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Washington Post:
Federal health-care subsidies may be too high or too low for more than 1 million Americans — The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million Americans for their health plans in the new federal insurance marketplace and has been unable so far to fix the errors …
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The Moderate Voice, Power Line, RedState, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler and Fox News
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Man arrested for sneaking into Thad Cochran's wife's nursing home — A Pearl man who runs a political blog is accused of sneaking into a nursing home where U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's wife is bedridden and photographing her, then posting the image in a video political “hit piece” on the internet.
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Would Democrats amend Constitution to stop the Koch brothers? — HARRY REID CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2014 ELECTIONS FREEDOM OF SPEECH KOCH BROTHERS CONSTITUTION — It's no longer news when Majority Leader Harry Reid takes to the floor of the Senate to denounce the Koch brothers.
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Power Line and Independent Journal Review
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Tens Of Millions Somehow Fail To Turn Out For ‘Operation American Spring’
Tens Of Millions Somehow Fail To Turn Out For ‘Operation American Spring’
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No More Mister Nice Blog, CANNONFIRE, The Raw Story, Corrente, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
Cheryl K. Chumley / Washington Times:
Operation American Spring falls flat: ‘This is very disappointing,’ Texan says
Operation American Spring falls flat: ‘This is very disappointing,’ Texan says
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Mediaite, Right Wing Watch, The Daily Banter, Washington Monthly and Balloon Juice
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Don't Want A Torture Facilitator to Get $35K for a Bad Speech? Why Are You A Bigot? — The only way I can explain Timothy Egan's column yesterday is that he was pitching two or three different columns about the commencement speech issue that all the pundits are talking about this week …
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The Mahablog, FAIR Blog, Hot Air and No More Mister Nice Blog
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki needs to go — Eric Shinseki has served his country honorably as a twice-wounded officer in Vietnam, as Army chief of staff and finally as President Obama's secretary of veterans affairs. — But his maddeningly passive response to the scandal roiling his agency suggests …
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The Dish
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USA Today:
VA chief Shinseki has a lot to explain: Our view — To save his job, he'll need to act more decisively. — Barry Coates, a 44-year-old Army veteran, visited VA hospitals and clinics in South Carolina seven times starting in 2010, complaining of severe stomach pain and rectal bleeding …
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Washington Monthly
Mike Zapler / Politico:
Report: Julian Castro tapped for cabinet post — San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, a rising star in Democratic national politics who's even been mentioned as a possible vice presidential contender in 2016, is poised to accept an offer to serve in President Barack Obama's cabinet, his hometown newspaper reported Saturday.
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Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Phillip Longman / Washington Monthly:
The Best Care Anywhere — Ten years ago, veterans hospitals were dangerous, dirty, and scandal-ridden. Today, they're producing the highest quality care in the country. Their turnaround points the way toward solving America's health-care crisis. — Phillip Longman discusses his book …
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Firedoglake
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Attorney general says racial equality threatened in subtle ways — (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday while public utterances of bigotry are roundly condemned in the United States racial discrimination persists in more subtle ways. — Speaking on the 60th anniversary …
Associated Press:
Utah GOP Lawmaker: Bring Back Firing Squad Executions — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution. And he plans to bring back that option for criminals sentenced to death in his state.
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The Raw Story and Mediaite
Emily Matchar / The Atlantic Online:
Should Paid ‘Menstrual Leave’ Be a Thing? — Some countries mandate a legal right to leave for women during their periods. Is that reverse sexism or the right thing to do? — For most American women beyond the age of high school gym class, “I've got my period” isn't considered much of an excuse for anything.
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Althouse and New York Magazine
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
What ‘Hard Work U’ Can Teach Elite Schools — 'We don't do debt here,' says College of the Ozarks President Jerry C. Davis. — Point Lookout, Mo. — Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education? I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Jill Abramson, ousted New York Times editor, pulls out of attending Brandeis commencement — WALTHAM, Mass. — Jill Abramson, the recently ousted executive editor of The New York Times, has backed out of attending Brandeis (BRAN'-dys) University's commencement.
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Power Line and Mediaite
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