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Ronald Kessler / Politico:
Something Is Rotten in the Secret Service — And Obama's life is in danger because of it. — Behind the rotten culture is arrogance. After uniformed officers failed to take out 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez when he hopped over the fence and ran into the White House …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Showing Concern for the President, Even While Criticizing Him — WASHINGTON — President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Piles On The ‘Politically Correct’ Secret Service (VIDEO) — Some of the male panelists on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” wondered Wednesday whether Secret Service director Julia Pierson hadn't been dismissed over recent revelations of serious security lapses because of her gender.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Really Politico? — I'm wondering what the editors at Politico …
Really Politico? — I'm wondering what the editors at Politico …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta
Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Agent Pens WaPo Op-Ed Urging Allen West To Lead Secret Service
Ex-Agent Pens WaPo Op-Ed Urging Allen West To Lead Secret Service
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH huddles as ISIS advances toward Turkey — President Obama met Tuesday evening with his national security team amid reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was advancing toward toward the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani on the border between Turkey and Syria.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Obama is winning on a foreign policy issue — for a change
President Obama is winning on a foreign policy issue — for a change
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths
White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff — The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Are Liberals Fund-Raising Hypocrites? — Let's imagine that Republicans swept the 2012 elections and were now in control not merely of the House but of the presidency and the Senate, too. — Now let's take it one step further and say that by using the filibuster the Democratic minority …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
On Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg Was Right — The great Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that important Supreme Court decisions “exercise a kind of hydraulic effect.” Even if the authors of such decisions assert that their rulings will have limited impact, these cases invariably have a profound influence.
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Ari Phillips / ThinkProgress:
35,000 Walrus Converge On Alaska Beach As Sea Ice Retreats — In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, and provided by NOAA, some 35,000 walrus gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska. Pacific walrus looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers on Alaska's northwest coast.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
Ebola Is Diagnosed in Texas, First Case Found in the U.S. — A man who took a commercial flight from Liberia that landed in Dallas on Sept. 20 has been found to have the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. He is the first traveler to have brought …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats make risky bet against GOP Leader Mitch McConnell — Democrats in Washington are taking a risky bet by quadrupling their investment in Alison Lundergan Grimes, a young and largely unproven challenger, who is running against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GAO says Obama administration can't bail out insurers without Congress — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE JEFF SESSIONS GAO CMS LAW FRED UPTON HHS RISK CORRIDORS — The Department of Health and Human Services cannot legally bail out the insurance industry for excessive losses …
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Deirdre Shesgreen / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner: Bush has real shot in 2016 election — WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday the driving issue of the 2016 election will be “competence” and if Jeb Bush decides to run, “he's got a real shot” at winning because of his record as the one-time governor of Florida.
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Spocko / Hullabaloo:
When Corporate Sponsors Leave ALEC and Rush. What We Learn by @spockosbrain — When Corporate Sponsors Leave ALEC and Rush. What We Learn by Spocko — The other day Google announced it will be leaving ALEC. “Google becomes latest company to abandon right-wing ALEC.” — This is a big deal.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP sets sights on bigger House gains — House Republicans have been destined for modest gains in the midterms despite a favorable political environment. Now, just five weeks until Election Day, the party is raising its ambitions, jumping into Democratic strongholds long thought to be beyond the GOP's reach.
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
White House to Media: Sit Down and Don't Interview — Even though Barack Obama rode into office in 2008 on a wave of media adulation, the Obama administration has exhibited a fiercely hostile attitude towards reporters. It has vigorously prosecuted low-level national-security leakers …
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Melissapamerktla / KTLA:
Mayor of Bell Gardens Fatally Shot in Domestic Dispute; Wife Questioned and Released — The mayor of Bell Gardens was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in a dispute with his wife, who was briefly detained, authorities said. — A family photograph of Daniel Crespo and his wife, Levette.
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Gabriel Malor / Hot Air:
Another federal court strikes Obamacare subsidies on federal exchanges — When last we left this line of cases, the Democrat-packed D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had just vacated the decision in Halbig v. Burwell that struck down subsidies on the federal Obamacare exchanges.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republican Judge Orders Obamacare Defunded
BREAKING: Republican Judge Orders Obamacare Defunded
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