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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
Cantor Says GOP Finishing Work on Obamacare Alternative, Details Agenda
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Washington Monthly
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, Hullabaloo and ABC News
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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Washington Examiner, New York Times, American Spectator, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, JustOneMinute, addictinginfo.org, Wonkblog, Business Insider, Daily Kos, ACASignups.net, The Dish, The Plum Line, Talking Points Memo, Health Care Policy …, The Moderate Voice, Liberaland and Politico
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Making up good news about Obamacare — The Obama administration is celebrating that it has achieved its (downwardly revised) goal of signing up more than 6 million Americans for Obamacare by 11:59 p.m. March 31. Mission accomplished! — Not quite. The administration has not revealed …
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Power Line and CNSNews
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 …
Avik Roy / Forbes:
RAND: Only One-Third Of Obamacare Exchange Sign-Ups Were From The Previously Uninsured — Today is March 31, 2014: in theory, the last day you can sign up for coverage under the subsidized Obamacare insurance exchanges. If you've been a regular reader of this space, you know that the numbers …
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Weasel Zippers, The Fix, Bloomberg View, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and The Hill
John McConnico / Fox News:
National Science Foundation funded climate change musical to tune of $700,000 — Call it Climate Change: The Musical! — The National Science Foundation has spent nearly $700,000 on a climate change-themed theatrical production, leaving some in Congress questioning if the organization's grant funds could be put to better use.
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
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BBC, Washington Post, The Strata-Sphere, Guardian, National Review, The Week, Capital Weather Gang, WGBH News, News Desk, Hot Air, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Climate Science Watch, BillMoyers.com, ThinkProgress, Gothamist, The Verge, Firedoglake, The PJ Tatler, The Agonist and Gawker
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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Weasel Zippers and Washington Monthly
David Firestone / New York Times:
The Line to Kiss Sheldon Adelson's Boots — It's hard to imagine a political spectacle more loathsome than the parade of Republican presidential candidates who spent the last few days bowing and scraping before the mighty bank account of the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
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NewsBusters and Hullabaloo
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Christie weighs in on top Republicans, defends post-Sandy Obama praise
Christie weighs in on top Republicans, defends post-Sandy Obama praise
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Weasel Zippers
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, Bloomberg View, CBS New York, WTVR-TV and The Big Picture
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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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Balloon Juice, Bloomberg View and The Verge
CNBC:
Health care website stumbles on last day — ACA deadline hits tonight — The deadline to sign up for Obamacare is midnight tonight, reports CNBC's Bertha Coombs. — The Obama administration's health care website stumbled early Monday , falling out of service for nearly four hours on deadline day for sign-ups.
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Politico:
Deadline day: Obamacare glitches, take 2
Deadline day: Obamacare glitches, take 2
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Associated Press, ThinkProgress, CNN, WGBH News, FishbowlDC, NBC News and ACASignups.net
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, ACASignups.net and The Daily Caller
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Sebelius Speechless After Reporter Tells Her How Unpopular Obamacare Is — An Oklahoma reporter told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius how unpopular Obamacare is, rendering the cabinet secretary speechless: — “At last check, 64 percent of Oklahomans aren't buying …
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Doug Ross, Independent Journal Review and Washington Free Beacon
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.
Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story:
Arizona GOP gives private prison company $1 million to house inmates who don't exist — Lobbyists for the private prison company GEO Group convinced lawmakers to include almost $1 million extra in funding despite the fact that the Arizona Department of Corrections claimed the money wasn't needed.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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
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
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Despite IPCC doom report, this dataset of datasets shows no warming this millennium — HadCRUT4, the last of the five monthly global datasets to report its February value, shows the same sharp drop in global temperature over the month as the other datasets.
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Power Line and Doug Ross
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
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Senator Says Caterpillar Avoided Billions in Taxes — Manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. has used an aggressive tax strategy to shift profits overseas in order to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes, according to a new investigative report by a key Senate Democrat.
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Politico