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12:00 PM ET, September 4, 2013

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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The Senate's Syria hearing: Live updates  —  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is hearing testimony Tuesday about the potential use of military force in Syria.  Testifying are Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.
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Fox News:
McCain opposes Syria strike resolution  —  Sept. 2, 2013: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington.AP  —  Sen. John McCain, President Obama's biggest cheerleader on Capitol Hill for a strike in Syria …
Associated Press:
McCain opposes Senate resolution on Syria  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says he doesn't support the latest Senate resolution to authorize military force against Syria.  —  McCain is an outspoken advocate of intervention against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and wants …
Discussion: The Hill, Post Politics and USA Today
Talking Points Memo:
READ: Text Of Senate Resolution To Approve Strike On Syria
Discussion: Politico
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
How a Congressional Authorization Could Escalate U.S. Intervention in Syria
Discussion: American Prospect and Hot Air
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'I Didn't Set a Red Line' on Syria  —  President Obama said in Sweden today that he personally “didn't set a red line” on Syria:  —  “First of all, I didn't set a red line,” said Obama.  “The world set a red line.  The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:   No good options for President Obama, Congress on conflict engulfing Syria
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rumsfeld refers to Obama as ‘so-called commander-in-chief’
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
jhnewsandguide.com:
Cheney knocks Obama, papers  —  150 in Tea Party crowd hear candidate call for a ‘rebirth of freedom.’  —  Liz Cheney would not vote to attack Syria if she were in the U.S. Senate.  —  Speaking to an enthralled crowd of 150 Jackson Hole Tea Party members Tuesday night in her first public appearance …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio: We Wouldn't Be At This Stage With Syria ‘If I Had Been In Charge’ (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Tuesday that he's “very skeptical” that the proposed airstrike on Syria will deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons in the future, while arguing that he'd have handled …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Marco Rubio shifts direction on Syria
Roger Cohen / New York Times:   Red Lines Matter
Associated Press:
AP INTERVIEW: PUTIN WARNS WEST ON SYRIA ACTION  —  You are here  —  Home » Vladimir Putin » AP Interview: Putin warns West on Syria action  —  NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia …
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: America's credibility on the line in Syria  —  President Barack Obama warned Wednesday that the international community's credibility — though not his — is at risk if there's no response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, though he expects Congress to agree to take military action against Bashar Assad's regime.
CNN:
Ariel Castro a suicide  —  (CNN) — Ariel Castro, who was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years for kidnapping and raping three women, as well as murder, was found hanging in his prison cell Tuesday night, the state's Department of Corrections said.  —  The cause of death was hanging with a bed sheet …
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Politico:
Hillary Clinton's Syria dilemma  —  Hillary Clinton has answered calls that she pick a side in the Syria debate.  But the former Secretary of State's brief statement Tuesday backing President Barack Obama's campaign for a military strike won't be the last time she's asked to talk about the potentially sensitive issue.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Obama's inept foreign policy: Column
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Al Gore's Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint  —  Illustration by John Gara / BuzzFeed; Joe Raedle / Getty Images; Saul Loeb / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change.
Discussion: Watts Up With That?
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
ECONOMISTS: Summers As Fed Chair Would Shave 0.5% Off GDP And Cost Us 350,000 Jobs  —  Economists at BNP Paribas have issued a research note saying if President Obama picks Larry Summers as the next Federal Reserve Chairman, he will do serious harm to the U.S. economy.
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Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on - it has, but into lawlessness and ruin  —  Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi  —  A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin …
Discussion: Hot Air
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
Business Losing Clout in a G.O.P. Moving Right  —  How did corporate America lose control of the Republican Party?  —  From overhauling immigration laws to increasing spending on the nation's aging infrastructure, big business leaders have seemed relatively powerless lately …
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
How Fragile Is the New Democratic Coalition?  —  Last December, Jennifer Duffy, an election analyst at the Cook Political Report, came up with a particularly tantalizing set of data points, the kind that demand further exploration.  —  In 1988, the Democratic presidential nominee …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. figure for casualties in Syria attack much higher than others'  —  Britain, France and a key opposition group cite lower numbers of dead in the alleged chemical attack.  —  Syrians and Lebanese take part in a vigil Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Beirut in remembrance …
Discussion: Hit & Run and National Review
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Arm and Shame  —  The Obama team has clearly struggled with its Syria policy, but, in fairness, this is a wickedly complex problem.  We need a policy response that simultaneously deters another Syrian poison gas attack, doesn't embroil America in the Syrian civil war and also doesn't lead …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and msnbc.com
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Howard Dean backs Obama on Syria strike  —  Former DNC chairman Howard Dean supports President Obama's call for a punitive military strike against Syria.  —  “Thus far I fully support the president, including his going to Congress,” Dean said in an e-mail to The Hill.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
McCain Slams Fox News: Muslims Thank Allah Like Christians Thank God (VIDEO)  —  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pushed back hard Tuesday against a Fox News host who raised concerns over a Syrian rebel's use of a ubiquitous Islamic phrase.  —  McCain was making an appearance on “Fox & Friends” …
Discussion: CNN
Amanda Lee Myers / Associated Press:
Ohio Man Can Be Listed As Spouse On Husband's Death Certificate, Judge Rules  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — A recently deceased gay Ohio man must be listed on his death certificate as married and his husband must be listed as his spouse despite Ohio's gay marriage ban, a federal judge has ordered.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Rand Paul's Syria Amendment Declares POTUS In Violation of the Constitution if He Launches Attacks Without Congressional Permission  —  Senator Rand Paul's amendment to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resolution throws President Obama's own words back at him.
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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