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4:30 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: Hot Air and New York Times
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.
David Nather / Politico:
Obamacare: So, what could go wrong next?
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
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:
Allegedly Attacked Pregnant Girlfriend
Discussion: 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?
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
The beginning of the end for Barack Obama  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  Second-term presidents in the past 30 years have had some pretty embarrassing news conferences, full of frank admissions of failure, submissive spasms of shame and groveling, grieving apologies.
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ThinkProgress:
George W. Bush: Building The Keystone XL Pipeline Is A ‘No-Brainer’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sharon Kelly / DeSmogBlog:
George W. Bush on Keystone XL: “Build the Damn Thing”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
SCOTUS passes up surveillance case
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.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Lesson Is Seen in Failure of Law on Medicare in 1989
Blogzworth / Hot 107.9 Philly:
Kanye West: The Man, The Myth, The Legend Part 2 [Exclusive Video]  —  Check out part 2 of Kanye West: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, as Mr. West continues his chat with Shamara, Laiya and Philly's Morning Show.  Kanye didn't disappoint as he dropped some knowledge about what makes him happy …
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Kanye West: Obama used me
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 …
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 …
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.
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
Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
Michelle Obama's Personal Hairstylist Has One Crazy Life  —  Louis Vuitton condom?  Check.  —  Meet Johnny Wright!  —  Via Instagram: @johnnywright220  —  He is Michelle Obama's personal hairstylist!  —  Via Instagram: @johnnywright220  —  View Entire List ›
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Deadlines Shortened By Lack of Payment Options  —  When the Obama administration launched the Healthcare.gov website on October 1, the president and his officials focused on the coverage that would now be available to the uninsured as of January 1, 2014.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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 …
ThinkProgress:
Texas Conservative Student Group To Hold ‘Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ Game  —  On Wednesday, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Young Conservatives will hold a mock immigration raid to target several students on campus who are purposefully wearing “illegal immigrant” t-shirts.
Discussion: utexas.edu and Right Wing Watch
 
 
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Dukakis and the tank  —  The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever.
Joel Eastwood / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford tells Fox he wants to be prime minister
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Planned Parenthood's Abortion Theater
Discussion: The Raw Story
NY Daily News:
EDITOR'S PICKS  —  Kanye West made a pit stop at Harvard University Sunday.
Discussion: The Verge
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Daily Mail:
Crystal meth shame of bank chief: Counting off £20 notes to buy hard drugs, this is the man …
Discussion: BBC and Guardian
Joe Brock / Reuters:
Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave ‘brides’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Ramps Up Smear Campaign Against Obamacare Navigators
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Associated Press:
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A phony Republican war aims to frustrate will of voters
 

 
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