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10:20 AM ET, November 1, 2013

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
What Really Happens To People Whose Insurance Is ‘Canceled’ Because Of Obamacare  —  President Obama wasn't entirely right in 2009 when he said that if you like your health care plan, then you can keep it.  Some people are going to have their health insurance plans canceled, and it does have something to do with Obamacare.
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON - For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems.
Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Biden Open to Filibuster Changes After Republicans Block Watt, Millett Nominations (Updated)  —  (Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call File Photo)  —  Updated 2:56 p.m. |  The nomination wars are officially back.  —  Just minutes after the swearing-in of New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker …
Discussion: Roll Call and Taegan Goddard's …
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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Reid says he will try again to push Watt nomination
ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Senate Republicans Block Vote On Key Judicial Candidate, Daring Dems To Go Nuclear
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Threatens Mass Blockade Of Obama's Top Judges
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:   Senate Blocks Nomination Of Sitting Member Of Congress For First Time Since Reconstruction
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Book Details Obama Aides' Talks About Replacing Biden on 2012 Ticket  —  President Obama's top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama's re-election outlook appeared uncertain.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Troubled Start for Health Law Has Democrats Feeling Anxious  —  WASHINGTON — Already under fierce attack from Republicans over the new health care law, President Obama now faces broad and mounting Democratic concerns that the troubled start of the insurance program will cut into the political benefit …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Agitated’ Dems vent on ObamaCare woes
Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
'I'm showing my son mercy'  —  On their last night in Dallas, the ramen noodles and microwave popcorn were finished.  The money for the motel had run out too.  So on a hot August night Jessica and Erick Davis and their three young kids slept in the Mazda rented for the trip.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   GOP State Rep. Calls Clarence Thomas ‘The Black Judge’
Tjfang / CBS San Francisco:
Google's Secret Revealed: Barge To Offer High-End Showrooms, Party Deck  —  SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - Google's mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients, multiple sources told KPIX 5.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Research shop stocks up on Hillary Clinton aides  —  The research super PAC American Bridge has made a string of hires from within Clintonland for an offshoot project called “Correct the Record,” an effort whose goal is protecting potential 2016 Democratic candidates - with Hillary Clinton chief among them.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In the Clintons' talk of brokering compromise, an implicit rebuke of Obama years
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Credibility Is At Risk  —  The troubled health care rollout and disclosures that the NSA spied on allies have damaged the public's view of the president's ability to do his job.  —  President Obama's allies are alternately wincing over, or shaking their heads at …
Discussion: First Read
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The Obamacare sabotage campaign  —  To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare's rocky rollout — a balky website, muddied White House messaging and sudden sticker shock for individuals forced to buy more expensive health insurance — add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step.
Discussion: NewsBusters
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and his supporters emit a fog of equivocation and euphemism.  —  “If you like your plan, you can keep it.”  That assertion, repeated with small variations, was Barack Obama's central pledge when he was campaigning for president and then for the enactment of health-care “reform.”
Politico:
2013: Year of the liberal billionaire  —  Democrats and liberal interest groups spent much of 2012 bemoaning an avalanche of outside spending from billionaires on the right, warning that ideological tycoons like the Koch brothers and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson could threaten the legitimacy of the American electoral system.
Discussion: NewsBusters blogs
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Court Blocks Stop-and-Frisk Changes for New York Police  —  A federal appellate court on Thursday granted a stay in the landmark police stop-and-frisk ruling in New York City, and removed the trial judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, from the case.  —  The United States Court of Appeals …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
IRS' Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law  —  WASHINGTON SECRETS TAXES TEA PARTY JUDICIAL WATCH IRS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FEC  —  The Internal Revenue Service shared highly confidential tax information of several Tea Party groups in the IRS scandal …
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages  —  A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that “healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian” men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called “White Male Club.”
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Predators' Moll  —  Two recent events organized by the investment bank Goldman Sachs featured a special guest.  Goldman arranged to have one of the most successful investors in the world make remarks at last week's AIMS Alternative Investment Conference in Chicago.
 
 
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Henry J. Aaron / NY Daily News:
The truth about those Obamacare coverage letters
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Memo Reveals Only 6 People Signed Up for Obamacare on First Day
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Reuters:
Obamacare marketing push on hold
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The American Health Care System Sucks
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Texas To Tea Party: No, The Alamo Won't Fall Under U.N. Control
EndPlay / TheDenverChannel.com:
Adams County couple files lawsuit to overturn Colorado's ban on same-sex marriage
James Arkin / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman Hands Out Copies Of Book Calling For Obama's Impeachment
Discussion: Liberaland
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
8,400 Security Clearance Holders Owe IRS $85 Million in Unpaid Taxes
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ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Three Bush-Appointed Judges Reinstate Texas' Anti-Abortion Law
Discussion: The Raw Story
Robert Costa / National Review:
Paul: NSA ‘Could Be Spying’ on Obama
Discussion: Hot Air and Reuters
ABC News:
Israeli Warplanes Strike Inside Syria for Fifth Time This Year
Discussion: NNA
Alain Sherter / CBS News:
Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts
ThinkProgress:
How To Spot A Fake Obamacare Horror Story
Discussion: Liberaland, The Dish and The Week
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Obamacare is a mess, and liberals need to fix it
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

 
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