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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Peter King Is Angry President Obama Wore A Tan Suit — Rep. Peter King (R-NY) went on an extended rant about President Barack Obama's decision to wear a tan suit during a statement about the terrorist group ISIS he delivered on Thursday at the White House.
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Mediaite and Pharyngula
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Obama's 'we don't have a strategy' gaffe stings — By now, President Obama's remark that “we don't have a strategy yet” has made the rounds. Republicans were quick to pounce on it, as well they should have. — But while the White House went into damage-control mode …
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Hot Air and Instapundit
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Fashion mavens weigh in on That Suit — Fashionistas and style gurus are weighing in on President Obama's tan press conference suit, giving their two cents on the taupe two-piece that lit up the Internet on Thursday. — While Washingtonian magazine Fashion Editor Kate Bennett gives the president props for …
Larry Downing / The Daily Beast:
Why Obama Backed Off More ISIS Strikes: His Own Team Couldn't Agree on a Syria Strategy — After lots of bluster about striking ISIS on Syria, President Obama threw cold water on the idea, disappointing those who wanted him to broaden the war. — After a week of talk of eliminating the …
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Politico, Booman Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, The Dish and Guardian
Politico:
Obama's campaign no-fly zone — In an election that Republicans want to make all about President Barack Obama, the White House is determined to make him all but disappear in the battleground states that matter. — The White House is putting the finishing touches on a post-Labor Day schedule …
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National Review
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
As New Dangers Loom, More Think the U.S. Does ‘Too Little’ to Solve World Problems
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Lawfare, Israel Matzav, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Informed Comment, Taylor Marsh and Washington Free Beacon
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House does damage control
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Washington Post, Hit & Run, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh and BuzzFeed
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's ‘strategy’ misfire
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The Hill, Hot Air, NewsBusters, Hullabaloo, BizPac Review, Capitol Report, Washington Free Beacon and New York Times
Judicial Watch:
Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border — Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Why top Dems are worried about politics of deportations — The Los Angeles Times reports this morning that the White House is considering whether to postpone Obama's politically explosive executive action to defer deportations until after the elections.
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Courier-Journal, Bloomberg, Daily Kos and National Review
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Sharon Cotliar / People.com:
Chelsea Clinton Is Leaving NBC News — Chelsea Clinton says she's stepping out of her correspondent job as she looks forward to taking on mom duties — After not quite three years as a special correspondent for NBC News - and with just a little while until she and husband Marc Mezvinsky …
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Chelsea Clinton / Facebook:
Thank You — When I joined the NBC family in 2011 …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Man Arrested While Picking Up His Kids: 'The Problem Is I'm Black' — If you've never experienced arbitrary harassment or brutality at the hands of a police officer, or seen law enforcement act in a way that defies credulity and common sense, it can be hard to believe people who tell stories of inexplicable persecution.
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ThinkProgress
Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
WATCH: Family Has Horrifying, Violent Reaction To Son's Coming Out As Gay (GRAPHIC CONTENT) — Sometimes coming-out stories are heartwarming tales of acceptance and love. Other times they are tragic accounts of abandonment and abuse. — Daniel Ashley Pierce, a 20-year-old from Georgia, came out as gay last October.
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The Raw Story, Pharyngula and ThinkProgress
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Actually, Obama Does Have a Strategy in the Middle East — The president is neither a dove nor a hawk. He's a fierce minimalist. — President Obama's critics often claim he doesn't have a strategy in the greater Middle East. That's wrong. Like it or loathe it, he does, and he's beginning to implement it against ISIS.
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The Reaction
Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Officers from St. Ann, Glendale off the job after actions during Ferguson protests — • By Joel Currier jcurrier@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8256 and Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8246 — Two police officers are no longer working at their departments due to their actions during the protests in Ferguson.
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Talking Points Memo, Mashable, Mediaite and Gawker
Harald Doornbos / Foreign Policy:
Found: The Islamic State's Terror Laptop of Doom — Buried in a Dell computer captured in Syria are lessons for making bubonic plague bombs and missives on using weapons of mass destruction. — GOOGLE +
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RedState, The Moderate Voice, BBC, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Washington Post and New York Times
Associated Press:
Haslam may submit Medicaid expansion plan in fall — In a move that could mean health coverage for thousands of Tennesseans, Gov. Bill Haslam said Thursday that the state may soon submit a proposal to Washington to expand Tennessee's Medicaid program but did not release any new details on how it might work.
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Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.N. urges U.S. to stop police brutality after Missouri shooting — (Reuters) - The U.N. racism watchdog urged the United States on Friday to halt the excessive use of force by police after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman touched off riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
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Linda Kinstler / The New Republic:
Putin Will Never, Ever Admit That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine — The presence of Russian military personnel in Ukraine is now beyond dispute, everywhere except in Russia. On Thursday, NATO released satellite imagery of Russian combat troops operating inside Ukraine's borders …
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The Dish, BuzzFeed, New York Times, Bloomberg View, The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway
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Guardian:
Burmese beauty queen ‘vanishes with tiara’ from pageant — May Myat Noe alleged to have run off with crown after contest organisers said she should have breast enhancement operation — A Burmese beauty queen who was stripped of her title for allegedly being rude and dishonest has run off …
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Twitchy, Jezebel and The Daily Caller
Chris McDaniel / CNN:
Judge dismisses Chris McDaniel challenge — (CNN) - A Mississippi judge has tossed out state Sen. Chris McDaniel's challenge to that state's June 24 GOP primary runoff results, ending another chapter in one of the most bitterly contested U.S. Senate primaries in recent memory and bringing longtime …
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