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5:55 PM ET, October 19, 2013

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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
The crux of Ted Cruz  —  Two things are often said in this town: “A day is a year in politics.”  And, “It's all about 2014.”  —  Combined, the two statements mean that much can happen between now and the midterm elections next year, when Republicans hope to hold the House and gain the Senate …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texans Stick With Cruz Despite Defeat in Washington
Discussion: Liberaland and Althouse
Robert Costa / National Review:
Cruz Warns Senate GOP: ‘Consequences’ for Supporting ‘Lousy Deal’  —  According to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, it's his colleagues, more than anyone, who should be blamed for the failure of the defund-Obamacare campaign — and he expects conservatives to remember come primary season.
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Tyrone on why the government shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis were brilliant Republican strategy  —  Tyrone, my evil twin brother, was in town visiting the other day, after a long absence.  He was upset that I gave so little space to the recent machinations in Washington …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
The HHS Secretary refuses to testify about ObamaCare's rollout.  —  The Affordable Care Act's botched rollout has stunned its media cheering section, and it even seems to have surprised the law's architects.  The problems run much deeper than even critics expected, and whatever federal officials …
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cuccinelli: ObamaCare is embarrassing
Discussion: Politico
CBS News:
Dick Cheney calls his current health “a miracle”  —  Dick Cheney says his current health is “a miracle” in a frank discussion of the heart disease he suffered over his entire political career and especially when he served as the vice president.  In his first interview about his new book …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Albert Hunt / Bloomberg:
The Tea Party, by the Numbers  —  Most Republicans are a normal shade of red; Tea Party Republicans are a deep burgundy.  —  A national poll conducted for Bloomberg News in September shows that Tea Party Republicans are, across the board, more conservative than their fellow party members …
Discussion: PERRspectives
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Monthly:
McConnell Totally Said No Before Saying No Was Cool  —  A number of journalists have been casting about desperately for sources of hope, and some of them have settled on moderate Republicans, especially Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  Paul Kane calls him “perhaps the most accomplished congressional dealmaker of his time.”
David Frum / New York Times:
Peter Baker's ‘Days of Fire’  —  The Bush administration opened with a second Pearl Harbor, ended with a second Great Crash and contained a second Vietnam in the middle.  —  The story of those eight years would seem far too vast to contain inside a single volume.  Yet here that volume is.
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Daisy Coleman / xoJane:
I'm Daisy Coleman, The Teenager At The Center Of The Maryville Rape Media Storm, And This Is What Really Happened  —  You may have heard my story, thanks to Anonymous who trended #justice4daisy.  I'm not done fighting yet.  —  Winter: cold, bleak, bitter, ugly.
Discussion: American Spectator
Cheryl Wetzstein / Washington Times:
Transgender advocates want free mammograms under Obamacare  —  News that an uninsured transgender woman in Colorado was denied a free mammogram has prompted two advocacy groups to petition the federal government for equality in screening.  —  “That is irrational discrimination, plain and simple …
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Watch Megyn Kelly Desperately Try To Rein In Sarah Palin  —  Megyn Kelly had Sarah Palin on her new show on Thursday night, and the interview went about as you would expect it to go.  Our favorite part came in the first couple of minutes.  —  Kelly set Palin up nicely …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
 
 
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Brown tops two Democratic rivals in early poll in Maryland's 2014 race for governor
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Dustin Weaver / The Hill:
Regulators fire up engines again (Video)
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Joe Scarborough / Politico:
GOP isn't learning from its mistakes
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Potemkin Parliament  —  Washington's governing systems are in a bad way.
Reid Wilson / GovBeat:
The solution to hyper-partisanship already exists, and it doesn't involve gerrymandering
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Are Private Schools Worth It?
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
US drone strikes violate international law, says UN
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Jackson's stump stories of childhood deprivation challenged by acquaintances
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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