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3:10 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

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Wonkblog, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Taking Note, National Review, Daily Kos, The Heritage Foundation, BBC, The Atlantic Online, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, NBCNews.com, The Glittering Eye, Mother Jones, The Right Scoop and nation.foxnews.com

Associated Press:

Obama Sequestration Request Calling For Short-Term Budget Fix To Delay Automatic Cuts — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a short-term deficit reduction package of spending cuts and tax revenue that will delay the effective date of steeper automatic cuts now scheduled to kick in on March 1.

Discussion: Hot Air, Power Line and Patterico's Pontifications

Jake Sherman / Politico:
John Boehner throws cold water on Obama sequester plan

Discussion: The Fix, The Daily Caller, National Review and Outside the Beltway

Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama calls on Congress to pass spending cuts, tax changes to delay sequester

Discussion: The Plum Line, The Heritage Foundation, Hit & Run, The Fix, Weasel Zippers and National Review

New York Times:
Obama Urges Congress to Reach Deal on Spending Cuts

Discussion: CNN, BuzzFeed, Politico, The Week and Daily Kos

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014

Discussion: Calculated Risk

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013

Discussion: Politico, alan.com and The Maddow Blog

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Americans Widely Support Immigration Reform Proposals — Greatest support for employers' verifying new hires' legal status — PRINCETON, NJ — At least two-thirds of Americans favor each of five specific measures designed to address immigration issues — ranging from 68% who would vote …

Discussion: jobsanger, CNN and The Hill

Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo: Republicans Seek Middle Ground On Pathway To Citizenship

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.

Discussion: “The Lid”, The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Poor Richard's News

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 …

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, DickMorris.com, Washington Times, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hinterland Gazette

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

BBC:
Commons backs gay marriage bill

Discussion: Truthdig, Religion Dispatches and Outside the Beltway

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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Booman Tribune

The Lede:

North Korean Propaganda Video Imagines a Brighter World, Without Manhattan — Last Updated, 3:52 p.m. When aliens strike, the climate goes berserk, the Russians invade, an asteroid threatens the Earth, New York City is often the first place to be destroyed.

Discussion: msnbc.com and Mashable!

Justin McCurry / Guardian:
North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack

Discussion: Forbes, New York Times, Michelle Malkin, AEIdeas, Sister Toldjah, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, WorldViews and Gawker

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: The Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Gawker, Opinio Juris, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Truthdig, NBCNews.com, Outside the Beltway and Alas, a Blog

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 …

Discussion: Twitchy and Capitol Alert

Reuters:

Bulgaria: Hezbollah behind Burgas attack — After 7-month probe, Bulgarian interior minister announces that 2 Hezbollah terrorists involved in Burgas suicide bombing. — SOFIA - Two individuals with links to Lebanon's Shi'ite group Hezbollah were involved in a bomb attack on a bus …

Discussion: Israel Matzav

New York Times:
Bulgaria Implicates Hezbollah in Deadly Israeli Bus Blast

Discussion: Reuters, ProPublica, National Review, The Volokh Conspiracy and Via Meadia

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

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.”

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com

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 …

Discussion: Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, Pat Dollard and American Power

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.

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.

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, TheBlaze.com, Daily Mail and The Right Scoop

David Virtue / VirtueOnline:

Exclusives : RI Episcopal Bishop Falsely Cites Empirical Evidence to Support Marriage Equalit — Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop Falsely Cites Empirical Evidence to Support Marriage Equality — Religious figures most often extract from their faith when speaking for or against marriage equality.

Discussion: Rhode Island for Marriage and Firedoglake