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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Jay Carney joins CNN — Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney will join CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday. — He will start Wednesday night as President Barack Obama makes a primetime statement about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , Sam Feist …
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Report: Golf courses nixed President Obama — Some of New York's most exclusive golf clubs would not let President Barack Obama play over Labor Day weekend, according to a report. — The Trump National Golf Club, Winged Foot and Willow Ridge rejected requests to let Obama tee off …
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, SportsGrid, Washington Post and Mediaite
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama tells leaders he doesn't need their vote for ISIS campaign
Obama tells leaders he doesn't need their vote for ISIS campaign
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Politico, BillMoyers.com, Taylor Marsh, Scared Monkeys, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
'Real Time"s Maher ‘could’ vote for Paul — Longtime viewers of Bill Maher on HBO's “Real Time” may be surprised to learn the liberal-leaning host, who makes a habit of skewering Republicans on a weekly basis, is “considering” casting a vote for one come 2016. — “Rand Paul is an interesting candidate to me.
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OnPolitics, CBS DC, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Hit & Run
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
No Fan Of Hillary, Bill Maher Says He Could Vote GOP In 2016
No Fan Of Hillary, Bill Maher Says He Could Vote GOP In 2016
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Liberal Values, The Hill and The Raw Story
Daily Mail:
The teacher (and English graduate) who admits: I'm illiterate - SARAH SMITH blames liberal education dogmas for creating a generation of hopelessly ill-equipped teachers — My hands were feeling clammy and beads of sweat broke out under my collar as I shifted nervously in my seat. It was parents' evening.
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Gregory D. Johnsen / BuzzFeed:
Obama Will Fight ISIS With George W. Bush's Legal Theories — John Yoo: “Obama has adopted the same view of war powers as the Bush administration.” — Ints Kalnins / Reuters — Later today President Obama will unveil his plan to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria …
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New York Times:
Obama Ready to Authorize Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria
Obama Ready to Authorize Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria
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Firedoglake, Business Insider, Mashable, Hit & Run, emptywheel, JustOneMinute, The Other McCain, Gawker, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Dick Cheney Is Still Right — Obama's return to Iraq reveals how wrong he has been about the world.
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Gawker, Washington Monthly, Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Federalist, NBC News, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Dish, The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mass. Mayor Brandishes Gun During Late-Night Meeting With Rival — A Massachusetts councilman accused his town mayor of “intimidation” after he pulled out a gun during an informal, late-night meeting in an SUV between the two officials. But the mayor disputes the claim, the Boston Herald reported.
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Chris Cassidy / Boston Herald:
Fall River mayor shoots down gun intimidation claim
Fall River mayor shoots down gun intimidation claim
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NY Daily News
WSB-TV:
State launches fraud investigation into voter registration group — ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News has learned Georgia's secretary of state is investigating allegations of forged voter registration applications and demanding records from a voter registration group with ties to one of the state's highest ranking Democrats.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
People hate the Republican Party. But they really don't. — The reclamation project that is the Republican Party has long been stunted by one pesky fact: People freaking hate the Republican Party. — Well, kind of. — Poll after poll shows President Obama is unpopular …
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Washington Monthly and The Dish
Bryan Fischer / OneNewsNow.com:
No atheist should be permitted to serve in the U.S. military — Military service should rightly be reserved for those who believe in and are willing to die for what America stands for - and what America stands for is a belief in God as the source of our rights. — Tweet to @BryanJFischer
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Right Wing Watch, Agence France-Presse, Good As You and The Raw Story
Justin Driver / The New Republic:
How Scalia's Beliefs Completely Changed the Supreme Court — And therefore, the country — Scalia: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy (Simon & Schuster). — On October 15, 1987, as Justice Antonin Scalia settled into his second term at the Supreme Court, he emerged from conference …
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National Review
Jonathan Strong / BREITBART.COM:
LETTER: HOLDER AIDE ACCIDENTALLY CALLS ISSA STAFF FOR HELP SPINNING IRS SCANDAL — A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Issa: Holder spokesman caught red-handed
Issa: Holder spokesman caught red-handed
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Politico and Patterico's Pontifications
Jessica Lahey / The Atlantic Online:
How Stephen King Teaches Writing — Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft has been a fixture in my English classroom for years, but it wasn't until this summer, when I began teaching in a residential drug and alcohol rehab, that I discovered the full measure of its worth.
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Ted Cruz: Amendment threatens SNL — Sen. Ted Cruz says the comedy of NBC's “Saturday Night Live” is at risk and creator Lorne Michaels could be thrown in jail if a proposed Constitutional amendment on campaign finance is passed. — “Congress would have the power to make it a criminal offense …
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The Week, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, Gawker, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz beefs up campaign arm — Ted Cruz is continuing to send signals that he's running for president. — The Texas senator's chief of staff, Chip Roy, a former top hand to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is leaving his role as chief of staff and will play a larger role in Cruz's political office …
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RedState
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Roger Goodell: We asked for Ray Rice video on multiple occasions — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he never saw the elevator video of Ray Rice striking his then-fiancee until Monday morning, but when he did, he found it “sickening,” he told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone interview Tuesday evening.
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Politico, ProFootballTalk, NOLA River and Baltimore Sun
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Candidates to draw straws unless lone voter brings ID — Unless a lone affidavit voter shows up with a valid photo ID before next Tuesday, Glenn Bolin and Stephanie Bounds will draw straws to see who becomes Poplarville alderman. — In a special election runoff Tuesday, Bolin and Bounds each received 177 votes.
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Election Law Blog
James Carville / The Hill:
GOP's Benghazi meter does not read victory — Just a tiny bit over a year ago I wrote a column for this publication indicating that the Republicans had not been right about a single thing so far this century. Sports gamblers have a name for when you don't win a single bet over a weekend …
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
National Review On Wendy Davis: 'Maybe She Didn't' Have An Abortion — A piece at National Review is questioning whether Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis's story about having an abortion in 1997 and fell into “deep, dark despair” afterward is real.
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Jezebel, National Review, Mediaite and LifeSite
Benjamin Domenech / Politico:
Beware GOP: Millennials Don't Like What We're Hearing — The Republican establishment seems unaware of the power of young libertarians. — Depending on which Republicans you listen to, the rise of libertarian views among millennial Americans is either nonexistent, a great threat to the country or both.
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Washington Monthly
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Most Important Achievement in the Middle East — The president is a superior terrorist hunter. He has also neutralized a profound existential threat to U.S. allies in the Middle East, and denied ISIS access to vast storehouses of deadly chemical weapons. So why does he get no credit?
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Hot Air and New York Times