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4:00 PM ET, November 18, 2013

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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.
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
Brian Beutler / Salon:
How to silence GOP nuts — and stop the Obamacare repeal campaign  —  One still-plausible scenario could stop attacks on the president's “You can keep it” comment dead in its tracks  —  Nobody, not even President Obama, is pretending that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been anything but a debacle.
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Obamacare's threat to liberalism
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's ‘5 Percent’ Con Job
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
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.
Plain Dealer:
Chat wrap: OUR Walmart rep answers your questions about this story  —  Is the food drive proof the retailer pays so little that many employees can't afford Thanksgiving dinner?  —  Norma Mills of Canton, who lives near the store, saw the photo circulating showing the food drive bins, and felt both “outrage” and “anger.”
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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 …
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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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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Lesson Is Seen in Failure of Law on Medicare in 1989
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 …
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Cheney defends daughter on gay marriage  —  As his two daughters publicly feud over gay marriage, former Vice President Dick Cheney is stepping in to defend daughter Liz Cheney (R), who is running for the Senate in Wyoming.  —  Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, released a statement saying Liz …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Liz Cheney's Same-Sex Marriage Comment Sparks Feud With Sister
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 …
Discussion: The Verge
Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
Michelle Obama's Personal Hairstylist Has One Crazy Life  —  Louis Vuitton condom?  Check.  —  Meet Johnny Wright!  —  Via Instagram: @johnnywright220  —  He is Michelle Obama's personal hairstylist!  —  Via Instagram: @johnnywright220  —  View Entire List ›
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Niraj Chokshi / GovBeat:
In many states, the recovery is making the income gap worse  —  The income gap in America has been widening for decades and the modest three-year recovery did little to change that, according to new Census data.  —  The new data suggest that despite modest recoveries in many states …
Discussion: Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
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 …
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.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
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 …
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
GOP GROUP MONEY DOWN, HINTS AT DONOR UNCERTAINTY  —  You are here  —  Home » Barack Obama » GOP group money down, hints at donor uncertainty  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The biggest Republican-leaning money machines are spending dramatically less to help the party ahead …
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 …
Discussion: The Raw Story
 
 
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Deadlines Shortened By Lack of Payment Options
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Joel Eastwood / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford tells Fox he wants to be prime minister
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Planned Parenthood's Abortion Theater
Discussion: The Raw Story
NY Daily News:
EDITOR'S PICKS  —  Kanye West made a pit stop at Harvard University Sunday.
Discussion: The Verge
Daily Mail:
Crystal meth shame of bank chief: Counting off £20 notes to buy hard drugs, this is the man …
Discussion: BBC and Guardian
Joe Brock / Reuters:
Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave ‘brides’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Nickarama / Weasel Zippers:
Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood Producer And Obama Donor: Obama's Not Embarrassing, U.S. Is Embarrassing
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and National Review
 Earlier Items: 
David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: So, what could go wrong next?
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Ramps Up Smear Campaign Against Obamacare Navigators
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Liberaland
Juan Williams / The Hill:
A phony Republican war aims to frustrate will of voters
Washington Post:
Capital gains: Spending on contracts and lobbying propels a wave of new wealth in D .C.
David Feith / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Navy to the Rescue Again
 

 
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Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Semafor plans to launch an invite-only newsletter for CEOs, The CEO Signal, in January 2025, written by former FT US News Editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
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