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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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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 …
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McCain opposes Senate resolution on Syria — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says he doesn't support the latest Senate resolution to authorize military force against Syria. — McCain is an outspoken advocate of intervention against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and wants …
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Obama: Red line on Syria chemical weapons is the world's, not his — (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday the red line he spoke of last year regarding Syria's use of chemical weapons came from international treaties and past congressional action, rather than something he “made up …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The GOP wants to have it both ways on Syria — Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is in a spirited debate — with himself. — Four months ago, Inhofe demanded that “President Obama step up and exhibit the leadership required” to show Syria's Bashar al-Assad …
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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.
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Divided Senate Panel Approves Resolution on Syria Strike
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On Syria, House GOP won't follow their leaders
On Syria, House GOP won't follow their leaders
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: America's credibility on the line in Syria
Obama: America's credibility on the line in Syria
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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.
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AIPAC in Full Court Press on Syria
AIPAC in Full Court Press on Syria
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Howard Dean backs Obama on Syria (video)
Howard Dean backs Obama on Syria (video)
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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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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.
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Anthony Weiner Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
Anthony Weiner Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
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Old ‘cheap’ Republicans ‘raped’ America: Video captures award-winning professor's anti-Republican rant — A professor at Michigan State University (MSU) opened the first day of his creative writing class on Thursday by bashing Mitt and Ann Romney and ranting against “old Republicans” …
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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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AP INTERVIEW: PUTIN WARNS WEST ON SYRIA ACTION — You are here — Home » Vladimir Putin » AP Interview: Putin warns West on Syria action — NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia …
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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 …
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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.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Bill Clinton says GOP has duty to help fix ObamaCare ‘glitches’
Bill Clinton says GOP has duty to help fix ObamaCare ‘glitches’
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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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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 …
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Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro dead: commits suicide in prison — (CNN) — He was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years for a heinous crime, but in the end he cut that life short. — Ariel Castro, convicted of kidnapping and raping three women, as well as murder …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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