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2:50 PM ET, August 13, 2013

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama's health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Yet Another White House Obamacare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015  —  First, there was the delay of Obamacare's Medicare cuts until after the election.  Then there was the delay of the law's employer mandate.  Then there was the announcement, buried in the Federal Register …
Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Administration delays ObamaCare caps on out-of-pocket costs
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's next act: The family foundation  —  Hillary Clinton's next phase of life — the co-leader of a family foundation — has officially begun.  —  She's coming in to her husband's signature foundation, which has been renamed for all three Clintons (their daughter has an increased presence).
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Weiner: Wife will have role in Clinton campaign
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Weiner Stays Defiant, Blasts News Media And Critics
Discussion: The Fix, Politico, Andrew Kaczynski and CNN
Peter Maass / New York Times:
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets  —  This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.  For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.
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Peter Maass / New York Times:
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities.  Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama's health care bill.
Richard Abowitz / The Daily Beast:
Porn Professor Hugo Schwyzer Comes Clean About His Twitter Meltdown and Life as a Fraud  —  He built a successful, if divisive, career as a ‘male feminist’ and porn advocate.  Then his life fell apart—on Twitter.  He talks to Richard Abowitz about what fueled his epic meltdown.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama could ‘basically legalize’ millions of immigrants if reform fails  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a key architect of the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, warned Tuesday that President Obama could use an executive order to legalize millions of illegal immigrants if Congress does not act on the issue.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Marco Rubio warns of immigration executive order
Discussion: National Review
Heather Mac Donald / New York Post:
Ignoring the realities of NYC crime  —  New York's 20-year reprieve from debilitating violence may well be over.  Yesterday, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department has been willfully targeting blacks and Hispanics for unlawful stop …
Discussion: National Review
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New York Times:
Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk
Gov. Pat McCrory / Raleigh News & Observer:
Why I signed the Voter ID/election reform bill  —  The common sense, election reforms I just signed into law will protect the integrity of one of the most precious rights guaranteed in our state constitution, the right to vote.  —  Voter photo identification is the central element of these reforms.
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Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
ATTORNEY FOR WHISTLEBLOWER: 400 U.S. MISSILES STOLEN IN BENGHAZI  —  On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were “diverted to Libya” …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
This Is Not Rosa Parks  —  Oprah Winfrey's Swiss adventure.  —  Jesse Jackson hasn't yet declared Zurich the new Selma, but from some of the news coverage you'd think Oprah Winfrey was the next Rosa Parks.  The former TV-talk superstar experienced what New York's Daily News calls …
Denver Post:
By The Denver Post Editorial Board  —  Americans have come to know and tolerate the presence of the Transportation Security Administration at airports.  —  While it doesn't make the pat-downs and full-body scans any less intrusive, we've accepted the security gauntlet …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
Post v. Putin — Whose Side Are You On?  —  The culture war has gone global.  —  And the divisions are not only between, but within nations.  —  “Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno.  “I mean, this seems like Germany.  Let's round up the Jews.  Let's round up the gays. ...
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released  —  After half-a-year of delays and roadblocks, the U.S Secret Service today released the first 104 pages of agency documents about the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Swartz's suicide less than three months before his scheduled trial.
Discussion: Guardian, The Switch, Mashable and The Verge
Jay Korff / WJLA-TV:
President Obama's ambulance runs out of gas, sparks criticism  —  WASHINGTON (WJLA) - As President Barack Obama travels to and from the White House in his motorcade, the number one concern is keeping him safe.  —  A critical constant is a D.C. Fire and EMS ambulance, typically Medic 1 …
Robert Ehlert / Idaho Statesman:
Labrador to announce political plans Wednesday  —  Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said this afternoon he will announce his future political plans during a press conference Wednesday though he gave no indication of the exact time or location.  —  The two-term congressman from Idaho's First District …
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Times Change  —  Behold the power of Power Line.  Only one day after we wondered ("Start the Countdown Clock") whether the Sulzberger family would follow the Graham family and sell the New York Times before its market value sinks to Boston Globe levels, there emerged news that the family had …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Charles S. Johnson / Missoulian:
3 members of Montana's Williams family decline to run for Congress  —  HELENA - Three members of a prominent Montana Democratic family - former U.S. Rep. Pat and ex-state Sen. Carol Williams, and their daughter Whitney - each has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate or House next year, despite pleas to do so.
Discussion: Ballot Box, Post Politics and Roll Call
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself  —  Big headlines last Friday, as President Obama planned, for his news conference announcement.  —  He was naming “a high-level group of outside experts” to probe the nation's entire intelligence apparatus for abuses …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Detroit Free Press:
Oops: Billboards list wrong date for Detroit's Nov. 5 general election  —  Billboards advertising the city's upcoming general election sent the wrong message to residents over the weekend.  —  Many of the 14 billboards gave a September date for the city's general election.  The election actually is Nov. 5.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES  —  The phrase “unintended consequences” is going to get tossed around a lot over the next couple of days as a pair of techniques born of a three decades pissing-down-the-leg panic over crime get careful scrutiny.  First, Attorney General Eric Holder announced …
 
 
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Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky
Discussion: Mediaite and The Raw Story
Gretawire:
FOX BROADCAST (not Fox News Channel) should hire Jay Leno on February 7, 2014 (of course no one is asking me ...)
Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today:
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Deported veterans: Banished for committing crimes after serving in the U.S. military
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Planned Parenthood mailer hits ‘extremely dangerous’ Cuccinelli
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Intelligence committee withheld key file before critical NSA vote, Amash claims
Discussion: Balloon Juice and emptywheel
New York Times:
Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Does Obama need OprahCare?
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and VodkaPundit
Jan Schakowsky / The Huffington Post:
The GOP's Politics of Subtraction