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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What to Do in Iraq — It's widely agreed that the collapse of Iraq would be a disaster for American interests and security in the Middle East and around the world. It also seems to be widely assumed either that there's nothing we can now do to avert that disaster, or that our best bet is supporting Iran against al Qaeda.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
John McCain, Lindsey Graham split on Iran — Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are enduring a rare split on foreign policy, breaking over whether the U.S. should cooperate with Iran to aid the Iraqis. — Graham (R-S.C.) twice suggested on the Sunday shows that the United States must work …
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Frederick Kagan / NY Daily News:
Put out this fire — Why the U.S. must step up to stop Iraq …
Put out this fire — Why the U.S. must step up to stop Iraq …
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Washington Post, The Dish and alicublog
USA Today:
U.S. evacuates embassy as bombs, fighting rock Iraq
U.S. evacuates embassy as bombs, fighting rock Iraq
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times
The Hill:
Is Obama done with Washington? — Is President Obama done with Washington? — The 44th president has never been the capital's biggest fan, but his frustration with life in D.C. is bubbling to the surface in ways both casual and substantive. — The president twice went for unscheduled walkabouts …
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Politico, National Review, The Daily Caller, Ed Driscoll and RedState
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Ashton Davis / GOP.com:
Political Animal Declares, “Another Clinton in the White House is Nuts!”
Political Animal Declares, “Another Clinton in the White House is Nuts!”
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Clinton tops Obama on every issue
CNN/ORC Poll: Clinton tops Obama on every issue
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Politico, Hinterland Gazette, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog and PoliticusUSA
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
The bafflingly simple reason Raul Labrador had trouble campaigning for majority leader this weekend — CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPUBLICAN PARTY TEA PARTY RAUL LABRADOR KEVIN MCCARTHY — As Rep. Raul Labrador launched his upstart bid for House Majority Leader on Friday …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Eric Cantor's Defeat Exposed a Beltway Journalism Blind Spot — It's now clear why the primary defeat of the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, came so completely out of the blue last week: Beltway blindness that put a focus on fund-raising, power-brokering and partisan back-and-forth created …
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Howard Dean / Politico:
What Democrats Can Learn From Cantor's Loss
What Democrats Can Learn From Cantor's Loss
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PoliticusUSA and Washington Post
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker — A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star — In early August of 2011, a few days after Congress passed a deal to end the debt-ceiling showdown that brought the nation to the brink of credit default …
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Video Captures MI Police Struggling To Respect Gun-Toting Ranter's Open Carry Rights — On a bright day in early May, Joseph Houseman, 63, was out enjoying his Second Amendment rights in Kalamazoo, Mich. As traffic went by on East Cork Street, Houseman stood at the roadside, a rifle resting on his shoulder.
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Alex Mitchell / MLive.com:
Tense encounter between open-carry advocate and Kalamazoo police detailed in recordings, reports — KALAMAZOO, MI — Police reports and recordings of a sometimes tense 40-minute encounter with a belligerent, rifle-toting man offers insight into how officers tried to diffuse …
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Mediaite and The Raw Story
ThinkProgress:
Obama Administration Announces Executive Order Protecting LGBT Employees Of Federal Contractors — The White House is expected to announce Monday that President Obama will issue an executive order requiring that all companies who contract with the federal government must not discriminate …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How will Republicans respond to unilateral action on gay workplace discrimination?
How will Republicans respond to unilateral action on gay workplace discrimination?
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Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Obama Drafting Executive Order On LGBT Job Discrimination
Obama Drafting Executive Order On LGBT Job Discrimination
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Gawker, Guardian, AMERICAblog News, Washington Blade and Daily Kos
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
CNBC Anchor Confronts Rick Perry About Remark Comparing Gays To Alcoholics (VIDEO) — A CNBC anchor pressed Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Monday to explain his remark that compared being gay to being an alcoholic. — “Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rick Perry: Leave gay question to shrinks
Rick Perry: Leave gay question to shrinks
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Key Midterm Election Indicators at or Near Historical Lows — Approval of Congress at 16%; national satisfaction at 23% — PRINCETON, NJ — The election environment for congressional incumbents in 2014 will be challenging, with several key public opinion indicators as negative or nearly …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
The Hillary Tapes — Newly discovered audio recordings of Hillary Clinton from the early 1980s include the former first lady's frank and detailed assessment of the most significant criminal case of her legal career: defending a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl.
New York Times:
Population Shifts Turning All Politics National — SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — When William E. Davis was growing up here in DeSoto County, just across the state line from Memphis, there were more than 300 dairy farms, and he was raised on one of them. — “Now there are zero,” said Mr. Davis, 66 …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Insider blog, ABC News, Balloon Juice and Washington Post
Dr. Jen Gunter / Talking Points Memo:
An OB/GYN's Open Letter To George Will About His Rape Column — I read your recent column on the “supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. sexual assault” and am somewhat taken aback by your claim that forcing colleges to take a tougher stand on sexual assault somehow translates into a modern version …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Care and Climate: President Obama's Big Deals — Several times in recent weeks I've found myself in conversations with liberals who shake their heads sadly and express their disappointment with President Obama. Why? I suspect that they're being influenced, often without realizing it, by the prevailing media narrative.
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