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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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Alex Kane / Mondoweiss:
(Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians — New York Senator Chuck Schumer was his usual hawkish self on Sunday evening. In an address to the OHEL Children's Home and Family Services gala, Schumer railed against the deal …
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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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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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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Noah Millman / The American Conservative:
The Obama Legacy: Iran vs. Healthcare.gov
The Obama Legacy: Iran vs. Healthcare.gov
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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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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer — More than a few conservatives are of the opinion that should the Affordable Care Act fail to achieve its goals, it would make the adoption of single-payer health insurance in the United States more likely.
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience — Some Capitol Hill Democrats are preparing to launch broadsides against President Barack Obama if the Affordable Care Act website isn't fixed by the end of the month. — That will come in the form of more aggressive scrutiny in Republican-led oversight hearings …
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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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Economics Policies for the 21st Century:
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs
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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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Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare
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The Impolitic and BizPac Review
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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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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Nick Dutton / WTVR-TV:
School superintendent, others indicted in Steubenville rape case
School superintendent, others indicted in Steubenville rape case
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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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
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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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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.
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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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
WATCH: Drunken Mayor Goes Bonkers After Being Arrested by His Own Police Force — Video recording shows the mayor of an upstate New York village going berserk after being taken into custody, by his own officers, on suspicion of drunk driving. — Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins was arrested on Sat. …
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Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
Video Shows Monticello Mayor Cursing, Breaking Clock After DWI Arrest
Video Shows Monticello Mayor Cursing, Breaking Clock After DWI Arrest
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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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Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
What If There Simply Aren't More Antibiotics to be Discovered? — Antibiotic resistance, like climate change, is one of those issues that has been blinking red on the world's dashboard for decades. Everyone agrees it's potentially disastrous—in fact, has already reached crisis stage in some areas …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today won't publish handout photos from White House — In a memo to staff Sunday, USA Today Deputy Director of Multimedia Andrew P. Scott said the news organization will not use “handout photos originating from the White House Press Office, except in very extraordinary circumstances.”
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ProPublica:
New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More On Politics Than It Said — On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits.
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Kingston: Not ‘responsible’ to let ObamaCare fail — A Republican lawmaker running for Senate in Georgia is calling for improvements to ObamaCare, breaking with his party's proclaimed policy to simply let the law self-destruct. — Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) on Monday questioned whether …
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