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Investigations:
Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance  —  President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it.  But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters …
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CBS News:
Policy cancellations, higher premiums add to frustration over Obamacare  —  (CBS News) Nearly five weeks into the launch of HealthCare.gov, the management expert brought in to turn around the website says its issues are fixable.  But it's going to take weeks, not days.
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Rate Shock and Premium Joy: Now It's Real  —  The conversation about Obamacare shifted a bit over the weekend.  Nobody has forgotten about the technical problems with healthcare.gov. But now critics are also focusing on something else: Reports of sharp premium increases that some individual consumers are facing.
Becca Aaronson / The Texas Tribune:
Court Rules Abortion Restriction Unconstitutional … The Politics of Prevention is an occasional series on the effects of state policy on women's health services.  Participate in our project by sharing your women's health story here.  —  Less than 24 hours before new abortion regulations …
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Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Federal Judge Declares Texas Anti-Abortion Law Unconstitutional  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled.  —  District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday …
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Judge in Texas Partly Rejects Abortion Law  —  A federal judge in Texas on Monday blocked an important part of the state's restrictive new abortion law, which would have required doctors performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
Chris Tomlinson / Associated Press:
Texas Abortion Restrictions Declared Unconstitutional By Federal Judge
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Judge blocks key parts of Texas abortion law
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
McAuliffe opens up double-digit lead over Cuccinelli in Virginia governor's race  —  Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened a double-digit lead over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II in the race for Virginia governor, in a new poll capturing increasing dissatisfaction among voters with Cuccinelli's party and his conservative views.
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Associated Press:
Rand Paul warns eugenics on horizon unless conservatives stand up against abortion rights  —  LYNCHBERG, Va. — Tea party hero Rand Paul warned scientific advancements could lead to eugenics during a Monday visit at Liberty University, looking to boost the political fortunes of fellow Republican Ken Cuccinelli's bid for governor.
Washington Post:
October 2013: Washington Post/Abt-SRBI Virginia governor's race poll
Discussion: Daily Kos and Blue Virginia
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Will the Left Turn on President Obama Like the Tea Party Did on President Bush?  —  He has transgressed against liberal and progressive values.  His supporters are likely to see that more clearly once he leaves office.  —  During President George W. Bush's tenure, most Republicans felt that criticizing him would just help Democrats.
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Fernando Espuelas / Pundits Blog:
Election 2014 and the GOP's ticking immigration reform bomb
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Right-wing Populism Could Hobble America for Decades
Discussion: New Yorker
Michael Lind / Salon:
Here's how GOP Obamacare hypocrisy backfires  —  GOP base doesn't understand right wants to turn Medicare, Social Security and more into a very similar program  —  The smartest thing yet written about the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act's federal exchange program is a post …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
How Kentucky Built The Country's Best Obamacare Website
Discussion: The Week, Liberaland and Firedoglake
Michael Schaffer / The New Republic:
What If POLITICO Had Covered the Civil War?  —  Playbook, Emancipation Day Edition  —  POLIT-ICO Play-Book, presented by UNION-PACIFIC RAILROAD - JAN 1, 1863 EDITION —ROSCOE CONKLING NEW YEAR'S PARTY — Democrats livid over ‘Caesar’ Lincoln executive power - New aide-de-camp for Gen'l Sherman …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics  —  An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect …
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Takes Friendly Fire  —  Incoming from Democrats:  —  “Dem Party is F****d.”  That was the subject line of an email sent to me Sunday by a senior Democratic consultant with strong ties to the White House and Capitol Hill.  The body of the email contained a link to this Los Angeles Times story about Obamacare “sticker shock:”
John McCormick / Political Capital:
McCain: Clinton ‘Very Strong Candidate’  —  Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talk prior to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing in Washington, D.C.  —  Sen. John McCain knows a few things about presidential elections …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Feinstein lashes out at NSA  —  Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday called for a “total review” of all intelligence collection programs as she criticized the National Security Agency for spying on foreign leaders.  —  “It is abundantly clear that a total review …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?  —  Much of the speculation about the future of news focuses on the business model: How will we generate the revenues to pay the people who gather and disseminate the news?  But the disruptive power of the Internet raises other profound questions …
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
WHITE HOUSE OKS LIMITED WAIVER ON HEALTH PENALTY  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » White House OKs limited waiver on health penalty  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — With website woes ongoing, the Obama administration Monday granted a six-week extension until March 31 …
Richard A. Posner / The New Republic:
I Did Not ‘Recant’ on Voter ID Laws  —  Richard A. Posner on judges, data, and consequences  —  A month or so ago, a new book of mine, called Reflections on Judging, was published by the Harvard University Press.  I have been a federal court of appeals judge since 1981 …
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
‘Uncomfortable truth’ in Matthew Shepard's death  —  Stephen Jimenez didn't set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.  —  Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.  —  But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear.
Discussion: Politicker
Leonard Greene / New York Post:
Banksy rips New York Times for rejected op-ed  —  It isn't news that's fit to print.  —  Elusive British graffiti artist Banksy took a swipe at the New York Times today for denying him a spot on the newspaper's coveted op-ed page, where he was planning to trash the new World Trade Center tower.
Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi gets 3-year prison term  —  TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to three years in prison for convictions on public corruption, money laundering and other charges.  —  U.S. District Judge David C. Bury also sentenced Renzi …
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
How many times has Dick Cheney cheated death?  —  By his count, former Vice President Dick Cheney has cheated death at least three times - if you start after the fifth heart attack.  —  In December of 2009, the year after he left the White House, Cheney went into sudden cardiac arrest …
Lindsay Crouse / New York Times:
Striving Immigrants Find Long Distance Running Far From Lonely in New York City  —  On a recent foggy Sunday in Central Park, a group of runners lingered near the finish line of a half-marathon, recounting their efforts in Spanish.  They had finished the 13.1-mile course before many entrants reached the halfway point.
Discussion: The Agonist
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Mitch McConnell tells donors: No more shutdowns  —  Mitch McConnell isn't going to have another government shutdown on his watch.  —  The Kentucky Republican stood up over the weekend and said he wanted to address the “elephant in the room” at a fundraising retreat in Sea Island …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Rude Awakening: Californians ‘Shocked’ by Premium Increases, Dropped Coverage  —  Barack Obama waltzed to victory in California last year, trampling Mitt Romney by 21 percentage points.  For many middle class families in the Golden State, Obamacare's chicken are coming home to roost.
Discussion: protein wisdom and National Review
 
 
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Jonathan Bernstein / American Prospect:
Mission Affordabled: Why Obama's Website Problems Aren't “His Iraq”
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
ABC News:
The White House is stepping up its lobbying for the confirmation …
Discussion: Associated Press
Clara Moskowitz / Scientific American:
United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan
Discussion: Liberaland, Yahoo! News and Wired.co.uk
National Review:
No, You Can't Keep It  —  So far the part of the Obamacare rollout …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
First, admit the problem  —  Here's the mistake made by President Obama …
Discussion: The Dish
Reuters:
Obamacare headaches: More than the website
ThinkProgress:
TransCanada Shoots Down Idea To Build A Bike Path, Fields Of Sunflowers Next To Keystone XL
Discussion: Bloomberg
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Senate Conservatives fund backs Tea Party challenger Maness in Louisiana
Discussion: Politico
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress and NBCNews
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Marco Rubio: Time To Scale Back Immigration Reform
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Filibuster Wars To Flare Up As Reid Moves On Top Judges
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Embattled IQ Scholar Reemerges As National Review Writer
National Review:
Against Despair  —  Prior to the government shutdown …
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
More on Senator Cruz's health insurance