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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Countering Putin, Rep. Israel pens column for Russian press — Vladimir Putin got his op-ed on Syria in the New York Times. Now Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) thinks it's only fair for a Russian daily newspaper to run his response. — The DCCC chair on Thursday submitted a rebuttal article to Kommersant …
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
Here's What Went Unmentioned in Putin's New York Times Op-Ed — It takes some balls for a man who started two wars to reach out to the American people on 9/11 and plead for peace. But since President Obama can't seem to find his way out of the corner he's painted himself into and since nature hates …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Story Behind the Putin Op-Ed Article in The Times
The Story Behind the Putin Op-Ed Article in The Times
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 235-191 to stop ObamaCare's insurance subsidies — The House has passed legislation aimed at preventing people from receiving health insurance subsidies under ObamaCare until a better system is put in place to verify who is eligible for those subsidies.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
'Scuse Me, While I Kick the Sky — As a follow-on to my morning post on Congress getting back to its boring old routine work after a week of excitement over Syria, I love this quote from a Justin Sink post at The Hill: … Green is a Democrat, so I don't know if his tongue was planted firmly …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
House Republican Anarchy Update
House Republican Anarchy Update
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP's Obamacare quandary
GOP's Obamacare quandary
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Dems Getting Ready to Roll Over on Budget Yet Again
Dems Getting Ready to Roll Over on Budget Yet Again
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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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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Exiting the Solar System and Fulfilling a Dream — Since the launch of the Voyager spacecraft in 1977, Voyager 1 has traveled over 11.7 billion miles from the launchpad pictured here. That is equivalent to traveling to the moon and back almost 25,000 times.
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Kerry: talks on Syria chemical weapons ‘not a game’ — Washington (CNN) — Crucial talks on ending Syrian control of its chemical weapons began Thursday in Geneva with the top negotiators — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — offering similar goals but different ideas on how to reach them.
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New York Times:
Kerry Insists That Syria Quickly Give Data on Arms
Kerry Insists That Syria Quickly Give Data on Arms
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Kerry demands Syria keep pledge to give up chemical weapons
Kerry demands Syria keep pledge to give up chemical weapons
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Rare Public View of Obama's Pivots on Policy in Syria Confrontation
A Rare Public View of Obama's Pivots on Policy in Syria Confrontation
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Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
The Rise of the New New Left — Bill de Blasio's win in New York's Democratic primary isn't a local story. It's part of a vast shift that could upend three decades of American political thinking. By Peter Beinart — Maybe Bill de Blasio got lucky. Maybe he only won because he cut a sweet ad featuring his biracial son.
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Andrew Maykuth / Philly.com:
Shale criminal charges stun drilling industry — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's decision to prosecute a major Marcellus Shale natural-gas driller for a 2010 wastewater spill has sent shock waves through the industry. — But environmentalists Wednesday hailed the prosecution …
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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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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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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?
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Obama on the path to success in Syria — Whatever the twisted path, whether by design or accident, the Obama administration has ended up in a better place on Syria than looked possible even days ago. The president was wise to take up and begin to test the Russian offer to remove …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
That Threat Worked
That Threat Worked
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden calls House GOP ‘Neanderthals’ — “Im going to say something outrageous,” Biden said at a party at his home in Washington to celebrate the 19th anniversary of VAWA, according to a media pool report. — “I think I understand the Senate better than any man or women who's ever served in there …
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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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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Perkins: Boycott Betty Crocker For Baking Wedding Cakes For Gay Couples — When gay rights advocates criticized Chick-fil-A for the company's financial support of anti-gay organizations, the Family Research Council decried their “gaystapo tactics.” Apparently, the FRC believes that boycotts …
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