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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Actually, Senate GOP can't filibuster to defund Obamacare — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE SENATE HEALTH CARE TED CRUZ — Senate Republicans, along with GOP lawmakers in the House, know that Sen. Ted Cruz and his colleagues don't have the votes to pass a continuing resolution to defund Obamacare.
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Washington Monthly, National Review and Outside the Beltway
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Ted Cruz Punches Back — Even among Republicans, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is one of Washington's most divisive figures. Activists love him, but leadership staffers and many of his colleagues can't stand him — especially his latest effort to connect a government-spending bill with the defunding of Obamacare.
Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
Inside Boehner's Plan To Avoid Shutdown (And Wound Obamacare) — Forget Friday's big spending bill vote. House leaders know the Senate will reject it and are ready to respond. Here's the GOP playbook. — House Republicans have orchestrated a master plan to avoid a government shutdown …
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USA Today, NBCNews, First Read, Washington Post, The World's Greatest … and Politico
Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
The Republicans Who Fear a Shutdown — They aren't in Washington—and they're very worried about driving away independent voters. — Thirty-three percent. That's President Obama's approval rating among white voters, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week.
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Politico and First Read
David Weigel / Slate:
Welcome to the Republican Party's make-believe fight to defund Obamacare.
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The New Republic, Achenblog, BillMoyers.com, Fox News, American Thinker, Post Politics and Talking Points Memo
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Why Ted Cruz Might Be Right About Defunding Obamacare in the Senate
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The Hill, The Huffington Post and Roll Call
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
House Republicans Pass Deep Cuts in Food Stamps
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Washington Post, The Week, The Raw Story, Daily Kos and National Review
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Rep. King on defund plan: ‘Custer, Kamikaze’
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Politico, Business Insider, DownWithTyranny!, Connecting.the.Dots and The Hill
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The real Navy Yard scandal — In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.” — It's always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard …
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The PJ Tatler and Betsy's Page
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Fault Mental Health System Most for Gun Violence — Half say gun laws should be stricter, down from 58% after Newtown — PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-eight percent of Americans blame the mental health system “a great deal” for mass shootings in the United States, unchanged from January 2011.
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Post Politics and Politico
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Firm that ran background check on Snowden also vetted Navy Yard shooter
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ABC News
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Navy Yard rampage began with gunman's colleagues, sources and witnesses say
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Not all mass shootings are equal in the eyes of the media or the public
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
Tamara Cohen / Daily Mail:
World's top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years — Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years, it is claimed.
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Weasel Zippers, Climate Depot and Vox Popoli
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Owen Bennett / Daily Express:
What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up
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Althouse and Daily Pundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Crazy Party — Early this year, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, made headlines by telling his fellow Republicans that they needed to stop being the “stupid party.” Unfortunately, Mr. Jindal failed to offer any constructive suggestions about how they might do that.
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The Federalist, Power Line, msnbc.com, PostPartisan, PoliticusUSA, American Spectator, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Andrew Rafferty / First Read:
Rand Paul says recent GOP wins a roadmap for party's future — CHANTILLY, Va. — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said on Thursday that Republicans have been “winning” recent Washington battles and laid out a roadmap for how the party can use the victories to appeal to key voting blocks that fueled President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election.
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Talking Points Memo and Prairie Weather
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Wall Street Journal:
Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges … Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
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Forbes, National Review, The Heritage Foundation, The PJ Tatler, Washington Free Beacon and Corrente
Politico:
Pelosi unplugged — Striking a tone of disgust, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ridicules the GOP as obsessed with its loathing of President Obama and hell-bent on hurting him politically, regardless the cost. She assigns little to no blame to the president (even though Democrats privately …
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Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com, The Gateway Pundit, Right Wing News, The Hill and Daily Kos
Hassan Rouhani / Washington Post:
Why Iran seeks constructive engagement — Hassan Rouhani is president of Iran. — Three months ago, my platform of “prudence and hope” gained a broad, popular mandate. Iranians embraced my approach to domestic and international affairs because they saw it as long overdue.
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New York Times, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Week, AEIdeas, Consortiumnews.com, Gawker, NBCNews, Via Meadia, The Hill and CNN
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Poison at the heart of Labour: Damaging questions for Miliband and Balls as explosive book reveals Brown's spin doctor ran smear campaigns from Downing Street — The toxic culture of spin, smears and feuding at the heart of New Labour is laid bare today in an explosive political memoir.
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Republican Launches Personal Attack Against Keystone XL Activist At Congressional Hearing — On Thursday, a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline ended with an ugly exchange between a Republican congressman and a Nebraska grassroots organizer.
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Rolling Stone and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Politico:
Hillary Clinton all but running — Dismissive sighs, weary eye-rolls, mocking rejoinders: these have been the favored tactics of Hillary Rodham Clinton's team of aides and allies when confronted with questions about the state of her thinking on whether to run for president again in 2016.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Spitting on Their Graves: Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families of Victims — During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused …
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
How to End the Obamacare Debate — The Obama administration has to start being able to demonstrate the law is working. — Even amid the high-stakes maneuvering over Syria and the federal budget, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has a calendar on his office door that counts …
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