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Denver Post:
COLORADO SENATE PRESIDENT JOHN MORSE, STATE SEN. ANGELA GIRON OUSTED  —  An epic national debate over gun rights in Colorado on Tuesday saw two Democratic state senators ousted for their support for stricter laws, a “ready, aim, fired” message intended to stop other politicians for pushing for firearms restrictions.
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law  —  COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections seen as a test of whether swing-state voters would accept gun restrictions …
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support  —  FILE: This image shows Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse, left, and state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo.AP  —  Two Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the president of the state senate …
Denver Post:
COLORADO RECALL ELECTION VOTER TURNOUT MIXED, FIGURES SHOW
New York Times:
Obama's Remarks on Syria  —  Following is the complete text of President Obama's speech about Syria from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, as transcribed by Federal News Service.  —  MR. OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The President Makes The Case  —  That was one of the clearest, simplest and most moving presidential speeches to the nation I can imagine.  It explained and it argued, point after point.  Everything the president said extemporaneously at the post-G20 presser was touched on, made terser, more elegant and more persuasive.
John F. Harris / Politico:
Obama's Zig vs. Zag  —  Two weeks of zig-zag foreign policy by President Barack Obama — marching to war one moment, clinging desperately to diplomacy the next — culminated Tuesday night, appropriately enough, in a zig-zag address to the nation that did little to clarify what will come next …
Reza Kahlili / The Daily Caller:
Iran threatens widespread retaliation against U.S. and allies
Discussion: Jihad Watch
CNN:
Transcript: Obama's address on Syria
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
President Barack Obama has ordered the U.S. military to maintain …
Discussion: Washington Times, Politico and CNN
New York Times:
The Basics of the Debate
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Who Do You Trust?  —  WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin, who keeps Edward Snowden on a leash and lets members of a riotous girl band rot in jail, has thrown President Obama a lifeline.  —  The Russian president had coldly brushed back Obama on Snowden and Syria, and only last week called John Kerry a liar.
Discussion: Right Turn, Power Line and Mediaite
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A new error in U.S. foreign policy.  —  “Secretary of State John Kerry may not have expected his casual suggestion that Syria avert American military action by giving up its chemical weapons to be taken seriously,” the New York Times editorializes.  “But it may have created a diplomatic way out for President Obama.”
William J. Dobson / Slate:
If your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hot Air
Mara Gay / NY Daily News:
Sydney Leathers, former sexting partner of Anthony Weiner, attempts to crash his election night party  —  The 23-year-old, clad in a tight red dress and platform heels, said that she wanted to finally meet the man who ‘manipulated’ her into a months-long relationship.
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NY Daily News:
Anthony Weiner concedes in Democratic mayoral primary race
New York Times:
De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff  —  Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city's deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes than any of his rivals in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to exit poll results.
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Stringer Defeats Spitzer in Comptroller Primary  —  Eliot Spitzer lost a bid for political redemption on Tuesday as he was defeated in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller by the current Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer.  With 97 percent of the precincts reporting …
Discussion: New York Post
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
This Was a Samantha Power Speech  —  America still doesn't quite grasp the novelty of what Obama is doing in Syria.  This is an intervention driven primarily by humanitarian concerns.  There is no chance we'd have reached this point without those chemical attacks.
Discussion: Washington Wire, Power Line and Reuters
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:   Threaten to Threaten  —  If you're an average American …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Florida Police Chief: Either George Zimmerman Or His Lawyer Is Not Telling The Truth  —  George Zimmerman on Monday, shortly before being handcuffed  —  The Florida police chief that is actively investigating a confrontation between George Zimmerman, his wife and his father in law says someone is lying …
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Matt Krantz / USA Today:
Top 1% take biggest income slice on record  —  The gulf between the richest 1% of the USA and the rest of the country got to its widest level in history last year.  —  The top 1% of earners in the U.S. pulled in 19.3% of total household income in 2012, which is their biggest slice of total income …
Discussion: Opinionator and Hullabaloo
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Annie Lowrey / Economix:
The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery
Discussion: AEIdeas, The Raw Story and Wonkblog
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP bill blocks food stamp users from buying junk food  —  Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that would require people using federal food stamps to buy only healthy food.  —  The Healthy Food Choices Act, H.R. 3073, reflects a long-standing criticism …
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Green power groups: Energy Department's crystal ball is cloudy  —  Green energy and environmental groups say the federal government is publishing “unreasonably low” renewable power growth forecasts — and that the faulty crystal ball could slow investment in the industry.
Discussion: JunkScience.com
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Obama's Semi-Moot “War Speech”  —  The President last night made a remarkably brief and direct speech last night making the case for a use-of-force resolution in Congress that he probably won't get, may not need, and put off indefinitely.  As such, it represents less of an exhortation …
 
 
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Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama's Syria speech was an incoherent mess …
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