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1:20 PM ET, September 23, 2014

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New York Times:
Obama, After Airstrikes in Syria, Says U.S. Will ‘Take the Fight’ to ISIS  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday hailed the American-led coalition that conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Monday night, declaring, “We're going to do what is necessary to take the fight to this terrorist group.”
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Reuters:
US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria … American airstrikes against ISIS targets are under way in Syria, according to a Pentagon official.  —  “I can confirm that U.S. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against ISIL [ISIS] terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter …
New York Times:
Corrections: September 23, 2014  —  An article on Sept. 11 about President Obama's speech to the nation describing his plans for a military campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, gave an incorrect comparison between efforts by the president to seek allies' support for his plans …
New York Times:
U.S. and Allies Hit ISIS Targets in Syria  —  WASHINGTON — The United States and allies launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in Syria early Tuesday, unleashing a torrent of cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs from the air and sea on the militants' de facto capital of Raqqa and along the porous Iraq border.
Mike Allen / Politico:
42 days to midterms - JEB BUSH'S ‘GRETA GARBO STRATEGY’: Tech, foreign-policy prep; creative new way to help midterm candidates - JILL HAZELBAKER to Snapchat in L.A. — BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is 65  —  JEB'S DRY RUN: As Jeb Bush plunges into a frenzy of fall travel for Senate candidates …
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
America's New War President
Discussion: Althouse
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. begins airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:   Pentagon: US, partners begin airstrikes in Syria
Fox News:
US launches first wave of bombing strikes over Syria
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Belmont Club
Politico:
U.S. launches airstrikes in Syria
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Something is terribly wrong with the Secret Service  —  President Obama is supporting the Secret Service in the wake of a deeply troubling incident in which a disturbed man jumped the White House fence, sprinted across the North Lawn, and actually entered the White House Friday evening.
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Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
The Wisdom of the Crowd  —  “Don't follow leaders,” the bard of Hibbing once advised.  “Watch the parking meters,” he added—whatever that meant.  —  At Sunday's vast and beautiful climate march, on Central Park West somewhere in the Sixties, I ran into Bill McKibben, a longtime acquaintance …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Dish
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
GOP's scorched-earth Kansas plan  —  Control of the Senate is potentially at stake in Kansas, and the GOP is beginning to double down.  —  With a two-man race now looking all but certain, national Republicans are planning a scorched-earth offensive to frame Sen. Pat Roberts's (R-Kan.) …
James Mann / New York Times:
Obama Isn't Finished Yet  —  WASHINGTON — ON Sept. 18, 1986, more than two years before the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, the columnist George F. Will, one of Reagan's earliest and strongest supporters, pronounced the Reagan administration dead.  “When an administration collapses …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Islamic State attack on Iraqi base leaves hundreds missing, shows army weaknesses  —  BAGHDAD — The army base in Iraq's western Anbar province had been under siege by Islamic State militants for a week, so when a convoy of armored Humvees rolled up at the gate, the Iraqi soldiers at Camp Saqlawiyah believed saviors had arrived.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Weasel Zippers
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Philip K. Howard / The Atlantic Online:
When Humans Lose Control of Government  —  The Veterans Affairs scandal of falsified waiting lists is the latest of a never-ending stream of government ineptitude.  Every season brings a new headline of failures: the botched roll-out of Obamacare involved 55 uncoordinated IT vendors …
Washington Monthly:
Ten Ways Colleges Work You Over  —  #1 Just because a school encourages you to apply doesn't mean they actually want you.  —  High school students who are inundated with personalized letters and emails (and even partially filled-out applications) from colleges urging them to apply may mistakenly …
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: In #KSSEN Candidate Replacement Case, KS Supreme Court Kicks Case Back to Lower Court, Delaying Consideration  —  The Kansas Supreme Court has just issued this order.  The plaintiff seeks to force Democrats to choose a successor to Chad Taylor in the race for U.S. Senate.
Denise Grady / New York Times:
Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4 Million in 4 Months, C.D.C. Estimates  —  Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Ben Carson on 2016: ‘Likelihood is strong’  —  Former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and conservative activist Ben Carson said that there is a “strong” likelihood that you will see his name in the presidential primaries come 2016.  —  “Unless the American people indicate in November …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and BuzzFeed
Jennifer A. Kingson / New York Times:
On a Warmer Planet, Which Cities Will Be Safest?  —  Alaskans, stay in Alaska.  People in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, sit tight.  —  Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few safe havens from the storms, floods and droughts that are sure to intensify over the coming decades.
Discussion: Unfogged
 
 
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
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Washington Examiner:
Democratic women up the rhetoric amid midterm concerns
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