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12:05 AM ET, September 11, 2013

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The White House may really be about to win on Syria  —  The AP tweets:  —  Assuming that sticks, it's game.  The White House just achieved its goal.  —  Remember: The White House's aim here wasn't to topple Assad, or even hurt him.  It was to affirm and reinforce the international norm against chemical weapons.
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Charles Crawford / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Syria, chemical weapons, and the worst day in Western diplomatic history  —  Monday 9 September, 2013, was the worst day for US and wider Western diplomacy since records began.  —  At the Foreign Office here in London we had the bizarre spectacle of US Secretary of State John Kerry giving …
New York Times:
Parsing Syria Developments Ahead of Obama's Address  —  The nature of the domestic and international debate about a military intervention in Syria has been evolving.  Here are the basics.  —  What did Mr. Obama say?  —  In one of the most challenging moments of his presidency …
Associated Press:
Text of President Obama's Speech on Syria  —  Text of President Barack Obama's speech on Syria, as provided by the Federal News Service:  —  My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here.  Over the past two years …
Discussion: The Agonist
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Did the World Just Legitimize the Assad Regime It Spent Years Discrediting?
Politico:
Obama's opportunity in Syria
Discussion: CNN and Gawker
Dustin Weaver / The Hill:
Obama backs UN effort on Syria as new resolution prepared
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Making Sense of Syria  —  This is what I think we're seeing:  —  The president has backed away from a military strike in Syria.  But he can't acknowledge this or act as if it is true.  He is acting and talking as if he's coolly, analytically, even warily contemplating the Russian proposal and the Syrian response.
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Syria Solution: Obama Got Played by Putin and Assad  —  This, apparently, is how diplomacy happens these days: Someone makes an off-hand remark at a press conference and triggers an international chain reaction that turns an already chaotic and complex situation completely on its head …
RT:
Putin: Syria chem arms handover will work only if US calls off strike  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Syria's chemical arms handover will only work if the US and its allies renounce the use of force against Damascus.  —  “Certainly, this is all reasonable …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
‘A Grand Betrayal’: Conservatives Slam GOP's Gambit On Defunding Obamacare  —  The initial reviews from conservatives Tuesday are in and they're staunchly negative.  The proposed House Republican plan to force the Senate to vote on defunding Obamacare — while removing the threat …
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Jonathan Strong / National Review:
Fight Delayed  —  Majority Leader Eric Cantor spent 90 percent of a presentation to House Republicans in the Capitol basement this morning explaining and defending his convoluted plan to force the Senate to vote on defunding Obamacare before eventually allowing the upper chamber to send a “clean” CR to President Obama.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Pushes New Gambit To Defund Obamacare
IC ON THE RECORD:
DNI Clapper Declassifies Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection Under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)  —  September 10, 2013  —  In June of this year, President Obama directed me to declassify and make public as much information as possible …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
NSA broke rules on call-tracking program, court filings show
Discussion: Hit & Run and Reuters
David Ferguson / The Raw Story:
Cenk Uygur to Dana Perino: 'You're wrong, I'm right.  Get the f*ck out of the country'  —  On Monday's edition of “The Young Turks,” host Cenk Uygur sent a special message to former White House spokesperson Dana Perino, who last week said she is “tired” of atheists demanding that Christian ideology be separated from public policy.
Discussion: Mediaite and Joe. My. God.
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Daniel Burke / CNN:
Fox News host: Atheists 'don't have to live here'
Discussion: The Raw Story
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Sydney Leathers shows up at Anthony Weiner election party  —  The woman whose sexually explicit allegations about Anthony Weiner derailed his mayoral campaign showed up at his Election Night watch party, reports said.  —  Sydney Leathers, the young woman who offered graphic details …
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Michael McLaughlin / The Huffington Post:
Anthony Weiner Office Visited By Sydney Leathers On Election Day (PHOTO)
Discussion: Twitchy and The Daily Caller
Katie McDonough / Salon:
Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophilia,” says it does not cause “lasting harm”  —  The biologist and author described the sexual abuse that occurred among his former classmates as “mild touching up”  —  In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called …
New York Times:
De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff  —  Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city's deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes than any of his rivals in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to exit poll results.
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
A True Liberal Mayor At Last?
Discussion: The Reaction
Amy Payne / The Heritage Foundation:
Warning: Obamacare May Be Hazardous to Your Health  —  We've talked a lot about Obamacare's costs—how it will hurt the economy, kill jobs, and cost you and your family more when you pay for health care.  —  But there's an even more important cost: your health.  —  Obamacare will affect the quality of care in this country.
Discussion: BizPac Review, Doug Ross and Nice Deb
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Jim DeMint / Fox News:
America, we must stop ObamaCare before it becomes hazardous to our health
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David Von Drehle / TIME:
Colorado's Civil War  —  A recall election turned a local fight into the latest front in the national gun control debate  —  All politics is local, the saying goes.  But is it true anymore?  Voters in Colorado may decide today.  —  Bigfoot out-of-towners have been pouring tons of money …
Amanda Watts / CNN:
Bride: I pushed my husband off cliff  —  (CNN) — A woman in Montana is accused of pushing her husband off a cliff after an argument.  The pair had been married for just more than a week.  —  Jordan Linn Graham made an initial appearance in court Monday to face a charge of second-degree murder.
Michael S. Greve / Library of Law & Liberty:
Yoo to Conservatives: Reverse Course  —  The latest issue of the National Review has an article by Berkeley law prof John Yoo that invites serious thought and discussion—very serious thought.  Here's the gist:  —  In the Reagan era, conservatives stood for a “unitary executive” …
Julie Pace / ABC News:
Analysis: Obama Seeks to Hold the Public's Trust  —  President Barack Obama wasn't just seeking Americans' support for military action in Syria.  He also was seeking their trust.  —  Whether he earned it will not only color his response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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