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3:30 PM 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 …
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
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 …
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!”
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings
Discussion: The Dish and First Read
ThinkProgress:
CNN Anchor Challenges Congresswoman To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues  —  On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans' medical privacy.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Leader Of HealthCare.Gov Tech Surge: We'll Have It Fixed In A Month  —  Enrollment site for Obamacare should be good to go by “the end of November,” says Jeff Zients.  —  President Obama and Jeffrey Zients in April.  —  Larry Downing / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — The man in charge of fixing …
Discussion: Liberaland and ABC News
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov working by end of November
Discussion: TechCrunch and National Review
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:   HHS sets deadline of Nov. 30 for fixing ObamaCare enrollment site
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 …
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Rand Paul Threatens To Hold Up Janet Yellen Nomination To Fed: Report  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has threatened to block the nomination of Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve, CNBC reported Friday.  —  Citing a source close to Paul, CNBC wrote that the Kentucky Republican …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Panel Brawls Over Who to Blame for Obamacare Website Failure: Obama or GOP  —  The guests and fill-in host on MSNBC's Now tangled during a discussion over just which party was to blame for the failed roll-out of HealthCare.Gov. Some of the guests suggested that the White House was solely …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The implosion of the GOP brand, in one chart  —  Republicans successfully converted the 2010 elections into a referendum on President Obama, the economy, and liberal overreach.  As a result, they won big.  Now Democrats are hoping to turn the 2014 elections into a referendum on the GOP brand …
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 and TheBlaze.com
Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket  —  NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail - all because of an overdue traffic ticket.  —  It was just a ticket.  Sarah Boaz was cited in August after an officer said she ran a stop sign.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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 …
CNN:
JonBenet Ramsey details coming  —  JonBenet Ramsey  —  (CNN) — Previously sealed court documents released Friday show that a Colorado grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of murdered 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and being accessories to a crime.
Discussion: The Week, KTLA 5 and Scared Monkeys
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 …
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Jesse Jackson Jr. to sell Dupont townhouse  —  Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has agreed to sell his D.C. townhouse to help pay for a $750,000 forfeiture he owes, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune.  —  The former congressman “has been unsuccessful in his attempts to satisfy …
Discussion: CNN
Alex Seitz-Wald / NationalJournal.com:
Grover Norquist Gives Thumbs Up to Pot Taxes  —  The anti-tax advocate tells National Journal that taxing marijuana does not violate his pledge.  —  Good news for Republicans who want to legalize marijuana: Taxing pot is A-OK with Grover Norquist, the keeper of the anti-tax pledge that hundreds of GOP lawmakers have signed.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hit & Run
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Follow the Law  —  Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed, “the worse, the better,” meaning the worse things got for Russians the better it was for the communists.  —  Lately, the left has taken to calling conservatives “Leninists” for our refusal to fix Obamacare.
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Feds confiscate investigative reporter's confidential files during raid  —  A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August — leading her to fear that a number …
Reuters:
Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles  —  (Reuters) - As a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations, state-backed Deutsche Telekom wants German communications companies to cooperate to shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services.
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” …
Jonny Scaramanga / Salon:
Darwin inspired Hitler: Lies they teach in Texas  —  And that's not the only whopper students are being taught as history in some Texas charter schools  —  When Joshua Bass, an engineer, sent his son to iSchool High, a Houston charter school, he was expecting a solid college preparation …
Discussion: The Mahablog and The Raw Story
 
 
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