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2:50 PM ET, September 17, 2014

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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.
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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” …
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
NY Daily News:   Sorry, Hillary, things are breaking the GOP's way
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Cruz: Dempsey, Hagel sound like social workers  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Tuesday that the U.S. military should not play the role of “social workers” in Iraq.  —  Speaking on Fox News's “Hannity,” Cruz voiced his frustration with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey's responses …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Gawker
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
Islamic State video threatens to target White House and US troops  —  Video purports to be trailer for film entitled Flames of War with strapline ‘fighting has just begun’  —  Islamic State militants have threatened to target the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Islamic State Issues Video Challenge to Obama  —  WASHINGTON — In one of the Islamic State's first responses to President Obama's declaration that he would “degrade and ultimately destroy” it, the group released a short video late Tuesday in which it appeared to say that its militants …
CNN:
A failure to communicate?
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Joe Biden: I was wrong to say ‘Shylocks’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Federalist
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Biden, nuns in Des Moines for voter turnout tour
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
James Hohmann / Politico:
NRA goes big in key Senate, governor's races  —  The National Rifle Association has reserved $11.4 million for its initial fall advertising campaign and will begin airing its first TV commercials Wednesday in three Senate races crucial to determining which party controls the chamber next year.
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CNN:
NRA focuses on three major Senate races
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael Catalini / National Journal:
Rumors Aside, Burr Says He'll Run Again
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Benghazi Select Committee Holding 1st Open Hearing  —  The House Select Committee on Benghazi gets its public debut Wednesday, two years after militants in the eastern Libyan city killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and four months after Republicans launched their special investigation.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
This GOP Benghazi Hearing Is Actually Worth Having
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wonkette
Alex Seitz-Wald / msnbc.com:
It's Benghazi day again on Capitol Hill
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works  —  The FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast model launched earlier this month.  Right now, it shows Republicans with about a 53 percent chance of picking up the Senate next year.  We owe you a lot more detail about how that forecast is calculated …
Jessica Valenti / Guardian:
How many young women can a school legally punish for dress code violations?  —  Singling out female students for humiliation and discipline because of their sex is a blatant violation of federal law  —  Do school administrators think they're more stubborn than teenage girls who are told what they can't wear to school?
Discussion: Althouse
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Hannity On NFL's Peterson: My Dad Hit Me With A ‘Strap’ And I'm Okay (VIDEO)  —  On Fox News last night, Sean Hannity said he thinks that Adrian Peterson, the NFL player indicted on child injury charges, should not go to jail for hitting his child.  —  Hannity explained that he was hit …
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
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Dan Good / ABC News:
Minnesota Vikings Reverse Course, Suspend Adrian Peterson
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.”
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
ISIS and the Arab World
Discussion: emptywheel
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.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Boehner: ‘I have a few knuckleheads in my conference’  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday said he has “a few knuckleheads” in his conference.  As a result, Boehner described his House majority as being a “paper majority.”  —  “On any given day, 16 of my members decide they're going to go this way …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Too bad it's almost certainly unconstitutional.  —  You are no doubt as excited as I am about the advent of Constitution Day, which explodes into being again Wednesday, Sept. 17, with its customary flurry of greeting cards, traffic-stopping parades, fraught and complicated holiday dinners with the family …
Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run
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
 
 
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Troubled Law School Defaults On Its Bonds, May Be Forced To Cease Operations
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Let's Reject the ‘Inevitable’
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low
Wall Street Journal:
Ebola's Warning for an Unprepared America
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Washington Post:
From outside voice to inside player: Rise of Steve Scalise reflects changing House GOP
Discussion: ABC News
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David Nather / Politico:
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