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11:15 AM ET, October 19, 2013

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Authorities probe threat against Cruz  —  Law enforcement officials are investigating a threat against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was vaulted into national prominence with his push to defund ObamaCare.  —  A person identifying himself as Troy Gilmore Jr., posted on Twitter Friday morning …
David Frum / New York Times:
Peter Baker's ‘Days of Fire’  —  The Bush administration opened with a second Pearl Harbor, ended with a second Great Crash and contained a second Vietnam in the middle.  —  The story of those eight years would seem far too vast to contain inside a single volume.  Yet here that volume is.
Discussion: Brad DeLong
CBS News:
Dick Cheney calls his current health “a miracle”  —  Dick Cheney says his current health is “a miracle” in a frank discussion of the heart disease he suffered over his entire political career and especially when he served as the vice president.  In his first interview about his new book …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
States Are Focus of Effort to Foil Health Care Law  —  RICHMOND, Va. — The federal government is again open for business, and Republicans in Washington are licking their wounds from the failed Tea Party attempt to derail President Obama's health care overhaul.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cuccinelli: ObamaCare is embarrassing  —  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli blasted the implementation of ObamaCare as a “national embarrassment” and called the program a “grave threat” in Saturday's weekly Republican address.  —  The Virginia attorney general said the law was …
Discussion: Politico
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Watch Megyn Kelly Desperately Try To Rein In Sarah Palin  —  Megyn Kelly had Sarah Palin on her new show on Thursday night, and the interview went about as you would expect it to go.  Our favorite part came in the first couple of minutes.  —  Kelly set Palin up nicely …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Eric Stern / Salon:
Inside the Fox News lie machine: I fact-checked Sean Hannity on Obamacare  —  UPDATE I re-reported a Fox News segment on Obamacare — it was appallingly easy to see how it misleads the audience  —  I happened to turn on the Hannity show on Fox News last Friday evening.
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Texans Stick With Cruz Despite Defeat in Washington  —  HOUSTON — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and the face of the angry right, has been criticized, lambasted and lampooned for putting the nation through a 16-day government shutdown and the prospect of a financial default.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Ted Cruz Is Just Getting Started
Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Monthly and CNN
Tony Rizzo / Kansas City Star:
Phill Kline indefinitely suspended from practicing law  —  Citing “clear and convincing evidence” of professional misconduct, the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.  —  The court found that Kline violated 11 rules governing …
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Supreme Court Suspends Ex-Attorney General Over Abortion Investigation
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Nate Silver previews site, hits POLITICO  —  Nate Silver, the statistician who recently joined ESPN from The New York Times, previewed his new website on Friday and dished out some criticisms of the current journalism environment, much of it directed at POLITICO.
Discussion: Poynter and Talking Points Memo
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Potemkin Parliament  —  Washington's governing systems are in a bad way.  —  The least dispiriting moment of another grim week in Washington was the sight of ornery veterans tearing down the Barrycades around the war memorials on the National Mall, dragging them up the street, and dumping them outside the White House.
Julia Ryan / The Atlantic Online:
Are Private Schools Worth It?  —  A new book argues that public schools are actually academically superior.  —  Sarah Theule Lubienski didn't set out to compare public schools and private schools.  A professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she was studying math instructional techniques …
Dustin Weaver / The Hill:
Regulators fire up engines again  —  The federal rulemaking machine is rumbling back to life as agency officials tackle the backlog of work that was created by the government shutdown.  —  Conservatives worry officials are preparing a surge of new regulations to make up for lost time and meet upcoming deadlines.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Joe Scarborough / Politico:
GOP isn't learning from its mistakes  —  My children and I love watching Peter Pan.  In fact, we've seen the Disney classic so often through the years that we could probably recite most of the movie from memory.  Maybe that's why the opening lines came so easily to my mind earlier this week …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Saudis Shock U.N., Quit Security Council Over Syria  —  Saudi Arabia took the extraordinary step Friday of refusing to take its seat on the U.N. Security Council — despite pursuing the position for years.  It's an unprecedented protest over the council's failure to take firmer action in Syria and Palestine.
Reid Wilson / GovBeat:
The solution to hyper-partisanship already exists, and it doesn't involve gerrymandering  —  The latest game of political chicken that drove Washington to a government shutdown and the very edge of the debt ceiling gave new life to the omnipresent complaint of elder statesmen and centrist wise guys …
McKenzie Romero / Deseret News:
Video of men toppling rock formation in state park could have criminal consequences  —  HIGHLAND — Two men have come under scrutiny by the public and possibly by prosecutors after a video made the rounds online showing them pushing over an iconic rock formation.
NBCNews:
NJ Supreme Court rules same-sex couples can marry beginning Monday  —  Same-sex marriages will begin Monday in New Jersey after the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses, a rebuff to Gov. Chris Christie.
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David Dayen / The New Republic:
You Thought the Government Shutdown Was Over. You Were Wrong.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and News Desk
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
US drone strikes violate international law, says UN
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Reuters:
Exclusive: NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked -officials
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Jackson's stump stories of childhood deprivation challenged by acquaintances
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Republican Rep. Bill Young, Florida's longest-serving member …
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com:
The Truthiness of Rand Paul
Mike Ludwig / Truthout Stories:
Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Reid: Cruz acted with an eye on the White House
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Docs worried sick over ObamaCare
Paul Krugman:
The China-Debt Syndrome  —  Matthew Yglesias notes an uptick …
Discussion: Slate and EconLog
Chris Matthews / The Boston Globe:
Yes, politics was once friendly
Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Trust in Government Nears Record Low, But Most Federal Agencies Are Viewed Favorably
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Wisdom of ‘Mr. Republican’
Discussion: alicublog