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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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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Filibuster Rope-a-Dope? — Did the crafty Mitch McConnell just succeed in getting Democrats to damage their long-term interest by nuking the filibuster? I've always defended the filibuster (and still do) as a valid anti-majoritarian device, especially useful for when fitful voters …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tehran can continue to enrich uranium at 10,000 working centrifuges. — President Obama is hailing a weekend accord that he says has “halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program,” and we devoutly wish this were true. The reality is that the agreement in Geneva with five Western nations takes Iran …
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Jerusalem Post, New York Times, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Washington Post
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Barrie McKenna / Globe and Mail:
Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal
Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal
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Brookings Institute, Michael J. Totten's blog and National Review
Washington Post:
An Iran deal worth trying — risks and all
An Iran deal worth trying — risks and all
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Mediaite, DownWithTyranny!, neo-neocon and Right Wing News
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges
Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges
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The Week, WJLA-TV, News Desk, The Caucus and Associated Press
Bob Dreyfuss / thenation.com/blogs/161:
Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace
Historic US-Iran Deal Is First Step Toward Peace
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The Atlantic Online, BuzzFeed, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and New York Times
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pressure builds on Boehner — If Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put the Senate's immigration bill to a vote in the House, it wins. — The math is pretty simple. It will take 218 votes to pass it. All 200 Democrats are on board as well as three Republican co-sponsors.
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Politico and Post Politics
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Top Dems, Republicans blast Obama's nuke deal with Iran — Top lawmakers on both side of the aisle on Sunday voiced skepticism about the newly struck agreement with Iran, and vowed to keep up the pressure with sanctions. — Senior members in both chambers said that, at first glance …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer ‘Disappointed’ With Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal
Schumer ‘Disappointed’ With Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal
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AEIdeas, NBCNews, News Desk, New York Times, Firedoglake, Connecting.the.Dots, Crooks and Liars, Guardian, Washington Free Beacon, The White House and Bloomberg
Lawrence R. Jacobs / New York Times:
Right vs. Left in the Midwest — MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin's Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
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Liberaland, Jared Bernstein and The Mahablog
Susan Mohamed / OnIslam.net:
Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques — LUANDA - According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country. — “The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved …
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Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, Blazing Cat Fur and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Connor Adams Sheets / International Business Times:
Angola ‘Bans Islam’, Dismantles Mosques, According To News Reports
Angola ‘Bans Islam’, Dismantles Mosques, According To News Reports
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The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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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Balloon Juice and PoliticusUSA
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: 'I'm not a particularly ideological person' — President Barack Obama says he is not a “particularly ideological person,” but remains passionate about certain issues. — “I'm not a particularly ideological person,” Obama said Sunday during a fundraiser in Seattle.
MySanAntonio.com:
SAPD officer accused of rape — A San Antonio police officer was arrested Saturday and accused of raping a 19-year-old woman on the South Side early the day before. At a news conference Saturday, police said the officer has been accused of sexual assault before.
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