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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack — CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly — Benghazi terror attack. — Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens …
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Politico:
Hill gets Obamacare fix — Lawmakers and staff can breathe easy — their health care tab is not going to soar next year. — The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, will issue a ruling that says the government can continue to make a contribution …
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ThinkProgress, americanthinker.com, White House Dossier, The PJ Tatler and Twitchy
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Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Obama Solves Health Care Problem for Lawmakers, Staff (Updated)
Obama Solves Health Care Problem for Lawmakers, Staff (Updated)
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Hot Air
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Here's How Republicans Can Take Over the Senate — There are many opportunities for GOP pickups in states where Democrats are weak. — One difference between professional athletes and fans, and between coaches and cheerleaders, is that while all of them see opportunities for their teams …
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Cincinnati.com, First Read, Politico and Yahoo! News
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Seth Motel / Pew Research Center:
GOP views of Paul, Christie reflect fight over civil liberties
GOP views of Paul, Christie reflect fight over civil liberties
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The Fix, AEIdeas, Ross Douthat, Mediaite, National Review, The Reaction and Post Politics
Weekly Standard:
The Soft Underbelly of Obamacare — For opponents of Obamacare, it almost seems like the law offers too many targets to choose from. Its effects on premiums and costs look to be highly unpopular, its perverse incentives are already harming employment, its state exchanges will hand …
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Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
Six Reasons Hipsters Will Bite on Obamacare — You're a 26-year-old single dude, holding down a pair of part-time jobs tending bar and painting houses, and making about $24,000 a year. Thanks to Obamacare, you can finally get decent health insurance, just like people with full-time jobs at large companies do.
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Wonkblog, VodkaPundit, Balloon Juice, Via Meadia and A plain blog about politics
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google — In what might be Medium's first widespread Twitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the “joint terrorism task force.”
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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops
Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
How fractured is the GOP? — Acombination of early presidential maneuvering and internal policy debate is feeding yet another iteration of that media perennial: the great Republican crackup. This time it's tea party insurgents vs. get-along establishment fogies fighting principally over two things …
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
WHY DEFUNDING OBAMACARE MATTERS, WIN OR LOSE
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Telegraphs Mass Filibuster Of Obama's Top Judges — Senate Republicans are standing firm by their threat to block every one of President Obama's nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, insisting on eliminating all three vacant seats on the country's second most powerful court.
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Taegan Goddard's … and rubber hose
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Todd Ruger / The BLT:
Patricia Millett D.C. Circuit Nomination Heads to Full Senate
Patricia Millett D.C. Circuit Nomination Heads to Full Senate
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The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, PostPartisan and National Review
Mike Judge / The Christian Institute:
Gay couple to sue church over gay marriage opt-out — Wealthy gay dad, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, says he and his civil partner Tony will go to court to force churches to host gay weddings. — He told the Essex Chronicle that he will take legal action because “I am still not getting what I want”.
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Althouse, NOM Blog and The PJ Tatler
New York Times:
Coming to an Old Friend's Aid, With an Eye on the Clinton Image — Moments before Huma Abedin stood amid a phalanx of television cameras last week and announced to a national audience that she was standing by her embattled husband, Anthony D. Weiner, she made a quick phone call to a trusted colleague.
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First Read, Politicker and The Huffington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Kerry Lauds Egypt Military for ‘Restoring Democracy’ — Diplomat Gives Administration's Strongest Endorsement Yet for Morsi's Ouster — Secretary of State John Kerry gave his strongest approval yet to Egypt's military ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, praising the country's leading generals …
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Via Meadia and The Hill
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Times Free Press:
Free Press editor Drew Johnson has been terminated after placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures. — Johnson's headline, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” appeared on the Free Press page Tuesday …
The Smoking Gun:
Hacker Forces Colin Powell To Deny Affair — Ex-Secretary of State told foreign diplomat to delete her e-mails — As a notorious hacker seeks to distribute “very personal” e-mails sent to Colin Powell by a female Romanian diplomat, the retired general is denying that he engaged …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Politico, The Hill and The Huffington Post
Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Ninth woman accuses San Diego mayor Filner of sexual harassment — A ninth woman has emerged to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) of sexual harassment. — Emily Gilbert, who was hired to sing at a fundraiser days after Filner took office in December, told Fox5 that Filner grabbed her inappropriately at the event.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sex, Money and Gravitas — Can a woman effectively run the Federal Reserve? That shouldn't even be a question. And Janet Yellen, the vice chairwoman of the Fed's Board of Governors, isn't just up to the job; by any objective standard, she's the best-qualified person in America to take over when Ben Bernanke steps down as chairman.
Olivia Williams / Daily Mail:
'I'm a Pastafarian': Man who claims his religion forces him to wear a sieve on his head given permission to wear one on his official identity card picture — A man who wears a sieve on his head for religious reasons has been allowed to wear his bizarre headgear on his official identity card.
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ThinkProgress, Joe. My. God. and ViralRead
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Boehner's burden: ObamaCare — For Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Obamacare is the predicament that won't go away. — The Speaker is leading a House Republican conference that wants to dismantle President Obama's signature, contentious achievement by any means necessary but can't quite agree on the best way to kill it.
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The Plum Line and NationalJournal.com
Colleen Henry / WISN Milwaukees Channel 12:
Armed agents raid animal shelter for baby deer — WISN 12 News investigates an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn. — “It was like a SWAT team,” shelter employee Ray Schulze said.