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New York Times:
Wrong Turn on Syria: No Convincing Plan — President Obama has put America at the center of a widening war by expanding into Syria airstrikes against the Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group known as ISIS and ISIL. He has done this without allowing the public debate that needs to take place …
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Firedoglake, Balkinization, Washington Post, Althouse and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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In Syria, Obama stretches legal and policy constraints he created for counterterrorism
In Syria, Obama stretches legal and policy constraints he created for counterterrorism
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CNN and American Prospect
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama praises Arab coalition against ISIS
New York Times:
U.S. Is Carrying Out Vast Majority of Strikes on ISIS, Military Officials Say
U.S. Is Carrying Out Vast Majority of Strikes on ISIS, Military Officials Say
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The Hugh Hewitt Show, Washington Post, Business Insider and Hot Air
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Congress in No Rush to Return for ISIS War Authorization
Congress in No Rush to Return for ISIS War Authorization
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msnbc.com, Daily Kos, New York Times and Washington Post
BuzzFeed:
Who Is The U.S. Actually Bombing In Syria?
Who Is The U.S. Actually Bombing In Syria?
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Washington Post, Weekly Standard and BBC
Vindicator:
UPDATE | Jim Traficant in ‘very critical’ condition after accident at farm — GREENFORD — Ex-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is in “very critical condition” after an accident on his family farm, his wife, Tish Traficant, said today. — The former congressman, 73, is …
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OnPolitics and ABC News
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WFMJ-TV:
Former Congressman Jim Traficant critically injured in farm accident — GREENFORD, Ohio - — Former Ohio Congressman, Jim Traficant, is hospitalized after being seriously injured in a farm accident. — Traficant was found just before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday under an overturned tractor …
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Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports — White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media's eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities. They are written by reporters for other reporters …
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Hit & Run, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Barack Obama roasted over ‘Starbucks salute’ — Many criticized the coffee-in-hand salute by Obama. White House Instagram
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JustOneMinute, U-T San Diego stories and Washington Post
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Why I can't resign now — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pushing back against suggestions that she should soon retire, saying President Barack Obama would be unable to get a justice like her through the Senate. — “Who do you think President Obama …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Conservative lawmakers secretly plot to oust John Boehner — For months, several clusters of conservative lawmakers have been secretly huddling inside and outside the Capitol, plotting to oust John Boehner from the Speaker's office when House Republicans regroup after the November elections.
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Washington Post and Capitol Report
Washington Examiner:
What if we applied feminist logic to other crimes? — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CRIME FEMINISM CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT — Feminists have been arguing that it's “victim-blaming” to suggest steps that women can take to reduce the risk of being sexual assaulted. But what if that same logic were applied to all crime prevention tips?
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No More Mister Nice Blog and JustOneMinute
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Facebook to cut ties with conservative policy group — Facebook will possibly end its relationship with a controversial conservative policy organization over its stance on climate change, The Chronicle learned Tuesday. — The social media giant in Menlo Park would be the second Silicon Valley giant …
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice and Eclectablog
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Exclusive: Lois Lerner breaks silence — Accusations pile up — Republicans, who earlier this year held her in contempt of Congress, accuse Lerner of using her position to push for audits and denial of tax-exempt status to Karl Rove's Crossroads and other GOP groups.
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American Spectator
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
State rep candidate voted in Illinois and Wisconsin — Republican Kathy Myalls is urging voters to elect her to a seat in the Illinois State Legislature. — But will she vote for herself? — It's a fair question, since records show Myalls has voted in both Illinois and Wisconsin in recent years.
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Talking Points Memo
James Cook / Business Insider:
The Emma Watson Naked Photo Countdown Was The Work Of Serial Internet Hoaxers — A mysterious countdown website emerged on Monday that hinted at the imminent reveal of naked photographs of the actress Emma Watson, stolen using the same iCloud vulnerability that hackers used to steal photographs …
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Guardian, Mashable, addictinginfo.org, Hit & Run, Washington Post, CNN and The Daily Caller
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
America Out of Whack — There is something out of whack in America. Instead of promoting equality, public policy has left millions locked into lives of restricted opportunity while bestowing the benefits of growth on the very few. — We know this and yet we let it continue.
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Prairie Weather
Pew Research Center's Social & …:
Record Share of Americans Have Never Married — As Values, Economics and Gender Patterns Change — After decades of declining marriage rates and changes in family structure, the share of American adults who have never been married is at an historic high.
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Business Insider, Washington Center …, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan Declares War Against Math — It has long been known to harbor a liberal bias. — Shares — Paul Ryan has emerged from his long post-election period of repositioning, soul-searching, and secretly but not secretly visiting the poor. He had been caricatured as an Ayn Rand miser …
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Eclectablog, New York Times, Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Southern Baptists Kick Out Gay-Friendly Church — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the nation's largest protestant denomination, has kicked out a California church whose pastor embraces homosexuality, claiming that the minister and the church are not in …
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Baptist Press News, ABP News and Raw Story
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Candidate: Romney's 47 Percent Comment Was True, 'It's Bigger Now' (VIDEO) — A Republican Congressional candidate in Nevada argued that Mitt Romney's famous 47 percent comments was not only true, it's even more true now than when Romney said it during the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Las Vegas Sun News and Taegan Goddard's …
Thomas Tracy / NY Daily News:
Pregnant woman thrown, held belly-down to the ground by NYPD cop in Brooklyn — WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: Video shows the officer from the 72nd Precinct manhandling a visibly pregnant Sandra Amezquita early Saturday morning in Sunset Park. The officer is the second cop from the 72nd Precinct …
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ThinkProgress, Gothamist, Mediaite and Gawker
New York Times:
A Health Care Success Story — IT may have been the most influential magazine article of the past decade. In June of 2009, the doctor and writer Atul Gawande published a piece in The New Yorker called “The Cost Conundrum,” which examined why the small border city of McAllen, Tex. …