memeorandum: Exclusive: GOP poll of women: Party ‘stuck in past’ (Politico)

1:40 PM ET, August 31, 2014

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Obama sets his own pace in a world whirling with crises — Short of world war, it's rare that a chief executive goes through a foreign policy month like President Obama's August. — U.S. warplanes struck in Iraq for the first time in years, as U.S. diplomats struggled to establish a new government in Baghdad.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Agence France-Presse, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Guardian

Washington Post:

U.S. airstrikes help Iraqi forces break Islamic State's siege — IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi troops aided by U.S. airstrikes entered the besieged town of Amerli Sunday, residents and Iraqi officials said, after a months-long blockade by Islamic State militants that had surrounded the Shiite Turkmen village …

Discussion: Reuters and The Moderate Voice

Yahoo! News:

Saudi king warns West will be jihadists' next target AFP 1 hr ago — Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is “rapid” action.

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Corrente and CBS DC

Martin Matishak / The Hill:

Sunday shows to focus on national security — Lawmakers from both parties will appear on the Sunday shows as the Obama administration weighs taking military action against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Syria. — The lawmakers are also likely to be asked about Russia's repeated incursions into Ukraine.

Discussion: Politico and Hot Air

Martin Matishak / The Hill: Feinstein: Obama ‘too cautious’ on ISIS

John Kerry / New York Times:
The Threat of ISIS Demands a Global Coalition

Discussion: Guardian, Hot Air, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, The Moderate Voice, Hinterland Gazette, CNN, JustOneMinute, Newsweek, Washington Post and The Huffington Post

New York Times:
John McCain and Lindsey Graham: Confront ISIS Now

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Blazing Cat Fur, emptywheel, ParaPundit and Wall Street Journal

Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:

Mayor Forces Man To Leave Public Meeting Because He Won't Stand During Prayer — Mayor John Rees (center) at Thursday's meeting — CREDIT: Freedom From Religion Foundation YouTube video — A Florida mayor ejected one of his constituents from a City Commission meeting on Thursday …

Discussion: Americans Against the …, Balloon Juice, Orlando Sentinel, Patheos and The Raw Story

Daily Mail:

Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now — Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore's warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row

Discussion: Watts Up With That? and NewsBusters

New York Times:

Stop Hiding Images of American Torture — A hooded man standing on a box, electrodes wired to his fingers. A naked prisoner lying on a cement floor, a leash around his neck held casually by an American soldier. The bloody bodies of dead inmates with their heads bashed in.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Politico:

Exclusive: GOP poll of women: Party ‘stuck in past’ — One bright spot in the poll responses was among married women. Married women without a college degree view Republicans favorably, the poll shows. Married women prefer a Republican over a Democrat, 48 percent to 38 percent.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Molly Powell / National Review:

Considering Catcalls — No one is catcalling Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Bush, or Janet Napolitano. No one is catcalling my plump elderly mother as I wheel her down the sidewalk in her wheelchair. Marilyn Monroe once observed that she could walk down the sidewalk without drawing attention …

Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Monthly

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:

After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less — MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Washington Post

Peter Sullivan / The Hill:

Rubio's new tune on immigration — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is singing a new tune on immigration as he eyes a possible 2016 presidential run, but it may not be enough to win over disaffected conservatives just yet. — Rubio was a leading champion of the comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate last year.

Amie Parnes / The Hill:

Hillary's summer: Five takeaways — The political world is still waiting for a decision from Hillary Clinton on the 2016 presidential race. — But observers have recently got a preview of what would lay in store from, and for, Clinton should she take the plunge.