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12:15 AM ET, February 5, 2014

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
The Best Of The Bad Reporting On Obamacare, The CBO And Jobs  —  The Congressional Budget Office issued a new report Tuesday on the federal budget deficit, Obamacare and jobs — and Official Washington exploded.  —  It all centered on one line about how the health care reform law would affect employment.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses  —  The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news  —  An ACA informational kiosk in South L.A. last year.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)  —  The Congressional Budget Office is out with its latest report on the Affordable Care Act, and here are a few bottom lines:  — The ACA is cheaper than it expected.
Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
No, CBO did not say Obamacare will kill 2 million jobs  —  Here we go again.  During the 2012 campaign, The Fact Checker had to repeatedly explain that the Congressional Budget Office never said that the Affordable Care Act “killed” 800,000 jobs by 2021.  Now, the CBO has released an updated estimate …
New York Times:
Health Care Law Projected to Cut the Labor Force  —  WASHINGTON — A Congressional Budget Office analysis released Tuesday predicted that the Affordable Care Act would shrink the work force by the equivalent of more than two million full-time positions and recharged the political debate …
CBO's Publications:
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024  —  The federal budget deficit has fallen sharply during the past few years, and it is on a path to decline further this year and next year.  CBO estimates that under current law, the deficit will total $514 billion in fiscal year 2014, compared with $1.4 trillion in 2009.
The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act
Discussion: WRAL-TV and Power Line
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell Pours Cold Water On Immigration Reform: ‘Irresolvable’  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said immigration reform poses an “irresolvable conflict” between the two chambers and predicted that it won't be completed in 2014.  —  “I think we have a sort …
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Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit (Updated)
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Conservatives4Palin
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rogers: Greenwald illegally sold docs  —  A top lawmaker argued Tuesday that journalist Glenn Greenwald is illegally selling stolen material by asking news organizations to pay for access to U.S. intelligence secrets taken from the National Security Agency.  —  “For personal gain …
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Associated Press:
US Official: Snowden Leaks Lead to Pentagon Change
Rose Pastore / Popular Science:
How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds  —  An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast.  —  When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself.
Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:
LGBTQ Leaders, Allies Call on Mayor to Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat's Parade  —  Saved under Breaking News, Editor's Letter, Legal, NYC, Politics  —  More than twenty years ago, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization sought to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue and was excluded.
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Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page  —  Reporters in ‘semi-open revolt’ against Andrew Rosenthal  —  IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.
Curtis Williams / ogj.com:
Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one  —  The decision on whether to permit the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline is a political one and not one of that is scientific in nature, according to former US Energy Sec. Steven Chu.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Weekly Standard
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Bill O'Reilly / Fox News:
Unedited: Bill O'Reilly's EXCLUSIVE Interview with President Obama  —  One of my, uh, points on the Factor is that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family, that is the prime mover, okay.  On your watch, median income has dropped seventeen percent among working families in this country.
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Ruth R. Wisse / Wall Street Journal:
Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent’  —  Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.  —  Two phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict.  Is there any connection between them?  In a letter to this newspaper …
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Former KKK Leader Pleads Guilty To Cross Burning  —  Steven Joshua Dinkle, a 28-year-old described by prosecutors as a “former Exalted Cyclops of the Ozark, Ala., chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” pleaded guilty Monday to hate crime and obstruction of justice charges for his role in a 2009 cross burning.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL SUPREME COURT ANTONIN SCALIA  —  Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Hit & Run
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
BYU to Undergrads: Self-Love Is A Battlefield  —  The Mormon university is urging its students to narc on chronic masturbators, whose fight against self-pleasure is like rescuing a fallen soldier during war.  —  “The temptations of the Great War are many.  The battles are real, and the strategies are clever.
Discussion: Mediaite
Dan Merica / CNN:
D.C. takes step toward legalizing pot for private use  —  (CNN) - The Washington City Council passed a measure on Tuesday that would move the District of Columbia one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana in most cases.  —  Members approved the bill 11-to-1 in the first of two votes likely this month.
Discussion: Associated Press
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
You can't celebrate America, school says  —  Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans.  —  “They said they didn't want to offend anyone from other countries …
Associated Press:
Vatican Surveys Find Catholics Reject Teachings On Sex, Contraception  —  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Surveys commissioned by the Vatican have shown that the vast majority of Catholics in Germany and Switzerland reject church teaching on contraception, sexual morality, gay unions and divorce.
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
 
 
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