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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Did Jonathan Gruber Just Endorse the Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit? — Obamacare architect offers an explanation for his 2012 quote — Did the people who designed Obamacare intend to deprive millions of people of health insurance, just because officials in their states decided not to operate their own insurance marketplaces?
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John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Once Again Ties Subsidies to State-Based Exchanges — Did Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber make the same mistake twice? A new audio clip finds him once again explaining that Obamacare subsidies are tied to state health exchanges.
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Instapundit
Adam Serwer / msnbc.com:
Adviser's past remarks could give Obamacare a headache
Adviser's past remarks could give Obamacare a headache
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Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, National Review, The Federalist and Ricochet
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus — The supposedly independent agency harassed …
The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus — The supposedly independent agency harassed …
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Fox News, National Review and Power Line
Adrianna McIntyre / Vox:
Has a key Obamacare architect given the lawsuit against it a boost?
Has a key Obamacare architect given the lawsuit against it a boost?
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NewsBusters, American Prospect and National Review
Ryan Radia / Competitive Enterprise Institute:
Obamacare Architect Admitted in 2012 States without Exchanges Lose Subsidies
Obamacare Architect Admitted in 2012 States without Exchanges Lose Subsidies
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State …
Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State …
Michael F. Cannon / Forbes:
ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber: “If You're A State And You Don't Set Up An Exchange …
ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber: “If You're A State And You Don't Set Up An Exchange …
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National Review, Hot Air and Power Line
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
U.S. Congressman Mistakes U.S. Gov't Officials For Indian Officials (VIDEO) — In an extraordinary — and extraordinarily awkward — failure of basic situational awareness, a U.S. congressman apparently mistook American government officials for Indian government officials during a congressional hearing.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Majority say no to impeachment and lawsuit — Washington (CNN) - There's not a lot of public appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama, or for calls by some conservatives to impeach him, according to a new national survey. — A CNN/ORC International poll …
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Politico, New York Times, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, BarbWire.com, Outside the Beltway, National Review and Hullabaloo
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Doug Sosnik / Politico:
Blue Crush — How the left took over the Democratic Party.
Blue Crush — How the left took over the Democratic Party.
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Washington Monthly and New York Times
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Obama's immigration flip flop
Obama's immigration flip flop
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The Hill, TIME, CNN, Yahoo! News, Washington Post and Independent Journal Review
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Border crisis impacting public opinion on immigration
CNN Poll: Border crisis impacting public opinion on immigration
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Hot Air, Real Clear Politics, Politico and National Review
TMZ.com:
Joan Rivers — GOES OFF on Epic Israel/Palestine Rant — GOES OFF ON EPIC — Israel/Palestine Rant — EXCLUSIVE — Joan Rivers jettisoned comedy for politics ... unleashing an impassioned defense of Israel that included an awesome New York/New Jersey analogy.
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Truth Revolt, The Daily Caller, Politico, Sister Toldjah, BizPac Review, The PJ Tatler and Mediaite
Joe Miller / BBC:
Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ page edits from US Congress — Computers on Capitol Hill have been banned from making edits to Wikipedia in the past — Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editing”.
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CBS DC, Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Who's banned from editing Wikipedia this week? Congress
Who's banned from editing Wikipedia this week? Congress
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The Daily Caller, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, The Hill and Mediaite
Reuters:
Israel cabinet rejects Kerry cease-fire proposal in Gaza — Diplomatic-security cabinet “flatly rejects” American proposals for a week-long humanitarian halt to fighting, seeks changes to terms. — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's security cabinet has rejected proposals for a cease-fire …
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Israpundit and The Gateway Pundit
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Lawmaker to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's ‘America’ Be Shown in Schools — Florida GOP state senator Alan Hays said he'll propose a bill mandating that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.
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The Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Fox News
Lawrence A. Franklin / Gatestone Institute:
Hamas Mega-Attack Planned through Gaza Terror Tunnels … Hamas had apparently been preparing a murderous assault on Israeli civilian targets for the coming Jewish New Year Holiday, Rosh Hashanah, which begins on September 24, according anonymous sources in the Israeli security services, as reported today by the Israeli daily Maariv.
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BREITBART.COM, Power Line, Roger L. Simon, Business Insider and Weekly Standard
Reihan Salam / Slate:
Paul Ryan's Anti-Poverty Plan Is Paternalistic — It's also a thoughtful, compassionate blueprint for a better social safety net. — Paul Ryan has just released a new anti-poverty plan, and it's a doozy. Though the plan is very much a work in progress—Ryan's team calls it a …
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cbpp.org, MattBruenig, New York Magazine, National Review, PolicyShop, The Dish, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post, Marginal REVOLUTION, Vox and Hit & Run
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Paul Ryan and the Party of Ideas
Paul Ryan and the Party of Ideas
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Washington Monthly, The Dish, Washington Post, National Review and Reihan Salam
ABC News:
Inside the Furious, Close-Range Gun Battle at Pennsylvania Hospital … A doctor with a semi-automatic gun and a caseworker who was “nothing short of heroic” were able to wound and then subdue an armed psychiatric patient after he had killed another caseworker and appeared intent of reloading …
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Hot Air and The Jawa Report
Tom Williams / Roll Call:
Simas Ignores Subpoena Again as White House Defies Issa (Updated) (Video) — Top White House political adviser David Simas refused again Friday to honor a congressional subpoena, prompting Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to vote to rebuke the administration.
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Questions and Observations and Ed Driscoll
Tom Ley / Deadspin:
First Take Discusses A Woman's Responsibility To Avoid Being Beaten — First Take panelists Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless continued to discuss the Ray Rice suspension on this morning's episode, and Smith seized on the opportunity to say some deeply stupid things about the responsibility women …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, ThinkProgress, SBNation.com and ESPN