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Obama Set for Limited Strike on Syria as British Vote No — WASHINGTON — President Obama is prepared to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria, administration officials said Thursday, despite a stinging rejection of such action on Thursday by America's stalwart ally Britain and mounting questions from Congress.

Discussion: Politico, Guardian, The Week, Los Angeles Times, WJLA-TV, Lawfare, Bloomberg, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, NPR, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Weasel Zippers, Associated Press, National Review and Telegraph

BBC:

MPs' vote halts UK action over Syria — MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons. — David Cameron said he would respect the defeat of a government motion by 285-272, ruling out joining US-led strikes.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Volokh Conspiracy, Samizdata, Guardian, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos

Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:

British parliament rejects military strike against Syria — British lawmakers on Thursday delivered a stunning rejection of Prime Minister David Cameron's bid to punish the government of Bashar al-Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons, citing skepticism over the misinformation used …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Outside the Beltway, Wonkblog and Lawfare, more at Mediagazer »

Associated Press:

UK Prime Minister Cameron loses Syria war vote — LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes Thursday, a stunning defeat for a government which had been poised to join the U.S. in strikes to punish Bashar Assad's regime …

Discussion: McClatchy Washington Bureau, The DiploMad 2.0, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Ed Driscoll, JustOneMinute and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Jim VandeHei / Politico:

The ironic war plan — Imagine Dick Cheney in a “Saturday Night Live” skit fantasizing about Barack Obama handling the pressures of going to war. — Cheney's sitting there, yucking it up with Rummy and the boys, eating yellow cake. He laughs off his own reckless rush to an unwinnable war fought on flawed grounds.

Discussion: Reuters, Hullabaloo, CNN, Washington Monthly and AEIdeas

CNN:
British leader loses vote on Syria response

Discussion: The Economic Collapse, CBS News, AL.com, KDVR.com, Here & Now, NPR, Balloon Juice and ABC News

Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Syria crisis: No to war, blow to Cameron

Discussion: Daily Mail, Guardian and Power Line

Dylan Byers / Politico:
After Iraq, media skepticism on Syria

Discussion: Reuters and BuzzFeed

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Liberals join conservatives in demanding Obama get Congress OK for Syria action

Discussion: Politico

Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Parliament Rejects Syria Action

Discussion: Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Israel Matzav, Paper Chase, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, Reuters, Yahoo! News, Post Politics and New York Times

Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
White House: U.S. could act alone after U.K. rejects action

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Guardian

Washington Post:

U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary — U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats …

Julian Pecquet / The Hill:

Leaked documents reveal US sees Israel as a spying threat (Video) — The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal. — A secret budget request obtained by The Washington Post from former NSA contractor …

Discussion: Israel Matzav and The Gateway Pundit

Washington Post:

Inside the 2013 U.S. intelligence ‘black budget’ — The pages in this document appear in the summary of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's multivolume FY 2013 Congressional Budget Justification — the U.S. intelligence community's top-secret “black budget.”

Discussion: FP Passport and Business Insider

Washington Post:
To hunt Osama bin Laden, satellites watched over Abbottabad, Pakistan, and Navy SEALs

Discussion: New York Times, Lawfare, The Daily Caller and Yahoo! News

Washington Post:
U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary

Discussion: msnbc.com and NPR

The United States Department of Justice:

Justice Department Announces Update to Marijuana Enforcement Policy — Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an update to its federal marijuana enforcement policy in light of recent state ballot initiatives that legalize, under state law, the possession of small amounts of marijuana …

Discussion: The Week, Hit & Run, The Volokh Conspiracy, ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, The Verge, The Reality-Based Community, BBC, Firedoglake and TalkLeft

Evan Perez / CNN:
No federal challenge to pot legalization in 2 states

Discussion: New York Times, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Huffington Post and AL.com

Blake Neff / The Hill:
Justice Department eases rules on marijuana enforcement

Discussion: Politico and The Democratic Daily

U.S. Department of the Treasury:

All Legal Same-Sex Marriages Will Be Recognized for Federal Tax Purposes — Ruling Provides Certainty, Benefits and Protections Under Federal Tax Law for Same-Sex Married Couples — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Senator Tim Scott Turned Down Invitation to 50th Anniversary of MLK Event — One of the controversies surrounding the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King's “I Have A Dream” speech has been the absence of Republicans at the event, despite many of them having been invited.

Discussion: Joe. My. God., theGrio and PoliticusUSA

Emma Dumain / The World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
Tim Scott Declined Invite to Attend MLK March as Spectator

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, Talking Points Memo, The Week, theGrio, The Spectacle Blog, The Reality-Based Community, The Huffington Post, Washington Examiner and Washington Post

The White House:

FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence — Today, the Obama administration announced two new common-sense executive actions to keep the most dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands and ban almost all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities.

Discussion: BizPac Review, The Week, The Daily Caller, PoliticusUSA, AL.com, BuzzFeed and NPR

Rush Limbaugh:

Minimum Wage: How Much is Too Much? — RUSH: Let's go to San Diego. We'll start with Sean. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, sir. — CALLER: (Unintelligible) tell (unintelligible) — RUSH: Shh. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Hang on, folks.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

Facebook:

Proposed Updates to our Governing Documents — We are proposing updates to two important legal documents - our Data Use Policy and our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. These two documents tell you about how we collect and use data, and the rules that apply when you choose to use Facebook.

Discussion: AllThingsD, NYT Bits, Digits, The Verge and GigaOM

Washington Post:

What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race — Steven F. Hayward, Paul Kengor, Craig Shirley and Kiron K. Skinner are Ronald Reagan historians. — One cold evening in Dixon, Ill., in the early 1930s, a young man known as Dutch Reagan brought home two African American teammates from his Eureka College football team.

Discussion: Power Line and Ed Driscoll

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian / Reuters:

U.S. fast-food workers protest, demand a ‘living wage’ — (Reuters) - Fast-food workers went on strike and protested outside McDonald's, Burger King and other restaurants in 60 U.S. cities on Thursday, in the largest protest of an almost year-long campaign to raise service sector wages.

Discussion: Agence France Presse, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, NPR and Balloon Juice

Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times:
National fast-food wage protests kick off in New York

Discussion: Power Line, The PJ Tatler and TheBlaze.com

Stephen Lurie / The Atlantic Online:

How the Senate Exploits Unpaid Interns — Barely a third of U.S. senators pay their interns — and embarrassingly for Democrats, a party focused on workplace welfare, most of them are Republicans. — If you walk into any of the 100 Senate offices spread across Capitol Hill, there is one consistent element.

Eliana Johnson / National Review:

Cory Booker's Imaginary Friend — Go back and listen to Cory Booker's stump speeches over the years, and, as in those of any politician, you'll hear many of the same stories. But Booker's are more dramatic and heart-rending than most. They draw heavily on his experiences in Newark, N.J. …

Discussion: Power Line, Twitchy, The PJ Tatler, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers, Gawker, Real Clear Politics, Ed Driscoll, Jammie Wearing Fools, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's …, The Daily Caller and Post Politics

Sarah Jones / PoliticusUSA:

Shellie Zimmerman Reveals She Had Left George The Night Before the Shooting — In an interview with ABC, Shellie Zimmerman said that she had left her husband George the night before the shooting. If you don't know anything about domestic violence statistics, this might not have set off any alarms.