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10:50 AM ET, March 10, 2017

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Bill So Bad It's Awesome  —  It has long been obvious to anyone following health policy that Republicans would never devise a workable replacement for Obamacare.  But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare  —  House Republican leaders narrowly tailored their Obamacare repeal bill to avoid violating Senate rules, but conservatives are pushing back with advice of their own: tear up the rulebook.  —  A growing number of conservative lawmakers …
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Health care disconnect  —  TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS with ABC's RICK KLEIN and VERONICA STRACQUALURSI  —  The big story: Here at the halfway point of President Trump's first 100 days, a question looms: Which version of reality to believe?  The one where the House is marching toward passing …
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Hayes to GOP Rep.: ‘Why Are You Rushing So Fast’ on Obamacare Replacement?
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Paul Ryan PowerPoint Presentation: “This Is The Closest We Will Ever Get” To Obamacare Repeal
Discussion: Breitbart and MARK-CM
Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Why Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose With the G.O.P. Repeal Bill
Jason Squitieri / CNN:
Rep. Jordan criticizes GOP Obamacare plan after meeting with Trump
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
White House Casts Pre-emptive Doubt on Congressional Budget Office
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Political Wire
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Steady U.S. Job Growth Sets Stage for Fed to Raise Interest Rates  —  Employers added 235,000 workers to their payrolls in February, the government reported on Friday, a hefty gain that clears the path for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate when it meets next week.
Discussion: USA Today, Political Wire, Forbes and NPR
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Strong U.S. job growth, rising wages set stage for Fed rate hike
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs in Trump's first full month
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 235,000 jobs in Feb, vs 190,000 expected
Discussion: Politico
Sharon Begley / STAT:
House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results  —  little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.
Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
Mexican foreign secretary goes straight to the White House, skips usual channels  —  Mexico's top diplomat came to Washington Thursday for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House.  —  Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met …
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/PhoneBook:
South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests  —  As discussed last night, in a historic ruling, the South Korean Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment decision against President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office on Friday …
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Alexandra Rosenmann / Raw Story:
Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble  —  This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media.  —  Last summer, the United Kingdom voted to leave …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion  — Such a move, however, could blow up the already fragile efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is privately lining up behind conservative calls to roll …
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
CNN:
Sources: FBI investigation continues into ‘odd’ computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization  —  (CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests  —  Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy.  —  In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an …
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Trump administration sends judges to immigration detention centers: sources  —  The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday.
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
AG SUGGESTS OPENNESS TO REVIEW OF PREDECESSORS' ACTIONS
Discussion: Power Line
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Malik Obama shares photo of brother Barack's Kenya ‘certificate of birth’  —  An Obama has joined the birther movement.  —  Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, tweeted image of what appears to be Barack's birth certificate.  —  Except it's not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya.
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Malik Obama Tweets Alleged Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Kenya
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Spies Live in Fear of Trump's Next Tweet  —  As Friday evening draws to a close around Washington, D.C., the city's tight-knit and secretive national security clan goes to sleep with a new unease.  It's not Syria or Iran or even North Korea they're most worried about.
Discussion: The Guardian
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer  —  Donald Trump won Kansas last November by just over 20 points, and in the coming days he's expected to give the Jayhawk State's voters their reward: a new governor.  —  The president reportedly will name Governor Sam Brownback …
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers  —  Readers of The Right Stuff long knew that founder “Mike Enoch” had two main interests: technology and white supremacy.  Posts on the neo-Nazi site have included discussion of “a new blogging platform built on node.js,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
MSNBC:
Sen. Murphy: Wikileaks release is ‘suspiciously timed’  —  Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, says the WikiLeaks release seems to be timed purposefully for a moment of weakness for President Trump. ...  more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache  —  On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”  Immediately afterward, it posted two startling tweets asserting that “C.I.A. hacker malware” posed a threat to journalists …
Letitia Stein / Reuters:
Americans oppose bathroom laws limiting transgender rights: poll  —  The majority of respondents to a new U.S. poll opposed laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identities and indicated growing acceptance for gay rights, a nonpartisan research group said on Friday.
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery  —  The TBS comedy program “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” apologized on Thursday for broadcasting a segment in which a writer who has talked about his cancer diagnosis was mocked for having what the program called “Nazi hair.”
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Resurgent nationalism ‘taking us to the edge of our destruction’  —  Don't buy what purports to be nationalism that's engulfed politics in America and all over the world, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday; what's actually at play, he argued, is more insidious and interconnected than that.
 
 
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
How Chris Ruddy Became the Media's Favorite Friend-of-Trump
Chicago Tribune:
‘Exhibit A for gun violence,’ judge says in handing down prison for brazen Northwest Side shooting
Discussion: Daily Wire and WHNT-TV
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
152,528,000: Record Number of Employed in February; Participation Rate Rises
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Army brass, led by future Joint Chiefs head Martin Dempsey, gave amorous general a pass
Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times:
Number of immigrants caught at Mexican border plunges 40% under Trump
Kevin Baker / New Republic:
A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR SEPARATING BLUE STATES FROM RED
Doyle Murphy / News, Riverfront Times:
KKK Wife Malissa Ancona Hoarded Cats, Popped Pills and, Police Say, Murdered the Local Imperial Wizard
Discussion: The Root
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The coming GOP assault on regulations
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed:
Republican Chairman Says Sean Spicer Should Stay “In His Lane” On Health Care Bill
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
31 Senators Call for More Foreign Workers to Replace Blue-Collar Americans
Lisa Baertlein / Yahoo:
Starbucks CEO's refugee comments sour customer views of chain - survey
Rick Maese / Washington Post:
NFL abuse of painkillers and other drugs described in court filings
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
New York Times:
With Trump in White House, His Golf Properties Prosper
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's in the White House bubble, and he loves it
Discussion: The Week