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10:00 AM ET, September 24, 2013

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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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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.”
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.
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.”
Erick Erickson / RedState:
A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying  —  A curious moment happened on Fox News Sunday.  Chris Wallace told Karl Rove that a number of Republicans in Congress had sent him opposition research on Ted Cruz once Fox announced Cruz would be on.  —  Rove responded.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Shoots Down Ted Cruz On Defunding Obamacare
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid, Cruz begin ObamaCare slugfest
Discussion: Politico
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Knocks Ted Cruz Strategy For Defunding Obamacare: ‘Not The Best Tactic’
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist:
Nauseating Health Care Idiocy from Forbes
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Kelly Kennedy / USA Today:
‘Family glitch’ in health law could be painful
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:   Sorry, The Latest Anti-Obamacare Article To Go Viral Is Totally Wrong
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
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 …
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
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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Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Who is Obama scared of?  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama …
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, CNN and Taylor Marsh
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fmr. McCain Strategist Blasts Sarah Palin's ‘Asininity’ on Obamacare  —  Sarah Palin jumped into the “defund Obamacare” fray this week with a full defense of Ted Cruz's efforts to defund the health care law by any means necessary.  On Hardball Monday, former McCain 2008 campaign strategist Steve Schmidt …
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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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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Markus Schmidt / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Jackson says he differs with pope on gays
Olivia Blanchard / The Atlantic Online:
I Quit Teach for America  —  Five weeks of training was not enough to prepare me for a room of 20 unruly elementary-schoolers. … The phrase closing the achievement gap is the cornerstone of TFA's general philosophy, public-relations messaging, and training sessions.
Discussion: ParaPundit
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
Discussion: Washington Monthly and WJLA-TV
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama Administration Quietly Caves on True the Vote Case  —  Is this related to the retirement of Lois Lerner?  I don't know, but it seems that the Obama administration has decided to cut its losses on the IRS.  The Department of Justice told a federal court on Friday that it is conceding …
 
 
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