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More US Troops to Iraq; Special Forces Considered — The U.S. is urgently deploying several hundred armed troops in and around Iraq and considering sending an additional contingent of special forces soldiers as Baghdad struggles to repel a rampant insurgency, even as the White House insists anew …
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Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh, CNN and The Week
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Iraq crisis: U.S. moves firepower to region as ISIS advance continues — Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — As Islamic militants continue their murderous advance in Iraq, the Pentagon is moving more firepower and manpower into the region to prepare for whatever U.S. President Barack Obama orders.
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National Review, The Week, Poynter and The Gateway Pundit


Iran Offers Iraq ‘Everything it Needs’ to Fight ISIS
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Business Insider, New Yorker and AEIdeas

Sunnis and Kurds on Sidelines of Iraqi Leader's Military Plans
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Washington Post, Gawker, Outside the Beltway, The Independent, Fox News and ParaPundit

Iraq conflict: Clashes on approaches to Baghdad
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Al Jazeera America, New York Times, ThinkProgress and Fox News

Obama's Iraq disaster
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Rush Limbaugh, The Dish and Power Line

U.S. Is Exploring Talks With Iran on Crisis in Iraq
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USA Today, The Week and Associated Press

What to Do in Iraq — It's widely agreed that the collapse …
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Fox News, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Dish, ABC News, Balloon Juice, Ed Driscoll, his vorpal sword, Lawyers, Guns & Money, BuzzFeed, The Daily Banter, New York Times, Politico and The Daily Beast

Why Obama “owns” Iraq
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CANNONFIRE, The National Interest, National Review, The Dish and Wall Street Journal

John McCain, Lindsey Graham split on Iran
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Power Line and Hot Air


No one buying claim that Lois Lerner's IRS emails were lost — Last Friday afternoon, the Internal Revenue Service claimed that Lois Lerner, a former executive tasked with overseeing tax-exemption applications, lost thousands of emails after her computer crashed.
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his vorpal sword, Business Insider and Townhall.com
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It's reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods's 18½ minutes of fame. — Vietnam and Watergate have been central to the worldview of a generation of liberal Democrats. For decades, whenever a Republican was in the White House, they eagerly anticipated that every U.S. military intervention would turn into …
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Sister Toldjah, Power Line, Liberal Values, RedState, NewsBusters and The Daily Signal


Tax Agency Says Lois Lerner Emails Were Destroyed in Computer Crash
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ABC News, Committee on Oversight …, waysandmeans.house.gov, CNN, MichelleMalkin.com, TaxProf Blog and Outside the Beltway



NC GOPer: Unlike Blacks Or Hispanics, ‘Traditional’ Population Isn't Growing (VIDEO) — State House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, said that the “traditional” voting bloc of his home state wasn't growing like as minority populations in an interview he did in 2012.
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PoliticusUSA, Shakesville, Hinterland Gazette, Taegan Goddard's … and The Raw Story


GOP pol raises Obama impeachment — Rep. Lou Barletta says the House “probably” has the votes to impeach President Barack Obama. — “He's just absolutely ignoring the Constitution, and ignoring the laws and ignoring the checks and balances,” the Pennsylvania Republican said of Obama on the Gary Sutton radio show on Monday.
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Washington Post
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GOP Congressman: Obama Impeachment “Probably Could” Pass The House
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Mediaite, PoliticusUSA and Talking Points Memo

WH to honor young illegal immigrants — The White House will honor 10 young adults on Tuesday who came to the United States illegally and qualified for the president's program to defer deportation actions. — Each person has qualified for the government's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program …
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The bafflingly simple reason Raul Labrador had trouble campaigning for majority leader this weekend
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American Spectator, Twitchy, The Hugh Hewitt Show and The Week


Downward spiral of Obama's presidency … “Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job.” That was George W. Bush's infamous compliment to Michael Brown, his then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It came as New Orleans lay flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 …
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Power Line
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Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel — Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series of gatherings to draw attention to the Benghazi controversy. — But this one took an unexpected turn.
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Mediaite and Hullabaloo


Obama will propose vast expansion of Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary — The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati lies seven feet above sea level, on average. But scientists say it's drowning. PostTV asked Kiribati President Anote Tong how he's planning for a future that might find his entire country submerged in the Pacific Ocean.
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ThinkProgress, Daily Digest News, The Lonely Conservative, Fox News and RTCC

Immigrant Children Need Safety, Shelter and Lawyers — The surge of desperate young migrants across the southwest border has the Obama administration scrambling to respond. It was clearly ill-prepared for a problem that grew steadily for years before exploding this year …
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Daily Kos

N.Y. lawmaker aims to give voting rights to illegal immigrants — (Reuters) - A New York lawmaker wants to grant many of the rights of citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants and non-citizen residents, including the right to vote in local and state elections, under a bill introduced on Monday.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler


D'Souza baffles Megyn Kelly — Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza baffled Megyn Kelly on Monday night with an analogy that compared the United States to a child molesting father. — Appearing on Fox's “The Kelly File” to promote his new book, “America: Imagine a World Without Her,” …
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The Huffington Post


First lady: Students shouldn't pick what they have for lunch — First lady Michelle Obama on Monday blasted back at critics of her school lunch program, arguing parents should ensure their children eat healthy meals. — Obama said parents and school leaders can't let children make the call …
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PoliticusUSA


The Cantor Prediction Is Part of a Pattern—GOP Pollsters Stink — They overestimated Romney, underestimated Cuccinelli, and had Eric Cantor up 34 points. Do GOP pollsters understand the country anymore? — The last few years have regrettably made the phrase “Republican pollster” less a job title than a punch line.