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10:35 AM ET, October 14, 2013

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CNN:
Rallier tells Obama to ‘put the Quran down’  —  Washington (CNN) - Angered by the closure of national landmarks due to the partial government shutdown, a crowd of conservatives removed barricades Sunday at the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial as they rallied against President Barack Obama …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Crowd Heckles Cops at White House: ‘Brown Shirts,’ ‘Looks Like Something Out of Kenya’  —  As we reported earlier, a protest that started at the World War II Memorial ended up in front of the White House, where protesters piled up barricades that had been used to keep people out of the memorial during the government shutdown.
Discussion: Liberaland
Lindsay Abrams / Salon:
D.C. protestors wave Confederate flag, tell Obama to “put the Quran down”  —  Anti-Obama sentiment abounded at a Sunday morning rally  —  About 200 people, counting among their ranks Republican Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz and former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, converged on D.C.'s World War II memorial Sunday morning.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rage & Performance Art
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Photos From the Million Vets March [Updated With Ridicule of Liberals]
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Twitchy and Ed Driscoll
Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:
#1MVetMarch: Barrycades down! Spite House barricades no match for Million Vets March [photos]
Joe Manchin / CNN:
Manchin: Senate is 70%-80% close to a deal  —  (CNN) - The Senate is 70% to 80% close to a deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, said Monday on CNN's “New Day.”  —  “I think we're 70%-80% there, putting the extra 20-25% to it,” he told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
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Ashley Alman / The Huffington Post:
Louie Gohmert: A Debt Default Is ‘An Impeachable Offense By The President’  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) isn't sure whether he'll support a debt limit deal, but he is sure of one thing: a debt default would be President Barack Obama's fault.  —  A reporter for The Young Turks asked Gohmert whether …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The ire next time  —  Whatever else came out of the shutdown …
Discussion: The Hill, Roll Call and CNN
The Fix:
Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell don't get along. That's a major hurdle to a fiscal deal.
Robert Costa / National Review:
Divided and Uneasy  —  As the debt-ceiling deadline nears …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Politico:
Government shutdown: House GOP ponders own short-term debt bill
Discussion: Hot Air and Business Insider
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Dixiecrat Solution  —  So you have this neighbor who has been making your life hell.  First he tied you up with a spurious lawsuit; you're both suffering from huge legal bills.  Then he threatened bodily harm to your family.  Now, however, he says he's willing to compromise …
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Obamacare: The Rest of the Story  —  Unless you've been bamboozled by the frantic fictions of the right wing, you know that the Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare, has begun to accomplish its first goal: enrolling millions of uninsured Americans, many of whom have been living …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Susan Page / USA Today:
Colo. governor suggests gun-control groups stay away  —  WASHINGTON — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper suggests national gun-control groups stay away from a looming recall battle that could switch control of the state Senate to the GOP.  The groups poured money into an unsuccessful defense …
Discussion: Hot Air
Healthcare Reform:
Obamacare enrollees become urban legend  —  Will the Floridians who have enrolled for Obamacare please stand up?  —  Nearly two weeks after the federal government launched the online Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov, individuals who have successfully used the choked-up website …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP seizes advantage on Obamacare, White House struggles to defend: An alternative history of the past two months  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE PRESIDENT HEALTH CARE DEBT CEILING ECONOMY GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  What if, instead of throwing its political energy …
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Baghdad Bobs of Obamacare
Richard Pollock / Washington Examiner:
Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design  —  WATCHDOG OBAMACARE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT ACCOUNTABILITY GAO  —  Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Fearing a lost governor's race, Virginia Republicans confront party divide  —  With just three weeks remaining before the election, Republican leaders in Virginia fear that their nominee, Ken Cuccinelli II, is on his way to losing the governor's race and that the party will squander command …
Discussion: NBCNews, Politico and First Read
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
IMPEACH OBAMA! … By the time that long-obscure, lately apposite sentence became part of the Constitution, on July 9, 1868, the insurrection that occasioned it had been thoroughly, and bloodily, suppressed.  Throughout the Civil War and afterward, Republicans in Congress had enacted …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Mark Halperin: GOP ‘terms of surrender’  —  Veteran political journalist Mark Halperin said Monday that Democrats know they are winning the battle over the government shutdown and all that's left is negotiating the Republicans' “surrender.”  —  “It's just a question of the terms of surrender right now …
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
New York Times:
World Leaders Press the U.S. on Fiscal Crisis  —  WASHINGTON — Leaders at World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings on Sunday pleaded, warned and cajoled: the United States must raise its debt ceiling and reopen its government or risk “massive disruption the world over,” …
Discussion: Gawker, PoliticusUSA and DealBook
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:   World should ‘de-Americanise’, says China
 
 
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Michael Lind / Salon:
The South is holding America hostage
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Dem says shutdown helping recruiting
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is one big lie
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Michael Goldfarb / New York Times:
London's Great Exodus
Discussion: Spectator and BBC
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
For the GOP, rightward ho!
Discussion: Daily Kos
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IDF uncovers Palestinian terrorist tunnel leading from Gaza to kibbutz in Israel
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Senate chaplain knocks shutdown ‘insanity’
 

 
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