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Iraq poll: President Obama backed over John McCain — More Americans agree with President Barack Obama's views on Iraq than those of Sen. John McCain, a new poll says. — According to a Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday, 54 percent of voters say they agree more with the president on Iraq …
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FLASHBACK: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq? — The former Bush administration official is perhaps the worst person to give advice about the current crisis in Iraq—but that hasn't stopped him from speaking out.
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Hot Air, Mediaite, The Dish, The Huffington Post and Washington Post


Iran Offers Iraq ‘Everything it Needs’ to Fight ISIS
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BillMoyers.com, Business Insider, Hot Air, The Dish and New Yorker

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

Sunnis and Kurds on Sidelines of Iraqi Leader's Military Plans
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Iraq crisis: U.S. moves firepower to region as ISIS advance continues
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U.S. Is Exploring Talks With Iran on Crisis in Iraq
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John McCain, Lindsey Graham split on Iran
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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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No one buying claim that Lois Lerner's IRS emails were lost
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Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this
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Tax Agency Says Lois Lerner Emails Were Destroyed in Computer Crash
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ABC News, Committee on Oversight …, waysandmeans.house.gov, MichelleMalkin.com, CNN, TaxProf Blog and Outside the Beltway


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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Megyn Kelly Laughs at Dinesh D'Souza: So You're Saying America Is a ‘Child Molester’?
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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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Barack Obama golfs while the Middle East burns — Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president. He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg.
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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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Daily Kos, PoliticusUSA, Right Wing Watch, Shakesville, Hinterland Gazette and The Raw Story

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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U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid — An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on Sept. 11, 2012. The alleged ringleader in the attack has been captured by involving Special Operations forces.
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Business Insider, Hot Air, Mashable, National Review, The PJ Tatler and Twitchy


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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Publishing Source: Hillary Book a ‘Bomb’ — In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a “bomb.” The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.
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Hillary Clinton's Book Tops Barnes & Noble Sales In First Week
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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.


YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service — Starting internal tests of subscription service but faces accusation of ‘catastrophic error of judgement’ — Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Jack White could disappear from YouTube “in a matter of days” …
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Rick Perry's ‘Groundhog Day’ — “Boys, I am going to bless this meal,” Rick Perry said, ducking his head and folding his hands under his chin. We were sitting at Nate 'n Al, the Jewish Deli in Beverly Hills, and the governor of Texas was looking every bit the regular customer in a tight black polo shirt and designer glasses.
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and The Week


Op-Ed Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Rand Paul: How to end the NSA dragnet — One year ago this month, Americans learned that their government was engaged in secret dragnet surveillance, which contradicted years of assurances to the contrary from senior government officials and intelligence leaders.