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11:05 AM ET, September 17, 2014

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CBS News:
Is Obama tough enough in dealing with ISIS?  —  President Obama delivers a prime time address from the Cross Hall of the White House on September 10, 2014 in Washington, D.C. SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES  —  Shares -  —  Despite his speech announcing his strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” …
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Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:
G.O.P. Gains Strength and Obama Gets Low Marks, Poll Finds  —  A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that President Obama's approval ratings are similar to those of President George W. Bush in 2006 when Democrats swept both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and Althouse
NY Daily News:
Sorry, Hillary, things are breaking the GOP's way  —  Those picking Hillary Clinton as the odds-on favorite are ignoring some powerful political trends  —  Hillary Clinton's creepy “I'm baack” announcement in Iowa this weekend should be enough to scare any good Republican.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
November Gets Iffier  —  Just when much of the punditocracy was settling in for a few happy weeks of arguing over the extent of the Republican “wave” in November, while Mitch McConnell figuratively measured curtains for the Majority Leader's offices, the worm has turned a bit …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Yahoo! News:
Jewish group brands Biden's Shylock comment ‘offensive’  —  Yahoo News 16 hrs ago  —  Vice President Joe Biden drew fire from a prominent Jewish group on Tuesday after he described unscrupulous bankers who prey on servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas as “Shylocks” — a term frequently condemned as an anti-Semitic caricature.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Biden, nuns in Des Moines for voter turnout tour
Discussion: NBC News
Alex Seitz-Wald / msnbc.com:
It's Benghazi day again on Capitol Hill  —  Two years, seven congressional committee investigations, 25,000 pages of documents, 50 briefings, nine reports, and at least eight subpoenas later, Congress is trying once again to get to the bottom of Benghazi.  —  On Wednesday, the House Select Committee …
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Benghazi Select Committee Holding 1st Open Hearing
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
CNN:
A failure to communicate?  —  Washington (CNN) — It's the one tenet of President Barack Obama's ISIS strategy that's remained ironclad: No U.S. troops are headed back into Iraq for combat.  —  At least it was ironclad until Tuesday, when Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: From game-changer to background noise  —  A year ago, it looked like Obamacare was going to have a huge role in this year's elections.  And not in a good way — as a symbol of government incompetence and the Republicans' main case against President Barack Obama's record.
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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
In Kentucky, Health Law Helps Voters but Saps Votes
Discussion: Washington Post
John Frank / Denver Post:
POLL: IN BIG SHIFT, BEAUPREZ POSTS 10-POINT LEAD ON HICKENLOOPER  —  Republican Bob Beauprez holds a 10-point lead against Gov. John Hickenlooper, according to a new poll, marking a major shift in a governor's race deadlocked for months.  —  The Quinnipiac University Poll, released Wednesday …
Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
Another Look at Electoral Change  —  Last fall, I posted some data on the changes in Democratic and Republican support in the states in presidential elections, in part in response to observations made by a number of pundits and politicians that there is an increasing Democratic “lock” on the Electoral College.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Rubio: ISIS could be entering US from Mexico  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said late Tuesday that ISIS militants could be crossing the Mexican border into the United States.  —  Asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity if ISIS “would use the southern border to cross,” Rubio said “Sure, potentially.”
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Disappearing “Undue Burden” Standard for Abortion Rights  —  Those words—"undue burden"—represent Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's most important triumph during her long and consequential tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court.  Almost single-handedly, O'Connor rewrote abortion law.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Official: Rogue state could weaponize Ebola  —  A rogue state could turn Ebola into a weapon of mass destruction, a federal health official acknowledged Tuesday.  —  Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it would take a “state-type” …
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Vote ‘no’ in Scotland  —  Former President Bill Clinton has issued a statement urging Scots to reject the upcoming independence referendum.  —  In a statement released through the pro-unity Better Together campaign, the 42nd president said Scots could send …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Gates: 'There Will Be Boots on the Ground If There's to Be Any Hope of Success in the Strategy'  —  Robert Gates, President Obama's first defense secretary, said this morning on CBS that President Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State is unrealistic:
Discussion: Pat Dollard, Hot Air, CBS News and The Week
Washington Post:
From outside voice to inside player: Rise of Steve Scalise reflects changing House GOP  —  At the center of the swirling congressional debate over funding the government and arming rebels in Syria stands the new House majority whip, Rep. Steve Scalise, whose rise to power reflects …
Discussion: ABC News
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Democrats now have a 51 percent chance of holding the Senate  —  Democrats are now (very slightly) favored to hold the Senate majority on Nov. 4, according to Election Lab, the Post's statistical model of the 2014 midterm elections.  —  Election Lab puts Democrats' chances of retaining …
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Daily Mail:
US to send 3,000 troops to Ebola danger zone as Obama administration shuffles military's mission in Africa  — The Obama administration said late Monday night that the U.S. military will set up a command post in Monrovia, Liberia, the Ebola outbreak's epicenter
Discussion: Pat Dollard
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Oregon Doctor GOP Senate Candidate's Health Plan Plagiarized From Karl Rove Group's Survey  —  Very strange.  —  Monica Wehby / Via Facebook: monicafororegon  —  Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby's original health plan appears to have been plagiarized from a survey done …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Dan Good / ABC News:
Minnesota Vikings Reverse Course, Suspend Adrian Peterson … The Minnesota Vikings have reversed course on the handling of running back Adrian Peterson, placing him on the exempt/commissioner's permission list — meaning he is suspended indefinitely from all team activities amid the running back's child-abuse case.
 
 
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Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Afghan official says the government has nearly run out of money, needs U.S. bailout
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Jindal's Gamble  —  Bobby Jindal is making a bet …
Discussion: Power Line and Real Clear Politics
Gail Sullivan / Washington Post:
Study: Liberals and conservatives sniff out like-minded mates by body odor
NBC News:
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George Monbiot / Guardian:
Journalists in their gilded circles are woefully out of touch …
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