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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Lazy Journalists Aren't to Blame for Death of Print — This week's announcement that New York magazine was becoming a biweekly was greeted, in my profession, with the sort of cheer that might herald the announcement of a sewer line backup or a mid-honeymoon appendectomy. — New York magazine is very successful.
Discussion:
Connecting.the.Dots and Vox Popoli
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
New York's Junior Senator, Doggedly Refusing to Play the Part — WASHINGTON — If there were a chutzpah caucus in the United States Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York would be its natural leader. — On a fund-raising swing through Chicago this fall, she told donors to pressure …
Discussion:
The Reaction, Taegan Goddard's …, The Mahablog and Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare Buck Finally Stops — President Obama says blame the government, not President Obama. — President Obama has found someone to blame for the Affordable Care Act's rolling failures besides Republicans. ObamaCare is the government's fault, not his.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers — As Husbands Do Domestic Duty, These Women Are Free to Achieve — Marielle Jan de Beur often catches the 6:27 a.m. train to Grand Central Terminal, waiting on the Westchester platform with a swarm of dark-suited men, and then walks 10 blocks …
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Rand Paul Says Wife is Against a 2016 Run — There's at least one member of Sen. Rand Paul's family who isn't quite on board just yet with a 2016 run — and that's his wife. — After a speech at the Detroit Economic Club today, Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway and The Reaction
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obama has shown how a future GOP president can gut Obamacare — BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE REPUBLICAN PARTY — I owe Mitt Romney an apology. — During the 2012 Republican presidential primary season, I repeatedly criticized Romney — and personally challenged him during his editorial board meeting …
Discussion:
Hot Air and PostPartisan
Decca Aitkenhead / Guardian:
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system — Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to ‘keep churning out papers’ — Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson …
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Outside the Beltway and Vox Popoli
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Third Way Op-Ed Writer Says Elizabeth Warren's Backing Of Social Security Plan Was The ‘Final Moment’ — Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy and a co-founder of Third Way, said Friday morning that Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) backing of a plan to expand Social Security compelled …
Richard Pollock / Washington Examiner:
Doctors boycotting California's Obamacare exchange — WATCHDOG OBAMACARE CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE HEALTHCARE.GOV HEALTH CARE EXCHANGES — An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange and won't participate …
Discussion:
americanthinker.com, neo-neocon, Ed Driscoll, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
Alec Macgillis / The New Republic:
Those Media Hysterics Who Said Obama's Presidency Was Dead Were Wrong. Again. — It's been a pretty good week for the Obama administration. The bungled healthcare.gov Web site emerged vastly improved following an intensive fix-it push, allowing some 25,000 to sign up per day, as many as signed up in all of October.
Discussion:
Liberal Values and The Dish
Jada F. Smith / New York Times:
Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks — WASHINGTON — The technology troubles that plagued the HealthCare.gov website rollout may not have come as a shock to people who work for certain agencies of the government — especially those who still use floppy disks, the cutting-edge technology of the 1980s.
Discussion:
Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, Gawker and Business Insider
Marin Cogan / NationalJournal.com:
Is This 36-Year-Old Veteran the Future of the GOP? — Two Ivy League degrees. Two tours of duty. Can Tom Cotton win the Senate for the GOP? — HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—On a recent late-fall Saturday, Barbara Deuschle, a local restaurant owner, was recounting her first impression of her congressman …
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Betsy's Page and Power Line