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2:25 PM ET, September 18, 2014

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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Left blasts Clinton in secret emails  —  Emails sent by liberal activists and obtained by The Hill reveal significant dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.  —  The critical messages about the former first lady show …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Elizabeth Warren: It's “Fair” to Compare Israel to Nazis
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Isis / CNN:
Hambycast: Hillary Clinton's madcap media mob
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democratic, Republican Party Favorable Ratings Now Similar  —  Ratings of GOP improve, but are still negative  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' views of the Democratic and Republican parties are now similar, mainly because of their more positive ratings of the GOP.
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Ann Coulter / Official:
YOUR ‘TO DO’ LIST TO SAVE AMERICA  —  The most important words printed in The New York Times since “REAGAN EASILY BEATS CARTER” were from a front-page article last Sunday about how, after six years of Obama, the federal judiciary is now dominated by Democratic appointees.
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:   GOP peaked too soon
Nia-Malika Henderson / Associated Press:
How gender mattered in the rise and fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz  —  Devastating.  —  That's really the only way to describe Politico's piece on DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  —  Based on interviews with DNC staffers — both former and current — the piece described Wasserman Schultz …
Discussion: Politico
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Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
The Democratic Party Chair's Big Political Ambitions Have Stalled In DC
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
ISIS Video Uses British Hostage, John Cantlie, as Spokesman  —  Departing from its serial beheading videos of Western hostages that have outraged the world, the Islamic State released a new video on Thursday featuring a captive British journalist seated behind a desk, explaining the group's message …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: ISIS Releases Video of Captured British Photographer John Cantlie (Video)
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Gawker
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants  —  Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line …
Guardian:
Scottish independence: voters turn out for Scotland's historic referendum - live  —  Rolling coverage throughout the day as Scotland votes to decide whether to stay part of the United Kingdom  — Final poll puts yes on 47% and no on 53%  — Andy Murray: Lets do this!  — Are the Scots independent yet?
Matt Bai / New York Times:
How Gary Hart's Downfall Forever Changed American Politics  —  On a scalding July day five years ago, I found myself hiking in Red Rocks Park, just outside Denver, with Gary Hart.  The copper cliffs were brilliantly lit in the midday sun, which burned our uncovered heads as we trudged …
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Pew Research Center:
Teaching the Children: Sharp Ideological Differences, Some Common Ground  —  Wide Gaps over Teaching Faith, Tolerance, Obedience  —  As the public grows more politically polarized, differences between conservatives and liberals extend their long reach even to opinions about which qualities …
Scotsman:
Comment: The huge costs of Scotland getting small  —  AS THE SONG says, “Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.”  The Scottish push for secession from the United Kingdom takes for granted the benefits of peaceful, deep, economic, social …
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:   Scotland Heads to the Polls for Independence Vote
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Party Like it's 1994: Gingrich, DeLay Reunite With ‘Greatest Class’  —  A half-dozen lawmakers joined nearly 40 former colleagues, including former speaker Newt Gingrich, inside the National Resources Committee hearing room to reminisce about one of the biggest “wave” elections in congressional history.
Discussion: Washington Post
U.S. Air Force / af.mil:
AF to change instructions for oaths  —  WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Air Force has instructed force support offices across the service to allow both enlisted members and officers to omit the words “So help me God” from enlistment and officer appointment oaths if an Airman chooses.
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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
The Air Force will now allow airmen to omit ‘so help me God’ from enlistment oaths
Discussion: Liberaland
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
EXPOSED: THE SECRET MAILING LIST OF THE GAMING JOURNALISM ELITE  —  Several prominent gaming journalists across America are part of a secret mailing list on which they discuss what to cover, what to ignore, and what approach their coverage should take to breaking news, Breitbart can reveal.
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox Popoli
Andrew Flowers / FiveThirtyEight:
We Still Don't Know What $1.6 Trillion Bought Us  —  One of the biggest efforts the Federal Reserve has ever embarked on — a $1.6 trillion bond-buying program to stimulate the U.S. economy known as the third round of quantitative easing — is coming to an end next month.
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Five Signs the Dark-Money Apocalypse Is Upon Us  —  Welcome to the Year of Dark Money.  —  It's the home stretch of the 2014 election season.  No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014 is on pace to be the Year of Dark Money.  —  Nonprofit groups, some well-known …
John Del Signore / Gothamist:
A NYC Bartender's Powerful Open Letter To The Hedge Funder Who Allegedly Grabbed Her Ass  —  A SoHo bartender is fed up with misogynistic bros treating her like a piece of meat, and she's written a powerful open letter to the hedge funder who she says grabbed her ass at work.
Discussion: Feministing and Shakesville
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Forgiving Biden  —  Media that lean left will react differently to their friends than to their enemies.  —  Vice President Joe Biden, who in our kingless nation has been sent to play the role of Britain's Prince Philip, condemned unscrupulous bankers earlier this week and, in doing so, caused something of a flap.
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Wiener / The Huffington Post:
Coming Out of the PrEP Closet  —  Each morning, I take a pill called Truvada to protect me from becoming infected with HIV.  This strategy, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, reduces the risk of HIV infection by up to 99 percent if the pill is taken once a day.
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson cracks open checkbook for GOP  —  Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and promised a similar amount to an allied group focused on House races, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Politico:
7.3 million enrolled in Obamacare  —  There are 7.3 million people enrolled in health insurance plans on the Obamacare exchanges, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner told Congress on Thursday, the first update since enrollment ended.  —  The figure represents the number of people who are signed up and paid up as of Aug. 15.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 
 
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New York Times:
Obama Faulted in Terror Fight, New Poll Finds
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Kristen Gelineau / Associated Press:
Australia Raids Thwarted ISIS Beheading Plot
Discussion: Hot Air and ABC News
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The media's absurd NFL hysteria
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Barry Bonds case: Court to rehear home-run king's appeal
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Susan Glasser named editor of POLITICO
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
‘Things have gotten really out of whack,’ Biden tells crowd in Iowa
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
IRS commissioner: Our story isn't changing
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson testifies in front of grand jury
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The People Who Organized Occupy Wall Street Are Now Suing Each Other
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