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5:50 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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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: In Colorado, Obama is a drag on Democrats
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
November Gets Iffier
NY Daily News:
Sorry, Hillary, things are breaking the GOP's way
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Politico:
NRA goes big in key Senate, governor's races
John Frank / Denver Post:
POLL: IN BIG SHIFT, BEAUPREZ POSTS 10-POINT LEAD ON HICKENLOOPER
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’  —  Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it was a “poor choice of words” for him to use the term “Shylocks” in a recent speech.  —  On Tuesday, Anti-Defamation League's national director Abraham Foxman had said the word “Shylocks” promoted an anti-Semitic stereotype.
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Biden, nuns in Des Moines for voter turnout tour
Discussion: NBC News and Fox News
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Robert Gates: Barack Obama ‘traps himself’ on ISIL  —  Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said the U.S. will need troops on the ground to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and spoke out against President Barack Obama's contention that the U.S. aims to degrade and destroy the group.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Islamic State Issues Video Challenge to Obama
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Gates: 'There Will Be Boots on the Ground If There's to Be Any Hope of Success in the Strategy'
Discussion: Hot Air, Pat Dollard and The Week
TMZ.com:
‘Django Unchained’ Actress — We Got the Pictures ... And It Looks Like Sex  —  The “Django Unchained” actress who cried racism against the LAPD ... claiming they harassed and hurt her because she was just making out with making out with her white boyfriend in a car — has some explaining to do …
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 …
Staci Zaretsky / Above the Law:
Troubled Law School Defaults On Its Bonds, May Be Forced To Cease Operations  —  While it's true that things have been spiraling downwards for law schools since the Great Recession, it wasn't until 2011 that things really got out of hand.  That was when the very first class action lawsuit …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
ISIS and the Arab World  —  LONDON — An existential struggle is taking place in the Arab world today.  But is it ours or is it theirs?  Before we step up military action in Iraq and Syria, that's the question that needs answering.  —  What concerns me most about President Obama's decision …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and emptywheel
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Rubio: ISIS could be entering US from Mexico
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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 …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in July suggests that economic activity is expanding at a moderate pace.  On balance, labor market conditions improved somewhat further; however, the unemployment rate is little changed and a range …
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 …
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Congress Really Isn't Begging To Vote On Authorizing Obama's Military Operation  —  “It's time to grow up.  You're in Congress.  This is what Congress is for.  It's to vote on things like this,” Rep. Justin Amash says of colleagues' reluctance to vote on authorization of war against ISIS.
Politico:
Mark Begich frosty over snow machine ad  —  Alaska Sen. Mark Begich says GOP opponent Dan Sullivan's latest ad accusing him of pretending to ride a snow machine is a “lie,” and he has the frostbite to prove it.  —  In Sullivan's latest ad, X Games medalist Cory Davis accuses the freshman Democrat of …
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Let's Reject the ‘Inevitable’  —  This Sunday's “People's Climate March” in New York City could be the biggest demonstration yet for action on climate change.  The march is scheduled to coincide with the United Nations Climate Summit, which begins two days later.
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
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 and Hullabaloo
 
 
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James Bamford / New York Times:
Israel's N.S.A. Scandal
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Bloomberg View
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why President Obama Should Ask Permission to Wage War
Discussion: The Dish and Washington Post
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Hannity On NFL's Peterson: My Dad Hit Me With A ‘Strap’ And I'm Okay (VIDEO)
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite and ABC News
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Trust in Mass Media Returns to All-Time Low
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Ebola's Warning for an Unprepared America
CNN:
NRA focuses on three major Senate races
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Vote ‘no’ in Scotland
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Oregon Doctor GOP Senate Candidate's Health Plan Plagiarized From Karl Rove Group's Survey
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
Another Look at Electoral Change
Discussion: Liberal Values and Bloomberg View
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Disappearing “Undue Burden” Standard for Abortion Rights
David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: From game-changer to background noise