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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Target announces it will drop part-time employees from its healthcare plan — Target Corp. announced on Tuesday it would no longer offer healthcare coverage to its part-time employees. — In a blog post on the company's website, Jodee Kozlak, the executive vice president of human resources …
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit and americanthinker.com
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Emily Rudisill / A Bullseye View:
Talking Health Care with EVP of Human Resources Jodee Kozlak — At Target, we have a longstanding commitment to our team members' health and well-being. We have been researching and evaluating how the transforming health care landscape will impact our team members and our company.
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Politico, Red Alert Politics, Hit & Run, Washington Free Beacon, BizPac Review and The Heritage Foundation
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Is Politico telling the full story about Wendy Davis? — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL POLITICO TEXAS 2014 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS CHRIS CHRISTIE WENDY DAVIS — There has been lots of coverage in Politico on the charges against New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie and members of his staff.
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Jammie Wearing Fools, Talking Points Memo, Politico and CNN
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Dallas Morning News:
The Wendy Davis story — The details of Wendy Davis' early years were compelling without the discrepancies. — The bare-bones Wendy Davis story — the one without embellishment — is sufficiently inspiring as a matrix for defying expectations. The daughter of a teenage mother …
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Talking Points Memo and Jammie Wearing Fools
CNN:
Ex-husband: Wendy Davis would be a ‘very capable governor’ — Dallas (CNN) - Wendy Davis' second ex-husband, Jeff Davis, says he doesn't want to talk any more about his ex-wife, adding he wasn't pleased with the explosive debate that originated from his recent comments about the Texas gubernatorial candidate.
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Talking Points Memo
Wendy Davis / Wendy Davis for Texas:
An Open Letter from Wendy Davis
An Open Letter from Wendy Davis
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Taylor Marsh, BizPac Review, Althouse, The Daily Caller, Aas Blogs, Hot Air, NewsBusters and Red Alert Politics
New York Post:
De Blasio ‘getting back at us’ by not plowing: UES residents — It really is a tale of two cities — this time with the tony Upper East Side getting the shaft! — Huge swaths of the city's wealthiest neighborhood had been not been plowed by early Tuesday evening, leaving 1-percenters out in the cold …
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Gawker, Mediaite, BizPac Review, Politicker, naked capitalism, americanthinker.com, Jammie Wearing Fools and The PJ Tatler
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Resolved: Obamacare Is Now Beyond Rescue — Last Wednesday, Scott Gottlieb and I debated Jonathan Chait and Douglas Kamerow on this proposition: “Resolved: Obamacare Is Now Beyond Rescue.” I was feeling a little trepid, for three reasons: First, I've never done any formal debate; second …
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The Heritage Foundation, National Review and Althouse
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The ugly, sordid, damning details in the Bob McDonnell indictment — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL VIRGINIA CORRUPTION BOB MCDONNELL — If the prosecutors' case in United States v. Robert F. McDonnell and Maureen G. McDonnell is correct, the corrupt acts of the 71st governor of Virginia and his wife …
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The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, The Week and ABC News
The White House:
Statement by the President on Roe v. Wade Anniversary — Today, as we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision's guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health.
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy and Weasel Zippers
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Ronald D. Rotunda / Chicago Tribune:
On deep background 41 years later
On deep background 41 years later
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National Review, Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
There's No Getting Rid of David Vitter, America's Most Contemptible Senator — After surviving a prostitution scandal and a dead madam, the Republican wants to be the Bayou State's next governor. — I was once shooting the breeze with a Democratic senator I knew fairly well.
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The Week, NewsBusters and Yahoo! News
Mike Broomhead / 550 KFYI:
On air: Weekdays 4pm to 7pm — Mike Broomhead is the fastest growing name in talk radio today and rules the afternoon drive time slot from 4 7 pm! Mike has been with KFYI since 2005. He uses his business and life experience to address the issues that Arizona citizens face today.
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Talking Points Memo
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Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
McCain Says Obama Is Worse Than Carter
McCain Says Obama Is Worse Than Carter
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Taegan Goddard's …, Washington Free Beacon and National Review
American Prospect:
When Public Opinions Collide — The progressive challenge of adjusting to a new climate of public opinion on deficits, entitlements, and jobs. … A major problem that confronts progressives and Democrats in dealing with deficits, entitlements and jobs is the extraordinary degree …
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Washington Monthly
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
The Supreme Court Case That Could Clobber Public-Sector Unions — William Messenger of the National Right to Work Committee asked the Supreme Court today to hold that public employee unions are unconstitutional. — “This is—I'm just going to use the word here, it is a radical argument.
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Althouse, neo-neocon, Washington Post, Cato Institute, SCOTUSblog, Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire and ACS Blog
Ben S. Carson / Washington Times:
A physician's view on the sanctity of life — The thought of abortion for convenience is repugnant — Several years ago, I was consulted by a young woman who was 33 weeks pregnant and was on her way to Kansas get an abortion. I informed her of the multiple options available to her outside …
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Taylor Marsh and National Review
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
GOP candidate calling for Obama's hanging gets called out by Gov, called in by Secret Service — Say you're a rookie political candidate eager to raise your profile. Here's one sure way to do that that you DO NOT want to try: Publicly call for the president of the United States to be hanged.
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The Daily Caller, Hinterland Gazette and Talking Points Memo
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Secret Service Visits GOP Candidate Who Advocated Obama's Execution
Secret Service Visits GOP Candidate Who Advocated Obama's Execution
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Hinterland Gazette and Tampa Bay Times
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
For the First Time, Ukraine Protests Lead to Deaths — KIEV, Ukraine — After two protesters were shot to death during clashes with the police on Wednesday, the first fatalities in Ukraine's two-month civil uprising, President Viktor F. Yanukovich met with opposition leaders as efforts to defuse the crisis took on new urgency.
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CNN, Business Insider, The Week, Gawker and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Tania Dall / WWL-TV:
Musician in coma after brutal attack in French Quarter — NEW ORLEANS — A well-known New Orleans musician is hospitalized and unconscious after being jumped in the French Quarter. — Doug Potter's family and friends believe he may have been a target of the “knockout” game. — “Always here when we needed him.
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The Moderate Voice and The Gateway Pundit
Courtney Astolfi / Sandusky Register:
Trooper gives sex lesson — Sandusky County prosecutor Stierwalt: No crime in highway patrolman's sexual encounter with pre-teen — An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper with a history of domestic violence won't face charges related to alleged sexual encounters involving a boy, Sandusky County Sheriff's Deputy Sean O'Connell said.
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ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
CBC News:
Rob Ford admits to drinking ‘a little bit’ after new video surfaces — After swearing off alcohol, mayor admits to drinking ‘a little bit’ on Monday night — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to drinking alcohol Monday night, after a YouTube video appeared today showing him at a restaurant swearing …
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Taegan Goddard's …, The Raw Story, Hit & Run and Toronto Star
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Morning Plum: Mitch McConnell and the moral argument over Obamacare — The ongoing implementation of health care reform in Kentucky is a riveting story, with broad implications both for the 2014 elections and for health reform's broader future. In this deep red state …
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ThinkProgress, American Prospect, The Week, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and CBS Miami
Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
3 east Jerusalem al-Qaida recruits arrested, ‘planned massive bombings’ — Shin Bet nabs men recruited online by Gaza operative working for al-Qaida chief; targets included Jerusalem Convention Center. — The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Wednesday that it arrested three Palestinians …
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The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch and The Long War Journal
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Pentagon Workers Strike Over Poverty Wages Paid By Federal Contracts — Food service and janitorial staff at the Pentagon are going on strike Wednesday morning, opening a new front in the ongoing fight to get President Obama to end the federal government's practice of paying poverty wages to contract employees at federal facilities.
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Liberaland and Salon
Adam Ozimek / Forbes:
The Minimum Wage Means Less Hiring — A seeming point of among agreement among minimum wage researchers is that higher minimum wages lead to lower turnover. Dube et al (2012) find that “[a]verage separations, hires and turnover rates decline significantly among teen workers and restaurant establishments.”
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PolicyShop and naked capitalism
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Job Approval Points to 2014 Trouble for Democrats — With the advent of this election year, the time to turn from generalities/playing field pieces to tracking specific races is fast approaching. But before picking up my series on competitive Senate races (I wrote on three …
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Weekly Standard, Scared Monkeys, Gallup and Hot Air