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7:35 PM ET, October 21, 2013

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Politico:
Obama on ACA website: ‘No excuse for these problems’  —  President Barack Obama tossed aside months of messaging about how easy it would be to sign up for health care under his signature law and sought to remind Americans that the Affordable Care Act has benefits far beyond the chance to apply for insurance online.
Discussion: CNN, PERRspectives and Power Line
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE PRESIDENT HEALTH CARE  —  President Obamainvited a number of people to stand behind him as he delivered his speech on the state of Obamacare at the White House Monday morning.
Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Of the 13 people who flanked President Obama during his speech defending Obamacare in the Rose Garden Monday, just three had successfully registered for the new Obamacare exchanges.  —  A list of the people who joined Obama on stage provided by the White House included people who have or …
TIME:
No More Apologies: Why Obama Has to Get Mad About His Broken Obamacare Websites  —  Whenever a President of the U.S. stops believing his own spin, the people should take notice  —  When the Obamacare website debuted on Oct. 1, Barack Obama walked into the Rose Garden and compared it to Amazon.com, Kayak.com and the iPhone.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
As Obamacare runs into problems, Americans still want to give it a chance
Travis Gettys / The Raw Story:
Palin: Obamacare website glitches are a feature, not a bug, and will push U.S. into socialism
Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   Flashback: Obama Told People They Could Keep Their Health Care Plan
New York Times:
Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Don't squander your shutdown gains, Dems
Kyle Smith / New York Post:   Is there ObamaCare ‘propaganda’ on our favorite shows?
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
GOP, Boehner take shutdown hit in new CNN poll  —  Washington (CNN) — Just over half the public says that it's bad for the country that the GOP controls the House of Representatives, according to a new national poll conducted after the end of the partial government shutdown.
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Your daily jolt: Statue of white supremacist to be removed from Capitol entrance
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
Medicaid expansion funding gets approval  —  Ending months of debate, a legislative oversight panel approved spending $2.56 billion in federal money today to expand Medicaid coverage to about 275,000 low-income Ohioans.  —  Almost immediately after the bipartisan 5-2 vote …
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ThinkProgress:
Ohio Will Expand Medicaid Under Obamacare, Extending Health Coverage To Nearly 300,000 Residents  —  Ohio joined the list of states expanding Medicaid for Americans under 133 percent of the federal poverty line on Monday, after a special seven-member budgetary oversight panel …
Discussion: Toledo Blade
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ohio OKs Obamacare Medicaid expansion
Reno Gazette-Journal:
Shooting this morning at Sparks Middle School  —  Police: Shooting at Sparks Middle School: 10/21/13 8:18 AM  —  Sparks police will hold a press conference at around 9 a.m. on the shooting at Sparks Middle School.  —  Vickie Campbell of the Washoe County School District said Agnes Risley and Sparks Middle School closed.
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Reno Gazette-Journal:
Teacher Michael Landsberry, killed in Sparks Middle School shooting, called a hero  —  Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle Schoo...: Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle School shooting  —  Full 11 a.m. press conference: Sparks Middle Schoo...  Sparks Middle School parents
CNN:
2 killed, 2 injured in Nevada school shooting
Reuters:
NJ Gov. Christie drops gay marriage case, risking some Republican ire  —  (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped his legal opposition to same-sex marriage on Monday, making his state the 14th to legalize gay marriage but angering social conservatives who might be crucial to his presidential ambitions in 2016.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Darryl Isherwood / New Jersey Online:
Lonegan: The government shutdown cost me the election  —  Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)  —  Though Republican Steve Lonegan publicly supported the shutdown of the federal government during his campaign for U.S. Senate …
Tod Lindberg / The New Republic:
There's a New Political Story Line—and it's Good for Republicans  —  Better to be two warring tribes than a single reviled one.  —  The story most Democrats and progressive have long told about the GOP is that it's a party that has been captured by its right wing.  It's a fairly simple story to tell.
Kaiser Health News:
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes  —  Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.
John Fund / National Review:
Reality Check for HealthCare.gov  —  Turkey's autocratic prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who last made international news in June when he brutally suppressed street protests against his rule, can't understand why Obamacare has any critics.  “It's such a beautiful step, and …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Hot Air and The Hill
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: ‘No one is madder than me’ about healthcare website
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Sebelius to testify on ObamaCare's rocky rollout (video)
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Allison Linn / NBCNews:
Food stamp benefits going down before the holidays  —  Cheyenne Phillips, 17, Angela Phillips, 44, and Cassidy Phillips, 14, stand outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Phillips used SNAP from from July 2012 to February 2013, and will be applying for the benefit again on Monday because her temp job ended on Friday.
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
Stop enabling the right: The media just makes dysfunction worse  —  Our politics are a disaster because the media — and the president — pretend conservatives are dealing with facts  —  The study of logical and rhetorical fallacies dates back to the ancient Greeks, but for all that studying …
Mia Li / Sinosphere:
‘Airpocalypse’ Hits Harbin, Closing Schools  —  School was canceled, traffic was nearly paralyzed and the airport was shut down in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin on Monday as off-the-charts pollution dropped visibility to less than 10 meters in parts of the provincial capital.
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Facebook lets beheading clips return to social network  —  Facebook announced in May that it would ban videos showing graphic violence while it carried out a review  —  Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again.
Discussion: The Verge
 
 
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