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2:15 PM ET, October 30, 2013

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Aparnes / The Hill:
Annoyed Obama demands fix  —  An agitated President Obama has expressed frustration to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the faulty ObamaCare enrollment website.  —  A visibly annoyed Obama behind closed doors has made clear to Sebelius that it's her responsibility …
CNN:
White House was warned about site  —  Washington (CNN) — The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before launch that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN.  —  Read documents
Jsink / TheHill:
Romney blasts ObamaCare as ‘frustrating embarrassment’
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say  —  The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
Washington Post:
Obama accused of breaking promise to consumers as health plans cancel policies  —  A new controversy over the president's health-care law is threatening to overshadow the messy launch of its Web site: Notices are going out to hundreds of thousands of Americans informing them that their health insurance polices …
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Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's pledge that ‘no one will take away’ your health plan  —  “That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.  If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  October 30, 2013 - Mcauliffe Up By 4 Points In Close Virginia Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Libertarian Has 9 Percent  —  The Virginia governor's race is going down to the wire with Democrat Terry McAuliffe clinging to a slight 45 - 41 percent likely voter lead …
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Roanoke College:
RC Poll: McAuliffe widens lead over Cuccinelli; Democrats also lead down-ticket races
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
ThinkProgress:
Koch Pipeline Spills 400 Barrels Of Crude Oil In Texas  —  17,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from an eight-inch pipeline owned by Koch Pipeline Company on Tuesday, the Railroad Commission of Texas reported Wednesday.  —  The spill impacted a rural area and two livestock ponds near Smithville …
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KVUE-TV:
17,000 gallons of crude oil spill near Smithville
Discussion: InsideClimate News
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama finds himself under fire on two disparate fronts these days, both for the botched rollout of his signature health care program and for the secret spying on allied heads of state.  In both instances, his explanation roughly boils down to this: I didn't know.
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Caroline Howard / Forbes:
The World's Most Powerful People 2013  —  Who's more powerful: the autocratic leader of a former superpower or the handcuffed commander in chief of the most dominant country in the world?  This year the votes for the World's Most Powerful went with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Caroline Howard / Forbes:
Ranking The World's Most Powerful People 2013
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Manu Raju / Politico:
Landrieu to propose halting vanishing health plans  —  Sen. Mary Landrieu said Wednesday she would propose legislation to ensure all Americans could keep their existing insurance coverage under Obamacare, a fresh sign of the political problems the law's rollout has created for congressional Democrats.
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Alex Sink is running for C.W. Bill Young's congressional seat, will move to Pinellas  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Alex Sink is running for Congress.  —  Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial nominee on Tuesday confirmed exclusively to the Tampa Bay Times that she is jumping …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
27 GOP Senators ‘Disapprove’ Of Their Own Vote To Raise Debt Ceiling  —  Twenty-seven Republican senators voted with Democrats on Oct. 16 to lift the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic default.  And each one of those 27 senators voted Tuesday to “disapprove” of their own votes.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr / The Atlantic Online:
Letters From Camelot's Historian  —  Arthur Schlesinger Jr. remembers what Jackie Kennedy thought of Hillary Clinton, upbraids John Boehner for misquoting Lincoln, and denies JFK's philandering.  —  Over the course of a long career as an historian, public intellectual, speechwriter …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Coburn: Calling Reid An ‘A—hole’ Was Wrong (VIDEO)  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) conceded Wednesday that calling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) an ‘a—hole’ was inappropriate, but defended his concerns about Senate leadership preventing members from working across party lines.
Discussion: Liberaland and Mediaite
Reuters:
Murdoch editors Brooks and Coulson oversaw phone hacking: court  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's former editor Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments to officials when they ran the now defunct News of the World …
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
12-year-old ‘suffragette’ fires back at NC gov. for voter suppression: ‘I am not a prop!’  —  A 12-year-old North Carolina girl fired back at Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday (R-NC) after he called her a “prop” because she had accused him of voter suppression for signing a voter ID law that stripped pre-registration rights for young people.
Discussion: Liberaland and Mock Paper Scissors
Amy Argetsinger / Washington Post:
Kathleen Sebelius, welcome to an unwelcome Washington tradition: The deathwatch.  —  It's Kathleen Sebelius's turn now.  On the Hill, they're calling for her resignation and tossing around words like “subpoena.”  Pundits are merrily debating her future. … Her interviews, more closely parsed than usual, seem wobbly.
Sean Whaley / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada group seeks to draw GOP convention to Las Vegas in 2016  —  (File, JOHN GURZINSKI/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL)  —  CARSON CITY — A newly formed Nevada group announced Tuesday that it will make a formal bid to bring the 2016 Republican National Convention to Las Vegas.
Discussion: TheHill and GovBeat
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Tal Kopan / Reuters:
Las Vegas bids for 2016 Republican National Convention
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
 
 
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Evgeny Morozov / Slate:
The Virality of Evil  —  How BuzzFeed's translation project will hurt foreign news.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Ousted General in Egypt Is Back, as Islamists' Foe
Discussion: Via Meadia and National Review
Peggy Fikac / Texas Politics:
Greg Abbott will need affidavit to vote (UPDATE)
New York Post:
ObamaCare screw up sends callers to cupcake shop
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and VodkaPundit
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
We already met our knucklehead quota
Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Won't Fire Sebelius
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The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic
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Obama's Big Lie
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Reagan, O'Neill, and Someone Named Chris
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Mhooper / The Hill:
Republican: Many in GOP don't live in political reality
Discussion: First Read
Terry McAuliffe / Politico:
Why I'm running for governor
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