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10:15 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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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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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: Althouse
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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New York Times:   Is U.S. Policy on Fighting ISIS Already Changing?
New York Times:
U.S. General Open to Ground Forces in Fight Against ISIS in Iraq
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
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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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” …
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.
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
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Judge: Hobby Lobby Decision Means Polygamous Sect Member Can Refuse To Testify In Child Labor Case  —  A law enforcement officer escorts polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs (center) from the courthouse where he was convicted of two counts of child sexual assault
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 …
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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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 …
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
Blupman / Our Bad Media:
Fareed Zakaria Never Stopped Plagiarizing: How Dozens Of Episodes Of His CNN Show Ripped Others Off  —  Earlier this year, a certain CNN employee specializing in international news was caught red-handed plagiarizing dozens of instances of reporting.  What did the network do?
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 …
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: Hullabaloo
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.
Gail Sullivan / Washington Post:
Study: Liberals and conservatives sniff out like-minded mates by body odor  —  Conservatives and liberals do not smell the same to potential mates.  According to a study published this month in the American Journal of Political Science, people can literally sniff out ideology …
Bryan Lowryeagle Topeka / Wichita Eagle:
Justices question why Democrat Chad Taylor can't withdraw from Senate race  —  ›  —  ‹  —  Kansas Supreme Court justices grilled Secretary of State Kris Kobach's attorney at a special court hearing Tuesday about whether Democrat Chad Taylor should remain on ballot as a candidate for U.S. Senate.
 
 
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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:
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NBC News:
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George Monbiot / Guardian:
Journalists in their gilded circles are woefully out of touch …
Discussion: Telegraph and Poynter
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor Bashes Fox News' Ferguson Coverage
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
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