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Associated Press:
AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’ — You are here — Home » United States government » AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no ‘slam dunk’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack …
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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.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Latest developments on Syria — Britain, one of the U.S.'s key allies on Syria, is signaling it is in no rush for action, and the U.N. chief is pleading for diplomacy to be given a chance amid a flurry of developments across the globe on Thursday. — British Prime Minister David Cameron …
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New York Times:
U.S. Facing Test on Data to Back Action on Syria
U.S. Facing Test on Data to Back Action on Syria
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Associated Press:
OBAMA: SYRIAN GOVT CARRIED OUT CHEMICAL ATTACK
OBAMA: SYRIAN GOVT CARRIED OUT CHEMICAL ATTACK
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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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National Interest, The Agonist, americanthinker.com and The PJ Tatler
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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Business Insider, The Moderate Voice, The Hill and Taegan Goddard's …
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 …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Balloon Juice
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Donald Rumsfeld to W.H.: Justify Syria attack — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Obama administration has not yet justified an attack on Syria. — “There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect …
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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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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
Republicans absent from March on Washington
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Taegan Goddard's …, News One and Library of Law & Liberty
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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ThinkProgress, Guardian, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, LGBTQ Nation, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
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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Most Recent, Balloon Juice and Bloomberg
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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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American Prospect, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Firedoglake, driftglass and Gawker
Chris Brennan / Philly.com:
First Term Troubles - Corbett's numbers continue to drop — PENNSYLVANIA governors typically encounter trouble in their first terms and the polls reflect that with dipping popularity. — It happened to Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, in the late 1990s. — It happened to Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, in the mid-2000s.
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msnbc.com, Booman Tribune and Outside the Beltway
Daily Mail:
Trump University students ‘cheated’ after paying $35,000 to learn secrets of real estate business... and only getting a picture taken with a cardboard cut-out of the Donald — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accused university of encouraging students to pay for expensive, useless seminars
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette
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 …
Allison Benedikt / Slate:
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person — A manifesto. — You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation's-most- essential-institutions-in-order-to-get- what's-best-for-your-kid bad.
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
OBAMA OFFERS NEW GUN CONTROL STEPS — You are here — Home » United States government » Obama offers new gun control steps — WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control …
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Reuters:
U.S. fast-food workers plan nationwide strikes over wages … Atossa Araxia Abrahamian — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fast-food workers across the United States are expected to stage their largest strike to date on Thursday in an almost year-long campaign to raise wages in the service sector.
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and ABC News
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 …
Telegraph:
Kim Jong-un's ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’ — Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days go, according to South Korean reports. — Hyon Song-wol, a singer and rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader …
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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