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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obamacare Is On Life Support — Democrats may begin calling for repeal if the law's problems don't get resolved soon. — President Obama will fight to preserve his signature domestic legislation, but Democrats may not let him. (Mandel Ngan/AFP) — There's nothing that Democrats …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
The Obama presidency is not over, but it is failing — With the exception of the debt ceiling debacle, he has fallen at almost every hurdle — Anyone wondering about the scale of the anti-Obama backlash should look at its impact on the 2016 US presidential race.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Obamacare's threat to liberalism
Obamacare's threat to liberalism
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Orlando Sentinel:
Seminole deputies arrest George Zimmerman — Video: Zimmerman's wife calls 911, won't press charges — 911 audio: Shellie Zimmerman says George is threatening everyone — George Zimmerman's attorney gives statement — George Zimmerman's wife says he threatened her
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WESH-TV:
George Zimmerman arrested for domestic violence — Zimmerman taken to jail for incident with girlfriend — George Zimmerman has been arrested in a domestic dispute involving his girlfriend, law enforcement said. — He was arrested at about 1 p.m. Monday and was being taken to the Seminole County Jail.
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Washington Post:
How we got Obamacare to work — (BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS) - Liz Carlson, a self-employed student, attends a health care enrolment fair co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the State Employees Association at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, New Hampshire November 9, 2013.
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
The Most Shocking Obamacare Revelation — It's been a grim month for fans of Obamacare, and perhaps especially for the red state Democrats in Congress who voted for it. Between the ghastly failure of the website, the waves of policy cancellations, and the grim realization that the 'wonks …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
President Obama and His Gang That (Still) Isn't Shooting Straight
President Obama and His Gang That (Still) Isn't Shooting Straight
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS passes up surveillance case — The Supreme Court on Monday passed up an opportunity to weigh in on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's collection of a massive database containing information on virtually every telephone call made to, from or within the United States.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
NSA spying challenge turned aside — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a challenge to the National Security Agency's global sweep of telephone and electronic communications — the first such test case to reach the Court since former NSA analyst Edward Snowdon began releasing publicly …
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: John Kerry Defies the White House on Egypt Policy — The secretary doesn't agree with Obama's team, especially Susan Rice, on how to deal with Egypt. Unfortunately for Rice, Kerry is the one on the ground—and he's doing things his way. — Before Secretary of State John Kerry's recent trip …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Permanent Slump? — Spend any time around monetary officials and one word you'll hear a lot is “normalization.” Most though not all such officials accept that now is no time to be tightfisted, that for the time being credit must be easy and interest rates low.
Scot J. Paltrow / Reuters:
Special Report: The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste — (Reuters) - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts. — Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy …
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ThinkProgress:
George W. Bush: Building The Keystone XL Pipeline Is A ‘No-Brainer’ — While the news was that George W. Bush was the keynote speaker at a conference put on by a group that wants to convert Jews to Christianity received more national and international attention, the 43rd president …
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Associated Press:
Soldier: Minnesota Man Was Once SS Commander, Ordered Nazi Massacre Of Polish Village — BERLIN (AP) — A retired Minnesota carpenter, shown in a June investigation to be a former commander in a Nazi SS-led unit, ordered his men to attack a Polish village that was razed to the ground …
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Daily Mail:
'We've listened - and here's how we'll halt this depravity': Google chief ERIC SCHMIDT explains block on child porn — Last week 348 people were arrested in Canada - and 386 young kids rescued - in one of the largest child sex investigations ever seen. It defies belief that anyone …
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ThinkProgress:
Texas Conservative Student Group To Hold ‘Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ Game — On Wednesday, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Young Conservatives will hold a mock immigration raid to target several students on campus who are purposefully wearing “illegal immigrant” t-shirts.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Ramps Up Smear Campaign Against Obamacare Navigators — Beware anybody trying to help people sign up for health insurance under Obamacare. — That's the line from top Senate Republicans, who have magnified their smear campaign against the law's so-called navigators …
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
The beginning of the end for Barack Obama — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — Second-term presidents in the past 30 years have had some pretty embarrassing news conferences, full of frank admissions of failure, submissive spasms of shame and groveling, grieving apologies.
NY Daily News:
EDITOR'S PICKS — Kanye West made a pit stop at Harvard University Sunday. The rapper was in Boston for his Yeezus tour, which resumed Saturday in Philadelphia after a momentary hiatus due to major technical difficulties with the show's stage equipment. — Vance McAllister …
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David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: So, what could go wrong next? — Busted website, canceled policies, lousy early enrollment numbers. And that could be just the warmup. — Because the lesson of the last six weeks is that when it comes to the Obamacare rollout, if it can go wrong, it probably will.
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Evan Vucci / Washington Times:
Obamacare Medicare fallout: UnitedHealth cuts doctors, rations care — The unfolding Obamacare disaster is proving to be a fast-moving target. Even as an armada of techies and programmers attempt to make the disastrously constructed healthcare.gov site functional, security worries grow …
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Joe Brock / Reuters:
Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave ‘brides’ — (Reuters) - In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice - convert to Islam or die. — Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized …
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