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ThinkProgress:
Fox News Host Demands To Know Why GOP Hasn't Offered An Alternative To Obamacare — On the final day of Obamacare's open enrollment, Fox News host Jenna Lee hammered Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about why Republicans have yet to offer a comprehensive alternative to the health law — despite repeatedly voting for its repeal.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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The Fix:
Democrats' support for Obamacare surges — Democrats are rallying back behind the 2010 health-care law and boosting President Obama's ratings for handling the law's rollout, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — But most Republicans and independents remain stubbornly opposed …
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CBS DC, Daily Kos, Hot Air and Washington Post
Douglas Graham / Roll Call:
Cantor Says GOP Finishing Work on Obamacare Alternative, Details Agenda — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., reiterated on Friday that the House plans to bring up a bill to replace President Barack Obama's health care law. — In a memo to members laying out the House agenda …
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Washington Monthly
Juan Williams / The Hill:
O-Care perception bests reality — Last week, in the run-up to Monday's deadline for enrolling in ObamaCare, I called one of the few people with a hand in designing both the Affordable Care Act and the Massachusetts healthcare reform plan signed into law in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R).
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CNN
She The People:
GOP women in midterm races say Obamacare trumps equal pay
GOP women in midterm races say Obamacare trumps equal pay
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Bloomberg, Daily Kos, ABC News and Hullabaloo
CNN:
Begala: I got a better deal through Obamacare
Begala: I got a better deal through Obamacare
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CBS DC, Politico and Real Clear Politics
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people — At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started, surveys and reports show. — Precise figures on national health coverage will not be available for months …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
That Good News on Obamacare? Republicans Insist It's Not Real — Americans are signing up for the Affordable Care Act. And they appear to be doing so in really big numbers. As of the latest official update, last week, more than 6 million people had selected a private insurance plan through …
Steve Kroft / CBS News:
Is the U.S. stock market rigged? — Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work the stock market to their advantage — The following script is from “Rigged” which aired on March 30, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent.
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The Daily Caller, CBS New York, Bloomberg View, The Big Picture and WTVR-TV
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Michael Lewis / New York Times:
An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis
An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis
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Bloomberg View and The Verge
Politico:
Deadline day: Obamacare glitches, take 2 — A double whammy of new HealthCare.gov glitches shadowed the final day of Obamacare sign-up, causing confusion and delay just as the White House tried to push procrastinatorsover an enrollment finish line that may be far closer to the 7 million mark than seemed possible even a week ago.
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CNN, ThinkProgress, Associated Press, FishbowlDC, WGBH News and ACASignups.net
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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
HealthCare.gov Glitch Prevents Users From Creating New Accounts
HealthCare.gov Glitch Prevents Users From Creating New Accounts
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Democracy in America, The Daily Caller and ACASignups.net
NY Daily News:
Ratings may sink Ronan Farrow's show on MSNBC — ‘Ronan Farrow Daily’ came in 708th in the Nielsens on Wednesday, and a network source says he ‘sort of stinks on TV’ — Ronan Farrow's MSNBC talk show is facing cancellation amid poor ratings, sources exclusively tell Confidenti@l.
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come — YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Kerry on UN climate change report: ‘Costs of inaction are catastrophic’
Kerry on UN climate change report: ‘Costs of inaction are catastrophic’
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Washington Monthly and Weasel Zippers
Politico:
Dave Camp won't seek reelection — Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, the chairman of the prestigious Ways and Means Committee, will not run for reelection in November, according to multiple Republican sources. — Camp was first elected in 1990.
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CNN and Talking Points Memo
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
President ‘Crushed Hopes of Law School’ by Rejecting Dean Candidates Approved by Faculty — Gainesville Sun op-ed: Failed dean search delivers a terrible blow to law school, by Michelle Jacobs (Florida): — I am a tenured full professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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ProfessorBainbridge.com
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong — Unveiling the real story behind the richest of the rich — For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry. — I've written, over and over, that the most important divide …
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
DHS document: 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions released in 2013 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, undercutting Democratic claims that President Obama has strictly enforced immigration laws.
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BREITBART.COM and RedState
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Jessica Vaughan / cis.org:
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
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Fox News, The Other McCain, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: U.S. Taxpayers To Spend $400,000 For A Camel Sculpture In Pakistan — A camel staring at the eye of a needle would decorate a new American embassy — in a country where the average income yearly is $1,250. — “Camel Contemplating Needle” by John Baldessari on display …
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Hit & Run, BizPac Review, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Conservative and Independent Journal Review
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Other People's Pathologies — Over the past week or so, Jonathan Chait and I have enjoyed an ongoing debate over the rhetoric the president employs when addressing African Americans. Here is my initial installment, Chait's initial rebuttal, my subsequent reply, and Chait's latest riposte.
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The Dish and Bloomberg View
Marlena Baldacci / CNN:
Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom to get new trial — Women of death row … (CNN) — A new trial has been ordered for Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom, according to a state Supreme Court opinion issued Monday. — Byrom's capital murder conviction was reversed …
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Guardian and The Raw Story
Guardian:
Ukraine's Darth Vader bids to lead nation to the dark side — Sith lord runs for president as candidate of Ukrainian Internet party, vowing to ‘make an empire out of a republic’ — As Ukraine battles to stave off dark forces of its own, the Star Wars villain Darth Vader announced …
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The Daily Caller
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
‘Imperial Presidency’ Becomes Republicans' Rallying Slogan — COLUMBUS, Ga. — Republicans, poised for strong gains in the midterm elections, are offering starkly conflicting messages about President Obama to rally their voters. In one moment, they say the president is feckless and weak.
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Daily Kos