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Sharyl Attkisson / Daily Signal:
Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review — As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …
The Hill:
Republicans to limit Obama's aid to moderate Syrian rebel forces — House Republicans expect to unveil legislation Monday evening that would give President Obama the authority to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels, but with some limits on that authority. — The House Armed Services Committee …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rand Paul: As world changes, ‘you change’ — Sen. Rand Paul on Monday pushed back against heightened criticism that he has flip-flopped on foreign policy issues, saying he has stood firmly against the Obama administration's policies in Syria. — Appearing on CBS “This Morning,” …
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The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Worries Islamic State Will Destroy Americans, Wipe Out Mankind — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's strategy for combating Islamic State militants and said the president needs to significantly step up military action …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Have Nerds Betrayed the Left? — Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science. — Shares — A couple of weeks ago, Tom Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, sympathetically interviewed academic-activist Cornel West, both of whom agreed that Barack Obama has betrayed the left.
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Republicans ‘trying to get you to check your brain at the door’ — Former President Bill Clinton railed against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday and framed the midterm elections as more broadly about defining “the terms in which we will relate to each other and relate to the rest of the world.”
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
This Is What's Truly At Stake In The Battle For Senate Control
This Is What's Truly At Stake In The Battle For Senate Control
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun'
Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun'
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Alison Lundergan Grimes goes shooting in new ad
Alison Lundergan Grimes goes shooting in new ad
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
Urban Outfitters Features “Vintage” Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt — The “vintage Kent State” sweatshirt is for sale in the women's section of the Urban Outfitters' website. — urbanoutfitters.com — It can be found through a quick search on the website:
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Urban Outfitters / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger — Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense our Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt may have caused. It was never our intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970 and we are extremely saddened that this item was perceived as such.
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Urban Outfitters Offers ‘Vintage’ Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
Urban Outfitters Offers ‘Vintage’ Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
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Sarfraz Manzoor / New York Times:
Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham — LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question. Now in his late 50s, he had arrived from Pakistan three decades earlier. After a lifetime of hard work, he could not understand …
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’ — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Arizona GOPer: Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized — Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) resigned his position as first vice chairman of the Arizona Republican Party on Sunday amid criticism by prominent Republican candidates of Pearce's recent comments on sterilization and poor women.
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USA Today:
Senate has a secret book of rules — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare — Hillary Clinton played a crucial role in making President Obama's healthcare law a reality, a retiring Democratic senator told a crowd in Iowa on Sunday. — Clinton's “fingerprints are all over” the Affordable Care Act …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: Alaska, A Frontier For Bad Polling — The Senate race in Alaska is as important as any in the country. As we've described previously, Republicans can win a Senate majority by winning the race there along with those in five other deeply red states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.
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Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Amanda Coyne
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Please—Let's Not Destroy ISIS — Obama's mission is hard enough without him stating a clearly unachievable goal. Why do presidents feel they have to sound like John Wayne? — Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Turning Tables, Democrats Use Cultural Issues as a Cudgel — RESTON, Va. — After a generation of campaigns in which Republicans exploited wedge issues to win close elections, Democrats are now on the offensive in the culture wars. — Democrats see social issues as potent …
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Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73 — Thomas H. Boggs Jr., who sat for years at the epicenter of Washington legal and political circles as the city's marquee name in lobbying and political fund-raising, died Sept. 15 at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 73.
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Allie Jones / Gawker:
Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It” — The sweaty armpit of talk radio now fancies himself to be a “seduction” expert. On his show today, Rush Limbaugh decried Ohio State's new policy instructing students to get explicit, verbal consent before having sex …
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Abby Simons / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Franken leads McFadden by double digits — But double-digit lead over McFadden is reversed in northern Minnesota. — U.S. Sen. Al Franken leads his Republican challenger Mike McFadden by double digits, but that lead narrows dramatically outside the metro area and flips …
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Marissa Evans / Morning Consult:
The Three Words That Shift Views On Medicaid — Three little words is all it takes to change voters' minds about Medicaid expansion. — Morning Consult polling shows using the term “Affordable Care Act” can make a difference in how a voter feels about expanding Medicaid.
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