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7:05 AM ET, November 13, 2013

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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Richard Cohen Defends Column: ‘Word Racist Is Truly Hurtful’  —  Richard Cohen says that his latest piece was not intended to be and shouldn't be read as racist.  —  “The word racist is truly hurtful,” he told The Huffington Post on Tuesday.  “It's not who I am.  It's not who I ever was.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo Publisher Calls Cohen Column ‘Brilliant’  —  Before Richard Cohen's latest column sparked widespread outrage, the publisher of the Washington Post praised the piece.  —  Katharine Weymouth tweeted a link to Cohen's column on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) relationship with the tea party, which she hailed as “brilliant.”
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Christie's tea-party problem  —  The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's critic-in-chief strikes again  —  President Bill Clinton — the man President Barack Obama once dubbed his “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” — once again has some explaining of his own to do with the Obama White House.  —  In an interview released Tuesday, Clinton called for a fix …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Is Wrong.  This Is How Obamacare Works.  —  Bill Clinton has been one of Obamacare's most effective advocates—the “Secretary of Explaining Things,” as President Obama famously called him.  But in a new interview already getting attention and sure to get more, Clinton didn't explain things very well.
President Bill Clinton / Ozymandias:
Assessing the Healthcare Rollout
Matt Higgins / CBS Sacramento:
Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS Sacramento/AP) — Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross of California has agreed to a two-month extension of about 104,000 individual policies after failing to give the required 90 …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Why It's Not Too Late for the ‘Keep Your Health Plan’ Act  —  With millions of Americans losing their health insurance because of Obamacare, bills have been introduced in Congress to let people keep their plans.  —  But health industry consultant Bob Laszewski says it's too late for these measures …
Discussion: Hot Air
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP about to hurt itself again!: New ploy to kill Obamacare will blow up
Jay Bookman / Ajc Blogs:
Cobb GOP chairman concerned about (those) people coming to Braves' games  —  I just got back from Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's press conference on the Braves' move to a transportation-challenged site in Cobb County, and will have a lot more to say on that later.  But I can't let this pass without notice:
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Esquire
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama Lunches With US Service Members at Irish Pub  —  President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip out for lunch with members of the military.  —  The president and Vice President Joe Biden dined with active duty service members from each of the five military branches at Capitol Hill restaurant Molly Malone's on Tuesday.
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ABC News:
Biden to Push Immigration at Naturalization Event
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Pete Williams / U.S. News:
Supreme Court justices rebuff chance to hear second Oklahoma abortion case  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down another opportunity to take up a state restriction on abortion that was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court.  —  The top court rejected a request from officials …
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Juanita Jean's
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Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Wisconsin Supreme Court considers stay in Act 10 case
Discussion: National Review and Althouse
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Dem.  Rep: Obama ‘misleading’ on ACA  —  Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) accused President Obama of being “grossly misleading to the American public” with his pledge that people could keep their health insurance under ObamaCare, which is seen as further evidence that the president's comments …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Sarah Palin ‘Surprised’ By Pope Francis' ‘Liberal’ Sounding Statements  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Tuesday that some of the pope's statements “sounded kind of liberal,” but assured CNN's Jake Tapper that she wouldn't necessarily trust her ears nor the “lamestream media” until she did her “own homework” on the matter.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin And Matt Lauer Had An Insane Conversation
Discussion: Daily Kos and PostPartisan
CNN:
White House technology chief to testify at hearing  —  (CNN) - The top White House technology officer will appear before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, despite the Obama administration's insistence that he was too busy helping to repair the flawed Obamacare website
Discussion: Politico
Amy Davidson / Close Read:
“60 Minutes” and the Benghazi Scandal Trap  —  “I didn't even have to go into the room to see who it was,” a man calling himself Morgan Jones told Lara Logan, of “60 Minutes,” on October 27th, remembering how he had glimpsed a body through the glass in a door.
IEA:
Report sees large disparities in regional energy prices affecting industrial competitiveness  —  Technology and high prices are opening up new oil resources, but this does not mean the world is on the verge of an era of oil abundance, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) …
Discussion: Politico, EcoWatch and Guardian
Elizabeth Titus / Politico:
Virginia AG race: Democrat widens lead  —  Democrat Mark Herring climbed to an unofficial lead of 163 votes over Republican Mark Obenshain in the 2.2 million-vote race for Virginia attorney general on Tuesday.  —  Herring gained 160 votes when Fairfax County tallied its provisional ballots Tuesday night …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
CNN's Dana Bash: Friday ‘De Facto Deadline’ Before Dems ‘Defy’ Obama, Back GOP's Obamacare Fixes  —  CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash told her network's anchors on Tuesday that the end of the week is the “de facto deadline” at which point the White House needs to have settled …
 
 
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Rasmussen Reports:
55% Favor Repeal of Obamacare
Dan Merica / CNN:
Bush 43 to sit down with Leno
Discussion: Politico
Daily Mail:
The rise of paid friends: How wealthy New Yorkers are socializing with hired staff over 'real …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein joins push to keep health plans
Oskar Garcia / Associated Press:
The Hawaii Senate is expected to pass a bill legalizing gay marriage …
Discussion: Advocate and The Raw Story
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Fox Guest on Obamacare Website: 'Al Qaeda Couldn't Have Run This Worse'
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Raw Story
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Liberals' investment drives Tesla's survival
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Pro-Democratic super PACs outspend conservatives
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Memo warned of “limitless” security risks for HealthCare.gov
 

 
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