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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's New Approach Takes a Humorous Turn — WASHINGTON — In “Between Two Ferns,” an off-color online parody of celebrity interview shows, the comedian Zach Galifianakis has spanked Justin Bieber with his belt, discussed Charlize Theron's thighs and asked Natalie Portman for her phone number.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Support for Obamacare slightly edges up — Washington (CNN) - Support for the country's new health care law appears to be rebounding slightly, according to a new national poll. — A CNN/ORC International survey released Tuesday indicates that nearly all of the increased support comes …
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Hot Air, Booman Tribune and Right Wing News
Matthew Hoye / CNN:
No joke: Obama interviewed by Zach Galifianakis — Washington (CNN) - President Obama took his message of health care for all to a cult internet comedy show, in an effort to get young people to sign up for Obamacare. — He appeared alongside Zach Galifianakis in the comedian and actor's mock talk-show called “Between Two Ferns.”
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Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The Jolly-Sink showdown: What to watch — After almost $9 million in outside spending, a storm of attacks and counterattacks and endless speculation about its implications for the midterms, voters will cast their ballots in the Florida special congressional election on Tuesday.
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The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh and The Raw Story
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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Florida's Midterm Warm Up — special election in the Sunshine State's District 13, otherwise known as Swingtown USA, is an important—and close-one for both parties. — Less than 18 months after the 2012 election, the fulcrum of American politics rests once again in Central Florida.
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Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Advantage Sink? Women Win US House Specials at More Than 2x Rate of General Elections
Advantage Sink? Women Win US House Specials at More Than 2x Rate of General Elections
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Hawkings Here, The Rothenberg Political …, The Fix, National Review and Washington Post
Marisa Schultz / detroitnews.com:
Dexter cancer patient who called health care ‘unaffordable’ will save more than $1K — Washington— A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group's TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as “unaffordable” will save more than $1,000 this year.
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New York Times:
The Democrats Stand Up to the Kochs — Democrats have for too long been passive in the face of the vast amounts of corporate money, most of it secret, that are being spent to evict them from office and dismantle their policies. By far the largest voice in many of this year's political races …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News — CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday.
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Ukraine may have to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker — KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine may have to arm itself with nuclear weapons if the United States and other world powers refuse to enforce a security pact that obligates them to reverse the Moscow-backed takeover of Crimea, a member of the Ukraine parliament told USA TODAY.
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Robert Shrum / The Daily Beast:
Obama's All Eisenhower On Russia
Wall Street Journal:
Iranians Using Stolen Passports on Malaysia Airlines Flight Had No Known Terror Ties, Officials Say — Both Apparently Sought Only to Migrate to Europe — Day four and still no sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, but investigators identified the men traveling on the two passports earlier determined to have been stolen.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems can't run on Obamacare and can't hide from it either — BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE 2014 ELECTIONS — Some Democrats hope to minimize the importance of Obamacare as a political issue by focusing on other topics in this November's midterm elections. Some hope to win by promising to fix …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Old-school leftists are unhappy with Obama's America. — At Salon.com two old-school leftists, Thomas Frank and Adolph Reed Jr., offer a surprisingly interesting critique of the contemporary left and President Obama. Notwithstanding the unwieldy headline, “We Are All Right-Wingers Now …
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Instapundit, Salon and VodkaPundit
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Leaderless Doctrine — We're in the middle of a remarkable shift in how Americans see the world and their own country's role in the world. For the first time in half a century, a majority of Americans say that the U.S. should be less engaged in world affairs, according to the most recent Pew Research Center survey.
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Hit & Run and No More Mister Nice Blog
Masha Gessen / Los Angeles Times:
Is Vladimir Putin insane? Hardly — Russian President Vladimir Putin is neither Hitler nor crazy. He is merely acting the way he always has, like a playground bully. — The political culture Russian President Vladimir Putin has created in his country is based on the assumption that the world is rotten to the core.
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The Week
Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid plots to block potential 2016 foe — Harry Reid isn't on Nevada's ballot this year, but he may as well be. — The shrewd Senate majority leader is putting the strength of his formidable political machine behind a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor whose fate …
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Campaign Donations — A major Democratic donor pleaded guilty on Monday to funneling millions of dollars in illegal campaign donations to federal and local politicians, including an unnamed 2008 presidential candidate believed to be Hillary Clinton.
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Jeffrey Thompson, alleged ‘shadow campaign’ funder, is charged in federal court
Jeffrey Thompson, alleged ‘shadow campaign’ funder, is charged in federal court
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The Fix, WJLA-TV, Loose Lips, Los Angeles Times and Talking Points Memo
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Joe McGinniss, ‘Fatal Vision’ Author, Dies at 71 — Joe McGinniss, the author who reported on political campaigns and murder cases in the books “The Selling of the President” and “Fatal Vision,” died on Monday. He was 71. — His death was confirmed on his Facebook page …
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Lockerbie bombing ‘was work of Iran, not Libya’ says former spy — Iranian defector Abolghassem Mesbahi says Pan Am 103 attack was revenge for US Navy strike on Iranian passenger jet — The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by a Syrian-based terrorist group, a former Iranian intelligence officer has admitted.
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Israel Matzav and The PJ Tatler
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Snowden Inc. — First, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden popped up in Hong Kong. Then, Russia. By Monday, the fugitive from justice, a man regularly accused of treason, was in Austin, Texas, hitting the nation's hottest tech festival — via the Web, of course.
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