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8:00 AM ET, November 25, 2013

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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Longer-Term Deal With Iran Faces Major Challenges  —  LONDON — The Obama administration's successful push for an accord that would temporarily freeze much of Iran's nuclear program has cast a spotlight on the more formidable challenge it now confronts in trying to roll the program back.
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Barrie McKenna / Globe and Mail:
Canada ‘deeply skeptical’ Iran will follow through on nuclear deal  —  Striking a distinctly harsher tone than its closest allies, Canada is balking at lifting any of its sanctions against Iran until the Islamic regime fully abandons its nuclear weapons' ambitions.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama's Very Personal Deal With Iran
Discussion: Liberaland
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
Iran's top officials hail nuclear deal as beginning of new era
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, CNN, Politico and Mediaite
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius  —  Kathleen Sebelius may become the biggest loser in the Senate's approval of filibuster reform.  —  The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has kept her job despite the botched rollout of ObamaCare's insurance exchanges, but it will now be easier for Obama to replace her.
Discussion: Politico
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare  —  Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
Discussion: The Hill
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Filibuster Rope-a-Dope?  —  Did the crafty Mitch McConnell just succeed in getting Democrats to damage their long-term interest by nuking the filibuster?  I've always defended the filibuster (and still do) as a valid anti-majoritarian device, especially useful for when fitful voters …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: Filibuster Rule Change ‘Will Poison The Atmosphere Of The Senate’
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and PoliticusUSA
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Filibuster change clears path for Obama climate regs crackdown
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Obama: 'I'm not a particularly ideological person'  —  President Barack Obama says he is not a “particularly ideological person,” but remains passionate about certain issues.  —  “I'm not a particularly ideological person,” Obama said Sunday during a fundraiser in Seattle.
MySanAntonio.com:
SAPD officer accused of rape  —  A San Antonio police officer was arrested Saturday and accused of raping a 19-year-old woman on the South Side early the day before.  At a news conference Saturday, police said the officer has been accused of sexual assault before.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Raw Story
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KENS:
On-duty officer sexually assaults 19-year-old during traffic stop, police say
Discussion: Liberaland
CNN:
President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll  —  Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll.  —  And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
James Jay Carafano / National Review:
Munich II  —  No, that's not a facile, partisan jab.  What just went down in Geneva is, in fact, a replay of the greatest diplomatic tragedy of the 20th century.  —  The Munich deal rested on the ridiculous notion that Hitler could be satiated.  The new pact builds on the equally ludicrous idea …
Discussion: Power Line and Crooked Timber
Susan Mohamed / OnIslam.net:
Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques  —  LUANDA - According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country.  —  “The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved …
Lawrence R. Jacobs / New York Times:
Right vs. Left in the Midwest  —  MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin's Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Discussion: Jared Bernstein and The Mahablog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
California, Here We Come?  —  It goes without saying that the rollout of Obamacare was an epic disaster.  But what kind of disaster was it?  Was it a failure of management, messing up the initial implementation of a fundamentally sound policy?  Or was it a demonstration that the Affordable Care Act is inherently unworkable?
Discussion: Balloon Juice and PoliticusUSA
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Sens. Corker, Cardin react to nuclear deal with Iran; Sarah Palin talks D.C. dysfunction, Bashir comments  —  Special Guests: Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., Sarah Palin  —  This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” November 24, 2013.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Discussion: Althouse and NewsBusters
 
 
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations
Tim Blair:
MEATWORKER DIPLOMACY  —  Australian pride is restored.
Discussion: Natalie Solent
Reuters:
U.S., Japan slam China's ‘destabilizing’ move on East China Sea airspace
Discussion: The Raw Story and Guardian
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Sarah Palin Humiliates Herself On Fox News By Not Knowing What the Nuclear Option Is
Discussion: field negro
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Anthony York / Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: The Reaction