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8:25 AM ET, February 5, 2014

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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.

Discussion: The Plum Line, Hullabaloo, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE and National Review

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: The Fix and Washington Monthly

John Podhoretz / New York Post:

Congressional Budget Office sends death blow to ObamaCare — The Affordable Care Act, a k a ObamaCare, became law almost four years ago. It became operational last Oct. 1. Yesterday, Feb. 4, 2014, the ACA may well have been dealt its death blow.

Wall Street Journal:

The Jobless Care Act — Congress's budget office says ObamaCare will increase unemployment. — There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama …

Discussion: Betsy's Page

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 …

Discussion: Washington Wire, Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Commentary Magazine, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, National Republican …, Taylor Marsh, National Review, Washington Post and Gawker

The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Today's CBO Report and the Affordable Care Act

Discussion: WRAL-TV and Power Line

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses

Discussion: Right Turn, Patterico's Pontifications, OpenMarket.org, The Gateway Pundit, Forbes, The PJ Tatler, Weekly Standard, Liberal Values, CNN, The Other McCain, JustOneMinute and The New Editor

CBO's Publications:
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024

Discussion: National Review, The Week, Wonkblog, Democracy in America, Right Turn, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, The Heritage Foundation, Mediaite, NPR and Washington Wire

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Health-care law expected to take greater toll on workforce

Discussion: CNBC, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, Washington Wire, National Republican …, Viking Pundit and National Review

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House On Obamacare Report: If There Were No Medicare, 95-Year-Olds Would Work More

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit

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.

Discussion: Capital New York, Roger L. Simon, Power Line, Gawker, TheBlaze.com and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: AEIdeas, The Raw Story, The Verge and Mental Floss

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 …

Discussion: The Plum Line, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Washington Monthly

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Immigration reform not going to happen in 2014

Discussion: American Spectator, Power Line, Conservatives4Palin, Politico and CNN

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office

Discussion: Politico, Little Green Footballs, susiemadrak.com, PoliticusUSA and The Mahablog

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

Associated Press:
US Official: Snowden Leaks Lead to Pentagon Change

Discussion: Politico, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: NY Daily News, New York Times, Catholic League, WNYC News, Capital New York and Mediaite

Jill Colvin / Politicker:
De Blasio Won't Stop Uniformed Workers from Marching in St. Patrick's Day Parade

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Capital New York

Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:

CVS to stop selling cigarettes by Oct. 1 — Pharmacy chain CVS said Wednesday it will stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 locations across the United States, a move that public health advocates hope will become a watershed and pressure other large drug store franchises to follow suit.

Discussion: Hot Air and Mashable

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

Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:

Sources: Beck finds cops violated policy in Dorner mistaken-ID shooting — Police investigators work around a blue pickup truck riddled with bullets in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in Torrance after police fired on it on Feb. 7, 2013. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Discussion: Firedoglake and Poynter

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.

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

500 layoffs expected today at Time Inc. — Around mid-morning, staffers are expected to start hearing how deep the cuts will be as Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp unveils what is likely the last big downsizing before Time Warner spins off the publishing group as a separate company later this year.

Discussion: Poynter, Mediaite, Guardian, Capital New York and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »

Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:

Netflix Renews ‘House of Cards’ for Season 3 — UPDATED: Ahead of the streaming series' sophomore debut, Netflix has ordered a third season for the Kevin Spacey starrer. — “House of Cards” — Netflix is sticking with House of Cards. A few weeks ahead of the Emmy-winning drama's sophomore debut …

Discussion: Politico and TVbytheNumbers