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New York Times:
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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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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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
Clear-Cut Stupidity on Syria
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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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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.
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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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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Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
August jobs report: Hiring continues as unemployment falls
August jobs report: Hiring continues as unemployment falls
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
Employment Report Comments (more graphs)
Employment Report Comments (more graphs)
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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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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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John Fund / National Review:
House Might Not Vote on Obama's Syria Resolution — Congressional aides in both parties tell me that the chances of President Obama winning House approval for military action in Syria are so bad they actually doubt the House would ultimately vote on it if failure seemed certain.
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Majority of House leaning ‘no’ on Syria resolution
Majority of House leaning ‘no’ on Syria resolution
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Draws Scrutiny Over Writer's Ties To Syrian Rebel Advocacy Group — NEW YORK — A Wall Street Journal op-ed cited this week by both Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has drawn scrutiny for not disclosing writer Elizabeth O'Bagy's ties to a Syrian rebel advocacy group.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Can U.S. separate the good guys from jihadists in Syria?
Can U.S. separate the good guys from jihadists in Syria?
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
Obama Has No ‘Intention’ To Strike Syria If Congress Says No … “The president of course has the authority to act” even if Congress does not support his plan for a military strike on Syria, White House deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep earlier today.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
No Syria Attack Without Congressional Approval, Obama Aide Says
No Syria Attack Without Congressional Approval, Obama Aide Says
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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
Bloomberg:
Libertarians Are the New Communists — Most people would consider radical libertarianism and communism polar opposites: The first glorifies personal freedom. The second would obliterate it. Yet the ideologies are simply mirror images. Both attempt to answer the same questions, and fail to do so in similar ways.
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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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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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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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The Raw Story:
The last person to see Hitler alive dies at 96 — Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard, who was the last surviving witness of the Nazi dictator's final days in the bunker towards the end of World War II, has died, his agent said Friday. — Rochus Misch died aged 96 in Berlin on Thursday …
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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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.
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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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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