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11:45 AM ET, April 21, 2015

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kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: April 2015  —  Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … The Public's Views Of The ACA  —  Closely Divided On The Health Care Law  —  This month's Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds American's opinion of the health care law closely divided …
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Caitlin Owens / National Journal:
Poll: More Americans Like Obamacare Than Dislike It  —  For the first time since 2012, more Americans find the Affordable Care Act favorable than unfavorable, a Kaiser poll shows.  —  More Americans like Obamacare than dislike it for the first time since 2012, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Tuesday morning.
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Economic optimism hits new peak under Obama
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
David Koch Signals a Favorite: Scott Walker  —  Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Koch brothers will offer audition to Jeb Bush  —  Charles and David Koch are considering throwing their massive wealth and sophisticated organization into the Republican presidential primary for the first time, a potentially game-changing boost that could make even a second-tier candidate instantly viable.
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Scott Walker Lays Out Pro American Worker Stance on Immigration
Guardian:
Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘seriously wounded in air strike’  —  Exclusive: Baghdadi no longer in day-to-day control of terror group as he recovers from injuries sustained during attack in March, according to sources  —  The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi …
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
A Newcomer to Populism?  Hillary Clinton Campaign Begs to Differ  —  CLAREMONT, N.H. — In her first week as a 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to channel another high-profile Democrat.  “The deck is stacked in their favor,” Mrs. Clinton said of the wealthy and powerful.
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Scooby hits the road at 92 MPH!  Secret Service zooms Hillary to dinner through driving rain following secret afternoon house party  — Motorcade raced from Keene to Claremont to Concord, obliterating speed limits as Hillary kept a tight schedule of off-the-books events
National Journal:
Candidates are looking for the political equivalent of a perfect bridge partner, someone with whom they can continually cooperate without ever being able to coordinate—or ever ask for advice.  —  Some 2016 candidates have already made their decisions.  Rand Paul recently tapped Jesse Benton …
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Bush preparing to delegate many campaign tasks to super PAC  —  3 photos  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush is preparing to embark on an experiment in presidential politics: delegating many of the nuts-and-bolts tasks of seeking the White House to a separate political organization that can raise unlimited amounts of campaign cash.
Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Roseanne Barr on Losing Her Sight, Smoking Weed, Rejecting Feminism, and Not Voting For Hillary  —  As a documentary of her 2012 presidential run is released, Roseanne Barr talks about political power, mortality, and why a Hillary Clinton win wouldn't be as symbolic as many hope.
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Can Chris Christie Stanch the Bleeding?  —  To put it mildly, this is not the presidential campaign Chris Christie would have envisioned for himself.  —  No wonder the New Jersey governor and one-time Republican rock star is heading to Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Top Christie ally defects to Bush
Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary Clinton on GOP field: They only want to talk about me  —  “I don't know what they'd talk about if I weren't in the race.”  —  KEENE, N.H. — Hillary Clinton on Monday attacked the crowded field of Republican presidential contenders for making her the focus of their campaigns.
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Tarini Parti / Politico:   George Soros' son builds a PAC for Jewish voters
Stephen Deere / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Resignations in tiny Parma, Mo., baffle town's first black mayor  —  PARMA, MO.  • The drugstore is long gone.  So, too, are the bank and the barbershop, the opry house and the hardware store.  —  All that is left of downtown are collapsed awnings, caved-in ceilings and broken windowpanes of century-old buildings.
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
John McCain Just Can't Stop Laughing At Ted Cruz  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday denied reports that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is pushing him to hold hearings exploring whether soldiers should be able to carry concealed guns on military bases.
Josh Middleton / Philadelphia Magazine:
PA High School Students Organize “Anti-Gay Day” in Response to National Day of Silence  —  McGuffey High School in Claysville, Pennsylvania made headlines over the weekend when a group of students organized an “Anti-Gay Day' in direct retaliation to the LGBT youth-supportive National Day of Silence (NDOS) on Friday.
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miamiherald:
Give her the job  —  Sometimes it seems as if sanity has returned to Capitol Hill.  Recently, lawmakers approved fast-track authority for the president's trade talks with Pacific nations and passed an important bill on Medicare reimbursement rates.  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously agreed …
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
US WARSHIP HEADS TO YEMENI WATERS; COULD BLOCK IRAN WEAPONS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stepped-up response to Iranian backing of Shiite rebels in Yemen, the Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other American ships …
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
U.S. carrier moving off coast of Yemen to block Iranian arms shipments
Discussion: The Week and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Sophie Curtis / Telegraph:
PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain  —  “Natural body identification” could one day replace passwords and other modern methods of identification, claims PayPal developer chief  —  PayPal is working on a new generation of embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Infowars and FOX News Radio
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Half of Americans have money worries  —  Half of Americans have deep concerns about their financial situation, according to Gallup.  —  The 50 percent of people in the U.S. who have money worries is basically unchanged from the 49 percent Gallup found in 2014.
Discussion: Gallup
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Flat tax makes 2016 comeback  —  The flat tax is back.  —  Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have both floated an across-the-board tax rate as they've launched their 2016 presidential bids.  —  Neither Cruz nor Paul has spelled out the exact details of their plan …
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama  —  Obama only mentions Christians to lecture them, rather than defend them from persecution.  —  What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea for praying to Jesus?  —  Answer: Religious persecution.
Discussion: BREITBART.COM
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
Why Arabs distrust Obama  —  Last week, President Obama finally set a date — May 13 — for Washington's Arab allies to gather at an “urgent” summit.  —  Obama made the invitation to calm Arab fears his administration had decided to let Iran acquire full nuclear capability and pursue hegemonic plans in the Mideast.
Discussion: RedState
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Tom Tancredo / WND:
WILL OBAMA ORDER MILITARY ATTACK ON ISRAEL?
 
 
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New York Times:
Teachers' Unions Fight Standardized Testing, and Find Diverse Allies
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Greece on the Brink
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
68K sign up during ObamaCare's extra period
The Right Scoop:
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
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1.5 Million Missing Black Men
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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