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11:00 AM ET, August 29, 2013

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PBS NewsHour / Online NewsHour:
President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria  —  President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Rumsfeld says administration hasn't justified Syria attack  —  Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ushered the U.S. into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, said the Obama administration has not clearly justified an attack on Syria.  —  “One thing that is very interesting …
Associated Press:
AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Donald Rumsfeld to W.H.: Justify Syria attack  —  Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Obama administration has not yet justified an attack on Syria.  —  “There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect …
Discussion: Hot Air and Guardian
New York Times:
U.N. Inspectors to Report Findings by Weekend
Discussion: NBCNews, News Desk and The Week
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
Speaker.gov:
Boehner Seeks Answers from President Obama on Syria
Clara Ritger / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Affordable Care Act Looking a Bit Unaffordable  —  Independent National Journal analysis finds premiums higher under Obamacare as employers weigh dropping coverage.  —  Republicans have long blamed President Obama's signature health care initiative for increasing insurance costs, dubbing it the “Unaffordable Care Act.”
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
States find new ways to resist health law  —  Several Republican-led states at the forefront of the campaign to undermine President Obama's health-care law have come up with new ways to try to thwart it, refusing to enforce consumer protections, for example, and restricting federally funded workers hired …
Emma Dumain / Goppers:
Boehner, Cantor Turned Down Chance to Speak at March Anniversary (Updated)  —  Updated 5:23 p.m. |  Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House's two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Republicans absent from March on Washington  —  Not a single Republican elected official stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday with activists, actors, lawmakers and former presidents invited to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington — a notable absence …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘The Most Dangerous Negro’  —  The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called “one of its biggest surveillance operations in history.”  The speech even moved the head …
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Daily Mail:
Trump University students ‘cheated’ after paying $35,000 to learn secrets of real estate business... and only getting a picture taken with a cardboard cut-out of the Donald  — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accused university of encouraging students to pay for expensive, useless seminars
Jessica Parks / Philly.com:
State: Montco same-sex marriage licenses meaningless  —  The Corbett administration said its lawsuit seeking to halt same-sex marriage licenses in Montgomery County “would have no direct effect” on the couples who have already received them.  —  In a brief Wednesday, state attorneys …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama is talking America into a war  —  Barack Obama's foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality.  His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity.  He has a glutton's, rather than a gourmet's …
Chris Brennan / Philly.com:
First Term Troubles - Corbett's numbers continue to drop  —  PENNSYLVANIA governors typically encounter trouble in their first terms and the polls reflect that with dipping popularity.  —  It happened to Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, in the late 1990s.  —  It happened to Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, in the mid-2000s.
Reuters:
U.S. fast-food workers plan nationwide strikes over wages … Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fast-food workers across the United States are expected to stage their largest strike to date on Thursday in an almost year-long campaign to raise wages in the service sector.
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Zimmerman's Wife Pleads Guilty To Lying To Judge About Bond Funds  —  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest.  —  Shellie Zimmerman entered her guilty Wednesday in Seminole County court.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Hate-crime hoaxes and “counter-Trayvonism.”  —  Four “hateful text messages” appeared on the phone of a 16-year-old black student who was running for Student Council president at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, N.J. “We have NEVER and will NEVER have an (n-word) to lead our school …
Robin Wright / Los Angeles Times:
The risk of taking on Syria  —  Quick strikes rarely achieve enduring political goals — and often produce more costs or unintended consequences than benefits.  —  So the U.S. launches a military strike.  Then what?  —  As the Obama administration and the U.S. military plot military action against Syria …
Discussion: Slate
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare for Everything  —  First health, then finance and now higher ed gets a federal fix.  —  Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to “reform” the American college and university system.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Betsy's Page
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Readers on Syria: Stay Out  —  A different red line President Obama could draw.  —  We'll get back to our ongoing American Futures journey later today.  [Please check out the latest installment, this morning from Rapid City, SD.]  —  I'll confess that in our stopover in DC …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Hullabaloo
Blake Neff / The Hill:
Norquist: Don't let Limbaugh, Levin moderate 2016 debates  —  Grover Norquist is strongly opposed to letting conservative talk show hosts moderate the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates.  —  Norquist, a conservative leader who heads the anti-taxation Americans for Tax Reform …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze.com
 
 
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