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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Told Caucus That Pete Sessions Was Behind Obama Insult, Senators Say  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told his Democratic caucus last week in a private meeting that a top House Republican said to President Barack Obama, “I cannot even stand to look at you …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Palin: ‘No Wonder’ Why Some Think White House Fainting Was Staged  —  Sarah Palin got quite a kick out of a fringe right-wing conspiracy theory that the White House staged a woman's fainting at an event earlier this week — but she can't blame people for buying it!
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
White House Deputy Chief of Staff told Durbin, others about erroneous rude GOP comment  —  The disputed story - first shared publicly on his campaign Facebook page by the Senate's number two Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois - that an unidentified senior House Republican Leader during negotiations …
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
White House says it was behind Durbin ‘miscommunication’
Discussion: Politico
Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
‘Daily Show’ comments cost GOP precinct chair his post  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A Buncombe County Republican precinct chairman has been asked to resign after making “offensive” comments on “The Daily Show.”  —  Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell said Don Yelton officially stepped down from his position Thursday.
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOPer Resigns After Criticizing ‘Lazy Black People’ (VIDEO)  —  A Republican precinct chairman in North Carolina was asked to resign Thursday after making racially inflammatory comments during a ‘Daily Show’ interview on Wednesday, WRAL reported.  —  Buncombe GOP Chair Henry Mitchell …
Discussion: @NCCapitol
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Here's The Racist ‘Daily Show’ Interview That Cost A Local GOP Chair His Job  —  A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on “The Daily Show” Wednesday, in which he said “lazy black people” want “the government to give them everything.”
Discussion: Liberaland and Mediaite
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders  —  • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official  —  • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’  —  • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges  —  The National Security Agency monitored …
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States  —  National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's phone record collection program is not “surveillance.”
Discussion: Liberaland
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Report: NSA spied on 35 world leaders
Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Merkel calls Obama: Spying on friends “never acceptable”
Discussion: Global Public Square and Mediaite
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats  —  A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could take the hard-nosed Leathernecks from the Halls of Montezuma to the shops of Christopher Street.  —  Thanks to a plan by President Obama to create a “unisex” look for the Corps …
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Reid: 'There's Not Going to Be a Grand Bargain'  —  Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he expected little more from the formal House-Senate budget conference than some relief from automatic spending cuts under sequestration.  —  The Nevada Democrat called the suggestion of a …
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David Lawder / Reuters:
Congressman Paul Ryan sees narrower focus for new budget talks
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Post Politics
Lucy Kinder / Telegraph:
‘Offensive’ Halloween costumes banned by US university  —  University of Colorado Boulder tells students to avoid costumes including cowboys, indians, white trash or anything potentially deemed offensive  —  University students in America have been told not to wear “offensive” …
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New York Times:
Health Care Law Fails to Lower Prices for Rural Areas  —  As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama's health care law, evidence is emerging that one of the program's loftiest goals — to encourage competition among insurers in an effort to keep costs low — is falling short for many rural Americans.
Joan Walsh / Salon:
How I became the poster girl for liberal agitprop  —  For suggesting pundits wait before declaring the ACA a train wreck, I was called a hack - and the C-word, of course  —  I woke up Monday morning to a changed America.  After a month of news coverage focused on an extremist …
Nicholas G. Hahn III / RealClearReligion:
The Devil and Herman Cain  —  It's been two years since allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced, but Herman Cain is finally fighting back.  —  The former Republican presidential hopeful gave RealClearReligion an exclusive look at evidence he'll be using in a soon-to-be published column …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Raw Story
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:   Herman Cain: The Devil Was Behind Sexual Harassment Allegations
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
New Budget Numbers May Kill A Medicare Age Hike  —  Raising the Medicare eligibility age to 67 saves far less than previously projected, a revelation that makes the policy far less attractive in upcoming deficit reduction negotiations in Congress.  —  The long-debated policy now cuts …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Baltimore Sun:
Gansler says breaking up teen party was not his job  —  Attorney general has advocated against underage drinking  —  When Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler arrived at a house party of teenagers in June, he pushed through the crowd, past youngsters dancing on a table and a smattering of red plastic cups.
ThinkProgress:
Activist Tweets Former NSA Chief's ‘Off Record’ Phone Call On Train  —  Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden is more used to being the one listening in on conversations than the one being eavesdropped on himself.  The tables were turned on Thursday, however …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Santorum: Satan Controls The Film Industry  —  Rick Santorum is asking you to do your part to free movie theatres from the Devil's clutches by purchasing tickets to his upcoming movie, The Christmas Candle.  He appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network last week to plug the new movie …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obamacare Operator Fired After Taking Call From Hannity; Hannity To Give Her A Year's Salary  —  On the top of Thursday's broadcast of his radio show, Sean Hannity revealed Erling Davis, the Obamacare operator he called early in his Monday show, got fired.  Hannity quizzed her on how well the law …
Guardian:
Why the 1% should pay tax at 80%  —  The Reagan-Thatcher revolution changed society's beliefs about taxes.  If we want economic growth shared fairly, we must rethink  —  In the United States, the share of total pre-tax income accruing to the top 1% has more than doubled, from less than 10% in the 1970s to over 20% today (pdf).
Russell Brand / New Statesman:
Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”  —  But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think.  —  When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me.
Laura Barron-Lopez / E2-Wire:
Obama's former climate czar predicts president will reject Keystone XL  —  Former White House energy and climate czar Carol Browner on Thursday predicted President Obama will say no to building the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.  —  “Whether or not he will say no — well …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
The Biggest Economy Killer: Our Government  —  The government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis inflicted a toll on the American economy, but that cost is only a fraction of the total damage that the federal government has been causing to the American economy.
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
How The Pope Could Tear Apart The Religious Right  —  Conservative Christians revolt against the new pope's new tone.  “That man needs to read his Bible,” says one evangelical.  —  John Gara  —  WASHINGTON — As political spectators gawk at the “civil war” currently engulfing congressional Republicans …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Dish
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
The Decline of Wikipedia  —  The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.  It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other.
Discussion: Techdirt and The Raw Story
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
NBC To Reboot ‘Murder, She Wrote’ With Octavia Spencer Starring, Alex Cunningham Writing And David Janollari Producing  —  EXCLUSIVE: NBC is looking to revive one of the most successful series in TV history - Murder, She Wrote — with a brand new take from writer Alexandra Cunningham …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Nigerian ambassador demands Cruz apology  —  The Nigerian ambassador to the United States on Thursday decried Sen. Ted Cruz's joke earlier this week that “Nigerian email scammers” built the government's health care exchange website, saying his comments are offensive and demanded an apology.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Daniel Doherty / Townhall.com:
Meanwhile, the DOJ's War on School Vouchers Continues
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Obamacare Redefines the Shutdown
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The False Glow of Remembered Childhood
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Salon
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Bush Homeland Security Chief Slams Tea Party Opposition To Immigration Reform
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and 24Ahead
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Stung by a Twitter renegade, group in Obama administration launched sting of its own
Fox News:
Teachers' unions fight bill that would bar sex offenders from schools
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and “The Lid”
Yahoo! News:
Arctic Temperatures Highest in at Least 44,000 Years
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Here's The Conversation We Should Really Be Having About Obamacare And Part-Time Work
Discussion: National Review
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Obamacare Is Like Three Mile Island