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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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Cruz Quotes ‘Duck Dynasty,’ Toby Keith in Night-Long Attack on Obamacare … Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has officially pulled an all-nighter in the U.S. Senate as he advocated for the defunding of Obamacare into the wee hours of the morning. — Wearing black tennis shoes for comfort …
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Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Business Insider


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, Little Green Footballs, Yahoo! News, The Raw Story, Washington Wire and Online NewsHour


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

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

Ted Cruz Privately Approached Harry Reid To Ask For Time To “Filibuster”
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BREITBART.COM and PolicyMic

CNN's GUT CHECK for September 24, 2013
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Politico, Washington Post, Campaign for America's Future and The Huffington Post


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

Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers (VIDEO)
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Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Weekly Standard

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

Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
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Hit & Run and American Spectator

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

GOP leaders face resistance in push to speed up government funding bill
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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 …
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Weasel Zippers and Reuters
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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.


Hillary Clinton defends Obamacare, slams defunding efforts
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ABC News, CNN, Associated Press and Washington Free Beacon

Democrats see GOP shutdown threat as opening for 2014 election gains
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The Fix, Daily Kos, The Plum Line, Post Politics and Democracy in America

The Most Controversial Laws of the Last 100 Years (The Stimulus and Obamacare Are 1 and 2)
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The Fact Checker 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 and The Reaction

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

Text of Obama's Speech at the U.N.
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Israpundit, Power Line, Wall Street Journal and msnbc.com

Obama, Rouhani won't meet
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The New Republic, Reuters, Mediaite 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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Vox Popoli, The Week and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »


The ObamaCare Wars Are Just Starting — The health law has set in motion long-run forces that could erode the political foundation of Medicare. — The ObamaCare fight is turning hot and heavy. House Republicans have made an implausible threat to shut down the government to defund ObamaCare …
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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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Betsy's Page, The Heritage Foundation, Viking Pundit, Grassroot Journal, americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler and USA Today


Briton held by mall massacre police: Suspected jihadist is arrested at Nairobi airport trying to board a Turkish plane out of the country — Police investigating the Nairobi mall massacre are questioning a Briton arrested as he tried to fly out of the city after the attack.
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New York Times, Guardian, BBC and The Gateway Pundit


Are Gay-Rights Laws Trampling on Freedom of Religion? — Some people of faith complain that laws mandating equal treatment for LGBT Americans are forcing them to betray their privately held beliefs. — Conservatives may have found another way to stem the rising tide of rights for America's gays and lesbians.


Voters Like Republicans, So Why Don't They Elect Them? — Scott Rasmussen polled voters on whom they trust, and found that voters prefer Republicans over Democrats on ten of fifteen numbers. Not only that, the issues where voters trust the GOP more than Democrats are generally the most important ones …
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Shot in the Dark and Rasmussen Reports


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.