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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Ted Cruz to sign up for government health care — Ted Cruz, one of the loudest critics of Obamacare, will soon be using it for health insurance coverage. — “We will presumably go on the exchange and sign up for health care and we're in the process of transitioning over to do that,” Cruz …
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Ted Cruz going on Obamacare — Ted Cruz says he will enroll in Obamacare 01:47 — (CNN)Ted Cruz is going on Obamacare. — The newly announced Republican presidential candidate told CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday that he will sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act — a law he has been on a crusade to kill.
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Caleb Bonham / Campus Reform:
Prof: Ted Cruz and Republicans are resurrecting ‘discrimination’ — “Politics of the 1960s to Now” is a class taught by Prof. Chris Hamilton, a two-time Fulbright Scholar at Washburn University. — According to a student, Prof. Hamilton's course claims that Ted Cruz …
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: I Started Listening To Country Music Because Of 9/11 (VIDEO) — Leaving no political stone unturned, newly-declared presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had a very particular answer on Tuesday when asked about his taste in music. — “You know, music is interesting,” he said on CBS “This Morning.”
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination
Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Ted Cruz Cannot Be Serious
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Michael J Moore / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz's Wife Heidi to Take Unpaid Leave From Goldman
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Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
Israel Spied on Iran Talks — Ally's snooping upset White House because information was used to lobby Congress to try to sink a deal — Soon after the U.S. and other major powers entered negotiations last year to curtail Iran's nuclear program, senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Boehner ‘baffled’ by Israeli spying report — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday he was “shocked” and “baffled” by reports the Israeli government had spied on sensitive U.S.-Iran nuclear talks and passed information to members of Congress to whip up opposition to a potential deal.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
James Baker blasts Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Orwellian Obama Presidency
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Jason Zengerle / GQ:
What If Sarah Palin Were a Brain Surgeon? — Until two years ago, Ben Carson was a mild-mannered neurosurgeon—a hero to black America, the subject of a tender made-for-TV movie. Then he started raving about Nazis and America's demise. Now he's the Tea Party's great White House hope—and the GOP's worst nightmare.
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Helena Andrews / Washington Post:
The White House head florist is gone and rumors are flying about why — When White House chief pastry chef Bill Yosses left the executive mansion last summer, the president publicly mourned the loss of “the crust master's” mysteriously addictive pies. And when the first family's personal chef and pal …
George Sells / FOX2now.com:
Man kicked off Southwest flight over language on t-shirt … ST. LOUIS, MO. (KTVI) - A New York college student found himself stranded in St. Louis, Monday after being kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight that wasn't even supposed to land here. The conflict raises a classic first amendment debate …
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New York Times:
U.S. Agrees to Slow Pullout of Troops From Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — The United States will halt the withdrawal of 9,800 troops from Afghanistan, half of whom were scheduled to leave in the months ahead, and instead keep them in the country through the end of 2015.
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Mary Bruce / ABC News:
President Obama Announces Slowdown of Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan
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Philip Ewing / Politico:
Obama to keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through 2015
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Angelina Jolie Pitt / New York Times:
Diary of a Surgery — LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Washington Post Columnist Declares Ferguson Is The ‘Liberal Benghazi’ — Liberals have found an ideological bugaboo on par with Benghazi in the Michael Brown shooting, according to Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. — “Ferguson has become the liberal Benghazi,” Cohen wrote in a column published Monday night.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Ferguson and Benghazi's troubling parallels
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Phil Robertson Hypothesizes About Atheist Family Getting Raped And Killed — On Friday, “Trunews” host Rick Wiles aired a speech that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty delivered at the Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast earlier that day, in which Robertson offered gruesome details about how an atheist father …
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BREITBART.COM:
Reports: MSM Reporters Give Hillary Clinton Standing Ovation after She Takes No Questions, Jokes about Email Scandal — On Monday evening, mainstream media reporters reportedly gave Hillary Clinton a standing ovation after she joked about her private email scandal and took no questions …
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Emily Schultheis / National Journal:
Hillary Clinton Offers the Media an Olive Branch—and a Lecture
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Rachelle Peterson / The Federalist:
Reporters Explain Why Balance Isn't Needed On Global Warming — Is it morally permissible to allow “climate deniers” to appear in print and televised media? — Columbia University journalism students wrestled with this question recently at a screening of the new documentary, “Merchants of Doubt.”
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Beka Economopoulos / The Natural History Museum:
An Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific Community — To Museums of Science and Natural History: — As members of the scientific community we devote our lives to understanding the world, and sharing this understanding with the public. We are deeply concerned …
Tom Randall / Bloomberg Business:
Here's How $20 Oil Could Become a Reality If Storage Runs Out — The looming storage crisis explained … There's the makings of a crisis swirling in America's oil-storage tanks, and the next few months will determine whether it's a minor annoyance, or a major blow, to U.S. oil.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Barney Frank: Joe Biden 'can't keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself' — Vice President Joe Biden is his own worst enemy, former Rep. Barney Frank said in a recent interview with Larry King, calling the veep “talented” but also “someone who lacks discipline.”
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Craig Giammona / Bloomberg Business:
Taco Bell Introduces Breakfast Biscuits in Bid for Morning Sales — (Bloomberg) — Taco Bell is sticking with the playbook that helped it muscle into the breakfast business last year: Take a breakfast sandwich, and put it in a taco. — The fast-food chain will introduce a new line of Biscuit Tacos …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate's old guard just says ‘no’ to pot overhaul — A generational split in the Senate spells trouble for the movement to change marijuana laws. — When it comes to overhauling pot policy in the U.S. Senate, the young pols are running headfirst into the old guard.
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