memeorandum: Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games (Nafeez Ahmed/Guardian)

CNN:

CNN Poll: Should Obamacare be kept or repealed? — Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans want to keep the federal health care law as is, or make some changes to improve it, according to a new national poll. — But a CNN/ORC International survey released Sunday also indicates public attitudes …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's … and Prairie Weather

Dana Davidsen / CNN:

DNC chairwoman: GOP using Benghazi to ‘gin up their base’ ahead of midterms — (CNN) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Republicans are digging up the issue of the 2012 attack in Benghazi to drive turnout this election year. — Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee …

Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Bachmann, Wasserman Schultz spar on CNN

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

Dan Merica / CNN:
In memoir excerpts, Clinton honors her mom

Discussion: Politico and Althouse

Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:

BringBackOurBalls — It is hard not to have total contempt for a political culture that thinks the picture at right is a useful contribution to rescuing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadist savages in Nigeria. Yet some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Gateway Pundit

Nafeez Ahmed / Guardian:

Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games — Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interests — The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters, Right Wing News, ThinkProgress and Michael J. Totten's blog

Byron Tau / Politico:

Rogers: Foreign policy is ‘more than hashtags and selfies’ — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers says foreign policy decisions should not be driven by what's happening online - and a more “holistic” approach was needed to terrorism and radicalism.

Discussion: Mediaite

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Rubio: 'I Don't Agree' With ‘Notion’ Of Climate Change — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday said he doesn't believe that human activity is behind climate change. — “I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions …

Benjamin Bell / ABC News:

Sen. Marco Rubio: Yes, I'm Ready to be President — He's a 42-year-old freshman senator, but when asked by Jonathan Karl on “This Week” if he's ready to be president, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida answered without hesitation. — “I do ... but I think that's true for multiple …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Week and Washington Post

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:

Secret Service agents pulled off White House patrol to help protect a top official's aide — The Secret Service monitored Brenda Allen and her family for months. The surveillance came after an altercation with her neighbor, who worked for former Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.

Discussion: CNN and Hot Air

Chris Reed / The Daily Caller:

30-year New York Times Science Writer Out After Writing Book About Genetics, Race — Nicholas Wade, a British-born science reporter and editor for more than 30 years with The New York Times, is no longer with the newspaper — just days after the release of his latest book …

Discussion: Vox Popoli

Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:

Cantor faces tea party fury in his back yard — SHORT PUMP, VA. — Just a few miles from his family home, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) felt the wrath of the tea party Saturday, when activists in his congressional district booed and heckled the second-most powerful House Republican.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune

CNN:

Obama congratulates Michael Sam, first openly gay player drafted by NFL — (CNN) — President Barack Obama congratulated Michael Sam on Saturday for being the first openly gay football player taken in the National Football League draft, the White House said in a statement.

Discussion: New York Times, Towleroad and Rumproast

Discussion: Associated Press

Politico:

$474M for 4 failed Obamacare exchanges — Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are now in shambles - and the final price tag for salvaging them may go sharply higher. — Each of the states - Massachusetts, Oregon …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

With Malice Toward Nuns — WASHINGTON — SO much for all the cozy hugs and soothing cold calls and fun selfies and humble gestures and talk of mercy, love, inclusion, equality and justice. — Pope Francis appears guilty of condoning that most base Vatican sport: bullying nuns.

Discussion: Daily Kos