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Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Cruz Leads the Reaganite Rebellion — “This has been one of the strangest weeks I've ever had in Washington. As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz.”
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Wall Street Journal:
The Cruz Campaign Against ObamaCare — The freshman Texas Senator volunteers House Republicans for duty on his implausible defunding gambit. — So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, National Review, Betsy's Page, msnbc.com, The World's Greatest … and Washington Post
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' dangerous rationality — It has become fashionable to give a psychiatric diagnosis to those Republicans teeing up a government shutdown. — “They're on a different planet,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said last week. “Off the deep end.”
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American Spectator, The Week, msnbc.com, Balkinization, Daily Kos and Instapundit
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Flinty Path — The fall television season kicks into gear this week, with tons of new stuff, but before you check out any of it, you owe yourself a bigger treat. Go back and watch Chris Wallace's interview with Ted Cruz on “Fox News Sunday.” — That's entertainment.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Shoots Down Ted Cruz On Defunding Obamacare
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Daily Kos
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obamacare Strategy
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Wonkblog, Hot Air, The Week and Patterico's Pontifications
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding Obamacare: ‘Not The Best Tactic’
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The Plum Line and ThinkProgress
Politico:
Obamacare: One blow after another — The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation. — Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage.
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Wall Street Journal:
Bennett and Beach: The Hypocrisy Of Congress's Gold-Plated Health Care — Special subsidies for Hill workers trample on the Founders' code of equal application of the law. — As close observers of history and human nature, James Madison and the other Founders of the U.S. Constitution knew …
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Weekly Standard
Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist:
Nauseating Health Care Idiocy from Forbes
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Brad DeLong
Kelly Kennedy / USA Today:
‘Family glitch’ in health law could be painful
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Chris Conover / Forbes:
Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four
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National Review, Right Wing News, Bookworm Room, Liberal Values and Shakesville
Andy Fox / WAVY-TV:
Boys suspended for airsoft guns in yard — Has zero tolerance gone too far? — (1/7)Andy Fox reports on zero tolerance incident at VB middle school — (2/7)Andy Fox reports on VB 7th grader facing expulsion — (3/7)Andy Fox reports on zero gun tolerance at VB schools
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama: I Haven't Had A Cigarette In Six Years Because I'm Scared Of My Wife — The president gives a different quit date than the one the first lady has given. — View Video › — President Obama got caught on a hot mic today saying he hasn't smoked in six years because he's afraid of his wife Michelle.
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Althouse and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton ‘In No Hurry’ … Hillary Clinton's first major print interview since leaving the Obama administration seven months ago leaves two inescapable impressions: She is running in 2016, and this campaign won't look anything like her failed 2008 run.
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ABC News, Politico, CNN and Taylor Marsh
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Michael Laris / Washington Post:
E.W. Jackson says non-Christians are engaged in ‘some sort of false religion’ — At a morning sermon Sunday in Northern Virginia, Republican lieutenant governor candidate E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake pastor, said people who don't follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”
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Joe. My. God., Daily Kos, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Outside the Beltway
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Markus Schmidt / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Jackson says he differs with pope on gays
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Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Philly.com:
Racist texts ignite Coatesville furor — The recently resigned superintendent and an athletic director in the Coatesville Area School District exchanged numerous racist text messages about staff and students in June on school-issued cellphones, according to a published report.
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Joy Wilke / Gallup:
Americans' Belief That Gov't Is Too Powerful at Record Level — Record number of Republicans say the federal government has too much power — PRINCETON, NJ — Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010.
Washington Post:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli in Virginia governor's race — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has vaulted into the lead over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in a Virginia governor's race that has left many voters sour on both candidates, according to a new Washington Post/Abt SRBI poll.
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CNN, Washington Wire, Politico, The Fix, Townhall.com, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's …, WJLA-TV and American Spectator
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Former F.B.I. Agent to Plead Guilty in Press Leak — WASHINGTON — A former F.B.I. agent has agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified information to The Associated Press about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen last year, the Justice Department announced Monday.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Ex-FBI agent to plead guilty in leak to AP
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Washington Monthly and WJLA-TV
Daily Mail:
SAS hero of the mall massacre: Off duty soldier with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok — An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives. — The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
One Big Trader Lost Millions Betting on Romney, Study Finds — A new academic paper digging into presidential betting in the final weeks of the 2012 election finds that a single trader lost between $4 million and $7 million placing a flurry of Intrade bets on Mitt Romney …
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Business Insider, Taegan Goddard's …, naked capitalism and Balloon Juice
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