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6:40 PM ET, September 11, 2013

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Reflecting on the Colorado recalls  —  We did a poll last weekend in Colorado Senate District 3 and found that voters intended to recall Angela Giron by a 12 point margin, 54/42.  In a district that Barack Obama won by almost 20 points I figured there was no way that could be right and made a rare decision not to release the poll.
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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.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Firm suppressed Colorado recall poll  —  Public Policy Polling (PPP) sparked controversy after the left-leaning firm declined to release a survey it conducted last weekend that accurately forecasted the successful recall of a Democratic state senator from Colorado.
Discussion: ABC News and Business Insider
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law
Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
The Colorado recalls dealt a serious blow to gun-control advocates. Here's why.
Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air and The Week
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Colorado lawmakers ousted in recall election over strict gun laws
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
WSJ op-ed writer Elizabeth O'Bagy fired for resume lie  —  The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying …
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Susannah George / BuzzFeed:
Controversial Syria Researcher Fired Over Doctorate Claim  —  Elizabeth O'Bagy's ties to the Syrian opposition had become an issue.  Think Tank founder says she had “no problem” with O'Bagy's affiliation.  —  A young researcher whose opinions on Syria were cited by both Senator McCain …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Calls Russia's Syria Plan a Stall Tactic
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, Mediaite and Slate
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Obama's speech may not have sounded novel, but the president may have helped his cause in unexpected ways.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A new error in U.S. foreign policy.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Who would get blamed for government shutdown?  —  Washington (CNN) - With the clock ticking towards two crucial deadlines, a new national poll indicates congressional Republicans would shoulder more blame than President Barack Obama for a possible government shutdown.
Discussion: Business Insider and Politico
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways  —  A source with direct knowledge of the situation says IAC does not plan to renew Tina Brown's contract when it expires in January.  A decision has not yet been made on the future of The Daily Beast.  —  Jason Kempin / FilmMagic
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Tina Brown to leave Daily Beast, start new company
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Guardian:
NSA shares raw intelligence with Israel  —  • Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis  —  • Only official US government communications protected  —  • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy  —  • Read the NSA and Israel's ‘memorandum of understanding’
Tom Junod / Esquire:
THE FALLING MAN  —  Do you remember this photograph?  In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001.  The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.  —  SPECIAL OFFER
Rich Lowry / National Review:
NR v. Booker  —  Newark mayor Cory Booker has a very active imagination.  Eliana Johnson demonstrated that with her report on Booker's moving, highly detailed accounts of his involvement with “T-Bone,” a hard-luck drug dealer who Booker admitted to a friend is a fiction.
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
House GOP to delay vote on government funding measure  —  House GOP leaders have delayed a vote on a bill to avert a government shutdown until next week.  —  An aide to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) confirmed the decision, which is designed to give GOP leaders more time to round up votes.
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Reuters:
Mark Zuckerberg to meet with top four House Republicans
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and AllThingsD
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Luck and a Shrewd Strategy Fueled de Blasio's Ascension  —  The commercial that changed the course of the mayor's race almost never happened.  —  Bill de Blasio's campaign team had mused about building an ad around his wife, Chirlane McCray, a telegenic African-American poet, then abandoned the concept.
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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 …
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Ethics extends probe on three lawmakers, clears Tierney  —  The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday announced it was continuing investigations into charges that Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) violated House rules.
Discussion: CNN
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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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
WATCH: College Students Chase David Petraeus and Shout at Him on First Day of Class
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Hot Air
Meredith Somers / Washington Times:
‘2 Million Bikers’ roar into D.C. to honor 9/11, protest Muslim rally
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Jawa Report
David Dayen / Salon:
The jerks got away with it! 5 years after economic collapse, they're still smiling
Discussion: Firedoglake
David DesRosiers / Washington Times:
BOOK REVIEW: ‘America 3.0’
New York Times:
Homeland Confusion  —  NO single event in the last half-century …
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
To sell Syria, Obama chose political science over scare tactics. That's a big deal.
 Earlier Items: 
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
The Speech
Discussion: Hit & Run and TheBlaze.com
David Kusnet / CNN:
Obama's speech a model of persuasion
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and alicublog
Samira Said / CNN:
Blast hits Benghazi one year later
Discussion: americanthinker.com
 

 
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