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11:20 PM ET, May 30, 2013

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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Rate Shock: In California, Obamacare to Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums by 64-146%  —  One of the most serious flaws with Obamacare is that its blizzard of regulations and mandates drives up the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own.
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White House.gov Blog:
Affordable Care Act Increases Insurance Choices
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
One Way Obamacare May Already Be Working
Discussion: National Review
John B. Judis / New Republic:   Documented Flaws  —  The immigration bill's disturbing fine print
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Fox's Erick Erickson: It's ‘Anti-Science’ To Not Believe Men Should ‘Dominate’ Women  —  Appearing on a Fox Business panel Wednesday evening, Fox contributor Erick Erickson suggested it is “anti-science” to reject the biological claim that men should be in the “dominant” role in the nuclear family.
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Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
Watch the Men of Fox News Freak Out Over Female Breadwinners  —  Most of the time, conservatives pooh-pooh the pay gap as a result of women's “choice” to work less and attend to the home more.  They're not against equality, they assure us, but equality just naturally fails on its own because women make it so!
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Fox Contributor Says Men Should Dominate Women
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and susiemadrak.com
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  May 30, 2013 - American Voters 4-1 Want Special Prosecutor For IRS, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Fixing Economy Is More Important, Voters Say 3-1  —  American voters say 76 - 17 percent, including 63 - 30 percent among Democrats, that a special prosecutor …
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
I THINK I KNOW WHAT MIGHT SAVE MSNBC  —  There's a lot of talk about the fact that MSNBC's ratings have been way down for the past couple of months.  A number of factors seem to be responsible for this: people are turning instead to CNN and HLN for real news (the Boston bombings) and fake news …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Eric Holder to media: I get it  —  Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern on Thursday about how the Department of Justice has handled recent media investigations at an off-the-record meeting with leading representatives of the press, according to those who were present.
Discussion: White House Dossier
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Carol Cratty / CNN:
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Truth May Hurt, But Is Not Mean  —  Many feminist and emo lefties have their panties in a wad over my statements in the past 24 hours about families.  I said, in a statement reflecting the view of three quarters of those surveyed in a Pew Research Center poll, that more women being the primary …
Aaron Katersky / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Images of Possibly Ricin-Laced Letter to Bloomberg  —  Images obtained exclusively by ABC News of one of the threatening letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg show the substance authorities suspect is the poison ricin.  —  The images show globs of a pinkish …
Discussion: The Reaction
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Associated Press:   Letters To Bloomberg And Obama Contained Threats About Shooting People In The Face Over Gun Control
Illinois Review:
EXCLUSIVE: LERNER INTRIGUE GOES BACK TO '96 DURBIN/SALVI U.S. SENATE RACE  —  CHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics.  Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING>>> Lois Lerner Told Republican in 1996: “Promise me You Will Never Run Again, and We'll Drop This (FEC) Case”
Bloomberg:
The Biggest Supreme Court Ruling You Haven't Heard Of  —  The Supreme Court has yet to decide this year's attention-grabbing cases on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act.  But last week, a divided court decided Arlington v. FCC, an important victory …
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
George W. Bush Bikes With Injured Vets, Reflects On White House Decisions, Life After The Presidency  —  CRAWFORD, Texas — George W. Bush had been riding his mountain bike for almost four hours, and he was out of gas.  —  I was 12 riders behind the former president as we cycled, single file …
Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: House investigators questioning IRS Cincinnati workers  —  Washington (CNN) - House investigators are interviewing two front-line Internal Revenue Service employees from the Cincinnati tax exempt office this week in Washington, and plan to interview two others next week …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why Did the FBI Kill an Unarmed Man and Clam Up?  —  Law enforcement can't get its story straight in the worrisome case of Ibragim Todashev.  —  What led an FBI agent, or some other law enforcement official, to shoot and kill an unarmed man in Orlando, Florida?
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Lands In Fourth Place In May; Maddow Hits Ratings Lows  —  MSNBC got some very tough ratings news on Wednesday.  —  Another month of big crime and disaster news saw the network struggle to keep up with rivals CNN, HLN and Fox News.  MSNBC was presumably expecting some dropoff from its 2012 numbers …
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Conference Call Features Threat To Assassinate U.S. Senator Because She Supports Immigration Reform  —  In a Tea Party-sponsored conference call held on Wednesday night, a participant called for the assassination of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over her support for immigration reform.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2013 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 2013 (preliminary estimate)  —  Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
CBS Pittsburgh:
State Rep. White Accused Of Attacking Shale Supporters Online  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Janice Gibbs is a grandmother and was born and raised in Washington County.  Although she has no drilling lease on her land, she believes that shale gas drilling is great for the local economy.
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
IRS's Shulman had more public White House visits than any cabinet member  —  Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president's Cabinet.
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Bobby Rush rips Mark Kirk's mass gang arrests proposal as ‘elitist white boy solution’  —  Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) is highly critical of a proposal by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) for mass arrests of 18,000 Gangster Disciples, telling the Sun-Times on Wednesday that Kirk's approach is …
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Michelle Hobnobs with the Fashion Elite  —  First Lady Michelle Obama dropped in on New York City's fashion royalty Wednesday night, using her own star power to raise megacash for the Democratic National Committee and her husband's burgeoning effort to help the Democrats seize Congress.
Mary Beth Marklein / Associated Press:
Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning  —  Public universities and systems in nine states say they'll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning.  —  Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based company, is announcing today that it will partner with university systems in Colorado …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Unfogged
Capital Flows / Forbes:
Obamacare's Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy  —  A little-noticed part of President Obama's Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade-and some of that money is going for everything …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Los Angeles Times:
America's China mistake  —  As Beijing becomes more bellicose, Washington clings to the hope that military-to-military relations will somehow relieve tensions.  They won't.  —  China's navy has been invited to participate in the 2014 Rim of the Pacific naval exercise to be held off Hawaii.
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Oprah talks gun control, immigration  —  Oprah Winfrey fired some political shots during a commencement speech at Harvard University on Thursday.  —  “In our political system and the media, we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed, that is self-interested.
Democracy Now:
Web Exclusive: Julian Assange on Fighting the International Crackdown on WikiLeaks  —  In this 40-minute web exclusive interview, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks discusses his more than 300 days in the Ecuadorean embassy, the U.S. Justice Department spying on journalists, the future of WikiLeaks and Visa's financial blockade on WikiLeaks.
 
 
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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Amazon greenlights Trudeau political satire ‘Alpha House’ into full TV series
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Reading Gains Lag Improvements in Math
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
ACLU SUES ARIZONA OVER RACE AND SEX ABORTION BAN
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and LifeNews.com
First Read:
First Thoughts: Obama: 'We've got a politics that's stuck right now'
Discussion: News Desk, FishbowlDC and Politico
Illinois Review:
LEGAL EXPERTS CONCLUDE ILLINOIS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL WORST IN U.S. IN PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Andy Newman / New York Times:
New York Challenges a Coffee Shop Logo
Discussion: Above the Law and Boing Boing
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Meet The Most Powerful Man In The White House You've Never Heard Of
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Harvard 1, Strawman 0  —  To the delight of NY Times headline writers …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
McCain Wasn't Posing With Rebel Kidnapper, Spokesman Says
Rick Madonik / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford video scandal: Mayor Ford said he knew where video was, sources say
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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