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3:35 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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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Obamacare's threat to liberalism
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.
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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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.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Lesson Is Seen in Failure of Law on Medicare in 1989
Brian Beutler / Salon:   How to silence GOP nuts — and stop the Obamacare repeal campaign
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's ‘5 Percent’ Con Job
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
The Daily Beast:   President Obama Should Never Apologize for Passing Obamacare
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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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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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Holding Canned Food Drive For Its Own Underpaid Employees  —  A Walmart in northeast Ohio is holding a holiday canned food drive — for its own underpaid employees.  “Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” a sign reads in the employee lounge of a Canton-area Walmart.
Discussion: Liberaland, The Raw Story and Daily Kos
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Liberaland
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
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:
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
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.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Deadlines Shortened By Lack of Payment Options  —  When the Obama administration launched the Healthcare.gov website on October 1, the president and his officials focused on the coverage that would now be available to the uninsured as of January 1, 2014.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
 
 
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Joel Eastwood / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford tells Fox he wants to be prime minister
Niraj Chokshi / GovBeat:
In many states, the recovery is making the income gap worse
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Evan Vucci / Washington Times:
Obamacare Medicare fallout: UnitedHealth cuts doctors, rations care
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
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Liz Cheney's Same-Sex Marriage Comment Sparks Feud With Sister
Daily Mail:
Crystal meth shame of bank chief: Counting off £20 notes to buy hard drugs, this is the man …
Discussion: BBC and Guardian
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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
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Wall Street Journal:
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