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2:20 PM ET, November 5, 2013

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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Lying About Lies: Why Credibility Matters to Obama  —  The president is trying to reinvent the history of his you-can-keep-it promise on health care.  —  It might not seem possible that President Obama could do more harm to his credibility and the public's faith in government than misleading Americans about health insurance reform.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Strategic Move Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S. Statute  —  WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies …
Juan Williams / Fox News:
Insurance cancelled?  Don't blame Obama or the ACA, blame America's insurance companies  —  Liar!  Pinocchio!  Deceiver!  —  With all the charges flying against President Obama in the on-going effort to stop ObamaCare it's time for a reality check.  —  Having failed to kill …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama: “What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed”  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.
kff.org:
State-by-State Estimates of the Number of People Eligible for Premium Tax Credits Under the Affordable Care Act  —  Key provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) create new Marketplaces for people who purchase insurance directly and provide new premium tax credits to help people with low or moderate incomes afford that coverage.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Bangor Daily News
Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Obama further alters ‘you can keep your plan’ pledge
Discussion: Mediaite
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama's ACA message evolves again
Discussion: Hit & Run
James Hohmann / Politico:
Touting Ken Cuccinelli, Ron Paul urges ‘nullification’  —  RICHMOND, Va. — Headlining the final rally of Ken Cuccinelli's underdog campaign for Virginia governor, Ron Paul suggested the “nullification” of Obamacare on Monday night.  —  “Jefferson obviously was a clear leader on the principle …
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Washington Post:
How to watch the exit polls in the Virginia governor's race  —  Tuesday's elections bring an early Christmas gift for election watchers: exit polling!  The data gathered from people leaving the polls in the Commonwealth should answer a number of key questions at the end of a venomous campaign …
New York Times:
After Plagiarism Charges, Paul Announces Office Restructuring  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who in recent weeks has had to explain a series of plagiarism charges, said in an interview Tuesday that he was being held to an unfair standard, but that there would be an office “restructuring” to prevent future occurrences.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Senator Rand Paul Faces New Charges of Plagiarism
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
GOP Congressional Candidate Told Gay Citizens to Go “Back to California”  —  ...and he could win.  —  Courtesy of the Dean Young Campaign  —  It would be tough to find a political office-seeker less prepared for the job he's running for than Alabama congressional candidate Dean Young.
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Hillary in 2016?  Not So Fast  —  Hillary Clinton of all people knows how political fortunes turn on a dime.  But she must be puzzled nonetheless, and spooked, that over a six-month period when she made no big news whatsoever, her popularity took a double-digit tumble.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   Hillary's Odyssey  —  From Senator Clinton's tergiversations …
Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
We Call B.S.! Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press
Discussion: Erik Wemple
Wall Street Journal:
Early Buyers of Health Coverage Are Older Than Expected, Raising Expense Concerns  —  Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nation's troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom  —  You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for.  We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits …
CBC News:
Mayor Rob Ford: ‘Yes I have smoked crack cocaine’  —  Toronto mayor makes stunning admission during city hall scrum  —  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted today he has smoked crack cocaine, saying it was probably “in one of my drunken stupors” about a year ago.
Ben Goad / The Hill:
Holder: Trayvon charges still possible  —  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said the Justice Department has not decided whether to file federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.  —  Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Tom Coburn diagnosed with prostate cancer  —  Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has been diagnosed with a recurrence of prostate cancer, his spokesman said Tuesday.  —  Coburn will be “undergoing further evaluation and treatment,” John Hart said.  The Republican senator will miss this week of work and hopes to return as soon as next week.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Columnist on NRSC payroll disclosed  —  U.S. News & World Report will start disclosing that columnist Brian Walsh, a former National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director, is still on the NRSC payroll, following an inquiry from POLITICO.  —  Since April, the NRSC …
Discussion: Riehl World News
 
 
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Shultz and Smith: Making the Most of the U.S. Energy Boom
Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana Medicaid paid companies to care for people already dead
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Politico:
Steve Daines to announce Senate bid
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Why National Democrats Rolled Over for Chris Christie
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Hot Air
The Independent:
Revealed: Britain's ‘secret listening post in the heart of Berlin’
Discussion: Guardian, BBC and The Verge
 Earlier Items: 
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
HealthCare.gov ducked final security requirements before launch
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP?
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Obama's Catastrophic Victory
 

 
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Financial Times:
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