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11:50 AM ET, September 15, 2014

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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Republicans ‘trying to get you to check your brain at the door’  —  Former President Bill Clinton railed against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday and framed the midterm elections as more broadly about defining “the terms in which we will relate to each other and relate to the rest of the world.”
Discussion: Politico
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP right content to attack the president  —  One of the most often repeated Republican complaints about President Obama is that he has only made political polarization in Washington worse, despite having promised to end it.  —  The nation “has been bitterly divided by our president,” …
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:   Hillary: 'Hello Iowa — I'm back!'
Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Hillary hates Iowa
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and ABC News
Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Progressives Want to See Clinton's ‘Vision for America’
Discussion: abc7.com, Politico and ABC News
Sharyl Attkisson / Daily Signal:
Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review  —  As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Iran: US planning a war ‘to dominate the region’  —  Iran will not cooperate with efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because it fears the U.S. is “planning a war... to dominate the region,” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei tweeted Monday.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Associated Press:
Iran rejects U.S. call to fight ISIL
Discussion: Politico and Gawker
New York Times:
Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air
Jack A. Goldstone / Politico:
Obama Can't Destroy the Islamic State Without Iran's Help
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How to Get It Wrong  —  Last week I participated in a conference organized by Rethinking Economics, a student-run group hoping to promote, you guessed it, a rethinking of economics.  And Mammon knows that economics needs rethinking in the wake of a disastrous crisis, a crisis that was neither predicted nor prevented.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Andrea Hay / New York Post:
School's strict dress code nets 200 detentions, parent rebellion  —  Tottenville High School has implemented a strict dress code that's landed 200 kids in detention — and incited rebellion among the kids.  —  A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
POLITICO poll: GOP has edge on immigration in midterms  —  Nearly two-thirds of likely voters in battleground races this fall disapprove of President Barack Obama's handling of immigration, according to a new POLITICO poll — a public rebuke that comes after the White House grappled …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:   POLITICO poll: 2014 voters gloomy over economy
Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
The Name of the Fight  —  “Mr. President, everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war?” a reporter asked Harry Truman at a White House press conference on June 29, 1950.  It was a reasonable question: two days earlier, in response to a swift, unexpected advance of North Korean troops …
Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Stupid Right Wing Tweets: Chuck Woolery Edition  —  Game show hack Chuck Woolery thinks ‘we have a Muslim problem in the White House.’  —  What is it with game show hosts?  They're all hucksters and idiots.  Pat Sajak is a screaming teabagger and so is Chuck Woolery.
Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
Urban Outfitters Features “Vintage” Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt  —  The “vintage Kent State” sweatshirt is for sale in the women's section of the Urban Outfitters' website.  —  urbanoutfitters.com  —  It can be found through a quick search on the website:
Wall Street Journal:
We're Number 32!  —  A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.
Thomas Frank / Salon:
All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus  —  But expert opinion is why we're in this mess  —  In a recent article on Vox, Ezra Klein declared that his generation of Washington journalists had discovered political science, and it is like the hottest thing on wheels.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director predicts 5,000 US personnel on ground by December  —  Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Sunday said he predicts there could be nearly 5,000 U.S. personnel on the ground overseas by the end of the year to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
USA Today:
Senate has a secret book of rules  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.
 
 
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Obama push to hire veterans into federal jobs spurs resentment
James Pindell / WMUR:
50 days out from election, poll says Shaheen-Brown race tied
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Chicago schools filthy with rodents, roaches, garbage — principals say
Discussion: Diane Ravitch's blog
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Shifting his views, Rand Paul seeks broader appeal — but may risk his outsider image
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Ray Rice to appeal indefinite suspension on Monday
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Obama's ship is sinking
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Democrats' Push to Criminalize Dissent