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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House Republicans lack votes to move plan to raise debt ceiling — House Republican leaders found themselves struggling to secure the votes on Thursday for a debt ceiling measure they hoped to swiftly pass through the House as the latest salvo in a multi-front fiscal fight.
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Dan Pfeiffer: W.H. not ‘negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest’
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The Week, Booman Tribune and Weasel Zippers
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Willing To Risk Debt Limit Disaster To Win Concessions
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The Plum Line
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House unlikely to accept clean funding bill from Senate
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Politico and Business Insider
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House G.O.P. Raises Stakes in Debt-Ceiling Fight
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Los Angeles Times, CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:
Democrat Manchin Breaks Ranks to Back Mandate Delay — U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he'd support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama's health-care law. — “There's no way I could not vote for it …
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
HEALTH LAW ONLINE SIGN-UP DELAYED FOR SMALL FIRMS — You are here — Home » United States government » Health law online sign-up delayed for small firms — WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before the debut of new online insurance markets, a couple of last-minute technical glitches …
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Ed Driscoll, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
What's in a name? Lots when it comes to Obamacare/ACA
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A BRIEF INTERLUDE WITH EXPERT OPINION
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Balloon Juice and Washington Monthly
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Corker takes on Cruz as GOP feuding moves to the Senate floor — Feuding in the Republican conference moved to the Senate floor on Thursday as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) accused two colleagues of risking a government shutdown as a publicity stunt. — “The reason you don't want to send …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Disconnect — There is a real and genuine disconnect between grassroots conservatives and many in Washington. Let's first concede that, like with many politicians, a cult of personality has started developing around Ted Cruz, though from my vantage point it is not nearly as virulent as among some.
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The Daily Caller and Booman Tribune
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Peter King: ‘Vile’ phone calls by Ted Cruz allies
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CNN, Weasel Zippers and Crooks and Liars
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Allen West Out At PJ Media — Sources say he had an anti-Semitic exchange with a staffer, calling her a “Jewish American princess.” — Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images — Former Congressman Allen West is leaving his job at Pajamas Media after an altercation with a female staffer …
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Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
Barilla Pasta Won't Feature Gay Families In Ads, Says Critics Can ‘Eat Another Brand Of Pasta’ — The chairman of Barilla Group says his company will not feature gay families in advertisements for his products because he likes the “traditional” family. If someone disagrees, well, they can go “eat another brand of pasta.”
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Lizzy Davies / Guardian:
Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over ‘classic family’ remarks
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Weasel Zippers, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
So much for keeping a low profile: George Zimmerman is pulled over for the THIRD time since he was acquitted — George Zimmerman was pulled over by police for the third time since his acquittal, it emerged today. — Zimmerman was stopped by Florida Highway Patrol troopers in Brevard County on August 19 just after 11am.
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Maxim Lott / Fox News:
School official tells students Trayvon Martin case proved it is ‘legal to hunt’ children
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Right Wing News and The Right Scoop
Scott Stump / Today:
George Zimmerman's wife: ‘I have doubts but I also believe the evidence’
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Gawker
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Wendy Davis tells Democrats she's in — Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis and her advisers have begun informing influential Democrats that she intends to run for governor in 2014, according to multiple sources familiar with Davis's conversations. — The Fort Worth legislator made a national name …
Julia Ryan / The Atlantic Online:
This Year's SAT Scores Are Out, and They're Grim — Fewer than half of the 2013 graduating seniors who took the test got “college-ready” scores. — Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work …
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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Clinton Meeting Showcases a Political Family — On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting provides a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, nongovernmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe.
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Politico and Associated Press
Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:
NRA announces fundraising record — FAIRFAX, Va. (WTVR) - The National Rifle Association announced its grassroots fundraising program “Friends of NRA” is having a record fundraising year. — “The success of this year's Friends of NRA banquets would not have been possible without the hard work …
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BREITBART.COM, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House says it isn't behind ‘Adorable Care Act’ — It would have been a clever move for the White House or Organizing for Action to turn to cute animals and social media to try to draw attention to the start of the Affordable Care Act's registration period.
Ryan Lizza / Comment:
WHERE THE G.O.P.'S SUICIDE CAUCUS LIVES — On August 21st, Congressman Mark Meadows sent a letter to John Boehner. Meadows is a former restaurant owner and Sunday-school Bible teacher from North Carolina. He's been in Congress for eight months. Boehner, who has served in Congress for twenty-two years …
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Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune
Paul Bentley / Daily Mail:
'Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers': Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details — Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered …
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Weasel Zippers, Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Looting the Pension Funds — All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers — In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs …
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