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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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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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Liberaland and Right Wing News


ObamaCare enrollment tops 1 million — More than 1.1 million people enrolled in ObamaCare before a December 24 deadline for consumers seeking healthcare plans that begin Jan. 1, the Obama administration said early Sunday. — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) …


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 …
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The New York Times' revisionist account of Benghazi
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Fox News, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Informed Comment, Taylor Marsh and The Daily Caller


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.


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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CNN, The Long War Journal, The Other McCain, Scared Monkeys and Jihad Watch


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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Gothamist


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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Paul Krugman

The Year of the Weasel — Just a brief thought about what didn't happen in 2013, and what did. — What didn't happen was the same as what didn't happen in 2012, or 2011, or 2010. Inflation didn't take off; bond vigilantes didn't turn America (or any nation that borrows in its own currency) into Greece, Greece I tell you.
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Prairie Weather


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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Boing Boing


DNC sends email defending Obama from impeachment possibility — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can't impeach President Obama. — The email, subject line “Impeachment,” …
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Independent Journal Review, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review and Israel Matzav


“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