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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.
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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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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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Democracy in America, Wonkblog, Right Turn, NPR, The Heritage Foundation, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Washington Wire
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Gawker and National Review
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Health-care law will prompt over 2 million to quit jobs or cut hours, a CBO report says — More than 2 million Americans who would otherwise rely on a job for health insurance will quit working, reduce their hours or stop looking for employment because of new health benefits available under …
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Talking Points Memo, The Fix, Washington Free Beacon, Ross Douthat, Taylor Marsh, Federal Eye, Mediaite, Wonkblog and Riehl World News
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
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The Plum Line, Hullabaloo, The Raw Story and National Review
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 Review and National Republican …
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
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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The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Brent Bozell Will Try To Remove Every GOP Leader From Office — There's no shortage of conservative groups that take aim at Republicans, be it to drag incumbents further to the right or out of office entirely. But now one group is targeting the biggest fish they can fry.
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susiemadrak.com, Politico and Little Green Footballs
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
First on CNN: Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress
First on CNN: Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress
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Politico, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo and The Mahablog
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House GOP finalizes debt-limit playbook
House GOP finalizes debt-limit playbook
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Talking Points Memo, Firedoglake, The National Memo, Hot Air, Political Insider blog, Washington Monthly, NPR, Daily Kos and CNN
Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit (Updated)
Boehner: 'No Sense Picking a Fight We Can't Win' on Debt Limit (Updated)
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American Spectator and PoliticusUSA
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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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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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, Towleroad News #gay and Capital New York
The Hill:
Greens warn base will sit out election — Environmental groups are warning President Obama that his liberal base might stay home on Election Day if he approves the Keystone XL oil pipeline. — Proponents of the $5.4 billion Canada-to-Texas pipeline say their case is buoyed …
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Politico, Daily Kos, Hot Air, First Read, The PJ Tatler and Reuters
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Curtis Williams / ogj.com:
Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one
Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one
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Daily Kos and Weekly Standard
Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: Full interview between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly — BILL O'REILLY - 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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The Baffler, The Daily Caller, The Fix, PoliticusUSA, The Raw Story, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Mediaite and americanthinker.com
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Bill O'Reilly / Fox News:
Unedited: Bill O'Reilly's EXCLUSIVE Interview with President Obama
Unedited: Bill O'Reilly's EXCLUSIVE Interview with President Obama
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Generation Progress, Talking Points Memo, PostPartisan, BuzzFeed and Washington Post
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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The Verge, The Raw Story and Mental Floss
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 …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama Aides Doubt Clinton Strategy — “She doesn't need this,” says Benenson. — Mike Theiler / Reuters — Top advisers and former aides to Barack Obama say Hillary Clinton is repeating the mistakes she made in 2008, building a machine in lieu of a message and lumbering toward …
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Washington Monthly, The Dish, The Week, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and ABC News
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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Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit and Hit & Run
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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The Daily Caller and Right Wing Watch
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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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Case for Socialized Law — Inequality has bent American justice. Here's a radical way to fix it. — Maintain and refine, maintain and refine. That's how progressives talk about the welfare state these days. After nearly a century of expanding government with programs like Social Security …
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Washington Monthly, Liberaland and VodkaPundit
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Sandra Fluke files in California for congressional bid — Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke appears to be moving forward with a run for Congress. — Fluke has filed with the California state Democratic Party to seek its endorsement in the race for retiring Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) …
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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