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6:20 PM ET, November 18, 2013

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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obamacare Is On Life Support  —  Democrats may begin calling for repeal if the law's problems don't get resolved soon.  —  President Obama will fight to preserve his signature domestic legislation, but Democrats may not let him.  (Mandel Ngan/AFP)  —  There's nothing that Democrats …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
The Obama presidency is not over, but it is failing  —  With the exception of the debt ceiling debacle, he has fallen at almost every hurdle  —  Anyone wondering about the scale of the anti-Obama backlash should look at its impact on the 2016 US presidential race.
Discussion: New York Times and Hot Air
Brian Beutler / Salon:
How to silence GOP nuts — and stop the Obamacare repeal campaign  —  One still-plausible scenario could stop attacks on the president's “You can keep it” comment dead in its tracks  —  Nobody, not even President Obama, is pretending that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been anything but a debacle.
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Obamacare's threat to liberalism
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's ‘5 Percent’ Con Job
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
Orlando Sentinel:
Seminole deputies arrest George Zimmerman  —  Video: Zimmerman's wife calls 911, won't press charges  —  911 audio: Shellie Zimmerman says George is threatening everyone  —  George Zimmerman's attorney gives statement  —  George Zimmerman's wife says he threatened her
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WESH-TV:
George Zimmerman arrested for domestic violence  —  Zimmerman taken to jail for incident with girlfriend  —  George Zimmerman has been arrested in a domestic dispute involving his girlfriend, law enforcement said.  —  He was arrested at about 1 p.m. Monday and was being taken to the Seminole County Jail.
George Zimmerman / TMZ.com:
ARRESTED AFTER POINTING SHOTGUN AT GF  —  She Goes Ballistic on 911 Call  —  George Zimmerman's girlfriend went NUCLEAR after he allegedly pointed his shotgun at her face and broke a bunch of her stuff ... and we got her dramatic 911 call.  —  As we reported, Zimmerman was arrested in Orlando …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Mediaite
Plain Dealer:
Chat wrap: OUR Walmart rep answers your questions about this story  —  Is the food drive proof the retailer pays so little that many employees can't afford Thanksgiving dinner?  —  Norma Mills of Canton, who lives near the store, saw the photo circulating showing the food drive bins, and felt both “outrage” and “anger.”
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
The Most Shocking Obamacare Revelation  —  It's been a grim month for fans of Obamacare, and perhaps especially for the red state Democrats in Congress who voted for it.  Between the ghastly failure of the website, the waves of policy cancellations, and the grim realization that the 'wonks …
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
President Obama and His Gang That (Still) Isn't Shooting Straight  —  Incompetence, deception, and lack of accountability still hound White House and health reform.  —  Incompetence, deception, and lack of accountability doomed the Obamacare rollout.  That's old news.  What's new?
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
NSA spying challenge turned aside  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a challenge to the National Security Agency's global sweep of telephone and electronic communications — the first such test case to reach the Court since former NSA analyst Edward Snowdon began releasing publicly …
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David Kravets / Wired:
Supreme Court Rejects Case Challenging NSA Phone Spying
Discussion: Techdirt and TechCrunch
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS passes up surveillance case
Sharon Kelly / DeSmogBlog:
George W. Bush on Keystone XL: “Build the Damn Thing”  —  Make private companies happy.  Don't worry about the environment.  Stop fretting about long-term sustainability.  Forget renewables, property concerns, the safety of our water and air.  Make private companies happy.
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:   The beginning of the end for Barack Obama
ThinkProgress:
George W. Bush: Building The Keystone XL Pipeline Is A ‘No-Brainer’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Cheney defends daughter on gay marriage  —  As his two daughters publicly feud over gay marriage, former Vice President Dick Cheney is stepping in to defend daughter Liz Cheney (R), who is running for the Senate in Wyoming.  —  Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, released a statement saying Liz …
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Joy Wilke / Gallup:
Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov't Responsibility  —  Republicans' attitudes on this measure have changed significantly since 2000  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The 56% of U.S. adults who now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage continues to reflect a record high.
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: John Kerry Defies the White House on Egypt Policy  —  The secretary doesn't agree with Obama's team, especially Susan Rice, on how to deal with Egypt.  Unfortunately for Rice, Kerry is the one on the ground—and he's doing things his way.  —  Before Secretary of State John Kerry's recent trip …
Scot J. Paltrow / Reuters:
Special Report: The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste  —  (Reuters) - Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts.  —  Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy …
Discussion: The Verge
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
New Mexico cops open fire on minivan full of kids at traffic stop for speeding  —  Several New Mexico State Police officers are under investigation after at least one of them fired shots at a minivan full of children last month.  —  According to KRQE, an officer pulled over Oriana Ferrell …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Elizabeth Warren: Don't cut Social Security.  Expand it!  —  “The most recent discussion about cutting benefits has focused on something called the Chained-CPI.  Supporters of the chained CPI say that it's a more accurate way of measuring cost of living increases for seniors.  That statement is simply not true.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Permanent Slump?  —  Spend any time around monetary officials and one word you'll hear a lot is “normalization.”  Most though not all such officials accept that now is no time to be tightfisted, that for the time being credit must be easy and interest rates low.
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Maria Bartiromo Leaving CNBC For FBN  —  Breaking: Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business.  —  “After 20 years of groundbreaking work at CNBC, Maria Bartiromo will be leaving the company as her contract expires on November 24,” a CNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Administration offers more details on month-end website goal  —  Washington (CNN) - A pool of Americans who attempt to obtain new health insurance through HealthCare.gov will never be able to complete their transaction online, even after the November 30 deadline for repairing the faulty website …
Discussion: Politico
Evan Vucci / Washington Times:
Obamacare Medicare fallout: UnitedHealth cuts doctors, rations care  —  The unfolding Obamacare disaster is proving to be a fast-moving target.  Even as an armada of techies and programmers attempt to make the disastrously constructed healthcare.gov site functional, security worries grow …
Josh King / Politico:
Dukakis and the tank  —  The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever.  —  Matt Bennett can still hear the reporters laughing, all 90 of them.  He can still picture Sam Donaldson doubled over, guffawing, on a riser that looked out over a dusty field in suburban Detroit.
Washington Post:
How we got Obamacare to work  —  (BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS) - Liz Carlson, a self-employed student, attends a health care enrolment fair co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the State Employees Association at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, New Hampshire November 9, 2013.
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Ramps Up Smear Campaign Against Obamacare Navigators  —  Beware anybody trying to help people sign up for health insurance under Obamacare.  —  That's the line from top Senate Republicans, who have magnified their smear campaign against the law's so-called navigators …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hullabaloo and Liberaland
 
 
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
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Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Deadlines Shortened By Lack of Payment Options
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Joel Eastwood / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford tells Fox he wants to be prime minister
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Planned Parenthood's Abortion Theater
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Texas Conservative Student Group To Hold ‘Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ Game
Associated Press:
GOP GROUP MONEY DOWN, HINTS AT DONOR UNCERTAINTY
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NY Daily News:
EDITOR'S PICKS  —  Kanye West made a pit stop at Harvard University Sunday.
Discussion: The Verge
David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: So, what could go wrong next?
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Associated Press:
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
A phony Republican war aims to frustrate will of voters