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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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The Other McCain, americanthinker.com and The Lonely Conservative
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 (VIDEO) — 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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Liberaland, 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 …
David / crooksandliars.com/user/7:
Rep. Castro Rips Issa After Benghazi Report: He ‘crusaded For Over A Year On A Fairy Tale’ — Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) lashed out at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Sunday for spending over a year on what he said was a crusade on a “fairy tale” …
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Liberaland, Mediaite, National Review, Business Insider and Washington Monthly
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The New York Times' revisionist account of Benghazi
The New York Times' revisionist account of Benghazi
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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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Associated Press, Guardian, Gothamist and Boing Boing
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Spiegel Online:
Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit — The insert method and other variants of QUANTUM are closely linked to a shadow network operated by the NSA alongside the Internet, with its own, well-hidden infrastructure comprised of “covert” routers and servers. It appears the NSA also incorporates routers …
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The Verge and The Raw Story
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
Sergei Karpov / Reuters:
Suicide bomber kills at least 16 at Russian train station — (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber detonated explosives in the entrance hall of a Russian train station on Sunday, investigators said, killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack within three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.
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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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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
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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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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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.
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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The Moderate Voice and Gothamist
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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