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2:30 PM ET, September 24, 2014

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New York Times:
Wrong Turn on Syria: No Convincing Plan  —  President Obama has put America at the center of a widening war by expanding into Syria airstrikes against the Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group known as ISIS and ISIL.  He has done this without allowing the public debate that needs to take place …
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Washington Post:
In Syria, Obama stretches legal and policy constraints he created for counterterrorism
Discussion: CNN and American Prospect
Vindicator:
UPDATE |  Jim Traficant in ‘very critical’ condition after accident at farm  —  GREENFORD — Ex-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is in “very critical condition” after an accident on his family farm, his wife, Tish Traficant, said today.  —  The former congressman, 73, is …
Discussion: ABC News
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WFMJ-TV:
Former Congressman Jim Traficant critically injured in farm accident  —  GREENFORD, Ohio -  —  Former Ohio Congressman, Jim Traficant, is hospitalized after being seriously injured in a farm accident.  —  Traficant was found just before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday under an overturned tractor …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports  —  White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media's eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities.  They are written by reporters for other reporters …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
In conservative media, Obamacare is a disaster.  In the real world, it's working.  —  Before Obamacare launched, conservative outlets warned that the law would collapse as insurers shunned the overpriced, overregulated insurance exchanges.  “More Insurers Drop Out Of Exchanges,” warned Fox Business.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan Declares War Against Math
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Barack Obama roasted over ‘Starbucks salute’  —  Many criticized the coffee-in-hand salute by Obama.  White House Instagram
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Telegraph:
Full text of Barack Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly  —  President Barack Obama addresses the UN following US air strikes against Isil targets in Syria  —  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: we come together at a crossroads between war and peace …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama: ISIS A “Network Of Death” That “No God Condones”
Discussion: Hit & Run
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Promotes Editors, in Change of Leadership Structure  —  The executive editor of The New York Times announced broad changes to the newspaper's leadership Wednesday, replacing titles that had been used for decades and promoting several senior editors.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Conservative lawmakers secretly plot to oust John Boehner  —  For months, several clusters of conservative lawmakers have been secretly huddling inside and outside the Capitol, plotting to oust John Boehner from the Speaker's office when House Republicans regroup after the November elections.
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Why I can't resign now  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pushing back against suggestions that she should soon retire, saying President Barack Obama would be unable to get a justice like her through the Senate.  —  “Who do you think President Obama …
BBC:
French hostage Herve Gourdel ‘beheaded in Algeria’  —  An Algerian jihadist group has released a video that appears to show the beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was seized on Sunday.  —  Jund al-Khilafa, an ally of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and Iraq …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Nol.hu and Associated Press
Phil Attinger / News-Sun:
Sebring man accidentally shoots wife  —  SEBRING — A man who thought he heard and saw an intruder Sunday morning at his Sebring home opened fire and hit the person, who turned out to be his wife.  —  Cmdr.  Steve Carr with the Sebring Police Department said Eusebio Christian, 47 …
Discussion: Liberaland and Talking Points Memo
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
State rep candidate voted in Illinois and Wisconsin  —  Republican Kathy Myalls is urging voters to elect her to a seat in the Illinois State Legislature.  —  But will she vote for herself?  —  It's a fair question, since records show Myalls has voted in both Illinois and Wisconsin in recent years.
Washington Examiner:
What if we applied feminist logic to other crimes?  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CRIME FEMINISM CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT  —  Feminists have been arguing that it's “victim-blaming” to suggest steps that women can take to reduce the risk of being sexual assaulted.  But what if that same logic were applied to all crime prevention tips?
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Southern Baptists Kick Out Gay-Friendly Church  —  The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the nation's largest protestant denomination, has kicked out a California church whose pastor embraces homosexuality, claiming that the minister and the church are not in …
James Cook / Business Insider:
The Emma Watson Naked Photo Countdown Was The Work Of Serial Internet Hoaxers  —  A mysterious countdown website emerged on Monday that hinted at the imminent reveal of naked photographs of the actress Emma Watson, stolen using the same iCloud vulnerability that hackers used to steal photographs …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama praises Arab coalition against ISIS  —  President Obama on Tuesday told Mideast leaders that the coalition of Arab countries assisting the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) could send a message “that the world is united” against the terror group.
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New York Times:
U.S. Is Carrying Out Vast Majority of Strikes on ISIS, Military Officials Say
 
 
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