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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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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.
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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.

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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House members drafting Syria resolution — Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who supports military intervention in Syria, said this week he is part of a House effort to develop a resolution authorizing the use of force in that country.
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Divided Senate Panel Approves Resolution on Syria Strike
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The Senate's Syria hearing: Live updates
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President Obama: America's credibility on the line 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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AP INTERVIEW: PUTIN WARNS WEST ON SYRIA ACTION
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Obama Asserts Right to Strike Syria Without Congress
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The Morning Plum: How White House hopes to get Congress to Yes on Syria
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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 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 Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Rubio: We Wouldn't Be At This Stage With Syria ‘If I Had Been In Charge’ (VIDEO) — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he's “very skeptical” that the proposed airstrike on Syria will deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons in the future, while arguing that he'd have handled …
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Howard Dean backs Obama on Syria (video)
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Votes on Syria could have huge ramifications on 2016 contenders
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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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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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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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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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