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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, Telegraph, 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.
Domenico Montanaro / NBCNews:
Poll: 44 percent of Americans oppose raising debt ceiling — Americans overwhelmingly do not think Congress should raise the nation's debt limit as President Barack Obama and Congress prepare once again to wage battle over the issue, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Business Insider, First Read, 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, Business Insider, Wonkblog, Daily Kos and The Week
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, Guardian, Israel Matzav, New York Times and NPR
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
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
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
Associated Press:
Afghan Taliban Attack US Consulate, Kill 2 Afghans — Taliban militants set off two suicide car bombs in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, triggering a gunbattle with security forces that left at least two Afghans dead.
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Mediaite, The Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Five Years after Market Crash, U.S. Economy Seen as ‘No More Secure’ — Household Incomes, Jobs Seen as Lagging in Recovery — Five years after the U.S. economy faced its most serious crisis since the Great Depression, a majority of Americans (63%) say the nation's economic system …
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Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and CNN
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Pay raises drive McCrory's numbers down further
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The Reaction and Taegan Goddard's …
Matthew Klein / Bloomberg:
Why Michael Woodford Thinks the Fed Should Taper — Michael Woodford is one of the world's preeminent monetary theorists, which is why you should read the thorough profile written about him by my colleagues at Bloomberg Markets. Buried inside the article is the revelation that Woodford wants …
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Paul Krugman and Marginal Revolution
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 …
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