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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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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 …
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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 …
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Denver Post:
COLORADO RECALL ELECTION VOTER TURNOUT MIXED, FIGURES SHOW
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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.
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CNN:
Transcript: Obama's address on Syria
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Washington Post:
Stumbling toward a solution on Syria
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
President Barack Obama has ordered the U.S. military to maintain …
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Politico:
Obama's opportunity in Syria
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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
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
De Blasio tops NY mayoral primary; Weiner distant fifth
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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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Sydney Leathers shows up at Anthony Weiner election party
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Business Insider:
VIDEO: Anthony Weiner Sprinted Through A McDonald's So The Press Wouldn't See Him Talk To Sydney Leathers
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Michael McLaughlin / The Huffington Post:
Anthony Weiner Office Visited By Sydney Leathers On Election Day (PHOTO)
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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.
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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.”
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William J. Dobson / Slate:
If your foreign policy has to be rescued by a dictator, you are doing it wrong.
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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.
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Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama's Syria speech was an incoherent mess - he is outperforming Jimmy Carter as the most feeble US president of modern times — Billed as a game-changer on Syria, the President's White House address landed with a thud that could be heard as far away as Damascus.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Instant Poll: Did Obama move the needle on Syria? — Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans who watched President Barack Obama's prime time address to the nation on Tuesday said they favor the approach to Syria that the president spelled out in his speech, according to an instant poll.
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Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Making Sense of Syria — This is what I think we're seeing: — The president has backed away from a military strike in Syria. But he can't acknowledge this or act as if it is true. He is acting and talking as if he's coolly, analytically, even warily contemplating the Russian proposal and the Syrian response.
Matt Gutman / ABC News:
George Zimmerman's Lawyer Mark O'Mara Quits … George Zimmerman's lawyer said today he will no longer represent the man acquitted of murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin. — The announcement came one day after Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, called police to say that Zimmerman …
eagletonpollblog:
LIKELY VOTERS GIVE BOOKER LARGE LEAD, MOST EXPECT HIM TO WIN; LONEGAN WIDELY UNKNOWN — We start this next round of polling results with the upcoming special U.S. Senate election, to be held on October 16. The candidates are Newark Mayor Cory Booker and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan.
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Katie McDonough / Salon:
Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophilia,” says it does not cause “lasting harm” — The biologist and author described the sexual abuse that occurred among his former classmates as “mild touching up” — In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called …
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