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 …

SENATOR RAND PAUL MOVES OPINION COLUMN TO BREITBART NEWS  —  Breitbart News Network is pleased to announce that it will be the new home of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's editorial column.  —  Paul, a Tea Party favorite and son of former libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, is widely perceived …

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.

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.

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.”  —  Source: OwenHillForSenate.com

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.

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.

Report: Cuccinelli Has No Plans To Call McAuliffe  —  Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) had not called Democrat Terry McAuliffe after losing the Virginia gubernatorial race and had no plans to do so as of late Wednesday morning, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Fishbowl's Betsy Rothstein to Daily Caller  —  Betsy Rothstein, the former Fishbowl DC editor, is joining the conservative website The Daily Caller, POLITICO has learned.  —  Starting Monday, Rothstein will oversee a new blog called “The Mirror,” where she will cover Washington media, gossip and politics.

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.

Congressman: Giving Undocumented Students In-State Tuition Is ‘Rewarding Bad Behavior’  —  Students who grew up their entire life in Florida shouldn't be allowed to pay in-state tuition at one of the state's public universities if they are undocumented because doing so would reward “bad behavior …

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.

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.

The Bankruptcy Exemption  —  Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and co-author of “White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You.”

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.

Clunker progressivism  —  Barack Obama's presidency has become a feast of failures whose proliferation protects their author from close scrutiny of any one of them.  Now, however, we can revisit one of the first and see it as a harbinger of progressivism's downward stumble to HealthCare.gov.