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8:50 AM ET, December 13, 2013

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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Republicans and Tea Party Activists in ‘Full Scale Civil War’ … Years of growing friction between the Republican Party leaders and its Tea Party faction has erupted into what one conservative said today was “full-scale civil war.”  —  House Speaker John Boehner, whose strategies …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Glenn Beck attacks ‘worthless’ John Boehner  —  Conservative radio host Glenn Beck went off on Republican leadership after the House passed a budget compromise Thursday, calling House Speaker John Boehner “worthless” and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “liar.”
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
The Hill:
House approves budget deal, handing major victory to Boehner  —  The House on Thursday approved a two-year budget deal that turns off $63 billion in sequester spending cuts, handing a major victory to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio.).  —  Large majorities in both parties backed the bill in a 332-94 vote.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Biggest Losers  —  The pundit consensus seems to be that Republicans lost in the just-concluded budget deal.  Overall spending will be a bit higher than the level mandated by the sequester, the straitjacket imposed back in 2011.  Meanwhile, Democrats avoided making any concessions on Social Security or Medicare.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Twilight of the Sequester  —  In Washington, folks are celebrating …
New York Times:
The Minimalist Budget Deal
Discussion: Daily Kos
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Boehner: Conservative Outside Groups ‘Have Lost All Credibility’
Discussion: Hawkings Here
Brian Beutler / Salon:   Obama's shutdown critics look like morons after budget deal
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare's Never-Ending Fix-a-Thon  —  The Department of Health and Human Services held a conference call for journalists this afternoon with Kathleen Sebelius and other members of the Obamacare team in which they announced yet another round of fixes.  Most of them are aimed at folks who lost …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
HHS extends another ObamaCare deadline
Discussion: HHS.gov
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
HHS ‘encourages’ insurers to fix problems created by Obamacare
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Plans Urged to Extend Enrollment
Jonathan Merritt / The Atlantic Online:
Insisting Jesus Was White Is Bad History and Bad Theology  —  Fox News television host Megyn Kelly told viewers on her December 11 broadcast that Jesus and Santa are both white men.  —  “Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change,” Kelly said.  “Jesus was a white man, too.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Megyn Kelly: Jesus and Santa were white  —  On Wednesday night Megyn Kelly declared on her Fox News show that both Santa Claus and Jesus were white.  Discussing a piece in Slate by Aisha Harris about a black versus white Santa, Kelly that “just because it makes you feel uncomfortable it doesn't mean it has to change.”
Steven Morris / Guardian:
Pupils' Christmas ‘ruined’ by vicar's Santa Claus origins story
Discussion: Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and Unfogged
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly, Fox News's brightest star
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Adam Goldman / Washington Post:
Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA  —  An American man who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency.
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Associated Press:
MISSING AMERICAN IN IRAN WAS ON UNAPPROVED MISSION  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Missing American in Iran was on unapproved mission  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In March 2007, retired FBI agent Robert Levinson flew to Kish Island, an Iranian resort awash with tourists …
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Lie of the Year: ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep it’  —  It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America's health insurance system.  —  “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama turns left  —  President Barack Obama wants to sound like a different kind of Democrat.  —  He's connecting to progressive populism with an aggressive, spending-oriented, activist government approach to the economy personified by Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio.
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Jose DelReal / Politico:
White House press corps tees off on Jay Carney over access
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Huckabee Open to Joining 2016 GOP Presidential Field  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas has not been among the Republicans frequently named as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, but he would like that to change.  —  “I'm keeping the door open,” …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Vermont Is Kicking Everyone's Ass at Signing Up People for Obamacare  —  Which states are doing the best at signing up people for Obamacare?  Business Insider has a state-by-state chart here showing the number of people who have completed the process 100 percent: they've actually chosen …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Dish
Michelle Cottle / The Daily Beast:
The Cruzification of Marco Rubio  —  By Michelle CottleDecember 13th 20135:45 AM  —  The junior senator's blatant pandering in bashing the budget deal shows the shameless lengths he will go to get back into the GOP base's good graces.  —  Let's give it up for Marco Rubio!
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Even by North Korean standards, this announcement of Jang Song Thaek's execution is intense  —  North Korean state media are known for hyperbole, but even so, the official announcement of the execution of Jang Song Thaek is a step beyond.  The state-run Korean Central News Agency released …
 
 
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USA Today:
Obamacare remains worthy: Our view
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Tempers Flare as New Rules Strain Senate
Discussion: FactCheck.org and CNN
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Govern in Poetry  —  In advance of a long drive through …
Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Obama's funeral selfie won't be shared, as Danish PM says it didn't turn out to be a good picture
Discussion: Althouse
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Sibel Edmonds / Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs:
BFP Breaking News- Omidyar's PayPal Corporation Said To Be Implicated in Withheld NSA Documents
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Politico:
Ryan Loskarn in court on child pornography charges
Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Governors Spoke Privately About Bridge Controversy
James Hohmann / Politico:
Liberals needle Scott Brown on Massachusetts plates
Mohammed Ghobari / Reuters:
Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake: officials
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New York Times:
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