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9:50 PM ET, September 23, 2012

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CNN:
Obama: I bear ‘full responsibility for everything’  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama discussed his frustration with gridlock in Washington, saying his “biggest disappointment” in his nearly four years in office has been the failure to oversee change in the nation's political climate.
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Robert Gibbs / CNN:
Gibbs: Romney has advantage in debates  —  (CNN) - A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates.  —  “Mitt Romney I think has an advantage, because he's been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over the last year,” Gibbs said Sunday on Fox News.
Amie Parnes / Ballot Box:
RNC chair: ‘Not the best week’ for Romney
Agence France Presse:
Obama brushes off Israeli pressure over Iran  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a line in the sand over Iran's nuclear ambitions as noise he tries to ignore, according to remarks aired Sunday.  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently urged …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and “The Lid”
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Reuters:
Obama thanks Egypt's president over embassy protection
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:
Suicide is now the leading cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame  —  An extremely disturbing new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that suicides have replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S …
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Daily Mail:
More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes as miserable economy takes its toll  —  Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.  —  The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened …
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama Campaign's Flag Poster No Longer Appears In Store  —  An Obama for America flag print that was released last week no longer appears in the campaign stores.  —  The item, known as “Our Strips: Flag Poster” redesigned the American flag using the Obama for America logo.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama Campaign Quietly Ditches Faux Flag  —  The Obama campaign produced a poster of an American flag, with Obama's “O” symbol replacing the field of stars, as an item of campaign merchandise, selling for $35.  The image was tasteless at best.  It is hard to imagine any other politician arrogant enough …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Report: Rick Perry Aides Battled Gay Rumor With Lawsuit Threat  —  Huffington Post threatened to publish the — unsupported — claims.  Perry aides warned they'd “be owning a big chunk of AOL.”  —  Image by Ronald Martinez / Getty Images  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign spent the weeks …
Discussion: Advocate and Towleroad News #gay
Reuters:
Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google  —  (Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.
Sarah Jones / PoliticusUSA:
Ann Romney Cancels Interviews After Stop It Controversy  —  In Omaha for a closed to the press fundraiser for her husband Friday, Mrs. Romney was supposed to give interviews to several reporters but canceled due to the controversy over her blow up at Republicans on a radio interview …
Elizabeth Flock / US News:
Mitt Romney Calls U.S.A. a ‘Foreign Country’ in His Tax Returns  —  Maybe Mitt Romney thinks he lives in Switzerland?  —  When the former Massachusetts governor released his official 2011 tax return Friday, he (or whoever actually filled out the form) appeared to have mistakenly referred to the United States as a foreign country.
Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:
President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points in Ohio Newspaper Poll  —  President Barack Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in the race for battleground Ohio, a poll commissioned by The Plain Dealer and the state's other major newspapers shows.
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Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
GOP pushes Romney to break from White House's Afghan strategy  —  Some Republican defense hawks are urging Mitt Romney to separate himself from President Obama on Afghanistan and back an extended presence for U.S. troops in the country.  —  The advice comes as the White House hits …
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Graham: Election about economy, not Romney's tax returns
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Richard Lai / Engadget:
Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 22: Little Agreement Among Pollsters on ‘Enthusiasm Gap’
Discussion: Booman Tribune, UPI and Prairie Weather
Jay Root / New York Times:
How Perry Lost His Edge in Bid to Be President
Discussion: Gawker, New York Magazine and Gothamist
Ynetnews:
Silwan woman tries to stab officer ‘over anti-Islam film’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
AMID GOP UNEASE, ROMNEY TURNS EYE TO SWING STATES
Discussion: Riehl World News
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Shalom & welcome to NYC, A'jad!
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jo Becker / New York Times:
Ralph Reed Hopes to Nudge Mitt Romney to a Victory
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Bill Clinton has ‘no earthly idea’ whether Hillary will run in 2016
James Glanz / New York Times:
The Cloud Factories: Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
As NBC News reports, if you count early voting and absentee voting …
 

 
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Jeff Jarvis / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists and liberal critics blast the NYT and other US news outlets for “sanewashing”, false equivalence, and more, and call for sharper political reporting

Todd Spangler / Variety:
An amended FCC filing shows that Skydance CEO David Ellison will hold 100% of the Ellison family's voting interests in the combined Paramount-Skydance company

Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA announces a deal with Ethovox, an AI company building a “foundational voice model” based on voices of members, who would get an ongoing revenue share

 
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