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New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old — The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child. — CONNECT — Photos and text messages obtained …
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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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Talking Points Memo and Truth Revolt
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand drops f-bomb on video — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is giving more details, and dropping f-bombs, about her experience with sexist comments she's received about her weight, saying she couldn't tell a male colleague “to go f— himself.” — “At that moment, if I could have just disappeared, I would have.
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RedState and Booman Tribune


Video: College Students Sign Petition in Support of ISIS — Despite one's feelings on how the U.S. government should deal with the growing threat that ISIS poses to the world, it's safe to assume that Americans across the political spectrum agree that the terror group is pretty odious.
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Liberty Unyielding and Washington Free Beacon


Three party leader's promise to Scotland — The joint statement also rubbishes claims from the SNP that the Barnett Formula for calculating Scotland's budget could be changed to leave us less money for public services. — It pledges: “Because of the continuation of the Barnett allocation for resources …
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New York Times, Press Association, Spectator and dailyrecord


Harkin: Hillary Clinton's ‘Fingerprints Are All Over’ Obamacare — INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton, making her return to Iowa for the first time since the 2008 presidential campaign, implored Democrats on Sunday to choose shared economic opportunity over “the guardians of gridlock” …
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Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare
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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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Washington Post, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Huffington Post


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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Washington Monthly, The Mahablog, Bloomberg View and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Thomas Frank: What's The Matter With The Democratic Party?
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Liberaland and Salon


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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CANNONFIRE and Daily Kos
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Rand Paul: As world changes, ‘you change’
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The Great Unraveling — It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? — It was a time of beheadings. With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads …
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Ed Driscoll

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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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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Absentee ballot mailings halted in push to restart voter ID law — Election officials, Michelle Avila (right) and June Gray check a voters identification during the February 2012 primary, the last time a voter ID requirement was in place in Wisconsin. A federal court ruling restoring the law …
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New York Times and Election Law Blog


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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Liberaland, The Dish, Washington Times and Fox News

US Labor Board Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers — The National Labor Relations Board ruled against the CNN cable television network on Monday in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 former workers. — The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling …
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Politico, more at Mediagazer »


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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The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo


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 …

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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The Hill, Politico, OpenSecrets.org, Wall Street Journal and Talking Points Memo


ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools — BAGHDAD (AP) — The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been “permanently annulled.”
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Little Green Footballs


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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CBS Minnesota and Taegan Goddard's …


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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Firedoglake and The New Republic

Controversial DHS Adviser Let Go Amid Allegations of Cover Up — A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adviser long engulfed in controversy over his radical views was let go from his role in the department last week after a long fight by lawmakers and others to revoke the individual's privileges at DHS.
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Power Line and Pat Dollard