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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2014 — Liz Hamel, Jamie Firth and Mollyann Brodie … Most uninsured unaware of March 31 deadline, half plan to remain uninsured — In the final days of open enrollment for new health insurance options under the ACA, substantial shares …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
‘What the hell is this, a joke?’ — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration's decision to extend enrollment in the healthcare law's insurance exchange for some people. — “What the hell is this, a joke?” Boehner said at his weekly press conference.
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Taegan Goddard's …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Obama administration will allow more time to enroll in health care on federal marketplace — The Obama administration has decided to give extra time to Americans who say that they are unable to enroll in health-care plans through the federal insurance marketplace by the March 31 deadline.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
5 GOP senators flout John Boehner on jobless aid — Sen. Dean Heller wants to restore expired unemployment benefits so much that he voted against a Ukraine aid bill on Monday, protesting the prioritization of international affairs over domestic ones. — Suffice it to say, then …
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Associated Press, Roll Call, Daily Kos, The Plum Line, Capitol Report and PoliticusUSA
Susan Levine / Politico:
A brief history of Obamacare delays
A brief history of Obamacare delays
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The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Fox News and National Review
Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. to Extend Sign-Up Period For Insurance
U.S. to Extend Sign-Up Period For Insurance
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The Week and JustOneMinute
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Peace in the culture wars — if the Left wants it — GAY MARRIAGE OBAMACARE RELIGION CONTRACEPTION HOBBY LOBBY SANDRA FLUKE — Sometimes it's hard to believe the other side is being honest. — Democratic politicians and liberal writers accuse Christian employers of “tell[ing] …
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Booman Tribune, The New Republic, Politico, Hot Air, alicublog, Hit & Run, Los Angeles Times and National Review
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
What's Religious About Corporate America Cheating Workers?
What's Religious About Corporate America Cheating Workers?
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Sotomayor, Kagan: Hobby Lobby Should Drop Insurance, Pay Penalty and Let Employees Use Exchange
Sotomayor, Kagan: Hobby Lobby Should Drop Insurance, Pay Penalty and Let Employees Use Exchange
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BizPac Review, The Other McCain and The Gateway Pundit
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Slippery slopes before the court
Slippery slopes before the court
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NewsBusters, New York Times, Daily Kos and SCOTUSblog
Robert M. Gates / Wall Street Journal:
Putin's Challenge to the West — Russia has thrown down a gauntlet that is not limited to Crimea or even Ukraine. — Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-festering grudge: He deeply resents the West for winning the Cold War. He blames the United States in particular for the collapse …
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Weekly Standard, Balloon Juice and Washington Free Beacon
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Deep thoughts by Barack Obama
Deep thoughts by Barack Obama
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Weekly Standard and American Spectator
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
Only a Quarter of Americans See Russia as an Enemy
Only a Quarter of Americans See Russia as an Enemy
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Hullabaloo, The Week, Pew Research Center …, Wall Street Journal and The Fix
Washington Post:
Secret Service agents on Obama detail sent home from Netherlands after night of drinking — Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident.
CBS News:
Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of Ukraine crisis — Shares - — President Obama: Ukraine and Foreign Policy — While a majority of Americans (56 percent) support U.S. sanctions against Russia, they are less pleased with President Obama's handling of the situation between Russia and Ukraine overall.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Iowa Democrat who belittled Iowa farmers while praising lawyers. — Those looking for greater efficiency in Washington should look to Rep. Bruce Braley. In the space of just a few seconds, the four-term Iowa Democrat delivered a campaign gaffe of such power that the Environmental Protection Agency may seek to regulate it.
Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
Venture capitalist Tim Draper “close” to collecting signatures needed for Six Californias measure — Venture capitalist Tim Draper says he is getting “close” to collecting the necessary 800,000 signatures needed to get his “Six Californias” measure before state voters in 2014 …
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Washington Monthly, ABC News, Hullabaloo and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Pentagon spent millions on Benghazi probes — The Pentagon said Tuesday that its work to comply with the six congressional investigations into the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, has cost the military millions of dollars and thousands of man hours.
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Liberaland, ThinkProgress and Taylor Marsh
New York Post:
CNN producers busted trying to get into WTC site — Two CNN producers were arrested Tuesday for trying to sneak into the World Trade Center site to test its security — after The Post reported that a teen made it all the way to the spire of the world's top terror target.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
2 CNN Producers Are Held in Trespass at World Trade Center
2 CNN Producers Are Held in Trespass at World Trade Center
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Jessica Alaimo / Capital New York:
Legislature approves National Popular Vote — ALBANY—The New York Legislature approved a bill tonight that would award the state's presidential electors to the winner of the national popular vote, if enough states agree to do the same. — Both the Assembly and Senate overwhelmingly approved …
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Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Seniors Have Realigned With the Republican Party — Seniors move from a reliably Democratic to a reliably Republican group — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S seniors — those aged 65 and older — have moved from a reliably Democratic group to a reliably Republican one over the past two decades.
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Campaign for America's Future and Shot in the Dark
Lindsay Abrams / Salon:
10,853 out of 10,855 scientists agree: Global warming is happening, and humans are to blame — Virtually all of the scientific papers published in 2013 accept climate change — As geochemist James Lawrence Powell continues to prove, the only people still debating whether or not climate change is …
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Business Insider and Los Angeles Times
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
It's time for the White House to start sweating over legal challenge to Obamacare subsidies — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE APPEALS COURTS KATHLEEN SEBELIUS SUBSIDIES HEALTH CARE EXCHANGES HHS — As the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the constitutionality of a contraception coverage mandate Tuesday morning …
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Forbes, Betsy's Page, National Review and Washington Post
Reuters:
Arab League declares ‘total rejection’ of Jewish state recognition — Arab leaders back Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish character of Israel as a condition for peace. — The Arab League announced on Wednesday its full backing of a Palestinian refusal to meet Israel's demand …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Israel Matzav
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Canada shows you can cut government spending — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CANADA BIG GOVERNMENT ECONOMY BUDGETS AND DEFICITS SPENDING — What's the proper size of government? Here's an article from American Enterprise Institute's The American website citing a study by Canadian economist Livio De Matteo …
Lauren French / Politico:
Republicans hammer new IRS chief over tea party melee — A chief Republican inquisitor of the IRS tea party controversy hammered the new agency commissioner on Wednesday, accusing him of being more concerned with managing political fallout than cooperating with congressional probes.
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