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Kevin Donovan Investigations / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford caught in video rant — Mayor Rob Ford has been caught on a new video staggering around an unknown living room ranting gibberish and acting wildly. … The Star has obtained video of Mayor Rob Ford where he appears to be in a state of extreme agitation.
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Joe Warmington / Toronto Sun:
“I need f—in 10 minutes to make sure he's dead': New Rob Ford video surfaces — A new video has surfaced showing Mayor Rob Ford acting wildly and belligerent and using threatening words including “kill” and “murder” with reference to an unidentified person.
Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
The White House effort to blame insurance companies for lost plans — “The provision in the law was the manifestation of the assurance that if you have a plan you want to keep, you can keep it. Insurance companies that chose to strip away benefits from existing plans in the interim …
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Politico:
Why Obama isn't attacking ‘the villains’ — President Barack Obama spent years casting insurance companies as the most evil of actors in the health care system. — But with insurance cancellation notices hitting millions of consumers, Obama has launched none of the broadsides …
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
White House Making Life Miserable for Democratic Lawmakers, Reformers
White House Making Life Miserable for Democratic Lawmakers, Reformers
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Conservative Intelligence …, New York Times and The Lonely Conservative
Carl Schramm / Wall Street Journal:
How ObamaCare Rips Off the ‘Young Healthies’
How ObamaCare Rips Off the ‘Young Healthies’
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Power Line, CNN and Conservatives4Palin
New York Times:
G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing — Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say would result in the selection of less extreme contenders.
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Rush Limbaugh, The Plum Line, Taylor Marsh, The Reaction and Prairie Weather
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
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The Huffington Post and FreedomWorks
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Cuccinelli Has No Plans To Call McAuliffe
Report: Cuccinelli Has No Plans To Call McAuliffe
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, The Fix, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, City Desk and Towleroad News #gay
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
The U.S. shifts left
The U.S. shifts left
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American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, Salon, Wonkblog and The Monkey Cage
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Post-Plagiarism Restructuring, Rand Paul's Opinion Column Moves To Breitbart — Following allegations of plagiarism that caused a shake-up in the senator's office, Rand Paul's (R-KY) opinion column has found a new home at Breitbart News. — “Paul is pleased to partner with Breitbart News …
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CANNONFIRE, Mock Paper Scissors, Mediaite and National Review
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James R. Carroll / USA Today:
Can Sen. Rand Paul handle the heat? Some wonder
Can Sen. Rand Paul handle the heat? Some wonder
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data — WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company's vast database of phone records, which includes Americans' international calls, according to government officials.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Republican Senate Candidate Jokes About Obama Being From Kenya (AUDIO) — Colorado state Sen. Owen Hill considered telling a Kenyan kid, “Well, you know what, we already have someone from Kenya as president of the United States.” Update: Hill says it was an “obvious joke.” — Source: OwenHillForSenate.com
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The simple question that will determine Obamacare's fate — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE HEALTHCARE.GOV — The key to Obamacare's success or failure — provided the administration can actually learn to operate the system — is whether it helps more people than it hurts, or hurts more people than it helps.
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Washington Monthly, The Dish, Althouse and Deseret News
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Jason Carter to challenge Gov. Deal next year — Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter will challenge Gov. Nathan Deal next year in a move that catapults the gubernatorial contest into the national spotlight and tests whether Georgia's changing demographics can loosen the Republican Party's 12-year grip on the state's highest office.
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Washington Wire, BBC, Associated Press, The Hinterland Gazette, Talking Points Memo and CNN
KOB.com:
4 On Your Side reveals another traffic stop nightmare — It's a story that has left the entire country wondering about the state of law enforcement in New Mexico. — 4 On Your Side revealed how David Eckert rolled through a stop sign in Deming. — A K-9 named Leo alerted that it sniffed drugs on Eckert's driver's seat.
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ThinkProgress, protein wisdom, Popehat, US News, Hit & Run, AMERICAblog News, The Dish, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Mark Urban / BBC:
Saudi nuclear weapons ‘on order’ from Pakistan — Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. — While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context …
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The Moderate Voice, Guardian, Israel Matzav, The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs, The Agonist, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senate Approves Ban on Antigay Bias in Workplace — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved a ban on discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity, voting 64 to 32 in a bipartisan show of support that is rare for any social issue.
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Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Bohlinger runs for Senate — HELENA — Former Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger said Wednesday he decided to run for the U.S. Senate after the receiving considerable support and encouragement from Montanans in the past four months. — Bohlinger, 77, a Democrat from Helena, also said he was motivated …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Post Politics and Associated Press
The Atlantic Online:
The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation — Imagine what Edward Snowden could have accomplished if he had a different agenda. — Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest? Alex Tabarrok, who raised the question …
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Little Green Footballs, Prairie Weather, The Week, CANNONFIRE and Marginal Revolution
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Guns & Ammo Fires Editor After Publishing Editorial Calling for Gun Control — Guns and Ammo Magazine, the “world's most widely read firearms magazine,” has fired contributing editor Dick Metcalf after the publication received immense backlash for its December 2013 issue featuring his editorial advocating for gun control.
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
F.D.A. Ruling Would All but Eliminate Trans Fats — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed measures that would all but eliminate artificial trans fats, the artery clogging substance that is a major contributor to heart disease in the United States, from the food supply.
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The Verge
Associated Press:
Delaware health insurance exchange off to slow start, with only 4 enrollments reported — WILMINGTON, Del. — More than a month after the launch of Delaware's health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and The Lonely Conservative
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Obamacare hearings, governing by anecdote — It did not sound good for Sen. Pat Toomey. — “I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor and I'm facing the loss of insurance,” the Pennsylvania Republican declared Wednesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the health-care law.
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American Spectator and Conservatives4Palin