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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare — Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius — Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform. — The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges, but it will now be easier for Obama to replace her.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today won't publish handout photos from White House
USA Today won't publish handout photos from White House
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
For flailing Obama, it's fixing healthcare, stupid
For flailing Obama, it's fixing healthcare, stupid
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum — When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health — The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend …
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare — The Cleveland Clinic, which is ranked among the top four U.S. hospitals, is making layoffs and cutting its budget more than $100 million as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act, the Daily Caller has learned.
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Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism — There's a term of art that the Obama White House uses to describe its neurotic supporters who instantly race to the worst-case scenario: They are known as “bed-wetters.” Two months into the dysfunctional life of healthcare.gov, however, that seems a perfectly appropriate physiological reaction.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Deal or No Deal — The final details of a nuclear agreement signed over the weekend between Iran and Western nations will not actually go into effect until further negotiations take place at a later date, according to a senior administration official and sources on Capitol Hill.
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Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu: Israel to send team to US to work on final Iran nuclear deal
Netanyahu: Israel to send team to US to work on final Iran nuclear deal
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James Jay Carafano / National Review:
Munich II — No, that's not a facile, partisan jab.
Munich II — No, that's not a facile, partisan jab.
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Gershom Gorenberg / American Prospect:
Bibi's Agreement Anxiety Disorder — To explain Benjamin Netanyahu's frenzied reaction to the Geneva agreement on Iran's nuclear program, let me begin with the stack of brown cardboard boxes under my wife's desk. — Each of the five cartons contains a gas mask and related paraphernalia …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
In Iran, Obama Achieves 50 Percent of His Goals
In Iran, Obama Achieves 50 Percent of His Goals
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CNN:
President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll — Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll. — And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning …
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case — CREDIT: AP Photo/Steubenville Herald-Star, Michael D. McElwain — On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that the grand jury investigating the Steubenville rape case has charged four adults in the community …
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics — MIT professor Noam Chomsky doesn't know what happened to “Building 7″ of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. — But he is convinced that so-called “9/11 Truthers” don't have the answer.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Crossroads GPS Spent More On Politics Than It Reported To IRS — You know what they say: a million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking real dark money. — ProPublica on Monday documented how the Karl Rove-linked dark money group Crossroads GPS spent about $11 million …
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Yahoo:
Welcome aboard, Katie. Anchors aweigh! — Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that Katie Couric is joining Yahoo as our Global Anchor. Starting in early 2014, Katie will lead a growing team of correspondents at Yahoo News who will cover the world's most interesting stories and newsmakers.
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Economics Policies for the 21st Century:
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs — Public support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has plummeted now that the oft-repeated claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is widely understood to be untrue. Despite previous assurances …
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Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman drops public defender, asks for return of knife & phones — Video: George Zimmerman arrested after disturbance call — 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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Mark Joseph / USA Today:
No, Oprah, America isn't racist: Column — President Obama isn't loathed for his skin color. — CONNECT — Shortly before receiving the medal of freedom from President Obama, Oprah Winfrey gave an interview to the BBC in which she seemed to chalk up much of the opposition to the president to racism …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
California, Here We Come? — It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster. But what kind of disaster was it? Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally sound policy? Or was it a demonstration that the Affordable Care Act is inherently unworkable?
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Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
New Warning: Morning-After Pill Doesn't Work for Women Over 176 Pounds — The European manufacturer of a pill identical to Plan B says its product won't work for women who weigh more than 176 pounds. Will American pharma companies warn women of weight limits? — Maybe not as effective as you think.
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