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CBS News:
Who do Americans blame for the VA scandal? — Shares - — NEW YORK — Americans split in their thoughts over who they think is most to blame for the problems at Veterans Affairs department medical facilities, which involve allegations that VA hospitals kept delays in treatment off the books …
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Politico and Washington Post
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama's talking points miss point on VA scandal … After keeping his mouth shut on that growing Veterans Affairs scandal for weeks, President Barack Obama finally acted. — Not with deeds. But with words. — The scandal involves reports of secret admissions lists …
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Power Line and The White House
Kevin OBrien / Associated Press:
Where VA has taken veterans, Obamacare is leading all Americans: Kevin O'Brien — The White House says Americans can't draw any conclusions yet about just how screwed up is the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system. — Well, yes, Americans can.
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Washington Monthly, Real Clear Politics and Washington Post
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Veterans Affairs Scandal Was Decades in the Making — Yes, you should be angry. But at whom? — It's been more than six months since CNN and then the Arizona Republic began reporting about veterans dying while they were waiting for medical services—in some cases …
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Politico, CNN, Washington Post, Weekly Standard and Mediaite
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
VA scandal is bipartisan — If even one American veteran has died because of inadequate treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Obama and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki owe veterans an apology. Virtually all members and the leaders of both parties in both houses of Congress owe veterans an apology.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Amid growing Veterans Affairs scandal, why Eric Shinseki is hard to fire
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Washington Post
The Hill:
Premium hike drumbeat before November Election Day — States are nailing down dates to release 2015 premium costs under ObamaCare, and their decisions will guarantee a drumbeat of news about rate hikes all the way to the November midterm elections. — Democrats are bracing for grim headlines …
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Hot Air
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Nationalization of Senate Elections Poses Challenge to Democrats in 2014 — Democrats face several challenges in trying to maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate in the 2014 midterm election. In addition to the normal tendency of the president's party to lose seats in midterm elections …
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Political Insider blog, Taegan Goddard's … and Democratic Strategist
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
KY. DEMOCRAT MUM ON QUESTION OF ‘OBAMACARE’ VOTE
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Washington Post, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
The Atlantic Online:
The Case for Reparations — Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. — Ta-Nehisi Coates … — Deuteronomy 15: 12-15
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Booman Tribune, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, Althouse, Bloomberg View and The New Republic
Joy Powell / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Fox anchor Gregg Jarrett jailed briefly after incident in MSP airport bar — Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett was jailed Wednesday after being arrested in a bar at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. — Jarrett, who is a weekend co-anchor on the FOX News Channel, was arrested about 12:30 p.m …
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Politico, TMZ.com, Business Insider, The Raw Story, Poynter and The Huffington Post
Heather Boushey / The Atlantic Online:
It Wasn't Household Debt That Caused the Great Recession — Why are nearly 10 million people still out of work today? Was it because in September 2008, the U.S. government failed to bail out the insolvent investment bank Lehmann Brothers? Was it because the two U.S. housing finance giants Fannie Mae …
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New York Times
Politico:
Clinton allies pressured Dems on Benghazi — Hillary Clinton's world was so worried about a Republican investigation of the Benghazi attacks, they sent a message to House Democrats: We need backup. — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) publicly considered boycotting the panel …
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Balloon Juice, Althouse, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, ABC News and New York Times
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
How Obama Became the Superhero of Excuses — Meant to mock president's critics, the ‘Green Lantern’ theory underscores the gap between his promise and his performance. — In this photo taken by a government photographer for Halloween 2012, President Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets Nicholas Tamarin, 3.
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Viking Pundit, RedState, Commentary Magazine and Ed Driscoll
Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
Tax preparers balk at IRS education standards — The nation's accountants are staging a pre-emptive strike against an expected move by the Internal Revenue Service to impose voluntary education standards for tax preparers. — The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) …
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Hit & Run
Investor's Business Daily:
Bribery, ObamaCare Style — Bailouts: Last Friday, the Obama administration quietly expanded an insurance industry bailout program that it publicly insisted never existed. In exchange, Obama wants a big political favor from insurers. — Last week, the administration promised insurers it would use …
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Hot Air
Sancho Panza / SOOPERMEXICAN:
More ‘War On Women’ Deleted Tweets - Democrat Congressional Candidate Asks Followers to Assail Conservative Woman With ‘C-Word’! — I already showed how Clay Aiken deleted a tweet advocating violence against Ann Coulter, and how Buzzfeed accidentally neglected to mention it in their post about his deleted tweets.
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The PJ Tatler and NewsBusters
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New York Times:
Citing N.B.A. Example, Senators Urge N.F.L. to Act on Redskins' Name — WASHINGTON — Fifty members of the Senate have signed a letter to the N.F.L. to urge its leadership to press the Washington Redskins to change the team name in the aftermath of tough sanctions against the owner …
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ThinkProgress, PRWeb, CBS DC and Deadspin
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Sends Troops to Chad to Aid Hunt for Nigerian Schoolgirls — WASHINGTON — The United States has sent 80 troops to Chad in Central Africa to support a growing international effort in neighboring Nigeria to help find and rescue the schoolgirls who were abducted by an Islamist extremist group last month …
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Outside the Beltway and The Week
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
U.S. deploys 80 troops to Chad to help find kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
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The PJ Tatler, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Althouse, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and YNaija2015
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Still a Nation of Immigrants — The American melting pot appears to be heating up again, and its ingredients have grown ever more varied. — In 1908, when a play called “The Melting Pot” was first staged in New York City, helping to popularize the term, New York had a foreign-born population …
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