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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Obamacare Architect: Yeah, We Lied to The “Stupid” American People to Get It Passed — 20.5K — SHARES — Meet Jonathan Gruber, a professor at MIT and an architect of Obamacare. During a panel event last year about how the legislation passed, turning over a sixth of the U.S. economy …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare risks falling into a ‘death spiral’
Why Obamacare risks falling into a ‘death spiral’
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The New Republic, ThinkProgress and American Prospect
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Limbaugh threatens to sue DCCC for ‘out of context’ quotes about sexual consent — Rush Limbaugh is hopping mad at the Democratic Party — but this time he's threatening to do more than just talk about it on the radio. — The conservative pundit is threatening to sue the Democratic …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Politics
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Rush Limbaugh Threatens To Sue Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — Radio host Rush Limbaugh has threatened to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for defamation, The Daily Caller has learned. — Limbaugh retained the services of lawyer Patty Glaser …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler, “The Lid” and FOX News Radio
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems unlikely to ram through Obama's attorney general pick — President Obama will have to get his nominee for attorney general past a Republican-controlled Senate, Democratic and Republican aides say. — A packed schedule after the election is almost certain to push the vetting process …
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Sam Kleiner / The New Republic:
Republicans Are Already Undermining Obama's Highly Qualified Attorney General Pick
Republicans Are Already Undermining Obama's Highly Qualified Attorney General Pick
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Washington Post, The Dish and Shakesville
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Obama: Government Should Regulate Internet to Keep it Free — So President Obama has announced that the Internet should be regulated as a public utility. He's asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) from “information services” …
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Outside the Beltway and Patterico's Pontifications
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Waiting for Republicans to Act on Immigration Is Pointless — The metaphors are flying. Last week, House Speaker John Boehner said President Obama should not take executive action to limit deportations of undocumented immigrants because “when you play with matches, then you take the risk …
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Roll Call and Washington Post
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
WND Columnist: ‘Congress Must At Once Announce An Investigation’ Into Obama's Birth Certificate
WND Columnist: ‘Congress Must At Once Announce An Investigation’ Into Obama's Birth Certificate
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WND and FOX News Radio
Richard V. Reeves / The Atlantic Online:
Progressives Lost the Election, but Their Ideas Are Winning — Progressives, these days, are a gloomy bunch, and it's not just because of the outcomes of last week's election. As they see it, there's much to be gloomy about: Poverty levels are stuck, they say, with little improvements made in recent decades.
Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal:
Younger Generation Faces a Savings Deficit — Postrecession Thrifty Ways Fade Amid Weak Jobs Market, Hefty Student Debt — After a flirtation with thrift after the recession, young Americans have stopped saving. — Adults under age 35—the so-called millennial generation …
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US News and TheBlaze.com
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
Bad Decisions Came Back to Haunt Democrats in Midterms — Americans reeling from the economy still resent the policy choices that President Obama and congressional Democrats made early on. — Democrats are now sifting through the rubble of what was their party on election night …
CNN:
Gun sales spike as Ferguson area braces for grand jury decision — Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Lately, Dan McMullen has been bringing an extra gun to his office in Ferguson, Missouri. — McMullen runs Solo Insurance on West Florissant close to where looting and vandalism briefly broke …
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Hot Air, Hinterland Gazette and FOX News Radio
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
It's Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives — Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church's founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, portrayed in church materials as a loyal partner to his loving spouse Emma, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.
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Reuters, Raw Story and The Big Lead
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Stein: America's Race Problem Is “Pathetic, Self-Defeating Black Underclass” — “I mean, the real problem with race in America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that is — uh, just can't seem to get its way going in the way that blacks were able …
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PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Craig Spencer, New York Doctor With Ebola, Will Leave Bellevue Hospital — Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who became the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola, is being released from Bellevue Hospital Center on Tuesday morning, people familiar with his treatment said on Monday.
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The Verge, Gawker, Mediaite, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and New York Magazine
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize — The seminars offered police officers some useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals. Don't bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers ("everybody's got one already"), the experts counseled.
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
GOPer: Impeachment ‘A Possibility’ If Obama Moves Ahead On Immigration — Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said on Monday that impeaching President Obama “would be a consideration” if he moves forward unilaterally on immigration. — Barton's comments were made during an interview with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth …
Discussion:
FOX News Radio
Adelle Nazarian / BREITBART.COM:
RICK PERRY: AMERICA'S NEXT PRESIDENT WILL NOT BE A SENATOR — LOS ANGELES, California—In an exclusive interview at Breitbart News Network's headquarters, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said President Barack Obama would cement a legacy of being the worst president in American history if he moves forward on executive amnesty.
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Hot Air, OnPolitics, Newsmax.com, The Right Scoop and Fox News
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Trevelyan Wing / The Dartmouth:
Perry talks midterms success
Perry talks midterms success
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Mediaite and New York Magazine