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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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CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment — As noted here yesterday, Republicans went mad with glee at the new Congressional Budget Office report on deficits and the Affordable Care Act, with multiple GOP officials claiming it showed the law will kill over two million jobs. That was false.
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Ross Douthat, JustOneMinute, Liberaland, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Economix, Paul Krugman, The Dish and Hullabaloo


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.

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.


Republicans Wanted To Free Workers From Bad Jobs Until Obamacare Did It
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National Review and Business Insider

The Jobless Care Act
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Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare ‘bailout’ program, CBO says
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Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
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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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Biden's one reason NOT to run for President — (CNN) - As he considers another run for the White House, Vice President Joe Biden laid out one reason why he wouldn't want to be the nation's next chief executive. — “Everybody wants to know whether or not I'm going to run for president.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

John Kerry a no on 2016: This is my last stop
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Poll: Majority of Americans want government to reduce income gap
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Daily Kos, The Plum Line and Shakesville

Biden to campaign for House candidate in tight Florida race
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Politico and Talking Points Memo

Study: Leno's Top Joke Target Was Bill Clinton
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Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and CNN


Christie's ‘High School’ Attack On Wildstein Has One Big Flaw — An article published Tuesday by The Bergen Record called into question the accuracy of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) attack against the character of former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive David Wildstein.
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Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
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Port Authority eliminates ‘director’ job created for Wildstein
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Chris Christie leaves Bridgegate and heads to Texas to help GOP — Rick Perry and Greg Abbott send regrets
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Talking Points Memo, Capital New York and Reuters

A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
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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.


House GOP stymied on debt limit — It's almost time to reach for the kitchen sink. — All week, House Republican leaders have been stymied in crafting a debt-limit package that could pass with only Republican support. — Now, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other top Republicans …
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Boehner urges allies to consider linking military benefits to debt limit
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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


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 …


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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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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FreedomWorks blogs, American Spectator and The PJ Tatler


Kansas Senator Wants Indian-American Nominee to Meet His Cool Indian Friends — For reasons I completely understand, the confirmation hearing of surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy has not gotten a ton of attention. Factor one: The filibuster reform of late last year will let Murthy be confirmed by a simple majority vote.
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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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The Verge, Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post


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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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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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler