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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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, National Republican …, Gawker and National Review
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.
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The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act
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Power Line and WRAL-TV
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Health-care law expected to take greater toll on workforce
Health-care law expected to take greater toll on workforce
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CNBC, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, Washington Wire, National Republican … and National Review
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More
White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says
Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says
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The Fix, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, Ross Douthat, Taylor Marsh, Federal Eye, Wonkblog and Riehl World News
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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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office
Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014
McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014
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Power Line, Politico and CNN
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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New York Times, Mediaite and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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AEIdeas, The Raw Story, The Verge and Mental Floss
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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Jill Colvin / Politicker:
De Blasio Won't Stop Uniformed Workers from Marching in St. Patrick's Day Parade
De Blasio Won't Stop Uniformed Workers from Marching in St. Patrick's Day Parade
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Talking Points Memo and Capital New York
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.
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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.
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Daily Kos and Weekly Standard
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The Hill:
Greens warn base will sit out election
Greens warn base will sit out election
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Politico, Daily Kos, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, First Read and Reuters
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 …
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Coloradoan Online, The Daily Caller and Right Wing Watch
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.
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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 …