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Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton — Monica Lewinsky writes in Vanity Fair for the first time about her affair with President Clinton: “It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” She also says: “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton.
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Mortality Drop Seen to Follow '06 Health Law — BOSTON — The death rate in Massachusetts dropped significantly after it adopted mandatory health care coverage in 2006, a study released Monday found, offering evidence that the country's first experiment with universal coverage …
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ACP Journal Club:
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform: A Quasi-experimental Study
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform: A Quasi-experimental Study
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Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress, Business Insider and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Mass. discarding broken ObamaCare site
Adrianna McIntyre / The Incidental Economist:
Health insurance saves lives. That means it improves health, too.
Health insurance saves lives. That means it improves health, too.
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The New Republic and Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Boston Globe:
Mass. scrapping flawed health insurance website
Mass. scrapping flawed health insurance website
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Talking Points Memo, Firedoglake and National Review
Liz Kowalczyk / The Boston Globe:
Mass. says flawed health website is too broken to fix
Mass. says flawed health website is too broken to fix
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Townhall.com, Boston Herald, Daily Mail, The Heritage Foundation, Hit & Run, Instapundit and The PJ Tatler
Melissapamerktla / KTLA 5:
Rialto Assignment Asking Students to Question Holocaust to Be Revised — The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews …
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Beau Yarbrough / sbsun.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Rialto Unified defends writing assignment on confirming or denying Holocaust
EXCLUSIVE: Rialto Unified defends writing assignment on confirming or denying Holocaust
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Hit & Run, National Review, TheBlaze.com, The Week and Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican senators turning against their own in 2016 — Fearful of a third successive Democratic triumph, concerned Senate Republicans are turning against 2016 presidential bids by upstart hopefuls within their own ranks. — In forceful comments to The Hill, GOP senators made it plain …
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The Moderate Voice and Prairie Weather
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Jeb Bush edges up, Hillary Clinton slightly slides, in CNN 2016 poll
Jeb Bush edges up, Hillary Clinton slightly slides, in CNN 2016 poll
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Politico
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Judicial Nominee's Memos on Drones Stirring Bipartisan Concern in the Senate
Judicial Nominee's Memos on Drones Stirring Bipartisan Concern in the Senate
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Power Line
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Wide Impact of Climate Change Already Seen in U.S., Study Says — The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions …
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CNN:
White House says effects of climate change are here — Washington (CNN) — Flooded rail lines. Bigger, more frequent droughts. A rash of wildfires. — Those are some of the alarming predictions in a White House climate change report released Tuesday, part of President Barack Obama's …
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BuzzFeed, Guardian, The Huffington Post, EcoWatchEcoWatch and The Agonist
New York Times:
A Defeat for Religious Neutrality — The American values of pluralism and inclusion are central to the First Amendment, which forbids government from favoring or aligning itself with any particular religion or believers over nonbelievers. — In a lamentable ruling on Monday …
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Daily Kos, The Reaction, Taylor Marsh and susiemadrak.com
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Supreme Court gives its blessing for prayer at town meetings. Get ready for a lot more Jesus in your life.
The Supreme Court gives its blessing for prayer at town meetings. Get ready for a lot more Jesus in your life.
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Washington Monthly, American Prospect, msnbc.com, law.cornell.edu and Talking Points Memo
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Prayers get a new blessing
Opinion analysis: Prayers get a new blessing
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Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ACS Blog, Outside the Beltway and USA Today
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Lawmaker Who Compared Obamacare To Holocaust: You're Missing My Point — The Tennessee lawmaker who compared Obamacare's individual mandate to Nazis deporting Jews to concentration camps thinks his critics missed the point. — State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) caused a stir Monday morning …
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The Sen / Camp4u:
Here you go. — I regret that some people miss the point of my post.
Here you go. — I regret that some people miss the point of my post.
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Cornelius Swart / KGW-TV:
Gov. Kitzhaber performs CPR, helps save woman's life — PORTLAND — Oregon's governor performed CPR on an unconscious woman in downtown Portland Monday, providing her medical assistance and helping to keep her alive until paramedics could arrive. — Gov. John Kitzhaber was traveling …
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Oregonian, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Mediaite, Fox News Insider and OnPolitics
Juan Williams / The Hill:
House GOP walking into a trap — What happens to the House Republican caucus if Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) forces a vote on immigration reform? — Here are three predictions: — 1. The bill passes. An overwhelming majority of Republicans vote for it.
Globe and Mail:
Ford turns back from United States — After announcing he was taking time off to go to rehab, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford boarded a plane to Chicago last Thursday, landed, but then turned around before officially entering the United States. — “He voluntarily withdrew his application to enter the USA …
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Talking Points Memo, Guardian, Associated Press and The Week
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host Wants TV Meteorologists To Ask Obama About Benghazi Today (VIDEO) — What does the weather have to do with Benghazi? — Dana Perino, co-host of Fox News' “The Five,” challenged meteorologists on Monday to ask Obama the tough questions on the 2012 attacks in Libya.
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PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Release Obama's Benghazi intelligence briefings
Release Obama's Benghazi intelligence briefings
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The Daily Banter and Washington Free Beacon
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
How the White House helped Republicans on Benghazi — If Republicans succeed in turning the Benghazi “scandal” from a nothingburger into a Double Big Mac, the Obama White House can blame its own secrecy and obsessive control over information. — On Monday afternoon, a White House press briefing …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and ThinkProgress
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi Calls For Equal Ratio Of Dem, GOP Members On Benghazi Panel — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday called for an equal ratio of Democrats and Republicans on the GOP's upcoming select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks of 2012. — “If this review is to be fair, it must be truly bipartisan.
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The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Voting Rights Act fixes should get a vote in the House and Senate — IT SEEMS like virtually everyone on Capitol Hill is interested in fixing the Voting Rights Act. But who will step up and make something happen? — Last year, the Supreme Court hollowed out one of the most powerful parts of the law …
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National Review