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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The fruits of epic incompetence — The president of the United States takes to the airwaves to urgently persuade the nation to pause before doing something it has no desire to do in the first place. — Strange. And it gets stranger still. That “strike Syria, maybe” …
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Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Decisiveness Overrated? White House Thinks Yes — President Barack Obama's Syria strategy may not have been particularly decisive, but that's not a bad thing, according to the White House. — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney defended his boss Thursday after a blistering few weeks …
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The Gateway Pundit and Right Wing News
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Anchorless World — BERLIN — At dinner the other night, perusing the debacle that is Syria, a German friend observed: “It's the post-American world — and that means chaos.” We were joined by John Kornblum, the former U.S. ambassador to Germany, whose verdict was similar …
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Los Angeles Times
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Countering Putin, Rep. Israel pens column for Russian press
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Wall Street Journal, The Online Office …, Taylor Marsh, CNN, The Hill, The Huffington Post and First Read
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Kerry: talks on Syria chemical weapons ‘not a game’
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americanthinker.com, Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press and The Lead with Jake Tapper
New York Times:
Kerry Insists That Syria Quickly Give Data on Arms
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Hot Air, THEROOT.COM, Associated Press, Yahoo! News and Business Insider
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Republicans Gain Favor on Key Issues — The Republican Party is gaining a public-opinion edge on several key issues ahead of the 2014 elections, as Americans question President Barack Obama's leadership on Syria and worry about the country's overall direction, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill and Washington Free Beacon
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
NBC/WSJ poll: GOP on the rise — Republicans are now leading Democrats on handling several key issues, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. — The poll, released Friday, shows more Americans think that the Republicans are doing a better job on the economy, foreign policy and reducing the federal deficit.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Five Years after Market Crash, U.S. Economy Seen as ‘No More Secure’
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Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and CNN
Domenico Montanaro / NBCNews:
Poll: 44 percent of Americans oppose raising debt ceiling
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Business Insider, Hot Air and Talking Points Memo
The / Los Angeles Times:
GOP's unhealthy obsession with Obamacare — Republicans in the House need to stop waging a fight they can't win. — A large faction in the House wants to hold funding for the rest of the government hostage until Democrats agree to stop implementing Obamacare.
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Daily Kos
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The House GOP Is About to Crack Up: Three Theories Why — Lots of people think John Boehner has lost control of the House Republican caucus. Apparently John Boehner does, too. — On Wednesday, the speaker and his lieutenants had to stage yet another embarrassing retreat—this time …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Business Insider
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Boehner Seeking Democrats' Help on Fiscal Talks
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First Read and Talking Points Memo
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 235-191 to stop ObamaCare's insurance subsidies
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The Reaction, Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
'Scuse Me, While I Kick the Sky
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Politico, Hot Air, Booman Tribune and The Rachel Maddow Show
Wall Street Journal:
Elite Syrian Unit Scatters Chemical Arms Stockpile — Assad Regime Has Moved Weapons to as Many as 50 Sites — A secretive Syrian military unit at the center of the Assad regime's chemical weapons program has been moving stocks of poison gases and munitions to as many as 50 sites …
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National Review, americanthinker.com, Israel Matzav, Guardian, New York Times and NPR
Monte Morin / Los Angeles Times:
NASA confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system — This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. — NASA confirmed Thursday that after 36 years of space travel and months of heated debate among scientists, Voyager 1 has indeed left our solar system and had entered interstellar space more than a year ago.
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Firedoglake, Calculated Risk and Outside the Beltway
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Exiting the Solar System and Fulfilling a Dream
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NBCNews, The Reaction, The Week and GigaOM
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
In Email, Zimmerman's Local Police Chief Agrees He's Another ‘Sandy Hook’ Waiting To Happen — Police Chief Steve Bracknell, who is responsible for the Florida town where George Zimmerman resides, agreed in a series of emails that Zimmerman is a “ticking time bomb” and another “Sandy Hook” waiting to happen.
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Salon, addictinginfo.org and Mediaite
Rod Bastanmehr / Alternet:
Trayvon Martin's Medical Examiner: Prosecution Threw the Case — Fired Zimmerman trial coroner says conviction was never going to happen. — A recent revelation in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case could, and should spark a new wave of outrage. — Dr. Shiping Bao …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Associated Press:
AFGHAN TALIBAN ATTACK US CONSULATE, KILL 2 AFGHANS — You are here — Home » Afghanistan » Afghan Taliban attack US Consulate, kill 2 Afghans — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants set off two suicide car bombs in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan …
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Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Acts Like He Doesn't Know He's an Executive-Power Extremist — On the fake moderation of a president who talks a good game but doesn't follow through — It's often hard to tell if President Obama is lying to the American people or to himself. Is he willfully misrepresenting who he is?
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Betsy's Page
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel — The Senate Judiciary Committee approves a media shield bill to keep ‘real reporters’ from having to testify on their work. — WASHINGTON — Journalists and bloggers who report news to the public will be protected from being forced to testify …
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
The Collapse of the Obama Presidency — How bad has 2013 been for Barack Obama? Let us count the ways. — In the first year of his second term, the president has failed on virtually every front. He put his prestige on the line to pass federal gun-control legislation-and lost.
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Right Turn, Power Line, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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