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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Latest small-business delay another blow to O-Care rollout — The White House is delaying the launch of its online small-business exchange by one year, a Health and Human Services (HHS) official confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. — The delay is another setback for the troubled enrollment process …
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Jason Millman / Reuters:
Online SHOP enrollment delayed by one year — The Obama administration today announced a year-long delay of online enrollment for small businesses looking to purchase health coverage through federal-run exchanges, another setback for HealthCare.gov. — The delay, first reported by POLITICO …
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Obamacare's online SHOP enrollment delayed by one year
Obamacare's online SHOP enrollment delayed by one year
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Online Health Law Sign-Up Is Delayed for Small Business
Online Health Law Sign-Up Is Delayed for Small Business
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CANNONFIRE, Hit & Run, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway
J.D. Harrison / Washington Post:
Obama administration delays small business exchange again; won't be ready until late 2014
Obama administration delays small business exchange again; won't be ready until late 2014
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Roxanne Jones / CNN:
Young men, get a ‘yes’ text before sex — Editor's note: Roxanne Jones is a founding editor of ESPN The Magazine and a former vice president at ESPN. She is a national lecturer on sports, entertainment and women's topics and a recipient of the 2010 Woman of the Year award from Women in Sports and Events.
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Alex Hern / Guardian:
Help! My hard drive with £4m in Bitcoins is somewhere in that Newport landfill — A digital ‘wallet’ containing 7,500 Bitcoins that James Howells generated on his laptop is buried under four feet of rubbish — Buried somewhere under four feet of mud and rubbish …
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NBCNews, Mashable and Business Insider
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Hard Charger at Obama's Side Has His Hands Full — WASHINGTON — Denis McDonough was pacing the elliptical path on the South Lawn of the White House one day this fall, ruminating on the challenges of a second term for his boss, President Obama. Mr. McDonough, the White House chief of staff …
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Mike Huckabee labels Lara Logan a ‘hero journalist’ for discredited Benghazi report — Fox News host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Wednesday said that Lara Logan's botched reporting on Benghazi made her a “hero journalist” and he was shocked that CBS News would force her off the air.
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The Huffington Post, Firedoglake and The Reality-Based Community
Stephen Kalin / Reuters:
Iran says to continue building at Arak nuclear site despite deal — (Reuters) - Iran will pursue construction at the Arak heavy-water reactor, Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif was quoted as saying on Wednesday, despite a deal with world powers to shelve a project they fear could yield plutonium for atomic bombs.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Realist's Take on Obamacare — For years, Obamacare supporters weathered at best tepid support for the President's reform in the expectation that once people experienced the actual law, rather than the right-wing fever dream, opinions would change. Then they were hit with the wholly unexpected surprise …
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Joe Lieberman, lobbyist — The week of the 2012 elections, the New York Times magazine talked to then-Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who was wrapping up his congressional career. “You're retiring after serving 24 years in the Senate. What lobbying firm are you going to join now?” the Times asked.
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Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg:
Even the Pope Waits for Putin — Being 50 minutes late for his first meeting with Pope Francis was nothing unusual for Russian President Vladimir Putin. That's just the way he is — a character trait that provides some insight into his attitude toward power.
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Ten Obamacare Talking Points To Ruin Your Thanksgiving — We probably all know at least one: the person who comes to a family gathering primed to talk about politics - particularly, to let you know why their view is right, and yours is dead, dead wrong. These are the worst kind of guests.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The dog ate Obama's health-care reform. — When we got up this morning, there was an email on our BlackBerry from “Barack Obama.” We assumed that, like all the other emails we get from “Obama,” it was a fundraising pitch from Organizing for Action, the 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization that sells access to the president.