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12:30 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  —  OBAMACARE SENATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HARRY REID TED CRUZ JOHN CORNYN MIKE LEE  —  There are 44 Republicans in the Senate not named Ted Cruz or Mike Lee.  By and large, they have been quiet during the various twists and turns in the effort to defund Obamacare.
Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Cruz Leads the Reaganite Rebellion  —  “This has been one of the strangest weeks I've ever had in Washington.  As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz.”
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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Kelly Kennedy / USA Today:
‘Family glitch’ in health law could be painful  —  It could leave up to 500,000 children without coverage and cost some families thousands of dollars.  —  CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON — A “family glitch” in the 2010 health care law threatens to cost some families thousands of dollars …
Wall Street Journal:
Bennett and Beach: The Hypocrisy Of Congress's Gold-Plated Health Care
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
Annie Lowrey / Economix:
National Health Costs vs. Your Health Costs
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
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 and PostPartisan
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
Olivia Blanchard / The Atlantic Online:
I Quit Teach for America  —  Five weeks of training was not enough to prepare me for a room of 20 unruly elementary-schoolers. … The phrase closing the achievement gap is the cornerstone of TFA's general philosophy, public-relations messaging, and training sessions.
Discussion: Vox Popoli and ParaPundit
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
Golf Channel:
Bush: Obama shouldn't be criticized for golf  —  Former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama may not see eye-to-eye in the political sphere, but when it comes to golf, on this they can agree.  —  In an excerpt from the season finale of “In Play with Jimmy Roberts,” …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and msnbc.com
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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Brittney Cooper / Salon:
GOP launches race war to boost the 1 percent
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Varun Aggarwal / Reuters:
Regulator sues Morgan Stanley, eight others over faulty securities
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Did Lynne Cheney tell Alan Simpson ‘shut your mouth?’
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BBC:
UN chemical weapons inspectors ‘to return to Syria’
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