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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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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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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
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
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
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Ted Cruz's Long Speech — At this hour, Ted Cruz is still speaking on the Senate floor. He is, at this moment, reading Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime story for his children, but until how he has carried on a long, substantive denunciation of Obamacare. The parts I listened to were very good.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
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
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Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can't Stand Anymore
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Michelle Malkin, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy, Yahoo! News, The Right Scoop and The Raw Story
Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Privately Approached Harry Reid To Ask For Time To “Filibuster”
Ted Cruz Privately Approached Harry Reid To Ask For Time To “Filibuster”
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BREITBART.COM and PolicyMic
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Cruz Begins Obamacare ‘Talking’ Filibuster
BREAKING: Cruz Begins Obamacare ‘Talking’ Filibuster
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GOP.com, Heritage Action for America, The Fix, CNN, Hot Air, Grassroot Journal, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The World's Greatest …, TheBlaze.com, Twitchy and The PJ Tatler
CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
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The Huffington Post, New York Times and Politico
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
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Hit & Run
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’ is an excellent argument against Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’
Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’ is an excellent argument against Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’
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Liberal Values, The Daily Caller and Politico
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
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Politico
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’
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
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Saying a Shutdown Is Less Likely Makes It More Likely
Saying a Shutdown Is Less Likely Makes It More Likely
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American Prospect, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly
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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 and The Reaction
New York Times:
Text of Obama's Speech at the U.N.
Text of Obama's Speech at the U.N.
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Israpundit, Power Line, Wall Street Journal and msnbc.com
TIME:
Obama and Rouhani: A Handshake that Could Shake the World
Obama and Rouhani: A Handshake that Could Shake the World
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, NBCNews, New York Times and Guardian
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama, Rouhani won't meet
Obama, Rouhani won't meet
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The New Republic, Reuters, Mediaite and CNN
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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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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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ABC News, CNN, Washington Free Beacon and Reuters
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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton Warns Against Government Shutdown
Hillary Clinton Warns Against Government Shutdown
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Associated Press, Politico and CNN
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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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AIG's Benmosche and Miller on Villains, Turnarounds and Those Bonuses
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
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Crooks and Liars
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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.
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Horse_ebooks Is Human After All — The Internet is full of mysteries. Two of the more intriguing ones have been a Twitter account, @Horse_ebooks, and a YouTube channel, Pronunciation Book, which have been running for the past several years. Both have the hallmarks of automation …
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Gawker, Gothamist, Balloon Juice, Guardian, The Verge, LAist, NYT Bits, Mediaite and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Krugman:
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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Hullabaloo, Cafe Hayek and mainly macro
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
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