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11:50 AM ET, October 25, 2013

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Carter Evans / CBS News:
Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage  —  The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it.  No one will be able to take that away from you.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period  —  Ten Senate Democrats have signed a letter urging the Obama administration to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period beyond March 31.  —  The letter, which follows a similar letter that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen …
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings  —  The president needs to apply an overdue reality check to the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act.  —  A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site October 1, 2013.  (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images))
Discussion: First Read
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
Discussion: Daily Kos
Politico:
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013  —  House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year.  —  The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill  —  For President Obama and advocates hoping for a House vote on immigration reform this year, the reality is simple: Fat chance.  —  Obama repeatedly since the shutdown has sought to turn the nation's focus to immigration reform …
Discussion: Liberaland and americanthinker.com
Megan Slack / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: We Should Pass Immigration Reform, and We Should Do It this Year
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans need a new song
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO finds much less savings from raising Medicare age  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday dramatically lowered its estimate of the amount of budget savings to be gained from raising the Medicare eligibility age.  —  The CBO now says that raising the Medicare age slowly …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S.  —  U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor …
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James Ball / Guardian:
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
Guardian:
Germany and France demand talks with US over NSA spying revelations
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Bullhead from Illinois is hooked on outrage  —  Dick Durbin not only baited his own hook, he swallowed it whole  —  A Facebook post by Sen. Dick Durbin asserting that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with him has Durbin in hot water.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy  —  I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress.  Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!”
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeff Himmelman / New York Times:
A Game of Shark and Minnow  —  In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin.  —  SCROLL  —  Satellite imagery: NASA  —  In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …
Ben Terris / NationalJournal.com:
How Kirsten Gillibrand Shed Her Past on the Way to Liberal Stardom  —  New York's junior senator was once a rural populist.  Now people call her the next Hillary Clinton.  How she got from there to here.  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y.—It's closer to breakfast than lunch, but Kirsten Gillibrand …
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Sen. Paul threatens to hold Yellen nomination: Source  —  Sen. Paul threatens Yellen nomination  —  CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Sen. Rand Paul has threatened to put Janet Yellen's Fed nomination on hold in exchange for an audit of the Federal Reserve.  —  Sen. Rand Paul is threatening …
Mike Broomhead / 550 KFYI:
On air: Weekdays 4pm to 7pm  —  Mike Broomhead is the fastest growing name in talk radio today and rules the afternoon drive time slot from 4 7 pm!  Mike has been with KFYI since 2005.  He uses his business and life experience to address the issues that Arizona citizens face today.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Des Moines Register:
Ted Cruz Q&A: The senator's private side  —  Q. What is your dream job?  —  A.  “I'd love to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets, and I'm confident that there is no universe in which that will ever come to pass.”  —  Q. What kind of car do you drive?  —  A.  “A 2011 Range Rover.”
Discussion: The Hill and Yahoo! News
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Report: Iran may be month from a bomb  —  Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by one of the USA's top nuclear experts.  —  CONNECT  —  Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to the Apocalypse  —  Once upon a time, walking around shouting “The end is nigh” got you labeled a kook, someone not to be taken seriously.  These days, however, all the best people go around warning of looming disaster.  In fact, you more or less have to subscribe to fantasies …
Discussion: Business Insider
Fox News:
Sebelius NOT Fired?  But This Single Mom ObamaCare Operator Is?  —  SEAN'S RADIO INTERVIEW WITH THE OBAMACARE OPERATOR  —  PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We updated the website's homepage to offer more information about the other avenues to enroll in affordable health care until the online option works for everybody.
The Baylor Lariat:
StuGov: Nix ‘homosexual’ from conduct code  —  Student Senate passed the Sexual Misconduct Code Non-Discrimination Act, a proposal to reword Baylor's Sexual Misconduct Code, in the Student Senate meeting Thursday.  —  The act proposed to remove the phrase “homosexual acts” …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
The return of Sarah Palin  —  (CNN) — The Republican establishment can't stand her.  The media mocks her.  But Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere.  —  Far from it.  —  After laying low for much of this year, Palin is gingerly stepping back into the public arena with a national book tour …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
 
 
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Faith Karimi / CNN:
JonBenet Ramsey details coming
Discussion: KTLA 5 and Scared Monkeys
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
Mark Felsenthal / Reuters:
Obama to chide Republicans on spending cuts at school event
Discussion: The Plum Line, Liberaland and Politico
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Feds confiscate investigative reporter's confidential files during raid
New York Times:
In White House Pitches, Rosy View of Health Care Site
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Alabama Man Pleaded Guilty To Hiring KKK To Hang Neighbor ‘Like An Animal’
Discussion: The Raw Story and Liberaland
New York Times:
Getting to the bottom of HealthCare.gov's flop
Discussion: Computerworld
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Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:
LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called ‘a Dream for Attackers’
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Verge
BuzzFeed:
Croatian Parliament Puts Same-Sex Marriage Ban To Popular Vote
Benjamin Weinthal / Fox News:
Iran gives Christians 80 lashes for communion wine as UN blasts human rights record
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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Catherine Mayer / TIME:
Inside Prince Charles' World As He Quietly Takes Charge
Discussion: BBC and FishbowlDC
Washington Post:
Gansler says he should have checked drinking at party
Discussion: Power Line and The Raw Story
James Hohmann / Politico:
‘Serious’ Ken Cuccinelli keeps calm at debate
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Clinton: US ‘careening from crisis to crisis’
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