memeorandum: Obama to Boehner: No debt talks (Politico)

9:05 PM ET, September 21, 2013

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Ellie Buchdahl / Daily Mail:

‘All Muslims leave... we only want to kill non-Muslims’: Gunmen massacre at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall after releasing anyone who could prove they were Islamic by reciting a prayer — Kenyan police and soldiers have pinned down the remaining gunmen who opened fire at a shopping centre earlier today …

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New York Times:

Upscale Mall Becomes War Zone in Kenya Terror Attack — NAIROBI, Kenya — An upscale mall popular with the Kenyan elite and the foreign diplomats and businesspeople who call Nairobi home turned into a war zone on Saturday, as gunmen opened fire on shoppers in an apparent terrorist attack …

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CNN:

At least 20 killed when gunmen attack Nairobi shopping mall, Red Cross says — (CNN) — Gunmen attacked an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital on Saturday, leading to a fierce gunbattle with police and leaving at least 20 people dead, the Kenyan Red Cross said.

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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Gunmen Open Fire at Nairobi's Most Upscale Mall

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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press: KENYA RED CROSS: 22 DEAD IN UPSCALE MALL ATTACK

Joe Picard / The Hill:

Obama calls Boehner, says he won't negotiate on debt ceiling — President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker's office. — Boehner told the president he was …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Impolitic

Politico:

Obama to Boehner: No debt talks — President Barack Obama is once again warning House Republicans that he will not negotiate over a debt-ceiling increase, even as the U.S. government moves closer to its borrowing limit. — Obama called Speaker John Boehner Friday night to reiterate his hard-line stance.

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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
Republicans “trying to mess with me” on budget, Obama says

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Jake Miller / CBS News:
House passes bill funding government, defunding Obamacare

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Associated Press:

Declassified document: US narrowly escaped nuclear blast in 1961 H-bomb accident — LONDON — A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.

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BBC:
US plane in 1961 ‘nuclear bomb near-miss’

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Paul Krugman:

More SNAP Judgments — Thanks to the commenter who suggested this title. I want to say some more about the SNAP program, and how utterly unjustified the attack on the program really is. — First, another look at trends in the program over time, this time in terms of spending as a share of GDP:

Discussion: Marginal Revolution

Los Angeles Times:

Transgender teen crowned homecoming queen at O.C. high school — Cassidy Lynn Campbell, 16, of Huntington Beach was named homecoming queen on Friday night at Marina High School. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / September 20, 2013) — Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night …

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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:

The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project — Before Woodward and Bernstein, before Glenn Greenwald, there was John W. Raper, a columnist for the Cleveland Press, who stumbled across something very odd while on vacation in New Mexico. — The Manhattan Project was …

Discussion: Moe Lane and Boing Boing

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Perry bids for 2016 relevancy — Rick Perry doesn't want to be forgotten. — The Texas governor, whose 2012 presidential bid famously flamed out after a series of verbal blunders, is making moves to try to keep his name on the radar for a potential national comeback.

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Hugh Hewitt Goes Off on ‘Whiny’ Republicans Trashing Ted Cruz: ‘Get In The Game!’ — There's currently a war brewing in the Republican party over defunding Obamacare, with many in the conservative media pushing Republicans to take the plunge. Hugh Hewitt went off on “whiny” …

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Reuters:

EU diplomats say IDF manhandled them in West Bank, violated humanitarian law — IDF stops Palestinians from rebuilding razed West Bank village of Khirbet Al-Makhul, demolished earlier this week. — IDF soldiers clashed with Palestinians and foreign activists attempting to raise …

Discussion: Israel Matzav, Business Insider and Israpundit