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.

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.

Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November  —  The troubled Obamacare enrollment website should be working smoothly for most users by the end of November, according to the longtime White House economic adviser tapped to oversee the repair effort.

CNN Anchor Challenges Congresswoman To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues  —  On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans' medical privacy.

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 …

Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy  —  I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress.  Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!”

Ted Cruz in Iowa: 2016 force or flavor of the month?  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Ted Cruz will give the keynote speech Friday night at Iowa's Reagan Dinner, riding a wave of attention and sudden celebrity that's shot him to the top of the pack in the extremely early 2016 sweepstakes.

MSNBC Panel Brawls Over Who to Blame for Obamacare Website Failure: Obama or GOP  —  The guests and fill-in host on MSNBC's Now tangled during a discussion over just which party was to blame for the failed roll-out of HealthCare.Gov. Some of the guests suggested that the White House was solely …

The implosion of the GOP brand, in one chart  —  Republicans successfully converted the 2010 elections into a referendum on President Obama, the economy, and liberal overreach.  As a result, they won big.  Now Democrats are hoping to turn the 2014 elections into a referendum on the GOP brand …

NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO)  —  The North Carolina GOP official who was asked to resign Thursday over a racially charged comment he made in a “Daily Show” interview doesn't regret the remark — rather, he thinks the Republican Party has “no guts.”

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 …

GOP Lawmaker Says Obama Not a Traitor to Kenya  —  North Carolina state Rep. Larry Pittman (R) was videotaped telling a crowd of supporters that President Obama isn't a trator to his country — if that country is Kenya.  —  Said Pittman: “Someone had posted something with a picture …

Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket  —  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail - all because of an overdue traffic ticket.  —  It was just a ticket.  Sarah Boaz was cited in August after an officer said she ran a stop sign.

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 …

JonBenet Ramsey details coming  —  JonBenet Ramsey  —  (CNN) — Previously sealed court documents released Friday show that a Colorado grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of murdered 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and being accessories to a crime.

Grover Norquist Gives Thumbs Up to Pot Taxes  —  The anti-tax advocate tells National Journal that taxing marijuana does not violate his pledge.  —  Good news for Republicans who want to legalize marijuana: Taxing pot is A-OK with Grover Norquist, the keeper of the anti-tax pledge that hundreds of GOP lawmakers have signed.

Jesse Jackson Jr. to sell Dupont townhouse  —  Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has agreed to sell his D.C. townhouse to help pay for a $750,000 forfeiture he owes, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune.  —  The former congressman “has been unsuccessful in his attempts to satisfy …

Follow the Law  —  Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed, “the worse, the better,” meaning the worse things got for Russians the better it was for the communists.  —  Lately, the left has taken to calling conservatives “Leninists” for our refusal to fix Obamacare.

Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles  —  (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.