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Marilyn Tavenner / HHS.gov:
Enrollment Surged Prior to the Deadline for Coverage on January 1 — As we continue our open enrollment campaign, we experienced a welcome surge in enrollment as millions of Americans seek access to affordable health care coverage through new Health Insurance Marketplaces nationwide.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts, the model for Obamacare, has highest health costs in the United States — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE MASSACHUSETTS MITT ROMNEY — On Oct. 30, as President Obama was under fire for the botched rollout of his signature health care law, he visited Boston's Faneuil Hall.
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americanthinker.com and The Other McCain
Associated Press:
Federal health market surpasses 1 million signups — HONOLULU — A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new signs of life for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange.
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Right Wing News and Liberaland
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
ObamaCare enrollment tops 1 million
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Issa Disputes NYT Benghazi Report — Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Sunday disagreed with some of the conclusions in the New York Times investigation on Benghazi, specifically that the attack was fueled in part by an anti-Islamic American video.
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Gateway Pundit, The Moderate Voice and Mediaite
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Fox News:
House Intelligence chair: Benghazi attack ‘Al Qaeda-led event’ — The 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya was an “Al Qaeda-led event” according to multiple on-the-record interviews with the head of the House Intelligence Committee who receives regular classified briefings and has access …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The New York Times' revisionist account of Benghazi — The New York Times is out with a revisionist account of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. The Times says that in months of investigating, it “turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”
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Michelle Malkin, Examiner, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, Post Politics, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Informed Comment
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Deadly Mix in Benghazi
Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Call girl tell-all: Eliot Spitzer liked to choke me, was into ‘struggle’ — Rebecca Woodard is seen leaving Family Court in Manhattan in 2005 during the custody case involving her daughter. Inset: The cover of Woodard's tell-all. — He socked it to her.
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Liberaland and Gothamist
Spiegel Online:
Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit — The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.
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RIA Novosti:
Female Suicide Bomber Kills Over a Dozen at Volgograd Train Station … Originally posted at 13:19 and updated throughout the day — A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the entrance hall of a train station in Russia's southern city of Volgograd on Sunday, killing over a dozen people …
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Associated Press, The Long War Journal, The Other McCain, Scared Monkeys and Jihad Watch
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Red, blue states move in opposite directions in a new era of single-party control — Political polarization has ushered in a new era in state government, where single-party control of the levers of power has produced competing Americas. One is grounded in principles of lean and limited government …
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Washington Monthly
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz says he's hired lawyers to renounce Canadian citizenship — WASHINGTON — The junior senator from Texas is still a Canadian. But he's working on it, eh? — Born in Alberta 43 years ago last Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz was unaware of his dual nationality until The Dallas Morning News explored the issue in August.
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Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
The Devious Ad Campaign That Convinced America Coffee Was Bad for Kids — For most of my life, I've assumed that the grotesque amounts of coffee I began drinking around age 12 to keep up with my nightly homework load had something to do with the fact that I grew up to be a good 2-to-3 inches shorter than my pediatrician predicted.
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Outside the Beltway
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Who cares if we wreck that million dollar painting? JP Morgan's $19m-a-year boss under fire for ‘opulent’ Christmas card of him hitting tennis balls around palatial home — JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon, 57, has been branded ‘tone deaf’ after releasing a decadent Christmas card in which he hits tennis balls around his palatial home.
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
The Greatest Investment Opportunity Since Dogecoin — Dogecoin, a joke cryptocurrency based on an internet dog meme, exploded last week. Now it's Ponzicoin's turn. — DEAR MOST SAVVY AND RESPECTED INVESTOR: — I AM WRITING TO YOU TO INFORM YOU ABOUT AN EXCITING AND ENRICHING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Franklin Graham: The pope is ‘not the judge’ — Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, says he's at odds on the issue of homosexuality with Pope Francis, who famously told reporters this summer, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge them?”
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AMERICAblog News and Mediaite
CBS Pittsburgh:
Rabbi Sued After Baby Injured During Circumcision — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A local rabbi is being sued after allegedly botching a bris, the traditional Jewish circumcision ritual, and severing a newborn boy's penis. — The incident detailed in the lawsuit happened at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill within the last year.
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Gothamist and Liberaland
Joanne Ostrow / Ostrow Off The Record:
“Duck Dynasty” debacle winners and losers — “Duck Dynasty” start Phil Robertson. (A&E via AP) — The feathers are no longer flying. For now, the “Duck Dynasty” debacle is settled. The network, A&E, has welcomed patriarch and hate-speech spewer Phil Robertson back into the fold.
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Twitchy and NewsBusters
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, U.S. intelligence estimate warns — A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017 …
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