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800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data — WASHINGTON — About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected.
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New York Magazine, hrms.urban.org, Josh Blackman's Blog and The Week
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What Consumers Need to Know about Corrected Form 1095-As — Last year, millions of Americans used advance payments of tax credits to help lower the cost of their monthly health insurance premiums. Now that tax season is here, individuals and families enrolled in a health plan through …
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Health Insurance Blog, Politico, Health Affairs Blog and KVNF Public Radio


Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms
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“The Lid” and Allen West Republic

800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info
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Hit & Run, Hot Air, Business Insider and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
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Daily Kos, Liberal Values and Twitchy


What Rudy Giuliani knows about love — a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama — Rudy Giuliani knows a lot about love. — Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest …
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First Draft: Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I'm Not a Racist
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Daily Kos, Politico, Bloomberg Business, New York Magazine, Fox News Insider, BuzzFeed and ABC News

A Fire Bell in the Night — Dozing off as we pored through a raft of mostly meaningless polls this week, we were startled awake by one set of findings. The CNN/ORC survey released February 18 was The Weekly Standard's own little fire bell in the night. — What, you surely ask, alarmed us so?
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Big hire for Jeb: Tim Miller as comms director — Jeb Bush plans to name Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising PAC, as his top communications aide, Republican sources told POLITICO on Friday. — Miller initially will be a senior adviser to Bush's Right to Rise PAC …
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Political Wire

GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
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Talking Points Memo, Metro Weekly and The Daily Caller


DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat — Hunter: Terrorists crossed U.S. border — Story highlights — Intelligence assessment focuses on domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists — Some law enforcement groups view domestic terror threat …


After MSNBC Axes Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid's Shows, Is Chris Hayes Next? — As its afternoon shows hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid are canceled due to poor ratings, MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow. — It was hardly a surprise Thursday …
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PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller, Gawker, US News, The Other McCain, Truth Revolt, Hot Air, Mediaite, Ed Driscoll and TVbytheNumbers
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MSNBC pulls ‘Ronan Farrow’, ‘Reid Report’
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine

The Plot to Kill Health Care — Republicans hate activist judges — those black-robed elites who are willing to upset the lives of millions of people just to further a political cause. Ditto trial lawyers trolling for clients, the ambulance-chasing, “Better Call Saul” guys. They hate them, until they need them.
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The PJ Tatler
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The GOP Strategy To Pave The Way For The Supreme Court To Gut Obamacare
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Washington Monthly and ACS Blog


The POLITICO Caucus: Christie slips from first tier — In other findings, GOP insiders say a pro-immigration reform candidate can win, and Carly Fiorina impresses. — Twice as many early state insiders believe that New Jersey's credit downgrades are a bigger problem for Chris Christie's presidential hopes …
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Algemeiner.com and The Week
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Abolish the filibuster — I've been radicalized. By Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Goodbye moderation and sweet reason. No more clinging to constitutional and procedural restraint. It's time to go nuclear. — In the fourth quarter of his presidency, Obama unbound is abusing presidential authority …
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Power Line and Fox News Insider

Boston's Winter From Hell — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — BY now you've seen the starkly beautiful shots of Boston buried under snow: the panoramic city under a white blanket; snowbanks so high they crest over parked cars; piercing icicles glinting for two full stories from gutters dammed with ice …


Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem — The Fox News host has said he was in a “war zone” that apparently no American correspondent reached. — After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering …
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David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
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Mother Jones, The Daily Banter, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh and TVNewser

Cranking Up for 2016 — Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is said to be a rising contender for the Republican presidential nomination. So, on Wednesday, he did what, these days, any ambitious Republican must, and pledged allegiance to charlatans and cranks.
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos


Ukraine: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia — The UK and the EU have been accused of a “catastrophic misreading” of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine. — The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe “sleepwalked” into the crisis.
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Shakesville, KVNF Public Radio, New York Times, The Agonist and NPR


Obama Takes On Rand Paul For Just ‘Talking the Talk’ … President Obama delivered a rallying cry to Democrats at the party's winter meeting in Washington, D.C., today, urging an unabashed embrace of his economic record as they head into the 2016 campaign. — “We were told by our good friends …
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Politico


NYPD's idea of reform included breath mints and baby oil — Reform czar Michael Julian's odd ideas like breath mints for officers on the verge of cursing, got him reassigned after only two months. — Mayor de Blasio ordered sweeping reforms for the NYPD after the Eric Garner death …
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The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider and Washington Times


Obama to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs — The Obama administration will seek an emergency court order to move forward with President Obama's executive action on immigration. — Officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to seek what is known as an emergency stay …
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Immigration Impact