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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Obamacare: Tom Coburn loses cancer doctor — Cancer-stricken Sen. Tom Coburn revealed Tuesday that his health insurance under Obamacare doesn't cover his oncologist, but said he still is receiving excellent care. — “I'm doing well from a health standpoint, got great docs,” Coburn said on MSNBC's …
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Rush Limbaugh, Mediaite, National Review and The PJ Tatler
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The End of the Beginning on Obamacare Repeal
The End of the Beginning on Obamacare Repeal
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Washington Examiner, Washington Center …, Salon, The Dish and National Review
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama to Raise Minimum Wage Under Federal Contractors — WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to sign an executive order requiring that janitors, construction workers and others working for federal contractors be paid at least $10.10 an hour, using his own power to enact a more limited version …
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Obama to sign executive order raising minimum wage for federal contractors
Obama to sign executive order raising minimum wage for federal contractors
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Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, National Review, Fox News Insider and The Week
Franco Ordonez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Will Boehner's immigration ‘principles’ help struggling GOP?
Will Boehner's immigration ‘principles’ help struggling GOP?
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National Review
Erick Erickson / RedState:
A Very Sincere Thank You to @Gretawire — Greta Van Sustern wishes you to know I'm a creepy jerk. She does not know who I am and thinks no one should listen to me. I appreciate her letting someone she's never heard of who she thinks should not be listened to live rent free in her head.
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Gretawire, Riehl World News, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Taylor Marsh, The Other McCain and Talking Points Memo
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Wendy Davis hits back at Bristol Palin — Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis brushed off criticism about her life story from Bristol Palin, saying that nothing Palin accused her of was true. — Davis was responding to a blog post from the daughter of former Gov. Sarah Palin …
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Talking Points Memo, americanthinker.com and The Daily Banter
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Erick Erickson Responds To Greta Van Susteren With Graphic Anti-Abortion Screed — Erick Erickson is grateful to fellow Fox News colleague Greta Van Susteren. Thanks to Van Susteren, Erickson reasoned, more people will see Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis as the abortion lover she is.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Gibbs: Obama ‘Stopped Trying’ to Change Washington Long Ago — Former press secretary Robert Gibbs said today on TV that President Obama and his White House “long ago” gave up on “trying” to change Washington: — Gibbs first thanked God that he's no longer working in this White House …
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Hot Air and National Review
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CNN:
Boehner warns Obama headed for ‘brick wall’ — Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner warned President Barack Obama that he will “run into a brick wall” by using his executive power and bypassing Congress, as the White House has signaled the President intends to do.
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PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos and Politico
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Obama to use executive action to raise minimum wage for federal contractors
Obama to use executive action to raise minimum wage for federal contractors
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama to raise minimum wage for government contract workers
Obama to raise minimum wage for government contract workers
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ThinkProgress, NPR, The Week, The Plum Line, Guardian, The Fact Checker, The Gateway Pundit and The Fix
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
State of the Union 2014: How far will Obama go?
State of the Union 2014: How far will Obama go?
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The Hill, CNN, Washington Center … and Washington Wire
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 — Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday.
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Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94
Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94
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PoliticusUSA, Daily Dot, The Moderate Voice, The Political Carnival and The Agonist
Domenico Montanaro / NBCNews:
Poll: Christie numbers tank as scandals continue — Chris Christie's political future looks to be in serious danger with more Americans believing the embattled New Jersey governor is lying about the bridge closure scandal than telling the truth, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC News poll: Pessimism defines the state of the union
NBC News poll: Pessimism defines the state of the union
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Shakesville, Washington Free Beacon and National Review
The Hill:
56 Dems endorse Hillary for 2016 — Fifty-six Democratic lawmakers say they would endorse Hillary Clinton for president if she launches a 2016 White House bid, according to a survey conducted by The Hill. [SEE COMPLETE LIST] — Twenty-two congressional Democrats had already publicly endorsed Clinton.
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, New York Times, Politico, Real Clear Politics and Fox News Insider
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
How Republicans Lost the Farm — On a recent Monday in San Antonio, Texas, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, got up to speak to an auditorium full of farmers. Vilsack, a doughy, wavy-haired former governor of Iowa, wore a grim expression as he gripped the lectern.
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Matthews goes after McCain critic — Sen. John McCain, under fire from the Arizona GOP for not being conservative enough, got an unlikely ally in his defense against the state party's censure of the senator, as MSNBC host Chris Matthews went after the author of the Arizona GOP's critique of McCain.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
John McCain on reprimand: ‘It fires me up’
John McCain on reprimand: ‘It fires me up’
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, CNN, OnPolitics and Independent Journal Review
Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: Democratic senators to file amicus brief in Hobby Lobby birth control case — In a brief to be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against evangelical Christian businessmen who argue that paying …
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Greenroom, americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler, Independent Journal Review and Twitchy
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Governing by Pen and Phone — Obama used to sigh that he was not a dictator who could act unilaterally. No more. — Lately a weakened President Obama has fashioned a new attitude about consensual government: “We're not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Lawmakers demand Obama dump Clapper — A bipartisan group of House members is criticizing President Obama for not going far enough in his attempts to rein in the country's surveillance programs. — In a letter to the White House on Monday, six lawmakers led by House Oversight …
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Matt Ford / The Atlantic Online:
Giant Hologram of Turkish Prime Minister Delivers Speech — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan couldn't attend a political party meeting in the city of Izmir on Sunday, so he decided to send the next best thing: a giant hologram of himself. — In a scene straight out of Star Wars …
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Washington Monthly, Guardian and The Verge
David Plotz / Slate:
The California Supreme Court's cruel, self-righteous decision to reject the disgraced journalist's bar application. — Stephen Glass, the disgraced New Republic journalist, and once my friend, lied to me most of the times we spoke. My wife Hanna Rosin was one of his closest confidantes at the New Republic …
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The Dish, New York Times, emptywheel and Washington Post
Michael Booth / Guardian:
Dark lands: the grim truth behind the ‘Scandinavian miracle’ — Television in Denmark is rubbish, Finnish men like a drink - and Sweden is not exactly a model of democracy. Why, asks one expert, does everybody think the Nordic region is a utopia? — For the past few years the world …
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