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The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023 — Economic growth will remain slow this year but is expected to speed up next year. Even so, CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 7.5 percent through 2014. — Read the report — Macroeconomic Effects of Alternative Budgetary Paths
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
John Boehner throws cold water on Obama sequester plan
John Boehner throws cold water on Obama sequester plan
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The Fix, The Daily Caller, National Review and Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Obama Sequestration Request Calling For Short-Term Budget Fix To Delay Automatic Cuts
Obama Sequestration Request Calling For Short-Term Budget Fix To Delay Automatic Cuts
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Hot Air, Power Line, AOL Defense and Patterico's Pontifications
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama calls on Congress to pass spending cuts, tax changes to delay sequester
Obama calls on Congress to pass spending cuts, tax changes to delay sequester
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The Plum Line, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, The Fix, Right Turn, The Heritage Foundation and National Review
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014
CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014
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Real Time Economics and Calculated Risk
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Are Upset That Obama Is Giving Remarks At The Same Time As Eric Cantor's Speech — GOP officials take to Twitter to voice their discontent. — Image by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Images — WASHINGTON — Republican aides are calling out the White House for scheduling President …
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National Review, Washington Monthly, The Hill, alan.com and Daily Kos
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Arthur C. Brooks / AEI:
Remarks by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (as prepared for delivery)
Remarks by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (as prepared for delivery)
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The Caucus and The Heritage Foundation
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law — President Obama's health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage — nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative and Poor Richard's News
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
CBO: Obama health law will cost $1.3T — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Tuesday that President Obama's signature healthcare law will cost about $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years. — The figure represents a slight increase since August, when the nonpartisan budget office estimated …
Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage - politics live blog — Sort by: — 8.03pm GMT — The carry over motion was passed by 464 to 38 - a majority of 426. — All the votes related to the gay marriage bill are now over. — 8.01pm GMT — Here's a pro-Cameron take on the result.
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BBC:
Commons backs gay marriage bill
Commons backs gay marriage bill
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Truthdig, Religion Dispatches and Outside the Beltway
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dick Morris out at Fox News — Fox News has decided not to renew its contract with political commentator and pollster Dick Morris, an industry official tells POLITICO's Mike Allen. — Morris, who was on contract with Fox News throughout the 2012 presidential campaign …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Times, DickMorris.com, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hinterland Gazette
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens — The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize — The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens …
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New York Times:
Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda
Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda
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LiveLeak.com:
North Korea video shows US city under attack — Loading the player ... Get Embed Code — Plays: 205142 (Embed: 103098) — North Korea, which is poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video depicting a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack.
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New York Times, Guardian, Towleroad News #gay and FP Passport
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The Lede:
North Korean Propaganda Video Imagines a Brighter World, Without Manhattan
North Korean Propaganda Video Imagines a Brighter World, Without Manhattan
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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack
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Forbes, New York Times, Michelle Malkin, AEIdeas, Sister Toldjah, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, WorldViews and Gawker
Jason Koebler / US News:
City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation — Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones — Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally pass an anti-drone resolution. — The resolution, passed Monday …
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WVIR-TV, Maggie's Notebook, NBCNews.com, alan.com and Vox Popoli
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Declines Medicaid Expansion — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) announced Tuesday that his state will turn down the Medicaid expansion, becoming the first governor of a blue state to officially say no to the coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court made optional.
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Booman Tribune and The Week
Joel Griffith / BREITBART.COM:
KRUGMAN: U.S. NEEDS DEATH PANELS, SALES TAXES — Nobel Prize winning “economist” Paul Krugman spoke at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. last week. During the Q&A session following the lecture, an audience member asked him about the rising national debt.
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NewsBusters blogs and Doug Ross
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans — Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in ways that not many people foresaw and nobody wanted: Raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment; prohibition can create black markets.
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The Lonely Conservative, Power Line, TheBlaze.com and Guardian
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor — Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates.
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The Daily Caller and Truthdig
Geoffrey Dickens / Author Feed:
ABC, CBS, NBC Slant 8 to 1 for Obama's Gun Control Crusade — At next week's State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama is likely to continue his ongoing push for more gun control. It's a push first spurred on by Obama's gun control allies in the liberal media.
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Washington Examiner, Nice Deb and TheBlaze.com
Ben Hartman / Jerusalem Post:
WATCH: TA marks space handicapped and tows car — Security cameras show Tel Aviv municipality workers painting handicapped markings around parked vehicle and then towing it. — The Tel Aviv municipality found itself in hot water on Tuesday, after a Facebook post by a woman whose car …
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The Raw Story
David Mitchell / KDVR.com:
7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real — LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. — The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.
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The Strata-Sphere, TheBlaze.com, Daily Mail and The Right Scoop
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Brown on Perry's ad: ‘Barely a fart’ — Gov. Jerry Brown publicly scoffed at Gov. Rick Perry's attempt to draw Californians to Texas for better business, saying that the ad campaign is “barely a fart.” — “It's not a serious story, guys,” the Californian Democrat told reporters at a business event …
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Twitchy and Capitol Alert
Trevor / EAGnews.org:
Three-year-olds chant ‘union power’ after reading new children's book — OAKLAND - Is your three-year-old preschooler chanting ‘union power’ these days? She might, if author Innosanto Nagara has his way. — Nagara wrote “A is for Activist,” a book supposedly geared for the children of the “99 percent.”
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing — A group of young immigrants interrupted the first congressional hearing on immigration reform Tuesday to protest the GOP's opposition to the DREAM Act. They chanted “undocumented and unafraid” as they were quickly escorted out of the room.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Carney: Drone strikes are ‘fully consistent’ with the Constitution — The White House on Tuesday defended the guidelines for targeting Americans in drone strikes as “fully consistent” with the Constitution. — Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney …
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Twitchy, Michelle Malkin, The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard, American Power and The Hill
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Christie on weight: ‘Of course I care’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talked about struggles with his weight on Tuesday, saying his doctor has warned him that his “luck is going to run out relatively soon” but that it doesn't affect his ability to run the Garden State.
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NewsBusters blogs and ABCNEWS
Reason:
Three Flushes for American Capitalism! — In praise of privately operated bathrooms that serve the public. — The greatest city in the world - New York, New York - is home to 8 million souls, a magnet for 52 million tourists a year, and legendary for the grossest public toilets this side of a Turkish prison.
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Hot Air
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Court: NYTimes's Request for New York City Gun Owners Violates Law — A New York appellate court has ruled that the New York Times's request for a list of gun owners in New York City, under the Freedom of Information Law, violates the state's statute. The ruling overturns in part a lower court's ruling.
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