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3:20 PM ET, November 7, 2013

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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.
Discussion: CityNews and Gawker
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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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
White House Making Life Miserable for Democratic Lawmakers, Reformers  —  If you support Obamacare, you can't be happy with President Obama's team.  —  Rather than implementing the Affordable Care Act, a law with the noble goal of helping millions of uninsured Americans secure health insurance, the White House is dissembling.
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Hill
Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:   No Consensus on GOP Plans to Replace Obamacare
Carl Schramm / Wall Street Journal:
How ObamaCare Rips Off the ‘Young Healthies’
Discussion: 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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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
The U.S. shifts left
Martha T. Moore / USA Today:
Democrats try to make ‘Tea Party’ a smear
Discussion: msnbc.com
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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James R. Carroll / USA Today:
Can Sen. Rand Paul handle the heat? Some wonder
Discussion: Erik Wemple
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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Reuters:
CIA paying AT&T to provide call records - NY Times
Discussion: The Switch and Liberaland
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Liberaland
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: 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.
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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Lorenzo Bini Smaghi / VoxEU.org:
Austerity and stupidity  —  Today's austerity, many argue, is stupid.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Defeat of School Tax Stings Colorado Democrats
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Dish
ThinkProgress:
Congressman: Giving Undocumented Students In-State Tuition Is ‘Rewarding Bad Behavior’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fishbowl's Betsy Rothstein to Daily Caller
Discussion: DCist, FishbowlDC and City Desk
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Ted Yoho plans push to impeach Eric Holder
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Simon Johnson / Economix:
The Bankruptcy Exemption  —  Simon Johnson, former chief economist …
Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
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Matthieu Aikins / Rolling Stone:
Last spring, the remains of 10 missing Afghan villagers were dug up outside a U.S. Special Forces base …
Discussion: emptywheel and CBS DC
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Obamacare mocked at music awards
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Clunker progressivism  —  Barack Obama's presidency has become …