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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama's health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Yet Another White House Obamacare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015 — First, there was the delay of Obamacare's Medicare cuts until after the election. Then there was the delay of the law's employer mandate. Then there was the announcement, buried in the Federal Register …
Peter Maass / New York Times:
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets — This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11
Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11
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Peter Maass / New York Times:
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
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FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — August 13, 2013 - De Blasio Leads See-Saw New York City Mayoral Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Stop-And-Frisk Could Be Helping New Front-Runner — With strong support from white Democratic likely primary voters and voters critical of the so- called stop-and-frisk police tactic …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The Gray Lady Has a Crush on ‘Gangly Liberal’ Bill de Blasio
The Gray Lady Has a Crush on ‘Gangly Liberal’ Bill de Blasio
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News Desk, Guardian, Politicker and New York Times
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The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship — Today, the White House released a report detailing the economic benefits of providing a path to earned citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living and working in the U.S. shadow economy.
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Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent Civilization,’ Will Bring ‘More Violence’ To America
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Politico, Mediaite, The Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama could ‘basically legalize’ millions of immigrants if reform fails
Rubio: Obama could ‘basically legalize’ millions of immigrants if reform fails
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Post Politics, ThinkProgress, The Plum Line, Politico and Hot Air
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A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down — WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama's health care bill.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
50 Years Later, Fighting the Same Civil Rights Battle — WASHINGTON — John Lewis was the 23-year-old son of Alabama sharecroppers and already a veteran of the civil rights movement when he came to the capital 50 years ago this month to deliver a fiery call for justice on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Lewis Says He Will Back Hillary Clinton for President if She Runs
Lewis Says He Will Back Hillary Clinton for President if She Runs
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's next act: The family foundation
Hillary Clinton's next act: The family foundation
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Washington Monthly, CNN, First Read, The Democratic Daily, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, Taegan Goddard's … and Hot Air
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Don't vote for Cory Booker today — Today New Jersey Democrats will decide who will be their nominee for the United States Senate. The winner of today's primary election will be the heavy favorite in the general election. If any New Jersey voters are reading, and they have not yet voted …
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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review — The Obama administration is denying that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, will control a review of the government's surveillance programs. — Privacy advocates expressed dismay on Monday …
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Hit & Run, TechCrunch, Techdirt, The Verge and The White House
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself
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americanthinker.com
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400 US surface-to-air missiles were ‘STOLEN’ from Libya during the Benghazi attack and are ‘now in the hands of Al Qaeda’, claims whistleblower — Four hundred American surface-to-air missiles were ‘taken from Libya’ during the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
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Until Last Week, The Official Policy Of One Virginia City Was To Assume All Rape Victims Were Lying — Until last week, Norfolk, Virginia police classified sexual assault claims to be “unfounded” — or not valid — by default. According to the Virginian-Pilot, a 22-year-old woman's case …
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The Raw Story
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Porn Professor Hugo Schwyzer Comes Clean About His Twitter Meltdown and Life as a Fraud — He built a successful, if divisive, career as a ‘male feminist’ and porn advocate. Then his life fell apart—on Twitter. He talks to Richard Abowitz about what fueled his epic meltdown.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Althouse, Taylor Marsh and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, a Political Scientist Unafraid to Talk God, Has Died — “We're in real danger of reducing the person to his or her genotype,” she warned in 2001. — “Public intellectuals, much of the time at least, should be party poopers,” Jean Bethke Elshtain declared in 2001.
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Power Line
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Ignoring the realities of NYC crime — New York's 20-year reprieve from debilitating violence may well be over. Yesterday, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department has been willfully targeting blacks and Hispanics for unlawful stop …
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National Review, FreedomWorks, Lawyers, Guns & Money, American Prospect, msnbc.com and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Why I signed the Voter ID/election reform bill — The common sense, election reforms I just signed into law will protect the integrity of one of the most precious rights guaranteed in our state constitution, the right to vote. — Voter photo identification is the central element of these reforms.
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Thoughts on the Road Ahead in North Carolina
Thoughts on the Road Ahead in North Carolina
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ThinkProgress, Politico, The Hinterland Gazette, Off the Kuff and Raleigh News & Observer
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Tackling the Roots of Rape — Steubenville. The Naval Academy. Vanderbilt University. The stories of young men sexually assaulting young women seem never to stop, despite all the education we've had and all the progress we've supposedly made, and there are times when I find myself darkly wondering …
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NewsBusters, Shakesville and The Dish
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Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky — For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by The Cable reveals for the first time that the agency …
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The Raw Story and Mediaite
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Should Not Spend 25 Years in Prison — They're collateral damage in the Boston Marathon bombing. — Last week, Carmen Ortiz, Boston's top federal prosecutor, indicted Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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TalkLeft and Jihad Watch
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Post v. Putin — Whose Side Are You On? — The culture war has gone global. — And the divisions are not only between, but within nations. — “Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno. “I mean, this seems like Germany. Let's round up the Jews. Let's round up the gays. ...
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Equality Matters, Booman Tribune and The Raw Story
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In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy — In the wake of ‘Clown-gate’ at the Missouri State Fair, it appears that professional rodeo clowns will think twice before mocking the president. — But in 1994, Douglas A. Campbell, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicled a rodeo clown even featuring George H.W. Bush.
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Weasel Zippers and National Review
Meredith Shiner / The World's Greatest …:
McConnell: ‘Shutting Down the Government Will Not Stop Obamacare’ — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a crowd at a health care forum in Kentucky on Tuesday that while he does not like the president's health care law, shutting down the government over funding it “will not stop” it from existing.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama grabs fried seafood takeout for lunch with Jarrett — President Obama's fourth day on a dreary Martha's Vineyard saw the president stop by a snack bar on the waterfront for fried seafood and then swing by the vacation home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for lunch.
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Weasel Zippers
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Labrador to announce political plans Wednesday — Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said this afternoon he will announce his future political plans during a press conference Wednesday though he gave no indication of the exact time or location. — The two-term congressman from Idaho's First District …
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Politico, Post Politics and Roll Call