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3:20 PM ET, September 21, 2013

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Ellie Buchdahl / Daily Mail:
‘All Muslims leave... we only want to kill non-Muslims’: Gunmen massacre at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall after releasing anyone who could prove they were Islamic by reciting a prayer  —  Kenyan police and soldiers have pinned down the remaining gunmen who opened fire at a shopping centre earlier today …
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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Gunmen Open Fire at Nairobi's Most Upscale Mall  —  Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Saturday at Nairobi's most upscale mall, witnesses and police said.  —  Large pockets of people trapped in the mall came streaming out over the course of an hour.  At least a half dozen were bloodied and were grabbed by first responders.
Associated Press:
Declassified document: US narrowly escaped nuclear blast in 1961 H-bomb accident  —  LONDON — A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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BBC:
US plane in 1961 ‘nuclear bomb near-miss’  —  A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.  —  Two bombs were on board a B-52 plane that went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina - both bombs fell and one began the detonation process.
Discussion: Making Light
Guardian:
Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina - declassified document
Discussion: Gawker and U.S. News
Joe Picard / The Hill:
Obama calls Boehner, says he won't negotiate on debt ceiling  —  President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker's office.  —  Boehner told the president he was …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
Republicans “trying to mess with me” on budget, Obama says  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  President Obama slammed House Republicans for “trying to mess with me” by passing a bill today to fund the government but also defund Obamacare.  —  At a Ford plant that stamps out components for trucks and vans …
Politico:
Obama calls Boehner, rules out debt negotiations  —  President Barack Obama is once again warning House Republicans that he will not negotiate over a debt-ceiling increase, even as the U.S. government moves closer to its borrowing limit.  —  Obama called Speaker John Boehner Friday night to reiterate his hard-line stance.
Steve Benen / The Rachel Maddow Show:
Elections used to have consequences
Chet / NorthDecoder.com:
(ND-ALL) Congressman Kevin Cramer To People Who Can't Find Jobs or Aren't Able To Work: Don't Eat  —  Earlier today, a constituent of North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer posted a comment on Cramer's Facebook wall.  The constituent apparently wanted to make sure that …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Quotes Bible On Food Stamps: ‘If Anyone Is Not Willing To Work, Let Him Not Eat’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Rollie Chance, misidentified as Navy Yard shooter, demands media accountability  —  Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard Monday morning.  A retired Navy lieutenant …
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Bloomberg:
Company Behind Snowden Check Also Vetted D.C. Shooter
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Associated Press:
Funeral Bombing, Other Attacks in Iraq Kill 65  —  BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a funeral tent packed with mourners and another bomber on foot blew himself up nearby in a Shiite part of Baghdad early Saturday evening, the deadliest assault in a day of attacks that claimed at least 65 lives in Iraq.
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The final triumph of welfare reform  —  The Third Way was supposed to end welfare politicking as we knew it, but no one told Republicans  —  House Republicans voted yesterday to cut $40 billion in funding for SNAP — the anti-poverty program commonly known as “food stamps” — because …
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RT:
Japan dismissed US warnings to contain radioactive water at Fukushima  —  Japanese authorities ignored US calls to contain contaminated water at the stricken Fukushima power plant in 2008, officials told media.  The revelation comes as the Japanese battle to stem radioactive water leaks flooding into the sea from the facility.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Avik Roy / National Review:
Myths of the Obamacare Shutdown Soap Opera  —  There are a number of misperceptions of the internecine dispute taking place among conservatives, and within the Republican Party, around the effort by some to use the continuing resolution and the possibility of a government shutdown, to attempt to defund Obamacare.
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Ray Takeyh / Los Angeles Times:
A kinder, gentler Iran?
Discussion: Power Line
Brookings Institute:
Offshoring Linked to Declining U.S. Labor Share, Likely to Continue
Alexis Levinson / The Daily Caller:
Meet the two Democrats who voted to defund Obamacare
Los Angeles Times:
Norwalk pastor violated 20-plus women using ‘healing hands,’ cops say
 Earlier Items: 
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
What Your Neighborhood List-Serv Tells You About The Demise of America
Discussion: Hot Air
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Uncommonly Partisan  —  The consistently divisive rhetoric of President Obama
Discussion: Hot Air