Care Act.”
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
States find new ways to resist health law — Several Republican-led states at the forefront of the campaign to undermine President Obama's health-care law have come up with new ways to try to thwart it, refusing to enforce consumer protections, for example, and restricting federally funded workers hired …
Emma Dumain / Goppers:
Boehner, Cantor Turned Down Chance to Speak at March Anniversary (Updated) — Updated 5:23 p.m. | Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House's two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Republicans absent from March on Washington — Not a single Republican elected official stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday with activists, actors, lawmakers and former presidents invited to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington — a notable absence …
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Bushes unable to attend March on Washington ceremony
Bushes unable to attend March on Washington ceremony
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘The Most Dangerous Negro’ — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called “one of its biggest surveillance operations in history.” The speech even moved the head …
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BREITBART.COM:
20,000 CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 100,000 WERE EXPECTED
20,000 CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 100,000 WERE EXPECTED
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THE GREAT LOOPHOLE — As the president mounts the podium …
THE GREAT LOOPHOLE — As the president mounts the podium …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama is talking America into a war — Barack Obama's foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton's, rather than a gourmet's …
Jessica Parks / Philly.com:
State: Montco same-sex marriage licenses meaningless — The Corbett administration said its lawsuit seeking to halt same-sex marriage licenses in Montgomery County “would have no direct effect” on the couples who have already received them. — In a brief Wednesday, state attorneys …
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Rumsfeld says administration hasn't justified Syria attack — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ushered the U.S. into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, said the Obama administration has not clearly justified an attack on Syria. — “One thing that is very interesting …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Hate-crime hoaxes and “counter-Trayvonism.” — Four “hateful text messages” appeared on the phone of a 16-year-old black student who was running for Student Council president at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, N.J. “We have NEVER and will NEVER have an (n-word) to lead our school …
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Zimmerman's Wife Pleads Guilty To Lying To Judge About Bond Funds — SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest. — Shellie Zimmerman entered her guilty Wednesday in Seminole County court.
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Francesca Chambers / Red Alert Politics:
Nation's only black Senator not invited to speak at March on Washington — About Francesca Chambers — Francesca is the Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Readers on Syria: Stay Out — A different red line President Obama could draw. — We'll get back to our ongoing American Futures journey later today. [Please check out the latest installment, this morning from Rapid City, SD.] — I'll confess that in our stopover in DC …
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare for Everything — First health, then finance and now higher ed gets a federal fix. — Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to “reform” the American college and university system.
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Laurel Conrad / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
15 liberals who can't handle the truth about the Oberlin racism hoax — [WAJ intro: Laurel Conrad is a Cornell University Senior. This is her first post at Legal Insurrection. Laurel is President of the conservative Cornell Review, and the Cornell chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Antiwar Left Stays Quiet On Syria — With less money and fewer members, antiwar groups struggle to effectively protest the imminent war in Syria. — Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans at an Iraq War veterans march in 2008 in Denver. — Michael Francis McElroy/Zuma Press / MCT
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AllThingsD:
Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi — One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …