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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Delay Obamacare? Not as easy as you think — More and more Democrats worried about the 2014 election are beginning to join the Republican call to delay the Obamacare enrollment season. — But it's not as easy as bumping things back a few days on the calendar.
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Reuters:
‘Glitches’ hit Obamacare paper, phone applications too — Trying to sign up for Obamacare the old-fashioned way — paper, pen or telephone? — Good luck with that. — With the supposedly state-of-the-art $600 million HealthCare.gov portal malfunctioning, President Barack Obama …
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The PJ Tatler and Politico
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Politico, Jeanne Shaheen and BizPac Review
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Daily Kos, The PJ Tatler, National Review and Washington Examiner
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Racism Out of Context — I had planned on ignoring the furor over North Carolina Republican precinct chairman Don Yelton, who was pushed into resigning after stupidly making racist remarks to a Daily Show camera. I mean, the guy is a precinct chairman, not a county chair or an elected official …
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Don Yelton tells TheWrap his party should have used his “lazy blacks” comment as proof it accepts all views — Don Yelton, the North Carolina Republican who lost a county precinct chairman position after deriding “lazy blacks” on “The Daily Show,” isn't exactly backing down.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Gawker
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO)
NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is ‘Gutless’ (AUDIO)
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CNN, Mediaite, Gawker, News Radio 570 WWNC and ThinkProgress
David Frum / david-frum:
How Ted Cruz Can Win in 2016 — Forget what you think you know about the next presidential election. David Frum details how the junior senator from Texas can take the White House. — Three years out, few bets in U.S. politics looked as sure as Hillary Clinton's election to the presidency in 2016.
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The Fix, Daily Kos, Associated Press, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …
ThinkProgress:
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.
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RT:
NSA site went down due to ‘internal error’, not DDoS attack, agency claims — The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. — NSA.gov had been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Shepard Smith's Office Romance: A 26-Year-Old Fox Staffer — Shepard Smith, the endlessly endearing (and easily angered) Fox News anchor, has likened the right-wing channel to a “family,” with president Roger Ailes as its domineering father. Which makes it only slightly awkward that in early 2012 …
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Erik Wemple, The Other McCain and Joe. My. God.
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Obama's Top Economic Adviser Tells Democrats They'll Have to Swallow Entitlement Cuts — This morning, Gene Sperling, director of the White House's National Economic Council, appeared before a Democratic business group for what was billed as a speech about the economy after the shutdown, followed by a Q&A session.
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Over 10 Percent Of America's Largest Companies Pay Zero Percent Tax Rates — Among companies listed on the S&P 500, almost one in nine paid an effective tax rate of zero percent — or even lower — over the past year, according to an analysis by USA Today. — There are 57 separate companies listed …
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Matt Krantz / USA Today:
Large companies find ways to a zero tax rate
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Wow: This is How Sarah Palin ‘Politely’ Refused Piers Morgan's Invitation — It's Friday, and Sarah Palin and Piers Morgan are fighting on Facebook and Twitter. It all started with a late morning Facebook post from Palin, “politely” declining Morgan's many “invitations” …
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Liberaland and The Daily Caller
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Leader Of HealthCare.Gov Tech Surge: We'll Have It Fixed In A Month — Enrollment site for Obamacare should be good to go by “the end of November,” says Jeff Zients. — President Obama and Jeffrey Zients in April. — Larry Downing / Reuters — WASHINGTON — The man in charge of fixing …
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November
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TechCrunch, The Hill and National Review
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Obama Admin. Taps Contractor to Fix Health Website
Chris Mooney / Mother Jones:
The Science of Tea Party Wrath — Jonathan Haidt on the psychology of politics, the emotions behind the Tea Party—and why as a self-described centrist, he thinks a Republican crackup may be coming. — Fibonacci Blue/Flickr — If you want to understand how American politics changed for the worse …
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Washington Monthly
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Sorry liberals, Obamacare's problems go much deeper than the Web site — There's been a rash of commentary from some on the left who've decided that the real problem with Obamacare isn't the crippling technological issues that have made it impossible for almost anyone to enroll …
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National Review, The Plum Line, New York Times, AEIdeas, The New Republic and Salon
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama says he doesn't want to hear about spending cuts — President Obama told Republicans in Congress that he doesn't want to hear about additional cuts to government programs after the 16-day shutdown. — The president said the country can afford to make investments in areas like education …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
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!”
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Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
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.
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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
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill
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Politico, Pundits Blog, Infowars, ABC News, americanthinker.com and Liberaland
James Ball / Guardian:
Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret — Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers show UK spy agency fears legal challenge if scale of surveillance is made public — The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a “damaging public debate” …
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Techdirt, emptywheel and Telegraph
Jennifer Hlad / Stars & Stripes:
Marines shoot down Internet story on Obama's alleged push for ‘girly hats’ … The story is sweeping the Internet: President Barack Obama is trying to emasculate male Marines by making them wear a girly cover with their famed dress uniforms. The only problem? It's not true.
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Washington Times, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Week, Daily Kos and New York Post
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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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Threatens To Hold Up Janet Yellen Nomination To Fed: Report
Rand Paul Threatens To Hold Up Janet Yellen Nomination To Fed: Report
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The World's Greatest …, Daily Kos, Politico and Little Green Footballs