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12:40 PM ET, August 29, 2013

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PBS NewsHour / Online NewsHour:
President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Chemical weapons a game-changer on U.S. public opinion on Syria
Discussion: Politico, NBCNews and Reuters
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Latest developments on Syria
Discussion: Associated Press and Guardian
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Digital Chosunilbo:
Kim Jong-un's Ex-Girlfriend ‘Shot by Firing Squad’  —  Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, reports said Wednesday.  —  Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin …
Discussion: AL.com and Business Insider
Joe Kemp / NY Daily News:
Ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed by firing squad: report  —  Hyon Song-wol, a well-known pop artist and longtime girlfriend of the dictator, was one of a dozen performers gunned after they were arrested for allegedly breaking pornography laws, according to a report.
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 …
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.
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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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Obama imposes new limits on guns through executive action
Discussion: Politico
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Guardian and Hot Air
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Rumsfeld says administration hasn't justified Syria attack
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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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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Emma Dumain / Goppers:
Boehner, Cantor Turned Down Chance to Speak at March Anniversary (Updated)
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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
Democrats may dream of sixteen years of dominance, but on Nov. 8, 2016 it is entirely possible that Americans will elect a Republican president.  It is even possible, although less likely, that Republicans will be in full control of the federal government: the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Blake Neff / The Hill:
Norquist: Don't let Limbaugh, Levin moderate 2016 debates
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze.com
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.
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.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Joe. My. God.
Brenda Bernet / ArkansasOnline.com:
School districts hoping to keep security licenses  —  3 chiefs to talk to state board  —  Clarksville Superintendent David Hopkins said he plans to appeal if a state board decides Sept. 11 to revoke the license it granted his district to have staff members act as private security guards.
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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama in Los Angeles for Labor Day  —  President Obama will travel to Los Angeles for Labor Day to recognize organized labor.  —  Obama will mark Labor Day with an appearance at the AFL-CIO convention, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Sabattus man says ‘shoot’ posting wasn't a threat against Obama, defends using racial slur
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Bosses Say ‘Pick Up the Phone’
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The risk of taking on Syria
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Hate-crime hoaxes and “counter-Trayvonism.”
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