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12:00 PM ET, September 23, 2013

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Jason Zengerle / GQ Magazine Online:
Ted Cruz: The Distinguished Wacko Bird from Texas  —  In less than a year, Texas Republican Ted Cruz has become the most despised man in the U.S. Senate.  He's been likened to Joe McCarthy, accused of behaving like a schoolyard bully, and smeared by senior members of his own party.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz scrambles to salvage strategy  —  Ted Cruz and his allies are fighting a battle they will almost certainly lose in the Senate this week.  —  The freshman Republican from Texas, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and some vocal House conservatives, pushed House Republican leaders …
Susan Davis / USA Today:
Budget drama unfolds again, with Obamacare center stage
Discussion: Roll Call
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:   Shutdown threat reveals split in Republican Party
Tony Lee / BREITBART.COM:
‘TOP’ DC REPUBLICANS SENT OPPO RESEARCH TO ‘HAMMER’ CRUZ
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Sen. Ted Cruz talks defunding ObamaCare; Will Assad meet deadline for getting rid of chemical weapons?
Discussion: BOR, msnbc.com and PoliticusUSA
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Most Americans against defunding Obamacare: Survey  —  A solid majority of Americans oppose defunding the new health care law if it means shutting down the government and defaulting on debt.  —  The CNBC All-America Economic Survey of 800 people across the country conducted by Hart-McInturff …
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Rand Paul wants Chief Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to enroll in Obamacare  —  Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.
Judd Gregg / The Hill:
Opinion: Defunders are playing Russian roulette with GOP, writes ex-senator  —  Most Americans these days are simply ignoring Republicans.  And they should.  —  The self-promotional babble of a few has become the mainstream of Republican political thought.  It has marginalized the influence of the party to an appalling degree.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Alec Macgillis / The New Republic:
Scandal at Clinton Inc.  —  How Doug Band drove a wedge through a political dynasty  —  One Thursday evening last September, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Tony Blair met in New York to conduct what was supposed to be a high-minded discourse on terrorism, geopolitics, and the global economy.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices  —  WASHINGTON — Federal officials often say that health insurance will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama's health care law.  But they rarely mention one big reason: many insurers are significantly limiting …
Shadia Nasralla / Reuters:
Egypt court bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities  —  (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country and ordered the seizure of the group's funds, widening a campaign to debilitate the Islamist movement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.
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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
EGYPT BANS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GROUP  —  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned and its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
Al-Shabaab: Three Americans Among Gunmen in Kenya Mall  —  Al-Shabaab is claiming that there are American gunmen among those still holed up in the Westgate mall in a standoff with Kenyan and Israeli special forces.  —  The Somali al-Qaeda affiliate tweeted a series of names on its latest account …
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Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
Kenya mall attack: David Cameron's rush to ‘solve the crisis’ won't help
Discussion: Spectator
Louise Branson / USA Today:
Nairobi mall attack strikes against all of us: Column
Discussion: Reuters, Slate, CNN and The Week
Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Barack Obama looks so exhausted  —  Barack Obama looks exhausted these days.  He looks about as tired, in other words, as the nation feels.  —  He knows this.  At a speech Saturday, he said that people are always telling him to “hang in there.”  —  “Don't worry about me!”  Obama said.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Free to Be Hungry  —  The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric.  Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom.  Oh, and remember when we were supposed to refer to pommes frites as “freedom fries”?
Katie Engelhart / Salon:
Atheism starts its megachurch: Is it a religion now?  —  The non-religious Assembly is perhaps the fastest growing church in the world — and it's coming to a mall near you  —  Organized Atheism is now a franchise.  —  Yesterday, The Sunday Assembly—the London-based “Atheist Church” …
Lacey Donohue / Gawker:
Man's Penis Amputated After “Enthusiastic” Viagra Overdose  —  A 66-year-old farmer and “self-proclaimed politician” from the town of Gigante, Huila in Colombia apparently—and “enthusiastically”—took too much Viagra in an attempt to “please his new girlfriend.”
Discussion: Global Grind and The Raw Story
Chaos Computer Club Updates:
Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID  —  The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means.  A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create …
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
A Mayoral Hopeful Now, de Blasio Was Once a Young Leftist  —  The scruffy young man who arrived in Nicaragua in 1988 stood out.  —  He was tall and sometimes goofy, known for his ability to mimic a goose's honk.  He spoke in long, meandering paragraphs, musing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Karl Marx and Bob Marley.
 
 
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New York Times:
F.A.A. Nears New Rules on Devices
Discussion: WJLA-TV and Gizmodo
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie
Adam Sege / Chicago Tribune:
Airplane lands on Lake Shore Drive
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Yellen Would Bring Tougher Tone to Fed
Discussion: Washington Wire
Colin Campbell / Politicker:
‘He Will Be a Great Mayor’: Barack Obama Endorses Bill de Blasio
Discussion: The Hill and Taegan Goddard's …
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
For Obama, mass shooting overshadowed by other crises
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Desire for Gov't Leaders to Compromise Increases
Discussion: The Fix and The Moderate Voice
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Rick Perry Deserves a Second Chance, Thinks Rick Perry
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Rep. Paul Ryan to release book on conservative priciples next summer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Tovah Lazaroff / Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu: Jews can move into Hebron building near where IDF soldier killed
Discussion: Israel Matzav and National Review
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Pope's Radical Whisper
Mike Allen / Politico:
SHUTDOWN COUNTDOWN: 10 days — ALAN GREENSPAN WARNS: 'no viable long-term solution to our badly …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court may strike new blow to campaign funding laws
Discussion: Firedoglake
Bloomberg:
Merkel Gets Biggest Victory Since Kohl's Reunification Vote
Discussion: Daily Pundit, neo-neocon and Politico