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Who Is Corner Guy? — His name is John Ellis. — In the midst of Ted Cruz's speech in the Senate, a star is born. — Via c-span.org — Meet “Corner Guy.” — View Entire List ›
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Don't Call It a Filibuster — Ted Cruz's speech is not a filibuster, but he can talk until Wednesday morning. — Despite what you see on C-SPAN2, or what you read on Twitter, Ted Cruz is not filibustering Obamacare. The Republican senator from Texas is speaking on the Senate floor …
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CBS News, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, Washington Wire, Little Green Footballs, The Raw Story and Online NewsHour

Reid's office: Cruz filibuster is fake — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman said Tuesday that Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) filibuster was fake. — “Fun fact: Senator Cruz pre-negotiated the terms of his #fakefilibuster with Senator Reid yesterday.
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Weasel Zippers and Crooks and Liars


House GOP may attach Obamacare delay to CR — The House Republican leadership is seriously considering attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare's individual mandate to the Senate bill to avert a government shutdown, according to senior GOP aides. — If House Republicans decide to go this route …
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Weasel Zippers and Reuters


How Ted Cruz's Anti-Obamacare Filibuster Could Cost Him Millions — Top Republican donors are rolling their eyes at the senator's crusade. “Sure, he's revving up the base, but so did Michele Bachmann and Pat Buchanan.” — Cruz, mid-"filibuster" — Handout / Reuters
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland


Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor in failing quest — Ted Cruz seized control of the Senate floor on Tuesday at about 2:42 p.m., vowing to “speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.” — But Cruz cannot stop a Senate now in motion from eventually returning …
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Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers (VIDEO) — During a floor speech Tuesday aimed at reviving the already-dim prospects for his effort to defund Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) likened his doubters to Nazi appeasers. — “If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany,” Cruz said.
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Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Weekly Standard


Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can't Stand Anymore
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, Michelle Malkin, Yahoo! News, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy and The Right Scoop

CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
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New York Times, The Huffington Post and Politico

BREAKING: Cruz Begins Obamacare ‘Talking’ Filibuster
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GOP.com, Heritage Action for America, CNN, The Fix, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The World's Greatest …, Grassroot Journal, TheBlaze.com, Twitchy and The PJ Tatler

Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
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Ted Cruz Privately Approached Harry Reid To Ask For Time To “Filibuster”
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BREITBART.COM and PolicyMic

Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’ is an excellent argument against Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’
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Politico, Liberal Values and The Daily Caller

GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
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Politico

Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’
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Business Insider, National Review and American Spectator

Saying a Shutdown Is Less Likely Makes It More Likely
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American Prospect, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly


Obama Just Gave His Most Significant Foreign Policy Speech — President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday to the United Nations was his most significant foreign policy statement since becoming president. It showed he had clearly learned something from the recent “red line” fiasco in Syria.
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Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, FP Passport, Hot Air, The Dish and The Reaction
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Obama tells UN that diplomatic path must be tested with Iran
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Washington Free Beacon, Informed Comment, The Reaction and Real Clear Politics

Obama and Rouhani: A Handshake that Could Shake the World
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Wall Street Journal, NBCNews, New York Times, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air and Guardian

Obama, Rouhani won't meet
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The New Republic, Reuters, Mediaite and CNN


AIG CEO: Anger over AIG bonuses ‘just as bad’ as lynchings — AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche — who came in to rescue the company after the 2008 financial crisis — told the Wall Street Journal that the outrage over the bonuses promised to AIG's members was just as bad as when white supremacists …
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite, PolicyMic, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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AIG's Benmosche and Miller on Villains, Turnarounds and Those Bonuses
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WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
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Crooks and Liars

AIG Exec: Public Outrage Over Bonuses ‘Just As Bad’ As Lynchings In The South
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Hullabaloo


Hillary Clinton defends Obamacare, slams defunding efforts — Hillary Clinton made a forceful case in support of Obamacare's implementation and slammed the “noisy minority” of Senate Republicans advocating defunding the program, saying a government shutdown will be blamed on Republicans and “we've seen that movie before.”
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Hillary Clinton Warns Against Government Shutdown
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Politico, Associated Press and CNN


Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments — Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why. — Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off. — It wasn't a decision we made lightly.
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Poynter, more at Mediagazer »


News organizations respond to Fed lockup questions — The Federal Reserve says it is contacting news organizations to discuss the rules surrounding lock up procedures and the release of market moving information from the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington.

What's It All About Then — Simon Wren-Lewis writes with feeling about the “austerity deception”; what sets him off is a post that characterizes the whole austerity debate as being about “big-state” versus “small-state” people. — Wren-Lewis's point is that only one side of the debate saw it that way.
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Cafe Hayek, Hullabaloo and mainly macro

Kerry to sign UN arms treaty opposed by Senate, NRA — Kerry's plan to sign the treaty on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City this week has sparked immediate criticism from GOP opponents. — “This treaty is already dead in the water in the Senate, and they know it …
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Reuters, Weasel Zippers and The Democratic Daily


One man's ObamaCare nightmare — Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail. — “When I saw the letter when I came home from work,” Andy said …
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The Heritage Foundation, Grassroot Journal, Viking Pundit, americanthinker.com and USA Today