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Health-Law Employer Mandate Said to Be Delayed to 2015 — Businesses won't be penalized next year if they don't provide workers health insurance after the Obama administration decided to delay a key requirement under its health-care law, two administration officials said.
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Continuing to Implement the ACA in a Careful, Thoughtful Manner — Over the past several months, the Administration has been engaging in a dialogue with businesses - many of which already provide health coverage for their workers - about the new employer and insurer reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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ObamaCare employer mandate delayed until after 2014 midterms — The ObamaCare employer mandate requiring businesses to provide their workers with health insurance will be delayed by a year, the administration said Tuesday in a stunning announcement. — Delaying the requirement until 2015 represents …
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Obama Administration to Delay Health Law Requirement Until 2015
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Davis popular, but Gubernatorial bid a long shot — PPP's new Texas poll finds that Wendy Davis made a good impression on voters in the state last week- but that Rick Perry has also enhanced his political standing considerably over the last five months, making him tough to beat for reelection.
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I Don't Stand With Wendy Davis — Stand with the pink-sneakered Texas legislator and her fight to allow mothers to abort babies past the 20th week of pregnancy? Never—and most women wouldn't either, says Kirsten Powers. — Eric Gay/AP — It's amazing what is considered heroism these days.

First on CNN: Perry to announce political future on Monday — Washington (CNN) - Rick Perry is inviting close friends and supporters to an event next Monday in San Antonio where he is expected to announce if he plans to seek an unprecedented fourth full term as Texas governor, CNN has learned.
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Glenn Greenwald: New bombshell coming — Another big National Security Agency scoop is coming soon, Glenn Greenwald said on Monday. — “I will say that there are vast programs, both domestic and international spying, that the world will be shocked to learn about, that the NSA is engaged …
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The Washington Post Is a Bitter, Jealous Little Newspaper — The Washington Post, the pre-Politico newsletter of choice for The Political Establishment, has the worst opinion section in America. Today, they once again prove why: the paper, which helped to break the NSA Prism spying story …
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Plugging the leaks in the Edward Snowden case
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Don't fear the leaker: Column
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Greenwald Slams Obama On Fox & Friends: Targeting Snowden ‘To Intimidate Future Whistle Blowers’
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Bolivia FM denies Snowden on Morales plane — LA PAZ — Bolivia's foreign minister on Tuesday denied that fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was traveling aboard President Evo Morales's plane, which was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Austria.
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BOLIVIAN LEADER'S PLANE REROUTED ON SNOWDEN FEAR
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Snowden's asylum options dwindle
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Exclusive: Egypt army plan would scrap constitution, parliament - sources — (Reuters) - Egypt's armed forces would suspend the constitution and dissolve an Islamist-dominated parliament under a draft political roadmap to be pursued if Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and his opponents fail …
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Journalist dead, 1 raped, more attacked in Egypt
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As Egypt Showdown Looms, Protesters Tap ElBaradei
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Dan Balz Book: Mitt Romney Voted Against 2012 Run In Family Poll — WASHINGTON — Over the Christmas break of 2010, Mitt Romney and his family took an internal poll on whether he should run for president once more. Twelve family members cast ballots. Ten said no. One of the 10 was Mitt Romney himself.
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Dan Balz book: Christie a wanted man in 2012
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‘All he did was love me’: Heartbreaking moment police shoot and kill dog that was defending owner when officers arrested him for FILMING them — Leon Rosby, 52, was walking his dog and video-tapping a police scene when he was arrested for obstruction of justice
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Hawthorne police kill dog during arrest of owner, video of shooting goes viral
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How the GOP stopped worrying about Latinos and learned to love the base — In a June 23, 2012 photo, Mauricia Horta Fuentes, 36, at the fence marking the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo by Gregory Bull/AP) — If the 2012 election was a wakeup call for Republicans to address …
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2016 forecast: Rubio, Bush, Ryan have chance to win over 40% of Latino vote
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And They Wonder Why Everyone Isn't with Them — Here's just two of the super-classy, super-clever signs abortion rights activists are carrying around in Texas. — More here. — This is a fundamental disadvantage that pro-choice activists have in the public debate.
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Chinese Porn Accidentally Broadcast On Enormous, Public LED Screen (PHOTO) — Unless you're into that whole eating-sushi-off-a-naked-body thing, the words “sex” and “chopsticks” probably don't enter your thought stream at the same juncture. But an unsuspecting crowd at a train station …
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Intelligence director Clapper apologizes for lying to Congress on snooping — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has apologized for a “clearly erroneous” statement he made to Congress over the National Security Agency's surveillance activities.
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Paula Deen Cites Prop 8 Ruling To Defend Herself Against Racism Lawsuit — Paula Deen, the disgraced celebrity chef now mired in allegations of racism from a former employee, is seeking solace from an unusual source — the recent Supreme Court decision that effectively killed California's anti-gay Proposition 8.
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Dennis Rodman to Sports Illustrated: I should be considered for Nobel Peace Prize — Dennis Rodman appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated's. ‘Where Are They Now?’ issue. (Clay Patrick McBride for Sports Illustrated) — Sports Illustrated's annual “Where Are They Now?” …
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It's Uphill All the Way for Social Conservatives — Although the seemingly unstoppable march of cultural liberalism took pause during the years of Ronald Reagan and even into the 1990s, it is back on track. Liberals will applaud it and conservatives will dread it, but it is silly to deny its strength.
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Guilty of Being Southern — Media and academic elites prefer …
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FBI trailed Al-Awlaki to hookers, NPR, Bertucci's — In the weeks after the September 11 attacks, the FBI tailed Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki around the Washington area, following him to an NPR interview and watching him as he munched on pizza at Bertucci's, according to documents obtained …
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Dem quits Hispanic Caucus to protest Senate immigration bill border measures — A Texas lawmaker has quit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to protest the group's tacit endorsement of a Senate-passed immigration proposal. — Rep. Filemon Vela, a freshman Democrat representing …
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Boehner's immigration win-win
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What if Hillary Clinton passes on 2016? — For Democrats, there is no fallback: It's Hillary Clinton or probably a long bout of depression ahead of 2016. — With expectations hitting a fever pitch three-and-a-half years out that Clinton is running for president again, every move she makes …
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