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4:00 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 …
John Gizzi / NewsMax.com:
Tom DeLay to Newsmax: ‘I Never Lost My Good Name’  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Technocrati  —  Forward Article  —  Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tells Newsmax that he is planning a book and a lecture tour …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Graham: ObamaCare ‘sucks’
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Shutdown countdown: What the next eight days could bring
Tony Lee / BREITBART.COM:
‘TOP’ DC REPUBLICANS SENT OPPO RESEARCH TO ‘HAMMER’ CRUZ
Washington Post:
Nationalities of Kenya shopping mall gunmen unknown  —  NAIROBI — Kenyan security forces on Monday seized control of a luxury shopping mall that had been attacked by Islamist militants, but officials said some assailants remained hidden inside stores in the mall and little was known …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Blame for Both Sides as Possible Government Shutdown Approaches  —  Tea Party Reps Say Stick to Principles, Even if Shutdown Results  —  If the federal government shuts down because Republicans and the Obama administration fail to agree on a budget, there will be plenty of blame to go around.
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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 …
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.
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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bush: Obama should play golf  —  Former President George W. Bush said President Obama should not be criticized over his frequent golf outings.  —  Former President George W. Bush said President Obama should not be criticized over his frequent golf outings.
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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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
‘He Will Be a Great Mayor’: Barack Obama Endorses Bill de Blasio
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
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”?
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie  —  IT WAS THE EXCEL ERROR HEARD ROUND THE WORLD.  —  In January 2010, as the global economy was slowly beginning to claw its way out of the depths of the Great Recession, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart …
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.
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” …
Zach Weissmueller / Reason:
The Mower Gang: #Anarchy in Detroit, Part I  —  We all know Detroit's in trouble: A bankrupt city full of crumbling houses, abandoned factory buildings, and a dwindling population.  —  But while politicians, unions, and investors slug it out in bankruptcy court and grasp for their share …
 
 
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CASD in crisis after racially-charged text messages surface
Discussion: The Raw Story and Mediaite
Susannah Breslin / Forbes:
A Girl And A .22  —  Last Wednesday, I drove out to GAT Guns …
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Graham: ‘Allahu akbar’ is a ‘war chant’
Monte Morin / Los Angeles Times:
Global warming ‘hiatus’ puts climate change scientists on the spot
Discussion: FreedomWorks blogs
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links That Go Nowhere
Wall Street Journal:
Kerry to See Iranian Counterpart at U.N.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NPR
Michael Sevren / KKTU-TV:
Dick Cheney and The One Shot Antelope Hunt
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Rick Perry Deserves a Second Chance, Thinks Rick Perry
Lacey Donohue / Gawker:
Man's Penis Amputated After “Enthusiastic” Viagra Overdose
Discussion: Global Grind and The Raw Story
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Rand Paul wants Chief Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to enroll in Obamacare
Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Barack Obama looks so exhausted
Mike Allen / Politico:
SHUTDOWN COUNTDOWN: 10 days — ALAN GREENSPAN WARNS: 'no viable long-term solution to our badly …