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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Told Caucus That Pete Sessions Was Behind Obama Insult, Senators Say — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told his Democratic caucus last week in a private meeting that a top House Republican said to President Barack Obama, “I cannot even stand to look at you …
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Trash-talking the president
Trash-talking the president
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
ObamaCare website contractors blame Obama administration — Principal contractors hired to build the ObamaCare website HealthCare.gov are hitting back at the Obama administration for the site's overwhelming technical problems. — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …
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New York Times:
Republicans, Sensing Weakness in Health Law Rollout, Switch Tactics — WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the intense public criticism surrounding the rollout of the online insurance exchange, Republicans in Congress are refocusing their efforts from denying funds for the health care law to investigating it.
Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan — The HealthCare.gov debacle has been thoroughly dissected so far by America's best health journalists and policy analysts. To be sure, every major rollout of a new or changed social policy, including Medicare itself, is rough and takes weeks or months to resolve.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Contractors Assign Blame, but Admit No Faults of Their Own, in Health Site
Contractors Assign Blame, but Admit No Faults of Their Own, in Health Site
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: House GOP pivots from Obamacare to Obamacare
The Morning Plum: House GOP pivots from Obamacare to Obamacare
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Americans will have an extra six weeks to buy health coverage before facing penalty
Americans will have an extra six weeks to buy health coverage before facing penalty
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Cole Premo / CBS Minnesota:
Rep. Nolan: Firings Needed Over Health Law Woes
Rep. Nolan: Firings Needed Over Health Law Woes
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Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats — A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street. — Thanks to a plan by President Obama to create a “unisex” look for the Corps …
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts — • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official — • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ — • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges
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EndPlay / WIVB-TV:
Hillary Clinton speaks at UB, is heckled … AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) - Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to a large crowd at the University at Buffalo Wednesday night, as part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series.
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Matea Gold / Post Politics:
George Soros joins Ready for Hillary national finance council
George Soros joins Ready for Hillary national finance council
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New York Times:
Health Care Law Fails to Lower Prices for Rural Areas — As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama's health care law, evidence is emerging that one of the program's loftiest goals — to encourage competition among insurers in an effort to keep costs low — is falling short for many rural Americans.
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Lucy Kinder / Telegraph:
‘Offensive’ Halloween costumes banned by US university — University of Colorado Boulder tells students to avoid costumes including cowboys, indians, white trash or anything potentially deemed offensive — University students in America have been told not to wear “offensive” …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
How The Pope Could Tear Apart The Religious Right — Conservative Christians revolt against the new pope's new tone. “That man needs to read his Bible,” says one evangelical. — John Gara — WASHINGTON — As political spectators gawk at the “civil war” currently engulfing congressional Republicans …
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Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
The Decline of Wikipedia — The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other.
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Baltimore Sun:
Gansler says breaking up teen party was not his job — Attorney general has advocated against underage drinking — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (white shirt with cell phone, right of center) is seen in a photo posted to Instagram from a senior week party in Delaware this summer.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Medicaid could be the next headache for Obamacare — A new phase of the Obamacare launch is coming, this one involving Medicaid. And it could be déjà vu all over again. — On Nov. 1, the health law's malfunctioning enrollment system is supposed to send reams of data to states …
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:
The Biggest Economy Killer: Our Government — The government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis inflicted a toll on the American economy, but that cost is only a fraction of the total damage that the federal government has been causing to the American economy.
Nicholas G. Hahn III / RealClearReligion:
The Devil and Herman Cain — It's been two years since allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced, but Herman Cain is finally fighting back. — The former Republican presidential hopeful gave RealClearReligion an exclusive look at evidence he'll be using in a soon-to-be published column …
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Russell Brand / New Statesman:
Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition” — But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think. — When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me.
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Here's The Conversation We Should Really Be Having About Obamacare And Part-Time Work — Republicans like to warn that Obamacare is pushing droves of people into part-time work. — House Speaker John Boehner has said “millions” of Americans can only find part-time work because of the law.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island — I've been blogging a lot over the past week or so about the risk of an insurance market “death spiral” — where young people stay away, so the only people buying insurance are old and sick, causing the cost of insurance to rise over time and pushing ever …
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother — JACKSON, Wis. — Alicia Beltran cried with fear and disbelief when county sheriffs surrounded her home on July 18 and took her in handcuffs to a holding cell. — She was 14 weeks pregnant and thought she had done the right thing when …
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Jaclyn Friedman / American Prospect:
A Good Men's Rights Movement Is Hard to Find — Only once the production crew taped the microphone on my dress did I have second thoughts. As part of an upcoming 20/20 special, I'd agreed to a sit-down with Paul Elam. Elam is founder and publisher of A Voice For Men (AVFM) …
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Fox News:
Dems join call to delay ObamaCare mandate amid website failures — Several Democratic senators are calling on the Obama administration to delay enforcement of the health care law's individual mandate, joining their Republican colleagues in saying it would be unfair to penalize Americans …
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