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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.
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Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, The PJ Tatler and New York Times
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Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.


Paul Ryan Fact-Checks Republicans On Obamacare Job ‘Costs’ — At least one Republican is setting the record straight on what the Congressional Budget Office actually said this week about Obamacare and its effect on jobs. — House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained in a Wednesday hearing …
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Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, Gawker and No More Mister Nice Blog

The Jobless Care Act
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Betsy's Page, NewsBusters, Washington Free Beacon and The White House

Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare ‘bailout’ program, CBO says
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Mother Jones


How the CBO Thinks Obamacare Will Kill Jobs
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Business Insider, CBO's Publications, The Dish, The New Republic, Crooks and Liars, American Prospect, National Review and Hit & Run

Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
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Why the new CBO report on Obamacare is good news
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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.
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Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Defends Woody Allen — Dylan Farrow's Feb. 1 open letter to The New York Times detailing sexual molestation she says she suffered at the hands of her father Woody Allen reignited a controversy that has divided their family bitterly for more than 20 years.
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Guardian, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Sky Dancing and PerezHilton


Hurley's Ex-Lover Caught On Bombshell Audio Recording Revealing Ex-Prez's White House Sex Romps Behind Wife Hillary's Back — As Hillary Clinton prepares to run for President in 2016, RadarOnline.com has uncovered bombshell new information that could torpedo her White House dreams …
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NY Daily News, Liberaland, The Daily Caller, National Review and BuzzFeed


Sandra Fluke forgoes congressional bid to run for state Senate — President Obama and Sandra Fluke wave at a campaign event at the University of Colorado in Aurora. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press / August 8, 2012) — Democratic attorney and activist Sandra Fluke has decided …


Obamacare enrollees hit snags at doctor's offices — Many consumers faced hurdles signing up for Covered California health plans. Now they're having trouble finding in-network doctors. — Maria Berumen uses a device to manage the pain from bone spurs on her spine.
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Hot Air, americanthinker.com, National Republican …, National Review and Shakesville


Few signs of movement on debt ceiling — House Republicans are in an increasingly tight political box on the debt limit and have no idea how they'll get out of it. — At a GOP leadership meeting Wednesday morning, top Republicans privately acknowledged that they cannot pass a debt limit bill …
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Hoyer backs CBC on judicial nominees — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) found a strong ally Tuesday in their fight against some of President Obama's judicial nominees, as Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested the Senate should reject several of the picks in the name of diversity.
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CNN and ThinkProgress


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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A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues. — The New York Times finally ran a correction today of its much-criticized Chris Christie scoop: … So, other than that the story was accurate? Not quite. Evidence exists tying reporter Kate Zernike to having erred.
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Port Authority eliminates ‘director’ job created for Wildstein
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Capital New York


Rep. Cohen: Ask Philip Seymour Hoffman If Pot Is As Dangerous As Heroin — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Tuesday cited the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman while arguing that the federal government shouldn't treat marijuana and harder drugs like heroin equally.
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Associated Press and Mediaite
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Everything You Need to Know About the Emerging-Market Currency Collapse — Money poured into developing economies after the financial crisis, and now it's starting to pour out. How much should we worry? — Here we go again. — First, money poured into emerging markets when it looked like they offered juicy returns.


Russia won't let Chobani yogurt in Sochi for Olympics — A shipment of New York-made Greek yogurt waiting in a New Jersey airport might just go to waste. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has sent a letter to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach urging …
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Talking Points Memo, The World's Greatest … and CBS New York


Clay Aiken makes it official: He will run for Congress — RALEIGH — Singer Clay Aiken will officially announce his campaign for Congress on Wednesday, injecting a nationally known personality into what has been a quiet Democratic primary to produce a challenger to U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers.
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Jesse Ventura hiding from drones — Former wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he has gone “off the grid” in Mexico to avoid drones knowing where he is. — Ventura spoke with CNBC's “Closing Bell” from an “undisclosed location in Mexico” on Tuesday, prompting the hosts to ask him where he was and why he was there.
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Talking Points Memo, The Verge and The Huffington Post