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David Weigel / Slate:
Welcome to the Republican Party's make-believe fight to defund Obamacare. — If you're in a hurry, and you can only memorize one fact about the coming congressional debt and budget war, try this: There will be no “defunding of Obamacare.” It's impossible for Republicans to admit it …
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
House Republicans Pass Deep Cuts in Food Stamps — WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes billions of dollars from the food stamp program, over the objections of Democrats and a veto threat from President Obama.
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The Raw Story
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Rep. King on defund plan: ‘Custer, Kamikaze’
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Politico, Connecting.the.Dots and The Hill
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate sees way forward on funding bill
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National Review, Hot Air, The Hill and The Huffington Post
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner To Cruz: Time To Put Up Or Shut Up On Defunding Obamacare
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National Review and CNN
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: To Think We Can Repeal Obamacare ‘Is Not Rational’ (VIDEO)
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Ted Cruz Digs Himself In Further On Obamacare: ‘Likely That It Will Take Another Election For A Full Repeal’
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Some House GOP conservatives want Cruz-Paul-Rubio-Lee filibuster on Obamacare defunding
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Politico, Hot Air, Daily Kos and National Review
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Spitting on Their Graves: Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families of Victims — During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused …
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Weasel Zippers, Power Line, Bookworm Room, The PJ Tatler, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air and protein wisdom
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Hillary Clinton's image control: Security swipes man's phone, erases pic of her at speech — Hillary Clinton quietly slipped into Miami on Thursday to address a travel agents convention in a speech where the former secretary of state said little about troubles abroad or the future ambitions of the likely presidential-race frontrunner.
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The Hill
Gateway Guest Blogger / The Gateway Pundit:
Democrats Refuse to Hear Testimony from Parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, Who Died in Benghazi
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The Daily Caller, Independent Journal Review, Doug Ross, Twitchy and TheBlaze.com
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control — Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic church on Thursday with the publication of his remarks that the church had grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception …
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America Magazine:
A Big Heart Open to God — The exclusive interview with Pope Francis — Editor's Note: This interview with Pope Francis took place over the course of three meetings during August 2013 in Rome. The interview was conducted in person by Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, the Italian Jesuit journal.
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Blair's fight to stop Brown's coup — Exclusive: Like a script for The Thick of It - the messages that show how the PM's team fought in vain to prevent Brown's coup — Read the leaked emails detailing the battle in Downing Street — Downing Street emails detailing the rearguard battle …
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Poison at the heart of Labour: Damaging questions for Miliband and Balls as explosive book reveals Brown's spin doctor ran smear campaigns from Downing Street — The toxic culture of spin, smears and feuding at the heart of New Labour is laid bare today in an explosive political memoir.
Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Two decades after her affair with Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers reveals they'd be together now if it wasn't for Chelsea and how former president confided in her that Hillary was bisexual — She bitterly regrets rejecting him when he last begged to see her and says he's the ‘love of her life’
Associated Press:
Warming lull haunts authors of key climate report — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
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Tamara Cohen / Daily Mail:
World's top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ …
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Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
Horrifying Anti-Obamacare Ad Warns That Uncle Sam Wants In Your Uterus — As the October 1 enrollment date for the Affordable Care Act creeps closer each day, one had to expect some feeble pushback from conservatives upset that a black liberal passed a healthcare bill they actually kind of like.
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Yahoo! News:
Creepy Obamacare ad hits college campuses and your nightmares
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
DOJ spox to USA Today: ‘I will save what I have for another outlet’ — A Department of Justice spokesperson who initially offered to provide sources to USA Today has reversed that decision on the grounds that the reporter was “biased” and would not forego his story even if the sources undercut its premise.
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Techdirt and Popehat, more at Mediagazer »
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Brad Heath / USA Today:
Justice Dept. watchdog never probed judges' NSA concerns
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Hit & Run and emptywheel
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Two Men Dead In Michigan Road Rage Shootout, Police Say — Police said two men died Wednesday after a shootout allegedly motivated by road rage, the Grand Rapids Press reported. — The initial police investigation showed Ionia, Mich. residents James Pullum, 43, and Robert Taylor, 56 …
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Hullabaloo
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Andrew Krietz / MLive.com:
Road rage shootout: 2 men killed identified after evening incident in Ionia
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The Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP plans ‘one man, one woman’ law in wake of same-sex marriage ruling — A group of Republicans in the House is set to unveil a proposal aimed at protecting conservative groups in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. — Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) …
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The Volokh Conspiracy, Politico and Joe. My. God.
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Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
New bipartisan bill protects groups that don't support same-sex marriage
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Human Rights Campaign Blog, NOM Blog, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos
Dan Primack / Fortune:
AllThingsD parting ways with Dow Jones — AllThingsD and The Wall Street Journal call it quits. — FORTUNE — The team behind influential tech site AllThingsD is severing ties with founding owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS). A formal statement is expected later today.
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Mashable, New York Times, The Verge, Gawker, Deadline.com, Politico and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Wall Street Journal:
Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges — Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
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The PJ Tatler and Corrente
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Texas Court Overturns Conviction of DeLay — Tom DeLay was the very symbol of Congressional power and, in the view of his detractors, excess. His political career collapsed in 2005 when Mr. DeLay, a Texas Republican who was the House majority leader, was indicted on money-laundering charges …
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The Hill and Washington Monthly
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Colorado House Republicans Unanimously Support Flood Relief, Unanimously Opposed Sandy Aid — As historic floods of “biblical” proportions continue to ravage Colorado, President Obama signed an emergency declaration on Sunday — a move that was encouraged by a bipartisan letter last week …
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The Colorado Independent and The Raw Story
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Syria's Assad: Removing chemicals a sensitive operation — Syrian President Assad said the cost for removing chemicals from Syria would be $1B. — CONNECT — Syrian President Bashar Assad wants to cooperate with diplomatic agreements that would compel his country to be rid …
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CNN, Hot Air, National Review, The PJ Tatler, TheBlaze.com and Los Angeles Times
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
My Shutdown Lament — I have a problem. My job is to keep up with the world of politics and then write commentary, explanations, and analysis that readers will find interesting, entertaining, or informative. Sometimes that involves big-picture looks at policy issues …
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