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11:30 AM ET, September 25, 2014

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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General  —  Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Breaking: Holder to resign  —  Washington (CNN) — Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Thursday that he will resign after six years at the Justice Department helm.  The attorney general has agreed to remain in his post until the confirmation of his successor, a Justice Department official has confirmed to CNN.
Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Levels With Us on Why She's Not Retiring
Discussion: Yahoo! News
John Monk / The State:
VIDEO RELEASED: SC trooper charged with felony in shooting at traffic stop over seat belt violation  —  COLUMBIA, SC — An S.C. trooper who stopped a man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia and then shot him - apparently without provocation - was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, We Need Dashcams  —  This video will blow your mind.  —  On the plus side, the officer in question was fired from the South Carolina Highway Patrol and has now been charged with aggravated assault.  But here's the story (with video).  White Highway Patrol officer stops a black man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia, SC.
Discussion: WLTX-TV and Unfogged
Economist:
Mission relaunched  —  The fight against Islamic State will help define America's role in the world  —  FOR more than three years, Barack Obama has been trying to avoid getting into a fight in Syria.  But this week, with great tracts of the Middle East under the jihadist's knife, he at last faced up to the inevitable.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's exceptional U.N. address
George E. Condon Jr / National Journal:   Six Speeches, and the Evolution of a President
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Iraq Is Not Bush's Iraq
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Returns to Fray and Finds Going Rough  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. — In one of his first public appearances of the 2014 campaign, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida had a vivid preview Wednesday of the challenges he would face with his party's conservative base should he seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Kay Hagan's Surprising Strength
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Romney 2016 is for real  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY  —  Is Mitt Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination and lost in 2008, ran again and won the nomination but lost the general election in 2012, really thinking about running yet again for president in 2016?
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Clinton team is following reporters to the bathroom.  Here's why that matters.  —  Amy Chozick is the reporter tasked with covering the Clintons — and the runup to the now-almost-inevitable Hillary Clinton presidential bid — for the New York Times.  Sounds like a plum gig, right?
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Iraq looms large again for Hillary Clinton as she weighs another White House bid
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
New York Post:
Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands!  —  A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2 …
Discussion: Politico, Gawker, Gothamist and Mediaite
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Hosts Dub Female Fighter Pilot Who Bombed ISIL ‘Boobs On The Ground’ (VIDEO)  —  Two male co-hosts of Fox News' “The Five” cracked sexist jokes Wednesday about the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot.  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle took a moment to salute Major Mariam Al Mansouri …
Discussion: Raw Story and Gawker
Rob Davis / Oregonian:
Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates  —  The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting …
Leslie SalzilloFollow / Daily Kos:
Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret ‘Facts’ About StopRush  —  Rush Limbaugh, bless his cold little heart, claims he has cracked a major mystery.  As he spews, he basically acknowledges the power of what some would call his strongest nemesis - a grassroots organization called StopRush.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Signal
Franklin Doloquee / allAfrica.com:
Liberia: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect?  —  Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county.  The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently …
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza  —  Crime is not disease.  —  Reading the New York Times account this morning of the sentence passed on Dinesh D'Souza—the filmmaker, writer, and outspoken critic of President Obama—for violating the laws relating to campaign finance …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Gothamist
Dave Nagle / ESPN MediaZone:
ESPN Statement on Bill Simmons  —  “Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN's journalistic standards.  We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria.
Richard Grenell / Fox News:
Obama's condemnation of Ferguson, Missouri, during UN talk was a mistake  —  President Obama spoke Wednesday to the United Nations General Assembly in his annual foreign policy address to the world body.  Speaking after the Brazilian president but before Uganda's leader …
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
This Democrat likes spending your taxes, but doesn't like paying hers  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL TAXES NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMPAIGNS  —  Marilinda Garcia, a GOP millennial candidate for Congress in New Hampshire, accuses incumbent Rep. Ann Kuster, D-N.H., of spending constituents' taxes while avoiding paying her own.
Discussion: RedState
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire  —  Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system.  But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money  —  The enormity of the Koch fortune is no mystery.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
 
 
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Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine to shut Russia border, seek EU membership
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg View:
Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street
Lynn Bartels / The Spot:
Sen. Mark Udall upset with Cory Gardner's new ad, believes it attacks his family
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Leaders Discuss Replacing PBOC Chief
Tim Shorrock / Salon:
Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors' secret plans
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
HUNDREDS OF JEFFCO STUDENTS WALK OUT IN LARGEST SCHOOL BOARD PROTEST
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Laurence H. Tribe / Associated Press:
Laurence Tribe: Students before teachers
Discussion: Washington Post and Instapundit
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Designates Twelve Foreign Terrorist Fighter Facilitators
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Presidents Shouldn't Feel Obligated to Salute the Military
Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Federal Court Lifts Injunction In Walker Investigation
Discussion: BobCesca.com
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Family Says Louisiana Deputy Shot 14-year-old ‘Four Or Five Times In The Back’
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette
 

 
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