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12:10 PM ET, September 24, 2013

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Wall Street Journal:
The Cruz Campaign Against ObamaCare  —  The freshman Texas Senator volunteers House Republicans for duty on his implausible defunding gambit.  —  So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying  —  A curious moment happened on Fox News Sunday.  Chris Wallace told Karl Rove that a number of Republicans in Congress had sent him opposition research on Ted Cruz once Fox announced Cruz would be on.  —  Rove responded.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' dangerous rationality  —  It has become fashionable to give a psychiatric diagnosis to those Republicans teeing up a government shutdown.  —  “They're on a different planet,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said last week.  “Off the deep end.”
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Flinty Path  —  The fall television season kicks into gear this week, with tons of new stuff, but before you check out any of it, you owe yourself a bigger treat.  Go back and watch Chris Wallace's interview with Ted Cruz on “Fox News Sunday.”  —  That's entertainment.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP flinches at Obamacare plan devised by Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Conservative Republicans see no threat in showdown over shutdown
Discussion: Daily Kos, NationalJournal.com and NPR
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:   Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obamacare Strategy
Politico:
Obamacare: One blow after another  —  The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation.  —  Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage.
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Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist:
Nauseating Health Care Idiocy from Forbes  —  A non-blogging friend points me to this new article at Forbes by Chris Conover purporting to show that the “typical family of 4” will see its health care spending rise by $7450.  He quotes the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Wall Street Journal:
Bennett and Beach: The Hypocrisy Of Congress's Gold-Plated Health Care  —  Special subsidies for Hill workers trample on the Founders' code of equal application of the law.  —  As close observers of history and human nature, James Madison and the other Founders of the U.S. Constitution knew …
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot
Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Americans Oppose House GOP's Obamacare Strategy
Washington Post:
Obamacare starts next week, whether the government shuts down or not
Andy Fox / WAVY-TV:
Boys suspended for airsoft guns in yard  —  Has zero tolerance gone too far?  —  (1/7)Andy Fox reports on zero tolerance incident at VB middle school  —  (2/7)Andy Fox reports on VB 7th grader facing expulsion  —  (3/7)Andy Fox reports on zero gun tolerance at VB schools
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Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
SUSPENDED STUDENT MAY BE EXPELLED FOR REST OF THE YEAR FOR PLAYING WITH TOY GUN...IN HIS OWN YARD  —  A suspended seventh-grade student in Virginia Beach, Va., could be expelled for the rest of the school year for shooting an airsoft gun with a friend in his yard as they waited for the bus to come.
Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:
Trader Lost Millions Apparently Trying To Manipulate Intrade Data To Favor Mitt Romney  —  A new study reveals that a single trader may have been responsible for making the race seem closer than it really was in the final stretch to Election Day.  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses …
Discussion: Gawker and Business Insider
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
One Big Trader Lost Millions Betting on Romney, Study Finds
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Catholic College Rescinds Invitation to Speaker Defending Same-Sex Marriage  —  Providence College, a Roman Catholic school in Rhode Island, has canceled a lecture in support of same-sex marriage on Thursday by a gay philosophy professor, citing a church document that says that …
John Dickerson / Slate:
The Long Game  —  Hillary Clinton is perhaps the first presidential candidate of the modern age who needs a Rip Van Winkle strategy.  —  Hillary Clinton, in her first interview after leaving the State Department, offered a wise metaphor about the current state of presidential election madness.
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton ‘In No Hurry’
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama: I Haven't Had A Cigarette In Six Years Because I'm Scared Of My Wife  —  The president gives a different quit date than the one the first lady has given.  —  View Video ›  —  President Obama got caught on a hot mic today saying he hasn't smoked in six years because he's afraid of his wife Michelle.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama quit smoking because he was ‘scared of my wife’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
Julian Borger / Guardian:
Brazilian president Rousseff attacks US over NSA surveillance  —  Dilma Rousseff's scathing speech to UN general assembly the most serious diplomatic fallout over revelations of US spying  —  Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly …
Daily Mail:
SAS hero of the mall massacre: Off duty soldier with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok  —  An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.  —  The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall …
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Yo, Wall Street!  —  Even though, as Ezra Klein points out today, the differences in opinion between the two parties make a government shutdown or debt default more, not less, likely than they were in the apocalyptic collision of 2011, there's a strange underlying belief that it will all work …
Discussion: The New Republic
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Nancy Pelosi Confuses Constitution With Declaration of Independence  —  Speaking last Wednesday at the Center for American Progress (CAP), Democratic Leader of the House Nancy Pelosi became a little confused at one point, stumbling over her words and flipping through her notes while referencing …
Washington Post:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli in Virginia governor's race  —  Democrat Terry McAuliffe has vaulted into the lead over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in a Virginia governor's race that has left many voters sour on both candidates, according to a new Washington Post/Abt SRBI poll.
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Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
Poll: McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli ahead of debate
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Politico
 
 
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Golf Channel:
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BBC:
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