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11:50 PM ET, August 15, 2013

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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Christie raps potential 2016 rivals at Republican confab  —  Follow @politicaltickerFollow @PeterHambyCNN  —  Boston (CNN) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie planted himself firmly in the Republican Party's establishment wing Thursday with a pugnacious speech calling on his party to focus …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2016 President: Republican Outsiders Rising  —  Plus: Could anyone beat Clinton in a primary?  —  Our most recent rating of Republican presidential contenders features a top tier of three notably different candidates: A Midwestern governor (Scott Walker) who is known best by the activists …
Blake Neff / The Hill:
Christie tells RNC: ‘My job is to win’ not debate  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday urged the GOP to move past fractious internal debates and focus on policies to win back voters, saying his goal was to “win.”  —  “We are not a debating society,” he said in an address …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin eyed as 2016 GOP debate moderators  —  WASHINGTON SECRETS REPUBLICAN PARTY CNN NBC HILLARY CLINTON RUSH LIMBAUGH 2016 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS  —  The Republican National Committee, already threatening to block CNN and NBC from hosting 2016 primary debates …
Adam Aigner-Treworgy / CNN:
First on CNN: OFA releases new ad promoting Obamacare
Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Hastert Rule Writ Large
Discussion: Eschaton
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Why shouldn't Limbaugh moderate a debate?
Discussion: NewsBusters and Mofo Politics
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds  —  The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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Janet Reitman / Rolling Stone:
Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency
Discussion: emptywheel and Hillicon Valley
Washington Post:
TRANSCRIPT: President Obama's remarks on Egypt  —  President Obama delivered the following remarks on the unrest in Egypt on Aug. 15 in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning, everybody.  —  I just finished a discussion with my national security team about the situation in Egypt …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
It's Official: Obama Has Surpassed Jimmy Carter
Discussion: Reuters and Associated Press
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Obama On Egypt: 'We Don't Take Sides'
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
This blood is on the hands of Muslim Brotherhood
Patrick Pexton / City Desk:
Ombo Sauce: Advice for Jeff Bezos From the Post's Former In-House Critic  —  Dear Jeff:  —  Congratulations!  To paraphrase an old Riggs Bank saying, you've just bought the most important media institution in the most important city in the world; don't screw it up.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ex-Washington Post ombudsman: ‘Fire Jennifer Rubin’  —  Patrick Pexton, who served as The Washington Post's ombudsman until March of this year, has written an open letter to incoming Post owner Jeff Bezos in which he calls on him to make editorial page editor Fred Hiatt fire Jennifer Rubin, the paper's conservative columnist.
Discussion: City Desk
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
$67 Million Awarded to Groups Helping With Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday awarded $67 million to 105 groups around the country that will serve as “navigators” to help the uninsured understand their options under the new health care law and sign up for coverage.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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Jason Millman / Politico:
HHS announces Obamacare ‘navigators’
Discussion: The Hill, Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood to get ObamaCare ‘navigator’ funds
Russell Simmons / Global Grind:
I Get It And I Respect It...The Harriet Tubman Video Has Been Removed.  —  In the whole history of Def Comedy Jam, I've never taken down a controversial comedian.  When my buddies from the NAACP called and asked me to take down the Harriet Tubman video from the All Def Digital YouTube channel and apologize, I agreed.
Talking Points Memo:
Bryan Fischer: Obama Was Photoshopped Into Bin Laden Situation Room Photo (VIDEO)  —  Conservatives seeking to unveil the transgressions of President Barack Obama's presidency seized upon another target Thursday: the iconic photograph capturing a tense moment in the White House Situation Room …
Juliet Eilperin / Post Politics:
White House solar panels being installed this week  —  After nearly three years, the White House began installing solar panels on the First Family's residence this week, a White House official confirmed Thursday.  —  The Obama administration had pledged in October 2010 to put solar panels …
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Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Solar panels return to White House
EndPlay / KGTV-TV:
Great-grandmother accuses Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment  —  News conference set for 1:00 pm  —  SAN DIEGO - A great-grandmother will hold a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred early Thursday afternoon, alleging she is a sexual harassment victim of Mayor Bob Filner.
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Rebecca Elliott / Politico:
Great-grandmother accuses Bob Filner
PARADE Magazine:
Michelle Obama on the Move  —  What will Michelle Obama do next?  In this weekend's issue, Parade talks to the first lady and finds out: She's taking her fight against childhood obesity to the next level, gearing up for parenting teenagers, and admitting she's hit her stride in the White House.
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bush daughter: Hillary Clinton should run  —  President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara said she would like to see Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016.  —  Barbara Bush, 31, called Clinton “unbelievably accomplished” in an upcoming interview with People magazine, saying she wants to see the former first lady mount a campaign.
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
The Post just got hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.  Here's who they are.  —  So, you may have heard we're having some problems with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) lately.  Earlier this week the Twitter account of one of our journalists was compromised as part of a larger attack aimed …
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Reporters Laugh When Obama's Spokesman Denies Another ‘End Run’ Around Congress  —  (CNSNews.com) - The White House press corps laughed when President Obama's spokesman on Wednesday said the president, in directing the Federal Communications Commission to raise cell phone taxes to pay …
Politico:
Eve of Destruction  —  It is almost impossible to find an establishment Republican in town who's not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be.  Most dance around it in public, but they see this year as a disaster in the making, even if most elected Republicans don't know it or admit it.
Amanda Bynes / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri legislator files suit to be exempted from contraception mandate in state health plan  —  • By Tim O'Neil toneil@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8132  —  ST. LOUIS  • A Missouri legislator asked the federal court on Wednesday to exempt his family from contraception coverage through …
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:
Egyptian Media Creates a U.S. Senator Out of Thin Air  —  Earlier this week, Maurice Bonamigo had strong words for the White House on its Egypt policy.  “The Obama administration failed to assess the situation in Egypt,” Bonamigo told Egypt's flagship English-language media organ, the Egypt Independent.
 
 
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