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12:20 AM ET, February 6, 2013

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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
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013
Discussion: Politico, The Maddow Blog and alan.com
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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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Widely Support Immigration Reform Proposals
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Arthur C. Brooks / AEI:
Remarks by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (as prepared for delivery)
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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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 …
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New York Times:
Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda
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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The Lede:
North Korean Propaganda Video Imagines a Brighter World, Without Manhattan
Discussion: msnbc.com, Addicting Info and Mashable!
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Week
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.
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.
Discussion: NewsBusters blogs and Doug Ross
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.
Discussion: 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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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.”
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: NewsBusters blogs
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Jon Favreau, President Obama's head speechwriter, is departing  —  Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who at times lit up social media as well as the president's addresses, is leaving.  —  President Obama and his head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, work in the Oval Office.
CNN:
Hagel approval all but certain  —  Washington (CNN) - CNN has learned there are now at least five Republican senators who would oppose a filibuster of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense, all but ensuring the embattled nominee will be confirmed in the coming days.
 
 
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NY Daily News:
Suit: Money funneled by former ‘Ground Zero’ mosque imam to finance lavish lifestyle
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Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Brown on Perry's ad: ‘Barely a fart’
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Rand Paul: Audit the Fed
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Arkansas to allow concealed guns in churches
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Arran Robertson / The Online Office …:
Blumenauer, Polis Bills De-Federalize Marijuana Prohibition, Provide for Regulatory and Taxation Framework
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
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The Times of Israel:
Obama to visit Israel within weeks
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Pentagon to extend certain benefits to same-sex spouses
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Mass. GOP Buoyed by Winslow's Eyeing US Senate Vacancy
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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