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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Reflecting on the Colorado recalls — We did a poll last weekend in Colorado Senate District 3 and found that voters intended to recall Angela Giron by a 12 point margin, 54/42. In a district that Barack Obama won by almost 20 points I figured there was no way that could be right and made a rare decision not to release the poll.
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 …
Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
The Colorado recalls dealt a serious blow to gun-control advocates. Here's why.
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support
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Fox News Insider, americanthinker.com and Real Science
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
WSJ op-ed writer Elizabeth O'Bagy fired for resume lie — The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying …
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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. Think Tank founder says she had “no problem” with O'Bagy's affiliation. — A young researcher whose opinions on Syria were cited by both Senator McCain …
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Hot Air, The Raw Story, National Review and American Spectator
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Calls Russia's Syria Plan a Stall Tactic
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Washington Wire and Israpundit
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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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
The Scariest Question For Anthony Weiner: What's Next?
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Michelle Malkin and Business Insider
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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Guardian, TIME, Slate, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's …, John Lott's Website and The Hill
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Obama's speech may not have sounded novel, but the president may have helped his cause in unexpected ways.
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The Week, Guardian, NBCNews and Weekly Standard
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
To sell Syria, Obama chose political science over scare tactics. That's a big deal.
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, The Dish, The Fix and The Hinterland Gazette
Reza Kahlili / The Daily Caller:
Iran threatens widespread retaliation against U.S. and allies
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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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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A new error in U.S. foreign policy.
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Sense of Events, The Gateway Pundit, American Spectator and CNN
Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
Trader Joe's To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo — After extending health care coverage to many of its part-time employees for years, Trader Joe's has told workers who log fewer than 30 hours a week that they will need to find insurance on the Obamacare exchanges next year …
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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lhota Hopes to Capitalize on Elite Dismay Over a Liberal Tilt
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Gawker, The Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, Capital New York, alicublog and National Review
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Stringer Defeats Spitzer in Comptroller Primary
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New York Post, Scared Monkeys and Gothamist
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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Connecting.the.Dots, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Mediaite
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways — A source with direct knowledge of the situation says IAC does not plan to renew Tina Brown's contract when it expires in January. A decision has not yet been made on the future of The Daily Beast. — Jason Kempin / FilmMagic
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Capital New York, Erik Wemple, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, The Huffington Post, Gawker, The Daily Caller and Jezebel, more at Mediagazer »
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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Hillicon Valley, National Review, Techdirt, Hot Air, Secrecy News, The Verge, Gawker and Engadget
Rich Lowry / National Review:
NR v. Booker — Newark mayor Cory Booker has a very active imagination. Eliana Johnson demonstrated that with her report on Booker's moving, highly detailed accounts of his involvement with “T-Bone,” a hard-luck drug dealer who Booker admitted to a friend is a fiction.
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Politico, Michelle Malkin, Business Insider, Mediaite and TheBlaze.com, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Krantz / USA Today:
Top 1% take biggest income slice on record — The gulf between the richest 1% of the USA and the rest of the country got to its widest level in history last year. — The top 1% of earners in the U.S. pulled in 19.3% of total household income in 2012, which is their biggest slice of total income …
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Opinionator and Hullabaloo
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Annie Lowrey / Economix:
The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Slate, AEIdeas, NewsBusters, The Week, Wonkblog, The Raw Story and Real Time Economics
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Instant Poll: Did Obama move the needle on Syria? — Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans who watched President Barack Obama's prime time address to the nation on Tuesday said they favor the approach to Syria that the president spelled out in his speech, according to an instant poll.
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Business Insider, Hullabaloo, The PJ Tatler and ABC News
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David DesRosiers / Washington Times:
BOOK REVIEW: ‘America 3.0’ — AMERICA 3.0: REBOOTING AMERICAN PROSPERITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY — WHY AMERICA'S GREATEST DAYS ARE YET TO COME — As we return to reality from the lazy, hazy days of summer, we find our nation war-weary, broke and politically fractured. We are a subprime-mortgaged house divided.
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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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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The Raw Story and Washington Post
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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Reuters, Washington Wire and Power Line
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