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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.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
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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Liberaland, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Gawker
New York Times:
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.
Wall Street Journal:
The Jobless Care Act
The Jobless Care Act
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Business Insider, NewsBusters, Betsy's Page, Washington Free Beacon and The White House
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment
CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment
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Economix, Mediaite, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
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TPNN, americanthinker.com and National Review
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare ‘bailout’ program, CBO says
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare ‘bailout’ program, CBO says
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Mother Jones
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Is Not a Job Killer
Obamacare Is Not a Job Killer
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Ross Douthat, Post Politics, The Baffler, Paul Krugman, PostPartisan, Talk Radio News Service, The Fix and Mediaite
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
How the CBO Thinks Obamacare Will Kill Jobs
How the CBO Thinks Obamacare Will Kill Jobs
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Business Insider, The Week, CBO's Publications, The Dish, Crooks and Liars, American Prospect, The Fix and National Review
Dylan Howard / RADAR:
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, The Daily Caller, Liberaland, PerezHilton, National Review and BuzzFeed
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Kathryn Davis / The Center for Media and Public Affairs:
Study: Leno's Top Joke Target Was Bill Clinton
Study: Leno's Top Joke Target Was Bill Clinton
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Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and CNN
Alicia Dennis / People.com:
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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Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Port Authority eliminates ‘director’ job created for Wildstein — wildstein-port-authority-job- eliminated.jpg — David Wildstein, with striped tie, at the State house Annex in Trenton on Jan. 9 following his testimony before the Assembly's transportation committee.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
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Washington Monthly and nbcnewyork.com
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Christie's ‘High School’ Attack On Wildstein Has One Big Flaw
Christie's ‘High School’ Attack On Wildstein Has One Big Flaw
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Firedoglake and NorthJersey.com
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
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americanthinker.com, Instapundit and ABC News
Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
John Kerry a no on 2016: This is my last stop — For more of our exclusive interview with Secretary of State John Kerry, watch “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on CNN at 4 p.m. ET. — Washington (CNN) - While his predecessor Hillary Clinton and his colleague Vice President Joe Biden …
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Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
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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Right Turn, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, National Republican …, National Review and Shakesville
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
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 …
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.
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Politico:
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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Democrat And Chronicle:
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, BuzzFeed, CBS New York and The World's Greatest …
Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's ‘hard-working American’ is actually a London Overground commuter — New advert by Organising for Action, an Obama campaign group, accidentally features footage from a British train — President Barack Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action …
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Tal Kopan / Politico:
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
TMZ.com:
George Zimmerman — Boxing Match Set — HE WILL FIGHT DMX — Boxing Match Set!!! — HE WILL FIGHT DMX — 2/4/2014 8:48 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — It's official ... X gonna give it to George Zimmerman — TMZ has learned, rapper DMX has just been named Zimmerman's opponent in his upcoming celebrity boxing match.
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
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.
Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
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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QNotes, Advocate, ThinkProgress, TIME, Washington Blade and Politico
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Email: IRS's Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits — The Obama administration's Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would …
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