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Charlie Rose interviews Bashar Assad — Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus on Sunday morning. — The interview, Assad's first with an American television network in nearly two years, will air in its entirety on PBS's “Charlie Rose” …
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The Moderate Voice and The Hinterland Gazette
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
WH chief of staff: ‘This is not Iraq or Afghanistan’ — (CNN) - White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough argued Sunday that a military strike in Syria would not be a repeat of previous U.S. involvements in the Middle East or North Africa. — On CNN's “State of the Union,” McDonough said it's …
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Politico, Scared Monkeys, ABC News, Wonkblog and The Hill
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President Obama's toughest Syria hurdle: The calendar — On the short list of seemingly intractable obstacles to President Barack Obama's Syria plans: a war-weary nation, the feckless United Nations — and the Gregorian calendar. — From the beginning, Obama's recent Syria push has been hobbled …
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CNN and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McKeon says he would vote for Syria action if sequestration fixed — House Armed Services Chairman (R-Calif.) said that he would likely vote to authorize military strikes in Syria if President Obama would address sequestration cuts to the military. — McKeon said on CNN's “State of the Union” …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Rand Paul lays out demands ahead of potential Syria filibuster — (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul, who's already said he opposes the limited U.S. military strikes in Syria being pushed by President Barack Obama, said Sunday he was still weighing his options for stalling a vote in the full Senate on the use of force resolution.
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And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year — Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month — A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles …
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Independent Journal Review, “The Lid” and The Gateway Pundit
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Fox News Pundit Shuts Down Network's Hysteria Over Benghazi: 'It's Gone, Baby. It's In Your Head' — Fox News' Juan Williams tersely dismissed the GOP's year-long effort to implicate the Obama administration in a so-called “cover-up” of the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
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Crooks and Liars and NewsHounds blog
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Iowa grants gun permits to the blind — No one questions the legality of the permits, but some officials worry about public safety. — CONNECT — DES MOINES, Iowa — Here's some news that has law enforcement officials and lawmakers scratching their heads:
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The Moderate Voice and The Hinterland Gazette
Conrad Black / New York Sun:
Collapse of American Influence Recalls Dis-Integration of Soviet Union, Fall of France — Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as we are witnessing with the United States.
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Power Line
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U.S. undecided on seeking new Syria U.N. vote
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TalkLeft, BBC, Israel Matzav, NPR and The Glittering Eye
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011 — The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately …
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protein wisdom, Associated Press, Doug Ross, Weasel Zippers and emptywheel
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NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data — SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.
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Little Green Footballs, TechCrunch, “The Lid”, The Hinterland Gazette, Hillicon Valley and The Verge
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Britain sent poison gas chemicals to Assad: Proof that the UK delivered Sarin agent to Syrian regime for SIX years — British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could have been used to produce the deadly nerve agent that killed 1,400 people, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today.
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Guardian, UK Blog on The Huffington Post, BizPac Review, The Hinterland Gazette and American Power
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Amid presidential murmurs, Warren to address AFL-CIO — LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will address a key faction of the liberal base Monday as speculation intensifies that she will someday seek the presidency. — Helping to open the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention …
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Weasel Zippers and Prairie Weather
Alexandra Hudson / Reuters:
Syrian forces may have used gas without Assad's permission: paper — (Reuters) - Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany's Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence.
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The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Monthly:
It's the Economy, Mate — Tony Abbott will be the next prime minister of Australia after his conservative coalition handily won yesterday's election, forcing the Labor Party out of power after six years. Abbott won despite the fact that the Australian economy has expanded without interruption for 22 years …
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Gregory Hicks: Hearing of Death of Christopher Stevens ‘Saddest Moment’ in My Career — In an exclusive interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya Gregory Hicks recalled being told of the death of then U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens …
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BizPac Review