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Becca Aaronson / The Texas Tribune:
Court Rules Abortion Restriction Unconstitutional … The Politics of Prevention is an occasional series on the effects of state policy on women's health services. Participate in our project by sharing your women's health story here. — Less than 24 hours before new abortion regulations …
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Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Federal Judge Declares Texas Anti-Abortion Law Unconstitutional — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled. — District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday …
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Part of Texas Abortion Law — A federal judge in Texas on Monday blocked an important part of the state's restrictive new abortion law, which would have required doctors performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
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Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Texas Abortion Restrictions Declared Unconstitutional By Federal Judge — AUSTIN, Texas — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has determined that new Texas abortion restrictions violate the U.S. Constitution, a ruling that keeps open — at least for now — dozens of abortion clinics …
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Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Judge blocks key parts of Texas abortion law
Judge blocks key parts of Texas abortion law
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CBS News:
Policy cancellations, higher premiums add to frustration over Obamacare — (CBS News) Nearly five weeks into the launch of HealthCare.gov, the management expert brought in to turn around the website says its issues are fixable. But it's going to take weeks, not days.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Rate Shock and Premium Joy: Now It's Real — The conversation about Obamacare shifted a bit over the weekend. Nobody has forgotten about the technical problems with healthcare.gov. But now critics are also focusing on something else: Reports of sharp premium increases that some individual consumers are facing.
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Politico:
House leaders plot new fall GOP strategy
House leaders plot new fall GOP strategy
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Florida Woman's Insurance Rate Increases 10X Under Obamacare
Florida Woman's Insurance Rate Increases 10X Under Obamacare
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Michael Lind / Salon:
Here's how GOP Obamacare hypocrisy backfires — GOP base doesn't understand right wants to turn Medicare, Social Security and more into a very similar program — The smartest thing yet written about the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act's federal exchange program is a post …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and Eschaton
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
How Kentucky Built The Country's Best Obamacare Website
How Kentucky Built The Country's Best Obamacare Website
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Kludge
The Big Kludge
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Right-wing Populism Could Hobble America for Decades — The tea party is going down. Dysfunction is not. — In the Federalist Papers, James Madison promised that a large republic with a representative government would avoid the “instability, injustice and confusion” that had plagued many nations in Europe.
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Fernando Espuelas / Pundits Blog:
Election 2014 and the GOP's ticking immigration reform bomb
Election 2014 and the GOP's ticking immigration reform bomb
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Feinstein lashes out at NSA — Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday called for a “total review” of all intelligence collection programs as she criticized the National Security Agency for spying on foreign leaders. — “It is abundantly clear that a total review …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama unaware as U.S. spied on world leaders: officials.
Obama unaware as U.S. spied on world leaders: officials.
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Alison Smale / New York Times:
Data Suggests Push to Spy on Merkel Dates to '02
Data Suggests Push to Spy on Merkel Dates to '02
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John McCormick / Political Capital:
McCain: Clinton ‘Very Strong Candidate’ — Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talk prior to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing in Washington, D.C. — Sen. John McCain knows a few things about presidential elections …
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? — Much of the speculation about the future of news focuses on the business model: How will we generate the revenues to pay the people who gather and disseminate the news? But the disruptive power of the Internet raises other profound questions …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Takes Friendly Fire — Incoming from Democrats: — “Dem Party is F****d.” That was the subject line of an email sent to me Sunday by a senior Democratic consultant with strong ties to the White House and Capitol Hill. The body of the email contained a link to this Los Angeles Times story about Obamacare “sticker shock:”
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ThinkProgress:
Graham Promises To Block All Senate Nominations Over Benghazi — Amid the sense of gridlock that has become the norm in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is now threatening to block every single nomination from the Obama administration until he gets what he wants on Benghazi — again.
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60 Minutes: Benghazi — The following script is from “Benghazi” …
60 Minutes: Benghazi — The following script is from “Benghazi” …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Senate Conservatives fund backs Tea Party challenger Maness in Louisiana — The Senate Conservatives Fund is throwing its support to Tea Party-backed candidate Rob Maness (R) in Louisiana, potentially complicating Republicans' hopes of defeating Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
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Steve Coll / New Yorker:
PARTY CRASHERS — In the late nineteen-sixties, Mitch McConnell came …
PARTY CRASHERS — In the late nineteen-sixties, Mitch McConnell came …
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Leonard Greene / New York Post:
Banksy rips New York Times for rejected op-ed — It isn't news that's fit to print. — Elusive British graffiti artist Banksy took a swipe at the New York Times today for denying him a spot on the newspaper's coveted op-ed page, where he was planning to trash the new World Trade Center tower.
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Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
‘Uncomfortable truth’ in Matthew Shepard's death — Stephen Jimenez didn't set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth. — Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist. — But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear.
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Will Bring ENDA Up For Senate Vote — WASHINGTON — The Employment Non-Discrimination Act could come up for a vote in the Senate as early as next week, according to the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). — ENDA would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Filibuster Wars To Flare Up As Reid Moves On Top Judges
Filibuster Wars To Flare Up As Reid Moves On Top Judges
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Richard A. Posner / The New Republic:
I Did Not ‘Recant’ on Voter ID Laws — Richard A. Posner on judges, data, and consequences — A month or so ago, a new book of mine, called Reflections on Judging, was published by the Harvard University Press. I have been a federal court of appeals judge since 1981 …
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Associated Press:
Rand Paul warns eugenics on horizon unless conservatives stand up against abortion rights — LYNCHBERG, Va. — Tea party hero Rand Paul warned scientific advancements could lead to eugenics during a Monday visit at Liberty University, looking to boost the political fortunes of fellow Republican Ken Cuccinelli's bid for governor.
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