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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Iraq Is Not Bush's Iraq — The war against ISIS may fail. But morally, it's the opposite of Bush's war, and if it succeeds, it will do so for precisely that reason. — Last week, a Politico reporter phoned me to ascertain my thoughts on the new war.
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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 …
Eric Posner / Slate:
Obama Can Bomb Pretty Much Anything He Wants To
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Vindicator:
UPDATE | Traficant ‘critical;’ doctors to make determination within 72 hours — 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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
In conservative media, Obamacare is a disaster. In the real world, it's working. — Before Obamacare launched, conservative outlets warned that the law would collapse as insurers shunned the overpriced, overregulated insurance exchanges. “More Insurers Drop Out Of Exchanges,” warned Fox Business.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan Declares War Against Math
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Family Says Louisiana Deputy Shot 14-year-old ‘Four Or Five Times In The Back’ — Louisiana State Police were investigating on Wednesday after a Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy fatally shot a 14-year-old boy. — Louisiana State Police were investigating on Wednesday …
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Suzy Khimm / msnbc.com:
How DC's conservative elite view liberals — What do conservatives think of liberals today? — Here's the view from the Heritage Foundation: Liberalism creates self-indulgent, licentious hedonists willing to cede every other kind of freedom to an increasingly authoritarian government.
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Hit & Run, Taegan Goddard's … and National Review
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Continue to Say a Third Political Party Is Needed — Views little changed from last year — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, say a third U.S. political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic parties “do such a poor job” representing the American people.
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WLWT-TV:
Justice Dept. to investigate police shooting of Fairfield man — Special grand jury declines to indict officers in Walmart shooting — A special grand jury has declined to indict either police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Tri-State man at a Dayton-area Walmart.
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Liberaland and Raw Story
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: 6th Circuit Upholds Federal Court Order Extending Ohio Early Voting: Analysis — You can read the unanimous 46 page opinion at this link. This result is as expected after the same 6th Circuit panel refused an earlier stay request from Ohio. Here are my thoughts on this opinion.
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Talking Points Memo and National Review
BBC:
French hostage Herve Gourdel ‘beheaded in Algeria’ — An Algerian jihadist group has released a video that appears to show the beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was seized on Sunday. — Jund al-Khilafa, an ally of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Iraq …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Hillary Clinton stands with Obama on airstrikes, arming Syrian rebels — New York (CNN) — Hillary Clinton publicly backed President Barack Obama's authorization of Syrian airstrikes during a panel discussion in New York Wednesday and attempted to dismiss previous disagreements she had with the Obama administration on Syria.
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Politico, Washington Post and Business Insider
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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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Federal Court Lifts Injunction In Walker Investigation — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court's ruling halting an investigation into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and more than two dozen conservative groups for alleged illegal campaign activity.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Promotes Editors, in Change of Leadership Structure — The executive editor of The New York Times announced broad changes to the newspaper's leadership Wednesday, replacing titles that had been used for decades and promoting several senior editors.
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Politico, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Secret G.O.P. Records Reveal Corporate Donors Paying for Access to Governors — WASHINGTON — In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to both, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
‘Key & Peele’ stars too busy for Obama — The stars of “Key & Peele” say President Obama originally wanted to push ObamaCare in a sketch with the comedy duo, but they couldn't fit a presidential skit into their schedules. — “We had to turn him down,” Jordan Peele, one half …
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Virginia Candidate Who Backed Forced Ultrasound Law Tries To Win Back Women Voters — WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA — In a windowless Elks Lodge ballroom on Saturday, a group of about 50 white and elderly Republicans dined on barbecue and sheet cake as they listened to a brief campaign pitch from Barbara Comstock …
Washington Post:
Full text of President Obama's 2014 address to the United Nations General Assembly — Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama — Address to the United Nations General Assembly — Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen …
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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Firedoglake, The Federalist, National Review, protein wisdom, Outside the Beltway, Above the Law and The Daily Caller
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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Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, PoliticusUSA and Capitol Report
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In Kansas, longtime GOP Sen. Pat Roberts faces doubts as he scrambles to hold seat — KINSLEY, Kan. — Shirley Deege is a proud Republican. For as long as she can remember, the nurse has been voting for Pat Roberts — in the 1980s, when he represented a vast patchwork of dusty plains hamlets …
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PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos and 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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Jack Healy / New York Times:
In Colorado, a Student Counterprotest to an Anti-Protest Curriculum — ARVADA, Colo. — A new conservative school board majority here in the Denver suburbs recently proposed a curriculum-review committee to promote patriotism, respect for authority and free enterprise and to guard …
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