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3:10 PM ET, September 11, 2013

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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 …
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.
Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
The Colorado recalls dealt a serious blow to gun-control advocates. Here's why.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Week
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support
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 …
Discussion: Real Science and The PJ Tatler
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Right Turn, Power Line and Mediaite
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A new error in U.S. foreign policy.
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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NY Daily News:
Anthony Weiner concedes in Democratic mayoral primary race
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
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Washington Post:
Securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal would be formidable task, experts say
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
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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: Opinionator and Hullabaloo
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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’
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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David Kusnet / CNN:
Obama's speech a model of persuasion
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and alicublog
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Reuters, Washington Wire and Power Line
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:   Threaten to Threaten  —  If you're an average American …
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 …
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
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama's Syria speech was an incoherent mess - he is outperforming Jimmy Carter as the most feeble US president of modern times  —  Billed as a game-changer on Syria, the President's White House address landed with a thud that could be heard as far away as Damascus.
 
 
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New York Times:
Homeland Confusion  —  NO single event in the last half-century …
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
To sell Syria, Obama chose political science over scare tactics. That's a big deal.
Wall Street Journal:
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
The Speech
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Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Ways and Means chairman: We're picking up the pace on tax reform
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Obama's Semi-Moot “War Speech”
 

 
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