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Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013 — The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. We further assess that the regime used a nerve agent in the attack.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Unclassified Syria briefing exposes rifts among key lawmakers — Thursday night's briefing by top Obama administration officials exposed divisions among key lawmakers on what to do in Syria. — Lawmakers on the unclassified conference call said the officials made it clear that President Obama …
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Washington Post:
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks on Syria on Aug. 30 — Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the following remarks Aug. 30 at the State Department on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. — KERRY: President Obama has spent many days …
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Politico:
Nancy Pelosi the hawk tells President Obama to act on Syria — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pressed top administration officials Thursday night to take military action to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad in response to reports that he used chemical weapons in his nation's ongoing civil war.
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
U.S. military officers have deep doubts about impact, wisdom of a U.S. strike on Syria — The Obama administration's plan to launch a military strike against Syria is being received with serious reservations by many in the U.S. military, which is coping with the scars of two lengthy wars …
Liam Stack / The Lede:
Facebook Post Said to Be by Assad's Son Dares Americans to Attack
Facebook Post Said to Be by Assad's Son Dares Americans to Attack
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama and Kerry Press Case for U.S. Action in Syria
Obama and Kerry Press Case for U.S. Action in Syria
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Pelosi urges military response to Syria
Pelosi urges military response to Syria
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DownWithTyranny! and The Daily Caller
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Aim of U.S. Attack: Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred
Aim of U.S. Attack: Restore a ‘Red Line’ That Became Blurred
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Liz Cheney: ‘I am not pro-gay marriage’ — Wyoming Senate hopeful Liz Cheney said bluntly on Friday that she is “not pro-gay marriage.” — Cheney, who is mounting a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), made the remark in a statement, which is posted on her website.
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Liz Cheney Calls On Enzi To Denounce Dishonest “Poll”
Liz Cheney Calls On Enzi To Denounce Dishonest “Poll”
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Liz Cheney says gay marriage should be decided by the states
Liz Cheney says gay marriage should be decided by the states
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David Barrett / Telegraph:
David Miranda was carrying password for secret files on piece of paper — A journalist's partner who was detained carrying thousands of British intelligence documents through Heathrow airport was also holding the password to an encrypted file written on a piece of paper, the government has disclosed.
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Robert Booth / Guardian:
UK took three weeks to act over data at New York Times, says Guardian
UK took three weeks to act over data at New York Times, says Guardian
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
White House, Republican senators give up on budget talks — The Obama administration and a group of Republican senators abandoned efforts Thursday to hammer out a budget deal and avoid a showdown over the national debt, saying they had failed to resolve their long-standing dispute over taxes.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Court rules White House visitor logs can remain secret
Court rules White House visitor logs can remain secret
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
W.H. prepares for Obamacare push
W.H. prepares for Obamacare push
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Allie Jones / The Atlantic Wire:
Alabama Republican Wants to Ban Toni Morrison's ‘The Bluest Eye’ from Schools — Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes for blue eyes, should be banned in schools.
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Telegraph:
Miliband was governed by narrow political interests - not those of Syrian children. I have left the Labour Party — Whatever your view of last night's defeat for the Government over Syria - for what it's worth mine is it was a catastrophe for the cause of progressive interventionism …
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Guardian, National Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ginsburg to officiate same-sex wedding — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first Supreme Court member to conduct a same-sex marriage ceremony Saturday when she officiates at the Washington wedding of Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser. — The gala wedding of Kaiser …
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Poverty Has Same Effect On The Brain As Constantly Pulling All Nighters — The mental strain of living in poverty and thinking constantly about tight finances can drop a person's IQ by as much as 13 percent, or about the equivalent of losing a night of sleep, according to a new study.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Impolitic
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making, new study finds
Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making, new study finds
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The Reality-Based Community, sciencemag.org, Gawker and NPR
Macgill / bricoleur:
Some News and Thanks — I will soon pass the Twitter General Counsel torch to Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya). Vijaya has been managing Twitter's corporate and international legal work, and I've gotten to know her well over the last fourteen years. I couldn't be happier with her appointment as General Counsel of Twitter.
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Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:
Standing Together for Greater Transparency — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together.
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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly Admits He Made a ‘Mistake’ Saying No Republicans Invited to March on Washington — Hey, what do you know? Bill O'Reilly actually kind of apologized for saying something that wasn't true on the air. After one media outlet after another reported on the fact that Senator Tim Scott …
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Bill Miller / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Ted Nugent's wife forgot her gun was in her bag at DFW Airport, lawyer says — FORT WORTH — The wife of rock guitarist Ted Nugent was “embarrassed” and apologetic after being arrested Thursday for carrying a handgun into a terminal at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, her lawyer said.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Unsaved World — The rupiah is falling! Head for the hills! On second thought, keep calm and carry on. — In case you're wondering, the rupiah is the national currency of Indonesia, and, like many other emerging-market currencies, it has fallen a lot over the past few months.
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