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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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The Moderate Voice and DownWithTyranny!
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Bryan Bender / The Boston Globe:
John Kerry opened secret channel to Iran — Quiet diplomacy helped lead to deal on Tehran's nuclear program — WASHINGTON — It was early December 2011 and the US Senate was poised to hold a crucial vote on the nomination of Richard Cordray to head President Obama's controversial new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Taylor Marsh and Taegan Goddard's …
Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Analysis: Iran deal bears Obama's personal stamp
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Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Hot Air and Bloomberg
Alex Kane / Mondoweiss:
(Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians
Matthew Kroenig / Foreign Policy:
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 …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
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
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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Reuters:
All (good) Obamacare news is local — President Barack Obama has bungled HealthCare.gov so badly that he's told senior aides to not even try to win positive coverage from the national press. — Instead, they're going local. — In the past month, Obama and his Cabinet have hit nine …
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The Plum Line, ABC News and Politico
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience
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NationalJournal.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Week
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
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 …
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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, Taegan Goddard's …, Talking Points Memo and UrbanGrounds
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
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents — The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Spies worry over “doomsday” cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden — (Reuters) - British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a “doomsday” cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and The Verge
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Praised by de Blasio, Dinkins Responds With an Arrow — To punctuate an impassioned pitch for his signature plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio went out of his way during a speech on Monday to praise a cherished political mentor and former boss watching from the audience.
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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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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Signals a Shift From Military Might to Diplomacy
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
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Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and Guardian
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.
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ThinkProgress and Hot Air
Jose DelReal / Politico:
Charles Krauthammer: Worst since Munich — 'This is a sham from beginning to end. It's the worst deal since Munich,' he said. John Shinkle/POLITICO — Close — Charles Krauthammer says he believes President Barack Obama's deal with Iran is “the worst deal since Munich.”
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 and Chicago Tribune
Washington Post:
Karzai tells Susan Rice of more demands for accord extending U.S. troop presence — KABUL — Efforts by the United States and Afghanistan to finalize a long-term security arrangement appeared on the brink of collapse Monday as Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a new set of demands …
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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.
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.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Tea party unscathed in early GOP civil war — The Republican civil war erupted into full view this fall, and the establishment looked like it was about to shove the movement back in line. — But the early skirmishes ended with the tea party no weaker than it was.
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
Emily L. Hauser / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Goldberg Gets J Street Wrong — By Emily L. HauserNovember 25th 20134:00 PM — Look, I'm going to say something shocking: I'm a J Street supporter. — I know, you didn't see that coming. But I'll also let you in on a secret: I don't always agree with every single utterance …
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