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4:25 PM ET, August 17, 2013

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The White House:
WEEKLY ADDRESS: Working to Implement the Affordable Care Act  —  WASHINGTON, DC— In this week's address, President Obama said we are on the way to fully implementing the Affordable Care Act and helping millions of Americans.  Unfortunately, a group of Republicans in Congress are working …
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CNN:
Obama says Republicans want to ‘confuse people’  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama continued to promote his signature health care reform on Saturday and argued Republicans are trying to “confuse people” about the law.  —  His comments come as some GOP members in Congress have called …
Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Gets Fact Checked By His Own Constituents On Obamacare: ‘Stop Lying!’  —  Things got heated for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) during a town hall question-and-answer session in White Haven, Florida on Thursday.  His constituents called him out over his multiple votes to repeal …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A professional clown is a serious clown.  —  In “Beyond Good and Evil,” Nietzsche observed that “a man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play.”  Such might be the credo of the professional clown.  —  Yes, the professional clown.
Discussion: Power Line and Althouse
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Judy Quest / CNN:
A real clown wouldn't mock Obama
Discussion: Power Line
BBC:
Security forces ‘clear Cairo mosque’  —  Egypt's security forces have cleared a Cairo mosque after a long stand-off with Muslim Brotherhood supporters barricaded inside, state media says.  —  All the protesters have now been taken out of the mosque, and many have been arrested, security forces say.
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Charles A. Kupchan / New York Times:
Democracy in Egypt Can Wait  —  WASHINGTON — THE Egyptian military's bloody crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood is yet another sign of the dark side of the Arab awakening.  Across the Middle East, glimmerings of democracy are being snuffed out by political turmoil and violence.
New York Post:
Vote Stringer & give ‘Client 9’ the hook  —  Officially, the candidate has been hitting the city's churches on Sundays asking for a shot at redemption.  But anyone who watches a Spitzer campaign ad gets his real message: I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special.  I have tiger blood running in my veins.
Brian Chasnoff / MySanAntonio.com:
Elisa Chan reveals homophobic views in secret recording  —  “So disgusting!”  —  That exclamation escaped the lips of District 9 Councilwoman Elisa Chan on May 21 in her City Hall office, where she was meeting with members of her staff to discuss the city's proposal to update …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney aide calls RNC vote to block CNN, NBC from debates ‘bad optics’  —  A top adviser to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday it was a mistake for the Republican National Committee (RNC) to ban NBC and CNN from hosting debates during the 2016 primaries, saying the unanimous vote would create “bad optics.”
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Suspends the Law.  What Would Lincoln Say?  —  The current president's hero tried to abide by the Constitution and enlist Congress's support.  —  The Obama administration announced last month via blog post that the president was unilaterally suspending ObamaCare's employer mandate—notwithstanding the clear command of the law.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Idiot Big Brother  —  On Thursday, the Washington Post's revelation of thousands upon thousands of National Security Agency violations of both the law and supposed privacy protections included this fascinating detail:  —  A “large number” of Americans had their telephone calls accidentally intercepted …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Naomi Schaefer Riley / Wall Street Journal:
Russell Moore: From Moral Majority to ‘Prophetic Minority’  —  The new leader of the Southern Baptist political arm says Christians have lost the culture and need to act accordingly.  —  'The Bible Belt is collapsing," says Russell Moore.  Oddly, the incoming president …
Julian Sanchez / Politico:
Where's the oversight on NSA spying?  —  An explosive Washington Post exposé has revealed that the National Security Agency has trouble following its own lax rules: An internal audit caught 2,776 “compliance incidents” at NSA headquarters alone in a single year …
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Blake Neff / Hillicon Valley:
Feinstein: National Security Agency never ‘intentionally abused its authority’
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
 
 
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Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Heather Waliga / WTVD-TV:
Undocumented students push for change to tuition policy
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Guardian:
Angela Merkel launches re-election bid amid cacophony of spying scandal
Tom Harper / The Independent:
Exclusive: Met investigating Rupert Murdoch firm News International as 'corporate suspect …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Don't Count On Government to Do Your Saving for You
Discussion: Instapundit and National Review
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Brown Cheered in Second Act, at Least So Far
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Republicans call for Senate passage of ObamaCare delay
Discussion: CNN
Radley Balko / The Huffington Post:
Texas Police Hit Organic Farm With Massive SWAT Raid
Harry J Enten / Guardian:
Barack Obama's lost youth
Robert Stanton / Houston Chronicle:
Harris deputy sues family who called 911 for help
 

 
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