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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Cheat Sheet - 5 GOP Myths About Imaginary Obama

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Today: U.S. Suspends Training Afghans , Will China’s Slowdown Derail America’s Recovery? , Dam Lock Weakened in Louisiana
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 02, 2012
REPUBLICAN MYTHS

Clint Eastwood tussled with an invisible Obama onstage in Tampa, but next week Democrats need to do battle of their own against the GOP-built caricature of the president. From gutting welfare to Medicare lies, The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky on five lies that need to be dispelled.

POLICE

The U.S. has suspended training for police recruits in Afghanistan after a series of attacks on NATO soldiers by Afghan police and military personnel. American special forces will vet new recruits to the Afghan local police for ties to the Taliban while training is suspended. “While we have full trust and confidence in our Afghan partners, we believe this is a necessary step to validate our vetting process,” said U.S. Army spokesman Col. Thomas Collins. A system already in place to screen police candidates will be made more thorough, the Army said, and the sale of uniforms worn by the Afghan police and military will be made illegal.

DERAILED

A new report shows ominous cracks in the Chinese economy, endangering the global recovery just before the U.S. elections. Dan Levin on how the tailspin might begin.

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY


About 1,200 homes near Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana were evacuated Saturday as worries mounted over the possible failure of a canal lock that could flood neighborhoods. Emergency officials tried to take some of the pressure off the lock Saturday night, but people were kept from their homes, and a flash-flood warning remained in effect. According to the National Weather Service, a wall of water resulting from the failure of the first of two canal locks would be 11 feet high. The parish’s website said Saturday that the failure of the second lock was “imminent.”

BLOODSHED

At least 1,600 people were killed this past week in what UNICEF is calling Syria’s deadliest to date. The count included children killed in the escalating violence, according to Patrick McCormick of the United Nations’ children’s fund. Seventeen people were killed in the country Sunday, according to opposition forces. An explosion rocked the capital of Damascus when a bomb went off near a security building, wounding four people in what state television called an act of “terrorism.”


VITAMIN C
Press Rolls Question to Romney
Written on an orange.
BLASPHEMY
Police: Pakistani Cleric Framed Girl
Accused of burning Quran.
SUBPOENA
NY Probes Private Equity Tax
Strategy may have saved hundreds of millions.
REPORT
Scientology Groomed Cruise Mate
Before settling on Katie Holmes.
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