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Chris Kluwe / Deadspin:
I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot — Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought …
Matt Higgins / CBS Seattle:
Oregon Mother: I Can't Afford Obamacare For Myself, 1-Year-Old Son — PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS Seattle/AP) — One Oregon mother says that she is unable to afford health insurance for her and her 18-month-old son because it's too expensive. — Kate Holly, 33, tells KOIN-TV that she originally …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans' misfortune, drum up fake outrage — Prepare for them to search high and low for people disappointed with Obamacare — then pretend to share their pain — A quick look at the House and Senate vote calendars indicates that Congress did not in fact come …
Aaron Smith / CNNMoney.com:
“Duck Dynasty” launches its own line of guns — The family-owned business at the center of the hit TV show “Duck Dynasty” has launched its own line of guns. — The gunmaker Mossberg has teamed with Duck Commander, the company owned by “Duck Dynasty's” Robertson clan, to release nine different shotguns …
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Daily Mail:
Duck Dynasty launch their own line of guns as Phil hatches plot to move his family to rival TV network after A&E bosses ‘humiliated’ him over anti-gay storm — Phil Robertson feels betrayed by bosses at A&E and is plotting to get his family out of the $200,000 per episode contact they signed last August
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sciencemag.org:
Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment — 1National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. — 2Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY 10027, USA. — 3Center for Outcomes Research and Education …
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Emergency Visits Seen Increasing With Health Law — Supporters of President Obama's health care law had predicted that expanding insurance coverage for the poor would reduce costly emergency room visits because people would go to primary care doctors instead.
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Study: Expanding Medicaid doesn't reduce ER trips. It increases them.
Study: Expanding Medicaid doesn't reduce ER trips. It increases them.
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New York Times:
Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower — Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages …
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Weeks in the Making, an Editorial on Snowden May Go ‘Beyond What Is Realistic’
Weeks in the Making, an Editorial on Snowden May Go ‘Beyond What Is Realistic’
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Clemency for Edward Snowden Would Not Set a Dangerous Precedent
Clemency for Edward Snowden Would Not Set a Dangerous Precedent
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Three Stages of Obamacare Acceptance — Now that Obamacare is clearly moving forward, Republicans are adjusting to a new reality: it may no longer be a realistic option to simply wait until the law collapses under its own weight and vanishes entirely. GOP lawmakers are increasingly discussing …
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Mike Ciandella / NewsBusters:
Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission — A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks' reports about the ice-locked …
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Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
World's climate warming faster than feared, scientists say
World's climate warming faster than feared, scientists say
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Robby Soave / The Daily Caller:
It begins: New NYC schools chancellor will push ‘progressive agenda’ — Farina, a former teacher and long-time adviser to de Blasio, shares the mayor's desire to foist a “progressive agenda” upon NYC schools, she said at a news conference earlier this week.
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
U.S. education officials lobbied against Starr for New York City schools post
U.S. education officials lobbied against Starr for New York City schools post
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Fox News:
Bob Grant, conservative radio icon, dead at 84, reports say — Bob Grant, whose familiar voice boomed over the radio airwaves for more than 50 years, died on Tuesday, according to multiple reports and an obituary posted on the Branchburg Funeral Home's website. He was 84.
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CNN:
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates hurt in fall — (CNN) - Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was back home on Thursday after injuring his neck in a fall on New Year's Day. — Gates accidentally fell and fractured his first vertebrae at his home in Washington state …
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New York Times:
Qaeda-Aligned Militants Threaten Key Iraqi Cities — BAGHDAD — Radical Sunni militants aligned with Al Qaeda threatened Thursday to seize control of Falluja and Ramadi, two of the most important cities in Iraq, setting fire to police stations, freeing prisoners from jail and occupying mosques …
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood — And then, how we reverse engineered Netflix. The story of the streaming service's micro-genres. … If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd.
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: MSNBC to name Thomas Roberts host of ‘Way Too Early’ — MSNBC has decided to replace the anchor of “Way Too Early” with the openly-gay Thomas Roberts because the left-leaning channel wants the show to be seen as more “diverse,” a source inside the cable network tells The Daily Caller.
NBCNews:
Calif. high court grants undocumented immigrant admission to state bar — Sergio Garcia is seen in Chico, Calif., April 2, 2013. Despite a law school degree and passing the state bar exam, as an undocumented immigrant, Garcia was not allowed to practice law by the state until the ruling today.
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Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Loan Monitor Is Accused of Ruthless Tactics on Student Debt — Stacy Jorgensen fought her way through pancreatic cancer. But her struggle was just beginning. — Before she became ill, Ms. Jorgensen took out $43,000 in student loans. As her payments piled up along with medical bills …
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Mass Shootings Are Becoming More Frequent — After a man opened fire at Los Angeles's airport a few months ago, friends and coworkers undoubtedly turned to each other shaking their heads: Could this really be happening again, so soon? Are these things getting more frequent, or am I imagining it?
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The price of political ignorance: More government — It was naughty of Winston Churchill to say, if he really did, that “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Nevertheless, many voters' paucity of information about politics and government …
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New York Times:
Chinese Helicopter Rescues 52 From Ship Trapped in Antarctic Ice — LONDON — In a dramatic operation displaying unusual international harmony in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable places, a red-and-white Chinese helicopter on Thursday rescued 52 passengers trapped …
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The Bottom Of The Barrel — Conservatives are the party of hate. This must be true, right? I heard it on the News. NBC News makes this point on its 24-hour cable news network at least 15 times per hour, and NBC is a “respected news source ...” right? — I mean ... right?
ThinkProgress:
Former Florida Governor Apologizes For Anti-Gay Record — Charlie Crist, who served as Governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican, is currently running for his old job as a Democrat. In addition to renouncing his old party, Crist apologized in a newly published interview …
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Hanna Rosin / TIME:
Men Are Obsolete — Five reasons we are definitely witnessing the end of men — How do I know men are finished? I'll read you a quote that says it all: “Yes. There have been times when I've been in a drunken stupor.” Toronto's mayor, a shining example of modern manhood is what I would call …
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