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12:25 PM ET, September 29, 2012

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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama administration tells contractors again: Don't issue layoff notices  —  The Obama administration issued new guidance intended for defense contractors Friday afternoon, reiterating the administration's position that the companies should not be issuing layoff notices over sequestration.
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Sara Sorcher / NationalJournal.com:
White House Moves To Head Off Sequester Layoffs  —  Employee Compensation Costs, Attorneys Fees Could be Treated as ‘Allowable Costs’  —  The White House moved to prevent defense and other government contractors from issuing mass layoff notices in anticipation of sequestration …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Yahoo! News:
Goodbye, Columbus: Why top Ohio Republicans think Romney has lost the state  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio - There are only two plausible explanations for what is going on this week in this swing state central to virtually all Mitt Romney's victory strategies.  —  Either many top Ohio Republicans …
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Peter King calls for Susan Rice's resignation  —  Rep. Peter King called for the resignation Friday of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice for initially saying that the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was spontaneous.
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence now says Benghazi attack “deliberate and organized”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Shifting Reports on Libya Killings May Cost Obama  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's shifting accounts of the fatal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have left President Obama suddenly exposed on the national security and foreign policy issues …
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Changed The Times, Dies at 86  —  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851, died on Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Ann Romney: If elected, “mental well-being” Mitt's biggest challenge  —  Ann Romney greets supporters at Bartley Ranch Thursday Sept. 27, 2012 in Reno, Nev. / AP PHOTO/THE RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, MARILYN NEWTON  —  (CBS News) Ann Romney's biggest concern if her husband becomes president …
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senate Candidate Akin: ‘Free Enterprise’ Means Being Allowed To Deny Equal Pay To Women  —  Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has struggled with a well-established woman problem in his Senate campaign, ever since he claimed women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
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Talking Points Memo:
Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less
James Hohmann / Politico:
2012 map could be deja vu for Obama  —  Some political scientists and Democratic strategists believe it's now possible that President Barack Obama could replicate his break-out Electoral College map from 2008, with the exception of Indiana, even if the popular vote is closer than four years ago.
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Calls Obama's Libya Response ‘Limp Wristed’  —  A foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney on Friday called President Obama's foreign policy “limp wristed.”  —  Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton employed the term, usually used as a slur against or allusion to gay men …
Discussion: Firedoglake and New York Times
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Jim Webb on ‘Givers’ and ‘Takers’  —  I have known, respected, and come very much to like Jim Webb over the course of more than 30 years.  We originally met because of deep disagreements about the Vietnam War.  He went to Annapolis, served with distinction and bravery as Marine officer …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
New York Times:
Cramming and Pruning for First Presidential Debate  —  WASHINGTON — In a conference room at the Democratic headquarters, President Obama has been preparing for the debate next week, but the reviews of his staff are already in.  Too long, they tell him.  Cut that answer.  Give crisper explanations.
BuzzFeed:
“Morning Joe” Mocks Romney For Something That Didn't Happen  —  A misleading subtitle leads to a viral clip making fun of Romney.  A frustrated Scarborough defends the clip on Twitter, says he will “take note” of all those who note the mistake.  —  On Wednesday, MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off …
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Jennifer Mann / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Member of ‘Obama Boyz’ gang charged in St. Louis shootings  —  ST. LOUIS  • A St. Louis teen who authorities say is a member of a gang called the “Obama Boyz” has been charged with two shootings on Saturday.  —  Anthony Jamal Lee, 18, fired at a group of people from the window of a Grand Prix at 2:17 p.m., according to charges.
ABCNEWS:
Dems Pump Cash Into ME Senate Race, but for Whom?  —  The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is buying $410,000 worth of TV advertising in the U.S. Senate race in Maine, but it's not clear for whom.  —  Executive Director Guy Cecil suggested Friday that the money will be used to fight …
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
John Kartch / Americans for Tax Reform RSS:
Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013  —  Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon Americans for the first time on January 1, 2013.  —  Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
Bob Dole / Washington Post:
Bob Dole on life after losing the 1996 presidential election  —  In eulogizing Gerald Ford at his Grand Rapids, Mich., funeral in January 2007, Jimmy Carter described a New Yorker cartoon that both men had found amusing.  In it a small boy informs his mother, “When I grow up, I want to be a former president.”
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Mass Lawyers Weekly readers want investigation of Elizabeth Warren license problem  —  Mass Lawyers Weekly ran a reader poll today regarding the following question: … I heard about the poll in an email just after 1:30 p.m. today.  I did not publicize the poll because while online polls …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's Blog
 
 
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Hillary: ‘Loosen Regulation’ Because 'Too Many People Still Can't Find Jobs'-In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Obama talks housing market in weekly address
Discussion: Reuters and The Hinterland Gazette
Associated Press:
2 more Somali journalists murdered, including 1 beheaded; 15 journalists killed in 2012
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obama and Romney are basically tied in Virginia
Discussion: GOP 12 and Battleground Watch
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Suggests Obama Should Be Impeached Over Libya Incident
Discussion: The Hill and Crooks and Liars
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Grant / Portland Press-Herald:
Maine Voices: Asking Dill to step aside assumes King is lying about his true intentions
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Romney's Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Inside The Planning Of A James O'Keefe “Sting”
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?