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Jacob Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Iraq Plan Has a Killer Flaw—and Airstrikes Alone May Not Save It — The U.S. gambled on local militias to keep ISIS in check. The president's authorization of airstrikes is an admission that bet didn't pay off. — Friday morning, with a humanitarian mission already underway …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama, With Reluctance, Returns to Action in Iraq — WASHINGTON — In sending warplanes back into the skies over Iraq, President Obama on Thursday night found himself exactly where he did not want to be. Hoping to end the war in Iraq, Mr. Obama became the fourth president in a row …
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Announces Iraq Airstrikes With a Tweet
Pentagon Announces Iraq Airstrikes With a Tweet
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Washington Post:
U.S. airstrikes target Islamic State militants in northern Iraq
U.S. airstrikes target Islamic State militants in northern Iraq
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House’
ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House’
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David Hudson / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama Makes a Statement on the Crisis in Iraq
President Obama Makes a Statement on the Crisis in Iraq
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Expands Attacks in Northern Iraq
U.S. Expands Attacks in Northern Iraq
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RedState and Business Insider
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Don't Give Booker a Pass — Cory Booker may be the most puzzling man in the Senate. We don't know where he lives. We don't know whom, if anyone, he lives with. And he's been caught in lie after lie about his heroics. Yet, this enigma of a man has emerged as the king of odd-couple bromance …
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Elianayjohnson / National Review:
Booker Staffer Tells Booker Opponent to ‘Suck It’ — One staffer in Cory Booker's Senate office has a message for his opponent: “Suck it.” — That's certainly at odds with Booker's reputation for politeness and collegiality, but when Booker's opponent, the former Reagan-administration official Jeff Bell …
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Talking Points Memo
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods — Is there any way to keep white people from using computers, before this whole planet is ruined? I ask because the two enterprising white entrepreneurs above just made yet another app for avoiding non-white areas of your town—and it's really taking off!
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Monica Potts / The Daily Beast:
The Big, Long, 30-Year Conservative Lie — Inequality, conservatives insist, is natural. Trying to combat it will slow growth. Well, guess who now says otherwise? Standard and Poor's. — First came Occupy Wall Street, and its pitch-perfect slogan on inequality: “We are the 99 percent.”
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Washington Monthly
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Inequality Is a Drag — For more than three decades, almost everyone who matters in American politics has agreed that higher taxes on the rich and increased aid to the poor have hurt economic growth. — Liberals have generally viewed this as a trade-off worth making …
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John H. Cochrane / The Grumpy Economist:
S&P economists and inequality — Neil Irwin at the New York …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Deletes Tweet With Huge Factual Error — Either Donald Trump is having second thoughts about a political endorsement or he's once against struggling to accept that he's been proven wrong. — The smart money is on the latter, unless the reality television star had a sudden …
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Mediaite and Washington Monthly
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
America's Moral Obligations in Iraq — Which politician uttered the following words: “Do we sit on the sidelines and watch an entire people be slaughtered or do we marshal military forces and move in quietly to put an end to it?” John McCain? Joe Lieberman? Scoop Jackson? Wrong.
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New York Times:
Cease-Fire in Gaza Expires, and Strikes Resume — JERUSALEM — As a 72-hour truce in Gaza expired at 8 a.m. Friday, Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes, one of which killed a 10-year-old boy, according to relatives.
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israeli Procedure Reignites Old Debate
Israeli Procedure Reignites Old Debate
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Tikun Olam and Marginal REVOLUTION
Andrew W.K. / Sound of the City:
Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing A**hole — [Editor's note: Every Wednesday New York City's own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions, and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose or — no surprise here — a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com]
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Anthony Reuben / BBC:
Caution needed with Gaza casualty figures — War zones are not easy places to collect statistics. — In the Gaza conflict, most news organisations have been quoting from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which leads a group of humanitarian organisations known as the Protection Cluster.
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Democrats' Goldwater — Elizabeth Warren leads the party's leftward march. — Republicans had Barry Gold-water. Democrats now have Elizabeth Warren. What do they have in common? Years back, he pointed the way for his party, and now she's doing the same thing for hers.
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Washington Monthly
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
Our Lonely First Duffer — What Barack Obama's golf game tells us about his presidency. — To many of us who play golf and generally suck at it—that's me, and most others—it is less a game than a subtle form of torture, a walking stress position. Other sports may be more physically taxing …
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Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Mitch McConnell's wife sits on the board of a group working to kill the coal industry Yahoo News 1 hr ago — For months, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has accused his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, of engaging in a “war on coal,” casting her as an outright enemy of one of the state's most vital industries.
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Wolfowitz: We ‘won’ the Iraq War — Paul Wolfowitz, a former senior George W. Bush administration official and one of the chief Iraq War architects, said on Tuesday that the U.S. “won” the war in Iraq. — When asked his thoughts about the current situation in Iraq and whether the war was a mistake …
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The Bulletin:
Probate candidate's husband admits to history with white supremacy movement — The husband of a Plainfield attorney running for a probate judge seat was a member of a prominent neo-Nazi group for several years, according to watchdog groups, and currently maintains a pro-white online blog.
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Tennessean.com:
'SNL's Victoria Jackson falls to incumbents — Victoria Jackson, the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member who has made a name for herself as an active tea party participant, conservative activist and outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama, has lost her bid to win a spot on the Williamson County Commission.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low — Washington (CNN) - Four decades after President Richard Nixon resigned, a slight majority of Americans still consider Watergate a very serious matter, a new national survey shows. But how serious depends on when you were born.
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National and Local Weather Forecast …:
Tropical Storm Iselle Update: Only Second Landfall On Record in Big Island of Hawaii; High Winds, Flooding Rain Continue (FORECAST) — Tropical Storm Iselle in a Friday morning update from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, became only the second tropical storm on record to landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii early Friday morning.
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