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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans mindlessly oppose Iran nuclear deal — Republicans are opposed to President Obama's deal with the Iranians — whatever it is. — A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday, word crossed the news wires that negotiators in Geneva had reached an agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
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DownWithTyranny!, The Moderate Voice and The Reaction
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
HealthCare.gov won't be perfect on Dec. 1, administration says — Administration officials said Monday that some visitors to ObamaCare's federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow response times or messages to try again later during the month of December.
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Connecting.the.Dots, Outside the Beltway, CNN, The Moderate Voice, BizPac Review and The Other McCain
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience
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Reuters, NationalJournal.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Week
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and The Reaction
Nancy Folbre / Economix:
The Single-Payer Alternative — Nancy Folbre is professor emerita …
The Single-Payer Alternative — Nancy Folbre is professor emerita …
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Corrente
Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
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National Review and The American Mind
Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Analysis: Iran deal bears Obama's personal stamp — (Reuters) - When push came to shove in the closing hours of marathon negotiations in Geneva on Iran's nuclear program, it was President Barack Obama, back at the White House, who approved the final language on the U.S. side before the historic deal was clinched.
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Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Hot Air and Bloomberg
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Matthew Kroenig / Foreign Policy:
Now for the Hard Part — The Iran deal is a good first step.
Now for the Hard Part — The Iran deal is a good first step.
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Daniel W. Drezner, Mediaite, News Desk and Washington Post
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Deal or No Deal — The final details of a nuclear agreement signed …
Deal or No Deal — The final details of a nuclear agreement signed …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Hosts: Was Iran Deal's ‘Curious Timing’ Meant to Change Subject From Obamacare?
Fox & Friends Hosts: Was Iran Deal's ‘Curious Timing’ Meant to Change Subject From Obamacare?
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Little Green Footballs, The Week, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Tracy Connor / NBCNews:
Steubenville case: Four more charged, including superintendent, volunteer coach — An Ohio grand jury investigating an alleged cover-up in the Steubenville rape case has indicted four more people, including the school superintendent and an assistant football coach.
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The Other McCain and The Raw Story
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Nick Dutton / WTVR-TV:
School superintendent, others indicted in Steubenville rape case
School superintendent, others indicted in Steubenville rape case
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Scared Monkeys
CNN:
Four more school employees charged in Steubenville rape case
Four more school employees charged in Steubenville rape case
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The Week, RH Reality Check and Weasel Zippers
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case
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NPR, RH Reality Check and Shakesville
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: Democrats lose 2014 edge following Obamacare uproar — Washington (CNN) - What a difference a month makes. — A new CNN/ORC International poll indicates a dramatic turnaround in the battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
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Reuters and Talking Points Memo
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Immigration Reform — San Francisco, CA — THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Well, hello, San Francisco! (Applause.) It is great to be back in California. It is great to be with all of you. I love San Francisco. (Applause.) You got great food.
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New York Times, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, White House.gov Blog, Pat Dollard and PoliticusUSA
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
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Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and Guardian
Katrina Trinko / USA Today:
It's all ho-ho-ho til Obama hijacks your holiday: Column — Forget the turkey; stuff yourself with health care talk. — CONNECT — Loathe peaceful holidays? Detest the spirit of agreeableness and good will that tends to pervade during this time of year?
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The Federalist
Washington Post:
Among American workers, poll finds unprecedented anxiety about jobs, economy — Will Figg/For The Washington Post - John Stewart works at the Philadelphia International Airport escorting passengers in wheelchairs. The job pays $5.25 an hour, plus tips. “I'm glad I don't have a family,” Stewart said.
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Creigh Deeds: ‘I am alive for a reason’ — Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds says he's “alive for a reason” in his first comments to the media following an altercation at his residence last week where he suffered multiple stab wounds to the head and torso and his son killed himself with a rifle.
Bloomberg:
Obama Is Wounded. Obamacare Is Unstoppable — By Francis Wilkinson 2013-11-24T16:00:46Z — Los Angeles Times reporter Noam N. Levey ventures a bold story on Obamacare with a somewhat pedestrian subtext: It's a done deal, folks. — This quiet thesis has a lot going for it.
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Cutbacks Shut Hospitals Where Medicaid Went Unexpanded
Obamacare Cutbacks Shut Hospitals Where Medicaid Went Unexpanded
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Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Chicago Tribune:
Employers could drop health care
Employers could drop health care
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PERRspectives, Hot Air, AEIdeas and Weekly Standard
New York Times:
End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now — WASHINGTON — THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they embedded this principle in the Fourth Amendment.
Politico:
Chilling new details in Sandy Hook shooting — With no co-conspirators identified, Sedensky said no criminal charges will be filed. AP Photo — Close — The 48-page report lays out the horror of Sandy Hook Elementary School in methodical detail. It's all there: The sound of crashing glass …
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One Newtown
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The dirty secrets behind Boehner's ‘spiking’ Obamacare premiums — Speaker John Boehner, grappling with Obamacare. (House of Representatives) — Perhaps in an effort to defuse reports that House Speaker John Boehner is making out pretty well as a first-time insurance customer under …
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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, PoliticusUSA and Politico
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why voters are finished believing Obama's health care promises — In April, Real Clear Politics' average of polls showed that 47 percent of Americans opposed Obamacare, while 41 percent supported it — a 6-percentage-point edge for opponents of the president's health care law …
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Betsy's Page
Israel Hayom:
Poll: Israelis don't believe Iran will stop nuclear program — A majority of the Jewish Israeli public does not believe that Iran will stop its nuclear program following the agreement it signed with the P5+1 over the weekend, an Israel Hayom poll finds. — A majority of the Hebrew-speaking …
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The Atlantic Online, Israel Matzav and JP Updates