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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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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.
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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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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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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Forty-three House Republicans back bill to defund ObamaCare — Forty-three House Republicans on Thursday endorsed legislation that would keep the government open while defunding ObamaCare. — The sponsorship total reveals that there is a significant bloc of opposition to a plan from GOP leaders …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Boehner Seeking Democrats' Help on Fiscal Talks
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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
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Listing Demands, Assad Uses Crisis to His Advantage
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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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MacIver Institute:
Wisconsin's Third Largest Teachers Union Decertified on August 31st — UPDATE: — [Kenosha, Wisc...] The Kenosha Education Association (KEA), the state's third largest teachers union, was officially decertified on August 31, 2013 according to the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.
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Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
Demise: Wisconsin's third-largest school district says no thanks to union representation
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
15 JOURNALISTS HAVE JOINED OBAMA ADMINISTRATION — According to the Atlantic, Time managing editor Rick Stengel's decision to join the Obama administration is just the latest example of a new trend among mainstream media journalists who are making it official by joining the Obama administration.
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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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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul On The War Path — Once dismissed by the GOP establishment as a gadfly, Paul is starting to look a lot like the leader of his party — and his enemies are panicking. “There's a big transition in the Republican Party,” the Kentucky senator says in a BuzzFeed interview. — John Gara
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Ron Paul · 1,163,250 like this — We're supposed to believe that the perpetrators of 9/11 hated us for our freedom and goodness. In fact, that crime was blowback for decades of US intervention in the Middle East. And the last thing we needed was the government's response …
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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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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Putin gets his revenge on Obama — Russian President Vladimir Putin's criticism of the United States in the op-ed pages of Thursday's New York Times was a revenge of sorts on President Obama. — Putin blasted notions of American “exceptionalism” and directly criticized Obama's proposed military strikes …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
An Anchorless World — BERLIN — At dinner the other night …
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Denver Post:
COLORADO FLOOD: DAMS BREAK IN LARIMER AND ADAMS COUNTIES; OVERFLOWING IN BOULDER — Record-shattering rainstorms across Colorado's Front Range led to flooding that blew out at least six dams Thursday, stranding a Larimer County family on the second floor of their home and breaching a federal stormwater holding pond northeast of Denver.
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Senator talks “House of Cards” and football... and mentions this may be his last term — Would we be better off buying cable stations one at a time instead of in bundles? Sen. John McCain says yes, and has introduced legislation that would make it happen.
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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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Washington Times:
Emails show IRS' Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party — Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come …
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Ben White / Politico:
Investors expect Fed to tap brakes - Twitter going public - Goldman scores top underwriting spot — FIRST LOOK: INVESTORS EXPECT FED TO TAP THE BRAKES — Per a Potomac Research Group survey out this morning : “A clear majority of leading investment professionals expect that the Fed …
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