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Carter Evans / CBS News:
Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage — The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings — The president needs to apply an overdue reality check to the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act. — A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site October 1, 2013. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images))
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period — Ten Senate Democrats have signed a letter urging the Obama administration to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period beyond March 31. — The letter, which follows a similar letter that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
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Politico:
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013 — House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year. — The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill — For President Obama and advocates hoping for a House vote on immigration reform this year, the reality is simple: Fat chance. — Obama repeatedly since the shutdown has sought to turn the nation's focus to immigration reform …
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Megan Slack / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: We Should Pass Immigration Reform, and We Should Do It this Year
President Obama: We Should Pass Immigration Reform, and We Should Do It this Year
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ImmigrationProf Blog and National Review
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO finds much less savings from raising Medicare age — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday dramatically lowered its estimate of the amount of budget savings to be gained from raising the Medicare eligibility age. — The CBO now says that raising the Medicare age slowly …
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Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Reid: 'There's Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain'
Reid: 'There's Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain'
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
New Budget Numbers May Kill A Medicare Age Hike
New Budget Numbers May Kill A Medicare Age Hike
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Washington Monthly
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S. — U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor …
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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
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Germany and France demand talks with US over NSA spying revelations
Germany and France demand talks with US over NSA spying revelations
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
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Techdirt and Talking Points Memo
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Here's The Racist ‘Daily Show’ Interview That Cost A Local GOP Chair His Job — A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on “The Daily Show” Wednesday, in which he said “lazy black people” want “the government to give them everything.”
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Resigns After Criticizing ‘Lazy Black People’ (VIDEO)
NC GOPer Resigns After Criticizing ‘Lazy Black People’ (VIDEO)
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Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
‘Daily Show’ comments cost GOP precinct chair his post
‘Daily Show’ comments cost GOP precinct chair his post
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Bullhead from Illinois is hooked on outrage — Dick Durbin not only baited his own hook, he swallowed it whole — A Facebook post by Sen. Dick Durbin asserting that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with him has Durbin in hot water.
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Jeff Himmelman / New York Times:
A Game of Shark and Minnow — In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin. — SCROLL — Satellite imagery: NASA — In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to the Apocalypse — Once upon a time, walking around shouting “The end is nigh” got you labeled a kook, someone not to be taken seriously. These days, however, all the best people go around warning of looming disaster. In fact, you more or less have to subscribe to fantasies …
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Report: Iran may be month from a bomb — Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by one of the USA's top nuclear experts. — CONNECT — Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build …
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Mike Broomhead / 550 KFYI:
On air: Weekdays 4pm to 7pm — Mike Broomhead is the fastest growing name in talk radio today and rules the afternoon drive time slot from 4 7 pm! Mike has been with KFYI since 2005. He uses his business and life experience to address the issues that Arizona citizens face today.
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Sen. Paul threatens to hold Yellen nomination: Source — Sen. Paul threatens Yellen nomination — CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Sen. Rand Paul has threatened to put Janet Yellen's Fed nomination on hold in exchange for an audit of the Federal Reserve. — Sen. Rand Paul is threatening …
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Alabama Man Pleaded Guilty To Hiring KKK To Hang Neighbor ‘Like An Animal’ — Allen Wayne Densen Morgan, a 29-year-old veteran from Munford, Ala. entered a guilty plea in federal court Thursday for attempting to hire Ku Klux Klansmen to murder his neighbor.
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Ben Terris / NationalJournal.com:
How Kirsten Gillibrand Shed Her Past on the Way to Liberal Stardom — New York's junior senator was once a rural populist. Now people call her the next Hillary Clinton. How she got from there to here. — SYRACUSE, N.Y.—It's closer to breakfast than lunch, but Kirsten Gillibrand …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
The return of Sarah Palin — (CNN) — The Republican establishment can't stand her. The media mocks her. But Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere. — Far from it. — After laying low for much of this year, Palin is gingerly stepping back into the public arena with a national book tour …
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