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8:30 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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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Cruz Reads Dr. Seuss in All-Night 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, the Texas senator started speaking …
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
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 …
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Cruz launches floor protest against ObamaCare funding (Video)
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
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers (VIDEO)
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
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
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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.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Democrats see GOP shutdown threat as opening for 2014 election gains
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz seizes Senate floor in failing quest
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Most Controversial Laws of the Last 100 Years (The Stimulus and Obamacare Are 1 and 2)
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.
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans Turn on Washington, 68% Say Wrong Track in Poll  —  As the U.S. heads toward a potential government shutdown or default, the public is more alienated from Washington than at any time since the aftermath of the 2011 downgrade of the nation's credit rating.
Discussion: Gallup, Politico and msnbc.com
Alex Roarty / The Atlantic Online:
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.
Daily Mail:
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.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
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 …
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, Politico, MoneyBeat and NPR
 
 
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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
Kim Zetter / Wired:
How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA
Paul Krugman:
What's It All About Then  —  Simon Wren-Lewis writes with feeling …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Cafe Hayek and mainly macro
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Are Robots Killing The Middle Class?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
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James Moore / CNN:
Hillary, don't run for president
Discussion: Shakesville
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Kerry to sign UN arms treaty opposed by Senate, NRA
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