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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Obama's Second-Term Slide Continues — 65% Disapprove of his Handling of Economy — Barack Obama has had a difficult year since his reelection victory. His overall job rating stands at 41%, down 14 points since last December. A majority (53%) now disapproves of the way he is handling his job as president.
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George E. Condon Jr / NationalJournal.com:
How Obama Blew the Entire Last Year
How Obama Blew the Entire Last Year
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Associated Press
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Former ‘60 Minutes’ Producer: Discredited Benghazi Story Was Done To Appeal To Conservatives — A former “60 Minutes” producer who was fired over a 2004 story about then-President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard said Friday that CBS' now retracted story about the attack in Benghazi …
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New York Times:
CBS Correspondent Apologizes for Report on Benghazi Attack — The correspondent for the disputed “60 Minutes” segment about the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year apologized on the air Friday morning, saying it was a “mistake” to put …
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
CBS 60 Minutes' Lara Logan Apologizes for Erroneous Benghazi Survivor Report: ‘We Were Wrong’ — CBS 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan admitted on Friday that a person who claimed to have been witness to the deadly September 11, 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi and who served …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: 'I'm Gonna Be the Republican Nominee' — Mitch McConnell on the shutdown's failure, ObamaCare's future, and his own primary challenge. — Washington — It is a month since the government shutdown and a day after the election. The minority leader of the U.S. Senate …
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Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Is in Better Shape Than You Think — Independents favor the GOP on handling the economy by a whopping 46%-30% margin. — Tucked away in recent polls—which have documented the extraordinary anger directed at the Republican Party during the shutdown crisis—are measures of clear disappointment with the Democratic Party.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Considers Administrative Fix To Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a fix to the president's health care law that would expand the universe of individuals who receive tax subsidies to help buy insurance, an administration source told The Huffington Post.
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Lynn Sweet Washington / Chicago Sun Times:
Sweet: Obama tries to empathize over health insurance cancellations, but is that the best he's got?
Sweet: Obama tries to empathize over health insurance cancellations, but is that the best he's got?
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Conservatives4Palin and Patterico's Pontifications
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
Obama Plays The Victim: 'I've Been Burned' By ObamaCare Website
Obama Plays The Victim: 'I've Been Burned' By ObamaCare Website
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The Daily Caller
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Analysis: Tens of millions could be forced out of health insurance they had — Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print — WASHINGTON — Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans …
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama laments site, not health plans
Obama laments site, not health plans
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The PJ Tatler and Twitchy
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Former MSNBC Host's Health Plan Cancelled, New Plan Costs 3.5 Times More
Former MSNBC Host's Health Plan Cancelled, New Plan Costs 3.5 Times More
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Crooks and Liars, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Twitchy and Instapundit
Robert Laszewski / Fox News Insider:
How Many Americans Have Lost Their Health Insurance Under ObamaCare?
How Many Americans Have Lost Their Health Insurance Under ObamaCare?
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The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Scared Monkeys
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
House GOP Leader: No Vote On Immigration Reform This Year — WASHINGTON (AP) — The third-ranking House Republican told immigration advocates that lawmakers won't vote this year on the issue, confirming what many had long assumed. — California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's intolerance trap: How ENDA fight explains all of U.S. politics
GOP's intolerance trap: How ENDA fight explains all of U.S. politics
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The Plum Line, Booman Tribune and Liberaland
The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Obama's Secret Iran Détente — Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened. — The Obama administration began softening sanctions …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Obama Burns Media Supporters with Apology — Many were hurled under President Barack Obama's bus on Thursday night when he told NBC News reporter Chuck Todd that he was “sorry” those who were losing their health insurance coverage were shocked by this eventuality because of repeated “assurances” he made to the contrary.
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JustOneMinute and Outside the Beltway
Shahien Nasiripour / The Huffington Post:
New York Fed Chief Levels Explosive Charge Against Big Banks — The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday that some of America's largest financial institutions appear to lack respect for the law, a potentially explosive charge against an industry already roiling …
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New York Times:
Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday will complete a generation-long effort to require insurers to cover care for mental health and addiction just like physical illnesses when it issues long-awaited regulations defining parity in benefits and treatment.
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Capital New York, Washington Monthly, National Review, ThinkProgress, Post Politics and Shakesville
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Jen Christensen / CNN:
Feds boosting mental health access, treatment
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Only 5 enrollments completed in D.C. Obamacare exchange — Only five people have fully completed the enrollment process in the D.C. insurance exchange, according to information compiled by lawmakers from four of the insurance companies participating in the exchange.
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National Review and The Lonely Conservative
Associated Press:
HOME DEPOT APOLOGIZES FOR RACIST TWEET — You are here — Home » AP Company » Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet — NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement maker Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person …
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The Raw Story
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Yep, Being a Young, American Adult Is a Financial Nightmare — Here are the graphs to prove it. — Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60.
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The Dish
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Most Uninsured Americans Ignoring Health Exchange Sites — Three in 10 are familiar with the exchanges — PRINCETON, NJ — In the midst of widespread news coverage of problems with the federal health exchange website, relatively few uninsured Americans (18%) — the primary target population …
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Noah Bierman / The Boston Globe:
Scott Brown gets a plea to run in N.H. — WASHINGTON — The signs are mounting. Scott Brown travels almost weekly to New Hampshire. Last month he formed a political action committee there to raise funds; this week he attacked the state's Democratic senator on his favorite target: national health care.
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Politico, Daily Kos, Roll Call, Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard and Post Politics
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Pine Bush, N.Y., School District Faces Accusations of Anti-Semitism — The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide — even on a student's face. — A picture of President Obama …
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