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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 explains ‘red line’ — (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.


GOP Congressman Accuses Obama Of Using Syria To Distract From Benghazi, IRS
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ThinkProgress

Split Senate Panel Approves Giving Obama Limited Authority on Syria
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NPR and Outside the Beltway

Senate panel approves Syria measure
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The Daily Beast, Defense One, Firedoglake and Booman Tribune

Senate Panel Votes To Make Regime Change The Goal Of Syria Mission
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ThinkProgress and Washington Examiner

Senate committee approves Syria war resolution
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Mondoweiss and The Heritage Foundation

Senate committee approves resolution authorizing U.S. strike on Syria

Senate Panel Approves Syria Use Of Force Resolution
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Washington Monthly


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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland


Anthony Weiner hits rock bottom ... or does he? (VIDEO) — Updated at 4:52 p.m.: The Weiner campaign this hour released a longer video which shows the man provoking Weiner, calling him a “scumbag” and adding, “And you're married to an Arab” as Weiner tried to shrug off his remarks.

Anthony Weiner Explodes at ‘Jackass’ Voter in Brooklyn
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Politico, Patterico's Pontifications, Red Alert Politics, The Hill and The Raw Story

Epic fall(s) — Grab a chair: Congress is about to get as fascinating and powerful as it gets. — In the next two months, the most unpopular institution in America will decide the fates of a president's power, a military strike, defense contracts, the budget, health-care implementation …
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Obama's political capital spreads thin — President Barack Obama faced a heavy lift in Congress this fall when his agenda included only budget issues and immigration reform. — Now with Syria in the mix, the president appears ready to spend a lot of the political capital that he would have kept …


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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Hot Air

FIRST ON CNN: Boehner turns down request to meet with Russian delegation
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The Hill

The GOP wants to have it both ways on Syria
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UPDATED: Siskiyou County supervisors vote to pursue seceding from state — YREKA — The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 this afternoon to pursue seceding from California. — More than 100 people packed the supervisors' chambers late this morning for a discussion on whether …
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Siskiyou supervisors support withdrawal from California
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Obama denies his Syrian ‘red line’ comments — President Barack Obama repeatedly denied Wednesday that he ever set a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and he insisted that the “world community” and Congress created the so-called red line, and should enforce the line.
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Red Alert Politics and Doug Ross
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Rumsfeld refers to Obama as ‘so-called commander-in-chief’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Prospect and The Raw Story

Questions of Policy and Leadership Dog Obama Before Meeting in Russia — ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Not even a month ago, President Obama canceled a planned summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin, citing Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward J. Snowden as evidence of a broader deterioration of relations.
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Obama Says ‘World Set a Red Line’ on Chemical Arms
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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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The Other McCain, Red Alert Politics, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, Popehat and Fox News


Titusville slaying suspect claims he stood his ground — Defense team asks for dismissal based on threats from victims — Surveillance footage of Labor Day shooting in Titu...: Surveillance footage from the home of William Woodward on the night he allegedly shot three of his neighbors, killing two, and severely wounding another.
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Crooks and Liars

McCaul ‘stunned’ at Kerry's estimate of jihadists among Syrian rebels — A top ranking Republican House member says Secretary of State John Kerry is being “disingenuous” in his estimate of the number of jihadists in the Syrian rebels forces. — House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mike McCaul …


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 …
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Daily Kos


Gender abortions: criminal charges not in ‘public interest’ says CPS — Doctors who agreed to arrange illegal abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby have been told they will not face criminal charges, despite prosecutors admitting that there is enough evidence to take them to court, it emerged on Wednesday night.
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BBC, Guardian and LifeNews.com

On the Edge of Poverty, at the Center of a Debate — DYERSBURG, Tenn. — As a self-described “true Southern man” — and reluctant recipient of food stamps — Dustin Rigsby, a struggling mechanic, hunts deer, doves and squirrels to help feed his family. He shops for grocery bargains …
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USDA ERS and MJ Rosenberg

RI Gov. Lincoln Chafee Won't Run for 2nd Term — Gov. Lincoln Chafee is not running for a second term, he said Wednesday in an announcement that surprised his political opponents and closest advisors alike and takes him out of what was expected to be a fierce primary in his new Democratic Party.
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Haley locks herself out of governor's mansion - in her robe — (CNN) - If a bunch of governors got together and wrote a book on things to avoid when you're a state executive, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley might have an entertaining and lighthearted chapter to contribute.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland