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Kevin Donovan Investigations / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford caught in video rant  —  Mayor Rob Ford has been caught on a new video staggering around an unknown living room ranting gibberish and acting wildly. … The Star has obtained video of Mayor Rob Ford where he appears to be in a state of extreme agitation.
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Joe Warmington / Toronto Sun:
“I need f—in 10 minutes to make sure he's dead': New Rob Ford video surfaces  —  A new video has surfaced showing Mayor Rob Ford acting wildly and belligerent and using threatening words including “kill” and “murder” with reference to an unidentified person.
Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
The White House effort to blame insurance companies for lost plans  —  “The provision in the law was the manifestation of the assurance that if you have a plan you want to keep, you can keep it.  Insurance companies that chose to strip away benefits from existing plans in the interim …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
White House Making Life Miserable for Democratic Lawmakers, Reformers  —  If you support Obamacare, you can't be happy with President Obama's team.  —  Rather than implementing the Affordable Care Act, a law with the noble goal of helping millions of uninsured Americans secure health insurance, the White House is dissembling.
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
White House website at odds with latest Obama statement  —  Screenshot of HHS.gov/healthcare taken on Nov. 7, 2013(HHS.gov/healthcare)  —  Millions of health insurance plans have been cancelled after ObamaCare went into effect, and President Obama backed away Monday from his previous oft-repeated statement …
Discussion: Power Line
Politico:
Why Obama isn't attacking ‘the villains’
Discussion: Hot Air and The Hill
New York Times:
G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing  —  Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say would result in the selection of less extreme contenders.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
How The Republican Donor Class Gave Us Terry McAuliffe
Martha T. Moore / USA Today:
Democrats try to make ‘Tea Party’ a smear
Discussion: msnbc.com
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Post-Plagiarism Restructuring, Rand Paul's Opinion Column Moves To Breitbart  —  Following allegations of plagiarism that caused a shake-up in the senator's office, Rand Paul's (R-KY) opinion column has found a new home at Breitbart News.  —  “Paul is pleased to partner with Breitbart News …
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Jim Bequette / Guns & Ammo:
Our Response to the December 2013 Backpage Column  —  From Jim Bequette, editor, “Guns & Ammo” Magazine:  —  As editor of “Guns & Ammo,” I owe each and every reader a personal apology.  —  No excuses, no backtracking.  —  Dick Metcalf's “Backstop” column in the December issue has aroused unprecedented controversy.
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Guns & Ammo Fires Editor After Publishing Editorial Calling for Gun Control
Discussion: The Raw Story and Liberaland
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Republican Senate Candidate Jokes About Obama Being From Kenya (AUDIO)  —  Colorado state Sen. Owen Hill considered telling a Kenyan kid, “Well, you know what, we already have someone from Kenya as president of the United States.”  Update: Hill says it was an “obvious joke.”  —  Source: OwenHillForSenate.com
Mark Urban / BBC:
Saudi nuclear weapons ‘on order’ from Pakistan  —  Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight.  —  While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context …
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Bohlinger runs for Senate  —  HELENA — Former Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger said Wednesday he decided to run for the U.S. Senate after the receiving considerable support and encouragement from Montanans in the past four months.  —  Bohlinger, 77, a Democrat from Helena, also said he was motivated …
The Atlantic Online:
The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation  —  Imagine what Edward Snowden could have accomplished if he had a different agenda.  —  Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest?  Alex Tabarrok, who raised the question …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data  —  WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company's vast database of phone records, which includes Americans' international calls, according to government officials.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The simple question that will determine Obamacare's fate  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE HEALTHCARE.GOV  —  The key to Obamacare's success or failure — provided the administration can actually learn to operate the system — is whether it helps more people than it hurts, or hurts more people than it helps.
Sarah Posner / Mother Jones:
George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ  —  The former president follows in the footsteps of Glenn Beck, who addressed the group last year.  —  Courtesy of Messianic Jewish Bible Institute  —  Next week, former President George W. Bush …
KOB.com:
4 On Your Side reveals another traffic stop nightmare  —  It's a story that has left the entire country wondering about the state of law enforcement in New Mexico.  —  4 On Your Side revealed how David Eckert rolled through a stop sign in Deming.  —  A K-9 named Leo alerted that it sniffed drugs on Eckert's driver's seat.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Jason Carter to challenge Gov. Deal next year  —  Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter will challenge Gov. Nathan Deal next year in a move that catapults the gubernatorial contest into the national spotlight and tests whether Georgia's changing demographics can loosen the Republican Party's 12-year grip on the state's highest office.
Ari Fleischer / Politico:
Why the House must pass ENDA  —  On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to protect gay employees from job discrimination with an overwhelming bipartisan vote.  Republicans should support these protections, and I hope the GOP leadership in the House schedules the bill for a vote.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Departing Obamacare security official didn't sign off on site launch  —  Tony Trenkle, the Obamacare official in charge of HealthCare.gov security efforts announced his resignation Wednesday, effective next week.  —  CBS News has learned that Trenkle, the Chief Information Officer for the Centers …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
F.D.A. Ruling Would All but Eliminate Trans Fats  —  The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed measures that would all but eliminate artificial trans fats, the artery clogging substance that is a major contributor to heart disease in the United States, from the food supply.
Discussion: The Verge
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Pro-immigration attack ads to target House Republicans  —  (CNN) - A new union-backed ad buy will look to drum up support for passing comprehensive immigration reform in the House of Representatives by targeting vulnerable chamber Republicans, according to a statement.
Discussion: Reuters
ESPN:
Dorsett, others show signs of CTE  —  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Pro Football Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett and Joe DeLamielleure, and former NFL All-Pro Leonard Marshall have been diagnosed as having signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative condition many scientists say is caused …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ProFootballTalk
Associated Press:
Delaware health insurance exchange off to slow start, with only 4 enrollments reported  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — More than a month after the launch of Delaware's health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
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Lorenzo Bini Smaghi / VoxEU.org:
Austerity and stupidity  —  Today's austerity, many argue, is stupid.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Defeat of School Tax Stings Colorado Democrats
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ThinkProgress:
Congressman: Giving Undocumented Students In-State Tuition Is ‘Rewarding Bad Behavior’
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fishbowl's Betsy Rothstein to Daily Caller
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Ted Yoho plans push to impeach Eric Holder
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Democrats gird for minimum-wage battle
Simon Johnson / Economix:
The Bankruptcy Exemption  —  Simon Johnson, former chief economist …
Norm Ornstein / NationalJournal.com:
Time to Stop the Senate Filibuster Madness
Discussion: PostPartisan
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Obamacare hearings, governing by anecdote
Richard Reinsch / Library of Law & Liberty:
Tea Party Game Show With Guest Host Cass Sunstein
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Obamacare mocked at music awards
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Clunker progressivism  —  Barack Obama's presidency has become …
 

 
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