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Fox News:
McCain opposes Syria strike resolution  —  Sept. 2, 2013: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington.AP  —  Sen. John McCain, President Obama's biggest cheerleader on Capitol Hill for a strike in Syria …
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Accuses Obama Of Using Syria To Distract From Benghazi, IRS  —  Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) used Wednesday's hearing on whether or not the United States will take military action in Syria to ask whether the whole debate was a ruse to cover-up the many “scandals” the Obama administration is facing.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria  —  President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally “didn't set a red line” on Syria:  —  “First of all, I didn't set a red line,” said Obama.  “The world set a red line.  The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent …
Talking Points Memo:
GOP Congressman Asks If Syria Strike Is About Distracting From Benghazi, IRS, NSA  —  Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) — the congressman who yelled “you lie” during President Obama's 2010 State of the Union speech — asked Wednesday if the administration's decision to attack Syria was made to distract from other …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Taegan Goddard's …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Senate committee approves Syria resolution  —  (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the world set a red line against chemical weapons use that he now seeks to apply to Syria, while a Senate committee approved a resolution authorizing the U.S. military attack that he is planning.
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Senate committee approves Syria war resolution  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to authorize President Obama to use limited force against Syria Wednesday, after adopting amendments from Sen. John McCain designed to “change the military equation on the battlefield.”
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Divided Senate Panel Approves Resolution on Syria Strike
Discussion: NPR
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House members drafting Syria resolution
Discussion: CNN
Politico:   Senate panel approves Syria measure
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Anthony Weiner Gets Into Explosive Confrontation With Jewish Voter (VIDEO)  —  New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner got into an explosive confrontation with a man who brought up his sexting scandal on Wednesday while in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn.
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Anthony Weiner Blows Up in Absurd Shouting Match with Jewish Voter  —  Failed mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner yelled at a Jewish voter in Brooklyn's Borough Park after the voter suggested that Weiner should drop out of the mayoral race.  Watch the thoughtful discussion of morality and divine judgement that ensued.
Ross Barkan / Politicker:
Anthony Weiner Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and The Raw Story
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Former Boehner Aides, GOP Sources: House Speaker Will Step Down After 2014 Elections  —  WASHINGTON — Former aides to John Boehner and other high-level GOP operatives are increasingly convinced that the House Speaker will step aside after the 2014 midterm elections, according to interviews with a dozen Republican sources.
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John Boehner / USA Today:
Tie debt limit to spending cuts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rumsfeld refers to Obama as ‘so-called commander-in-chief’  —  Former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday endorsed the Obama administration's case for a military strike against Syria.  —  “My view is that we've had over 100,000 people dead in Syria over the last year or two,” Rumsfeld told Fox and Friends.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Another Set of Questions About Syria
Discussion: The Dish
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Clinton: Improve, don't repeal, ACA  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former President Bill Clinton urged opponents of President Barack Obama's health care law to stop fighting it and work to improve the law in a highly anticipated speech that tried to remind Americans why the three-year-old law was passed in the first place.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton, back in Arkansas
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Sam Baker / The Hill:   Bill Clinton says GOP has duty to help fix ObamaCare ‘glitches’
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Gay Veterans' Spouses To Receive Benefits After DOJ Announces It Won't Enforce Marriage Definition  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has cleared the way for the spouses of gay veterans to receive military benefits, with the Justice Department declaring it will no longer enforce …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Feds won't enforce law barring gay veterans from spousal benefits
CNN:
Texas high school stabbings: 1 student killed, 3 others injured, police say  —  (CNN) — A 17-year-old student was killed and three other students were injured in stabbings Wednesday morning at a Houston-area high school, Harris County authorities said.  —  The stabbings happened shortly …
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KHOU-TV:
HCSO: 1 killed, 3 injured in fight at Spring HS; 3 in custody
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz: U.S. not 'Al Qaeda's air force'  —  Sen. Ted Cruz called President Barack Obama's efforts to authorize military intervention in Syria a public relations move, saying the U.S. military shouldn't be “Al Qaeda's air force.”  —  The Texas Republican said Tuesday on TheBlaze …
jhnewsandguide.com:
Cheney knocks Obama, papers  —  150 in Tea Party crowd hear candidate call for a ‘rebirth of freedom.’  —  Liz Cheney would not vote to attack Syria if she were in the U.S. Senate.  —  Speaking to an enthralled crowd of 150 Jackson Hole Tea Party members Tuesday night in her first public appearance …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Arm and Shame  —  The Obama team has clearly struggled with its Syria policy, but, in fairness, this is a wickedly complex problem.  We need a policy response that simultaneously deters another Syrian poison gas attack, doesn't embroil America in the Syrian civil war and also doesn't lead …
Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on - it has, but into lawlessness and ruin  —  Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi  —  A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Al Gore's Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint  —  Illustration by John Gara / BuzzFeed; Joe Raedle / Getty Images; Saul Loeb / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change.
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
Business Losing Clout in a G.O.P. Moving Right  —  How did corporate America lose control of the Republican Party?  —  From overhauling immigration laws to increasing spending on the nation's aging infrastructure, big business leaders have seemed relatively powerless lately …
 
 
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