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5:40 AM ET, September 25, 2013

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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
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 ›
Discussion: NPR, msnbc.com and PolicyMic
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
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 …
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
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
Politico:
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor in failing quest
Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz Privately Approached Harry Reid To Ask For Time To “Filibuster”
Discussion: BREITBART.COM and PolicyMic
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Cruz Begins Obamacare ‘Talking’ Filibuster
CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
Discussion: Hit & Run
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’ is an excellent argument against Ted Cruz's ‘filibuster’
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
Discussion: Politico
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Saying a Shutdown Is Less Likely Makes It More Likely
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
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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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Seeing thaw, Obama seeks Iran nuke deal
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Text of Obama's Speech at the U.N.
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama, Rouhani won't meet
Discussion: The New Republic, Reuters, Mediaite and CNN
Suzanne LaBarre / Popular Science:
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.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
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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James Moore / CNN:
Hillary, don't run for president
Discussion: Shakesville
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton Warns Against Government Shutdown
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and CNN
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
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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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
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.
Discussion: Wonkblog, MoneyBeat, NPR and Politico
Susan Orlean / New Yorker:
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Democrats Need to Keep an Eye on Republican-Tilting Independent Voters
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
D.C. officials ponder whether to defy federal shutdown and keep city government open
Discussion: Firedoglake and WJLA-TV
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Most government employees would work through shutdown
Kim Zetter / Wired:
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Are Robots Killing The Middle Class?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
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Obama to meet with Bill de Blasio
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
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