memeorandum: Unpublished CRS Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines (Avik Roy/Forbes)

5:45 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S. — Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970. It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.

Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:

Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same — Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president? Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.

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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Ted Cruz Releases Birth Certificate — In an effort to repudiate suggestions that he is ineligible to be president of the United States, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released his birth certificate Sunday to The Dallas Morning News. — The birth certificate confirmed that the Texas Republican was born Dec. 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta.

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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz releases birth certificate

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Avik Roy / Forbes:

Unpublished CRS Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines — In recent months, President Obama and his subordinates have waived or delayed a number of Obamacare's notable features, such as the law's employer mandate …

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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

New Obamacare Enrollment Campaign Unveiled By Kathleen Sebelius — WASHINGTON — With precious time remaining before the health care exchanges established by the president's health care law are up and running, the Obama administration is rolling out new initiatives to encourage enrollment.

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Chicago Tribune:
How President Obama is flouting Obamacare

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Bill Keller / New York Times:

War on the Core — I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party. There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings. — I understand the urge to take what looks …

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Paul Krugman: Stupid Is A Strategy — Bill Keller has a strong …

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner — The United States was not involved in the detention of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, but was told it was likely that the Brazilian citizen would be stopped at London's Heathrow Airport, the White House said Monday.

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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

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John Fund / National Review:

Time for Answers from the NSA — It's time to ask tough questions about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities — even for conservatives who have given the NSA the benefit of every doubt up until now. — The Washington Post opened a can of worms last Friday when it reported that …

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Jim Sensenbrenner / Los Angeles Times:
How Obama has abused the Patriot Act

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Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
The NSA Can't Be Trusted — On August 9, President Obama gave …

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Al Jazeera America launches without significant advertiser base — When Al Jazeera America hits the air tomorrow, it will come with a big budget, a global network of 1,000 journalists and a mission to compete with entrenched rivals like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. — What it won't have? Advertisers.

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Analyst: Most Arabs Supported Bin Laden's Efforts To Kill Americans

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News

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Wall Street Journal:

Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016 — Backers Consider Steps for White House—Even If Hillary Clinton Enters Race — Political allies of Vice President Joe Biden have concluded that he can win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination—even if Hillary Clinton enters the contest …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’ — CNN Films' decision to hire senior director Courtney Sexton — whose previous films include Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Jimmy Carter Man from Plains” — is further evidence that the production company's forthcoming …

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Deadline.com:
RNC Responds to CNN Hire of Participant Media Exec Courtney Sexton

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC Moves Ed Schultz Back to Weeknights (Exclusive) — His show switches to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday, while “Hardball with Chris Matthews” will continue to air at 7 p.m. — Ed Schultz — Ed Schultz will move back to weekdays in the 5 p.m. slot beginning Aug. 26, the network is set to announce on Monday.

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Steve Frank / msnbc.com:
‘The Ed Show’ moves to weekdays at 5 p.m. ET starting August 26

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Michael Tanner / New York Post:

When welfare pays better than work — Here's an offer for you: $38,004 per year, tax free.No work required.Apply at your local welfare office. — The federal government funds 126 separate programs targeted towards low-income people, 72 of which provide either cash or in-kind benefits to individuals.

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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:

Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt — 50% Say Obama's Reponse to Violence Is ‘Not Tough Enough’ — OVERVIEW — With violence continuing to rage in Egypt, 51% of Americans say it is better for the United States to cut off military aid to Egypt to put pressure on the government.

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TIME:
Viewpoint: Egypt No Longer Matters

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Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:

Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With? — A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. — BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …

Discussion: Post Politics and msnbc.com

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

What kind of city is the Mayor leaving to his successor? — Michael Bloomberg, whose third and final term as mayor of New York expires at midnight on December 31st, keeps a digital clock running in reverse in his City Hall office, counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left in his term.

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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:

In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House — The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar …

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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

The Ideology Behind Michael Grunwald's Repugnant Assange Tweet — The Time correspondent wrote, “I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.” — On Saturday, Michael Grunwald, a senior correspondent at Time, stoked controversy by tweeting …

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Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:

Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation — Two sources reveal meeting to Team 10 — SAN DIEGO - Two inside, anonymous sources told Team 10 Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys were in a mediation session Monday morning with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and LA-based attorney Gloria Allred.

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Aaron Kase / Salon:

“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell — Pennsylvania's right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds — and the sickening details will shock you — Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia.

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Gideon Resnick / Politicker:

Susan Sarandon on the Mayor's Race: 'You Can't Just Vote Your Vagina' — Cynthia Nixon, Susan Sarandon and the entire de Blasio clan. — At first, actress Susan Sarandon expected to back Council Speaker Christine Quinn in her bid to become the city's first female mayor.

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Uwe Reinhardt / The Health Care Blog:

Talmudic-Like Studies of Republican Health Reform Ideas — After doing Talmudic-like studies of the doctrines on health reform promulgated by Republican health-policy makers and the conservative economists who inspired them during the past two decades, I am devastated to discover that all of those studies have been for naught.

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