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9:20 AM ET, September 22, 2014

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Those Lazy Jobless  —  Last week John Boehner, the speaker of the House, explained to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute what's holding back employment in America: laziness.  People, he said, have “this idea” that “I really don't have to work.  I don't really want to do this.
Daniel C. Esty / New York Times:
Bottom-Up Climate Fix  —  NEW HAVEN — WORLD leaders are at the United Nations this week, at the invitation of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to “champion an ambitious vision anchored in action that will enable a meaningful global agreement” on climate change next year.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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John Fund / National Review:
The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus  —  Extremists' rhetoric heats up as their case falls apart.  —  Protesters at the People's Climate March in New York City, September 21.  (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)  —  The United Nations Climate Summit will begin in New York this Tuesday, but environmental activists didn't wait.
Robert N. Stavins / New York Times:
Climate Realities  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — ON Tuesday …
Discussion: Watts Up With That?
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
The Hillary Letters  —  NOTE: READ THE HILLARY CLINTON-SAUL ALINSKY LETTERS HERE.  —  Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed light on her early ideological development.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Gillibrand's Weight Watcher Revealed, and a Presidential Nominee Is Sunk  —  Good Monday morning and welcome to the inaugural edition of First Draft, your morning briefing for politics.  Today, the White House is reviewing the locks on its doors, 91-year-old Bob Dole hits the campaign trail …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Obama's October Surprise  —  Get ready for bombs bursting in air and this election's October Surprise - President Obama's air strikes to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS.  —  Last week a Fox News poll identified a phenomenon that my friend, pollster Dana Blanton, dubbed “The ISIS effect.”
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Exclusive: Lois Lerner breaks silence  —  Employers won't hire her.  She's been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.”  Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats.  And she's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations she orchestrated …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
CNN:
ISIS war rollout resembles launch of Obamacare site  —  Syrian civil war in 2014 … (CNN) — Someone in the Obama White House clearly has a good book to write one day: “How Not to Do Rollouts.”  —  With one hapless episode after another, the rollout of the President's plan to destroy ISIS …
Discussion: New York Times and Betsy's Page
Lillian Schrock / Casper Star-Tribune:
Goshen County buys grenade launcher  —  OFFICIALS WOULD USE WEAPONS IN RIOTS, HOSTAGE SITUATIONS  —  Three grenade launchers have been moved in and out of the Goshen County Sheriff's Office in the past 65 years.  —  Yet not one of the weapons has been used by the county's deputies.
Anchorage Daily News:
KTVA reporter quits on-air, reveals herself as owner of Alaska Cannabis Club  —  Reporter Charlo Greene quit on-air during KTVA-TV's 10 p.m. newscast Sunday, revealing herself as the owner of the medical marijuana business Alaska Cannabis Club and telling viewers that she would be using …
Discussion: Mashable and Raw Story
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
The Fight of Their Lives  —  The White House wants the Kurds to help save Iraq from ISIS.  The Kurds may be more interested in breaking away.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Child Pornography Case Spurs Debate on Military's Role in Law Enforcement  —  In a field office near Brunswick, Ga., a federal agent working as an undercover cybersleuth signed on to a large file-sharing network sometimes used by traders in child pornography.
The Hill:
Obama takes anti-ISIS pitch to UN  —  After a weeklong effort to convince skeptical lawmakers of his strategy for fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), President Obama is now taking his sales pitch to the United Nations.  —  It will be a high-stakes test for the president …
Discussion: Politico
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Grand Illusion in Syria
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Rape Epidemic Is a Fiction
Discussion: The College Fix
Agence France-Presse:
More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia: airport source
Washington Post:
Top-level turnover makes it harder for DHS to stay on top of evolving threats
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Arizona Republic:
Vile ad bounces off McSally, sticks to Gabby Giffords
Discussion: Politico and Balloon Juice
Victor Blackwell / CNN:
Lawsuit: Student ‘bait’ was raped
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Heidi Moore / Guardian:
Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller?
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Caitlin Dineen / Orlando Sentinel:
At Lake Mary gun show, Zimmerman details what life is like
Discussion: Liberaland, Raw Story and Hullabaloo
William J. Bratton / NY Daily News:
Bill Bratton: Inside the terror threat
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Landrieu helps out with keg stand
Debra J. Saunders / Townhall.com:
Castro Valley Winery to Government: Crush Grapes, Not Vintners
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Chuck Todd Splits US Into ‘Starbucks Nation’ And ‘Chick-Fil-A Country’ (VIDEO)
Telegraph:
How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists