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Pentagon Is Ordered to Expand Potential Targets in Syria With a Focus on Forces — WASHINGTON — President Obama has directed the Pentagon to develop an expanded list of potential targets in Syria in response to intelligence suggesting that the government of President Bashar al-Assad …
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Robert H. Scales / Washington Post:
A war the Pentagon doesn't want — Robert H. Scales, a retired Army major general, is a former commandant of the U.S. Army War College. — The tapes tell the tale. Go back and look at images of our nation's most senior soldier, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and his body language during Tuesday's …
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
McCain: ‘There Would Be An Impeachment’ Of Obama If He Put Boots On Ground — WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. John McCain warns President Barack Obama could face impeachment if he decides to put “boots on the ground” in Syria. — The Republican Arizona senator made the comments …
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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Critics of Syria intervention blast McCain during Phoenix town hall
Critics of Syria intervention blast McCain during Phoenix town hall
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain Berated Over Syria At Arizona Town Halls (VIDEO)
McCain Berated Over Syria At Arizona Town Halls (VIDEO)
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Little Green Footballs and Hit & Run
Charles Krauthammer / National Review:
Unserious Commander-in-Chief — If Obama can't tell us …
Unserious Commander-in-Chief — If Obama can't tell us …
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Hot Air
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
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Weekly Standard and Betsy's Page
Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
Ignore the headlines. This was a very bad jobs report. — View Photo Gallery —If you're on the job hunt, employment opportunities are no longer limited to the East or West Coast. Job aggregation Web site Bright.com recently ranked metro areas with the highest number of job openings.
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Jim Tankersley / Wonkblog:
Is pornography killing the economy? — The adult film industry appears to have made a disappointing August jobs report look even worse. — The report shows carnage in the movie business. It lost 22,000 jobs on the month, or nearly 6 percent of its total jobs: — Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Economix, Capitol Report, Business Insider, Pirate's Cove and The Daily Caller
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Let's face it: The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better — How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not for a temporary shutdown in the port industry last month.
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. job growth misses expectations, offers cautionary note for Fed
U.S. job growth misses expectations, offers cautionary note for Fed
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Jobs Day: Tapering Is Still Insane
Jobs Day: Tapering Is Still Insane
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Why America Is Saying ‘No’ — Syria and Obama: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man. — It is hard, if you've got a head and a heart, to come down against a strong U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its civilian population.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: I'm Bypassing the ‘Hocus Pocus’ of the United Nations — President Obama said that the U.S. talk of military action in Syria is bypassing the “hocus pocus” of the U.N.: — “Frankly, if we weren't talking about the need for an international response right now, this wouldn't be what everybody …
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Fox News:
Putin warns Russia could come to Syria's aid over US strike
Putin warns Russia could come to Syria's aid over US strike
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Raymond Ibrahim, Weasel Zippers, Nice Deb and Jihad Watch
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
U.S. gives up on U.N. Security Council in Syria crisis, blames Russia
U.S. gives up on U.N. Security Council in Syria crisis, blames Russia
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Right Turn
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Years of Tragic Waste — In a few days, we'll reach the fifth anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers — the moment when a recession, which was bad enough, turned into something much scarier. Suddenly, we were looking at the real possibility of economic catastrophe. — And the catastrophe came.
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CNN:
Biden wants Napolitano on Supreme Court — (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden made it clear Friday how he feels about departing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. — “I think Janet Napolitano should be on the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said Friday morning at her going away ceremony.
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Brian Brown / NOM Blog:
They are Clueless — A recent story in the Washington Post illustrates …
They are Clueless — A recent story in the Washington Post illustrates …
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ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Roy Edroso / alicublog:
THE LIBERTARIAN RACKET IN A NUTSHELL. — Ole Perfesser Glenn Reynolds likes to call himself a libertarian. Now, his libertarianism is effectively anti-abortion, but that's no contradiction because, as libertarians constantly tell us, libertarians don't have to support a woman's right to choose …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tom Carson / American Prospect:
Middle-Aged White Males: No Longer the Ones Who Knock — As AMC's superlative-burdened Breaking Bad inches toward its September 29 finale—and honestly, would it kill series creator Vince Gilligan to include even one fast-paced scene to vary the endgame?—viewers are bidding adieu to more than just one show.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
New Inquiry for Bachmann on Her Presidential Race — Representative Michele Bachmann's presidential hopes ended 20 months ago, but her brief and chaotic campaign continues to be the focus of ethics investigations. — The latest is a federal inquiry into whether an outside “super PAC” …
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Crooks and Liars, The Hill and The Reaction
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
EXCUSE MICHAEL GERSON WHILE HE WHIPS THIS OUT — Michael Gerson made his bones by strategically placing verbs and things in the sentences for the least literate president in the history of the Republic. Famously, Gerson was the Christian conscience of the administration that brought …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Right Vote — The statesmanlike case for voting Yes on the congressional resolution to use force against the Assad regime has been made widely and well by conservative foreign policy thinkers. At the end, the case boils down to this: As a policy matter, a Yes vote may be problematic in all kinds of ways.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
If It Wasn't Syria, It Would Have Been Something Else — It is very possible that the president will not obtain a join authorization to bomb Syria; if he chooses to go ahead and attack anyway, Obama will incite a constitutional crisis—the first time in history that a president has decided …
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The Week
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Bad Bet: Why Republicans Can't Win With Whites Alone — Obama lost key groups of white voters by the largest margins since the 1980s, but that doesn't mean Republicans can rely on whites to retake the White House. — This much is undisputed: In 2012, President Obama lost white voters …
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Daily Kos, Quad City Times and First Read
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
IRS admits to pricey Donald Trump parody — The video, which spoofs the Donald Trump reality show “The Apprentice,” shows IRS officials discussing ways to cut training costs for its Small Business/Self-Employed division, which was hosting the conference. The House Ways and Means Committee released the video Friday.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Proposal for the 51st State: Whinyassistan — Today we have the news that Siskiyou County, CA wants to secede from the state of California and potentially join with other rural counties in Oregon to create a new 51 state. This comes on the heels of news out of Colorado in June …
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