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6:20 PM ET, November 22, 2013

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Democrats' naked power grab  —  “Congress is broken,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday before holding a party-line vote that disposed of rules that have guided and protected the chamber since 1789.  —  If Congress wasn't broken before, it certainly is now.
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Mother Jones:
3 Charts Explain Why Democrats Went Nuclear on the Filibuster  —  No one has completely clean hands when it comes to filibusters in the Senate.  Democrats have used them and Republicans have used them.  But hoo boy, Republicans sure have used them more.  That's why Democrats went nuclear on Thursday.
Discussion: Liberaland
John Fund / National Review:
Reid's Law  —  It may sound like congressional “inside baseball,” but yesterday's decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to limit the power of the minority to block nominees for Executive Branch and most judicial vacancies is momentous.  Ezra Klein, a liberal Washington Post columnist …
New York Times:
Democracy Returns to the Senate
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
The hatchetmen win: Harry Reid's muscle move
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Gawker
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
‘FLASH PRESIDENT DEAD’: How News Of The JFK Assassination Broke In Real Time  —  To watch the coverage of the Kennedy assassination 50 years later is to see just how raw and unformed so many parts of the news media that we now take for granted were, and to marvel at the ways in which our technology …
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Merriman Smith / UPI:
Eyewitness account of John F. Kennedy assassination
Discussion: The Dish
Adam Clymer / New York Times:
‘Kennedy Has Been Shot’: Memories From Nov. 22, 1963
Fox News:
Round 2 of ObamaCare enrollment to be delayed until after 2014 midterms  —  The Obama administration plans to delay the start of next year's ObamaCare enrollment period, a move pitched as a way to give consumers and insurance companies more time to study their options …
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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Extended: Obamacare enrollment deadline for January 1 coverage  —  (CNN) - The Obama administration announced Friday that the Department of Health and Human Services will extend a key Obamacare deadline by one week.  —  Americans can now sign up through December 23 in order to have health coverage start …
Susan Levine / Politico:
HHS to delay 2015 Obamacare enrollment by a month
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE — MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY ‘BULLIES’ WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove's Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Katie Couric Negotiating ABC News Exit (Exclusive)  —  UPDATED: Couric is set to exit her role as ABC News special correspondent early as she nears a deal for an interview show on Yahoo.  —  Less than three years after joining ABC in a lucrative and wide-ranging deal that included …
Aaron Rupar / The Blotter:
Stewart Mills, GOP congressional candidate, hits a beer bong [PHOTOS]  —  In June, we broke the news that Stewart Mills is a Packers fan.  That being the case, perhaps nobody should be surprised to learn that dude knows how to party.  —  Photos obtained by City Pages show Mills …
Scott Walker / Wall Street Journal:
How to Win the Obama-Walker Voters  —  If conservative principles are the problem, then why are so many Republicans in office who campaigned on them?  —  In the wake of the 2012 elections, Republicans are being warned once again that they need to compromise their principles to win at the ballot box.
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Charles Babington / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker hopes to split Chris Christie, tea partyers, in GOP presidential hunt
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Mary Landrieu approval ratings drop, Bobby Jindal's rise in latest polling data  —  U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's approval rating dropped and Gov. Bobby Jindal's rose over the last six months, according to polling data released Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 from Southern Media & Opinion Research.
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Bill Cassidy staffer tweets Mary Landrieu-Mussolini picture
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: November 2013  —  The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public's views souring on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in November, with about half having an unfavorable view of the law and a third having a favorable view, a gap that was seen only once before …
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The South's New Lost Cause  —  Before he was immortalized for saving the union, freeing the slaves and giving the best political speech in American history, Abraham Lincoln was just an unpopular new president handed a colossal crisis.  Elected with 39.7 percent of the vote, Lincoln told a big lie in his inaugural address of 1861.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Expanding Social Security  —  For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway.  It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.”  It wasn't really about the numbers …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh uses rape analogy on filibuster  —  Rush Limbaugh on Friday used a rape analogy as he told listeners about the Senate's historic filibuster rule change, touching off an immediate and intense backlash to comments that were called “offensive” and “despicable.”
ThinkProgress:
Levitating Train Between DC And NYC Would Leave The Rest Of America Behind  —  Many Americans have long nursed a pipe dream of one day riding a super-high-speed train just like the engineering marvels that have cropped up in Japan, China, and Europe.  With a newly publicized offer from Japan …
Discussion: Slate and Eschaton
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Militia nut openly calls for Obama's assassination on Facebook  —  The head of the Christian American Patriots Militia has put out an open call on Facebook for the assassination of President Obama.  —  “We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” writes Everest Wilhelmsen on his personal Facebook page.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
 
 
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Brett Norman / Politico:
Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov to double capacity by Nov. 30
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rich Lord / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Catholic dioceses of Pittsburgh, Erie win injunction against Affordable Care Act
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
50 Years After JFK Assassination, Obama Says Security Is ‘Not Something I Think About’
Discussion: Politico and Washington Monthly
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Tuition Crunch Takes Big Toll
Discussion: Gawker and Via Meadia
Jim Brunner / Seattle Times blogs:
State GOP chair Susan Hutchison cites ‘war on women’ in pay-raise spat
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Democrats call Issa's Obamacare road show a ‘destructive’ political act
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Gould / militarytimes.com:
Gay Army couple says chaplain barred them from marriage retreat
Michelle Cottle / Politico:
Leaning Out  —  How Michelle Obama became a feminist nightmare.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Rick Perlstein / thenation.com/blogs/171686:
Kennedy Week: JFK's Uncertain Path in Vietnam
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Dual Attacks Take On Voting Restriction Efforts In Arizona, Kansas
Discussion: ACLU, Associated Press and Feeds
USA Today:
Sticker shock hits health exchange shoppers
Discussion: National Review
WILX-TV:
Dangerous Games - “Point 'em Out, Knock 'em Out”
Kellan Howell / Washington Times:
Washington Times sues Homeland over seizure of reporter's notes
Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Daily Caller
 

 
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