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Denver Post:
COLORADO SENATE PRESIDENT JOHN MORSE, STATE SEN. ANGELA GIRON OUSTED — An epic national debate over gun rights in Colorado on Tuesday saw two Democratic state senators ousted for their support for stricter laws, a “ready, aim, fired” message intended to stop other politicians for pushing for firearms restrictions.
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law — COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections seen as a test of whether swing-state voters would accept gun restrictions …
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support — FILE: This image shows Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse, left, and state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo.AP — Two Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the president of the state senate …
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David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Colorado Recalls Explained — Yesterday voters in Colorado recalled two State Senators. One result was not a surprise, and the other is a shock. Of course the votes are Second Amendment victories for the right to arms, but more fundamentally, they are Fourteenth Amendment victories for Due Process of Law.
Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
The Colorado recalls dealt a serious blow to gun-control advocates. Here's why.
New York Times:
Obama's Remarks on Syria — Following is the complete text of President Obama's speech about Syria from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, as transcribed by Federal News Service. — MR. OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The President Makes The Case — That was one of the clearest, simplest and most moving presidential speeches to the nation I can imagine. It explained and it argued, point after point. Everything the president said extemporaneously at the post-G20 presser was touched on, made terser, more elegant and more persuasive.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Obama's Zig vs. Zag — Two weeks of zig-zag foreign policy by President Barack Obama — marching to war one moment, clinging desperately to diplomacy the next — culminated Tuesday night, appropriately enough, in a zig-zag address to the nation that did little to clarify what will come next …
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Reza Kahlili / The Daily Caller:
Iran threatens widespread retaliation against U.S. and allies
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Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Did the World Just Legitimize the Assad Regime It Spent Years Discrediting?
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CNN:
Transcript: Obama's address on Syria
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
President Barack Obama has ordered the U.S. military to maintain …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Who Do You Trust? — WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin, who keeps Edward Snowden on a leash and lets members of a riotous girl band rot in jail, has thrown President Obama a lifeline. — The Russian president had coldly brushed back Obama on Snowden and Syria, and only last week called John Kerry a liar.
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Wall Street Journal:
The President lets Putin outmaneuver him on Syrian chemical arms.
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Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama's Syria speech was an incoherent mess …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A new error in U.S. foreign policy.
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William J. Dobson / Slate:
If your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong.
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Mara Gay / NY Daily News:
Sydney Leathers, former sexting partner of Anthony Weiner, attempts to crash his election night party — The 23-year-old, clad in a tight red dress and platform heels, said that she wanted to finally meet the man who ‘manipulated’ her into a months-long relationship.
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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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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Stringer Defeats Spitzer in Comptroller Primary
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
De Blasio tops NY mayoral primary; Weiner distant fifth
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Susannah George / BuzzFeed:
Controversial Syria Researcher Fired Over Doctorate Claim — Elizabeth O'Bagy's ties to the Syrian opposition had become an issue. — A young researcher whose opinions on Syria were cited by both Senator McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry in congressional testimony last week …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP bill blocks food stamp users from buying junk food — Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that would require people using federal food stamps to buy only healthy food. — The Healthy Food Choices Act, H.R. 3073, reflects a long-standing criticism …
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Annie Lowrey / Economix:
The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery — An updated study by the prominent economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty shows that the top 1 percent of earners took more than one-fifth of the country's total income in 2012, one of the highest levels recorded in the century that the government has collected the relevant data.
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Matt Krantz / USA Today:
Top 1% take biggest income slice on record
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Washington Post:
Securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal would be formidable task, experts say — As diplomats wrangled over competing plans for securing Syria's chemical weapons, arms-control experts warned Tuesday of the formidable challenges involved in carrying out such a complex and risky operation in the midst of a raging civil war.
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Guardian:
NSA shares raw intelligence with Israel — • Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis — • Only official US government communications protected — • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy — • Read the NSA and Israel's ‘memorandum of understanding’
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Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
This Was a Samantha Power Speech — America still doesn't quite grasp the novelty of what Obama is doing in Syria. This is an intervention driven primarily by humanitarian concerns. There is no chance we'd have reached this point without those chemical attacks.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Florida Police Chief: Either George Zimmerman Or His Lawyer Is Not Telling The Truth — George Zimmerman on Monday, shortly before being handcuffed — The Florida police chief that is actively investigating a confrontation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father in law says someone is lying …
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Tom Junod / Esquire:
THE FALLING MAN — Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. — SPECIAL OFFER
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Samira Said / CNN:
Blast hits Benghazi one year later — (CNN) — A car bomb exploded outside a Foreign Ministry building in the Libyan city of Benghazi Wednesday, state media said, on the anniversary of an assault on the U.S. Consulate there that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
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