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3:10 AM ET, February 21, 2014

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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Has Anyone in America Actually Been Harmed by Obamacare?  —  I'm beginning to think there's not actually a single person in America who's been harmed by Obamacare.  I know that seems unlikely, but take a look at the latest AFP ad pounding Obamacare.  It features Julie Boonstra …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Liberaland
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Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
A hard-hitting anti-Obamacare ad makes a claim that doesn't add up  —  “I was diagnosed with leukemia.  I found out I only have a 20 percent chance of surviving.  I found this wonderful doctor and a great health care plan.  I was doing fairly well fighting the cancer, fighting the leukemia, and then I received a letter.
WJHL-TV:
Bachmann has confidence tea party can best Clinton in 2016  —  With less than a year left in her fourth and final term in Congress, it's a little early for an exit interview, but not too early to get the views of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on issues dear to a “founding mother” …
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Natalie Villacorta / Politico:   Michele Bachmann: U.S. not ready for female president
Samantha Lachman / The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann's Bad News For Hillary Clinton: People 'Aren't Ready' For A Female President
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's Social Security disaster: Conservatives just lost their chance to cut benefits  —  The president dropping Chained CPI from his budget is a reprieve for the left — and a message to the right  —  Back in November 2012, with the Bush tax cuts scheduled to expire and sequestration looming …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Rick Santorum Gathers Advisers to Plot 2016 Run
Fox News:
Why the FCC should keep its nose out of TV newsrooms  —  What on earth is the FCC thinking?  —  The last thing we need is the government mucking around with news content.  —  The title of this Big Brother-ish effort by the Federal Communications Commission sounds innocuous enough: “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs.”
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Wheeler: FCC Won't Regulate Journalist's Speech
Discussion: Examiner and Poynter
Fox News:
FCC official, others warn agency study could stifle freedom of the press
Discussion: Mediaite and Hullabaloo
Sarah Kendzior / Politico:
The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine  —  What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us?  —  Journalist Simon Shuster said it was “straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.”  Writer Philip Gourevitch thought it was more like Bruegel.  But the main word to describe the violent clashes …
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ThinkProgress:
Everything You Need To Know About The Growing Crisis In Ukraine
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Reuters
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
McCain: Obama the ‘most naive president’  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday called President Obama “the most naïve president in history” because of his foreign policy tactics.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin “played us so incredibly,” McCain said on a Phoenix radio station.
Discussion: Mediaite
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Bombshell ‘American Idol’ Lawsuit Claims Sony Stiffs Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson (Exclusive)  —  The legal claims from the company behind the hit reality TV show, seeking at least $10 million in damages, could ignite new controversies over whether recording artists are getting a proper share of digital income.
Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
CBS 2 Exclusive: De Blasio's Caravan Caught Speeding, Violating Traffic Laws  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘House of Cards’ is really bad  —  The second season of Netflix's “House of Cards” was a pretty big let down.  The storylines were preposterous.  The principle characters were flat and cliched.  The efforts at narrative transgression, either violent or sexual, were pathetic and unconvincing.
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Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
Inside the Conservative Campaign to Launch “Jim Crow-Style” Bills Against Gay Americans  —  “In this new up-is-down world, anti-gay religious folks are ‘practicing their faith’ when they're baking cakes or renting out hotel rooms to travelers.”  —  Creatas/Thinkstock
Francisco Toro / Caracas Chronicles:
Venezuela: The Game Changed Last Night  —  Listen and understand.  The game changed in Venezuela last night.  What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden.  —  What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: “I thought the Affordable Care Act would save $2500 per family?”  —  “What happened?”  —  Senator Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Tim Walz came back to Mankato, MN yesterday to meet and greet constituents at South Central College, along with Rep. Collin Peterson.
J. Max Robins / Forbes:
Bill Maher: Still Politically Incorrect And Conservative About His Brand  —  Bill Maher has proven that being a politically incorrect, libertarian atheist is a solid business model.  His weekly HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” in its 12th season, is as successful as ever.
Discussion: NewsBusters and Mediaite
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
DeLay: Americans Have Forgotten That God Wrote The Constitution  —  As we noted earlier this year, Matthew Hagee has been hosting a weekly talk show called “The Difference” where he interviews people like Rick Santorum and now Tom DeLay, who told Hagee that a lot of the problems in America …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Rick Perry has ‘problems’ with Ted Nugent  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that he has a “problem with” rocker Ted Nugent's “tough words,” but that shouldn't impact the campaign of Greg Abbott, who is running to replace Perry in office.  —  The Republican governor was asked on CNN's …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
TAIBBLOG  —  Thank You, Rolling Stone  —  Today is my last day at Rolling Stone.  As of this week, I'm leaving to work for First Look Media, the new organization that's already home to reporters like Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.  —  I'll have plenty of time to talk about the new job elsewhere.
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Bevin: Same-Sex Marriage Will Lead To Parent-Child Marriage  —  After a federal judge struck down part of Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage, Sen. Mitch McConnell's Tea Party-aligned primary challenger Matt Bevin jumped on the ruling and criticized McConnell over his ties to the judge:
BBC:
Ukraine unrest: At least 21 protesters dead in clashes  —  At least 21 protesters have been killed by security forces in Kiev following the breakdown of a truce agreed on Wednesday.  —  Witnesses have told the BBC that some died as a result of single gunshot wounds, typical of sniper fire.
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The Atlantic Online:   Kiev Truce Shattered, Dozens Killed
 
 
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Adam Bryant / New York Times:
Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
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Del Quentin Wilber / Bloomberg:
Record U.S. Gun Production as Obama ‘Demonized’ on Issue
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Steve King: I Was Right and I Won't Apologize
Neil Steinberg / Esquire:
AND NOW FOR THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF RAHM THE IMPALER
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Public Sector Cuts Part-Time Shifts to Bypass Insurance Law
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Bloomberg:
The Future Looks Dull From Here
WashPostPR / Washington Post:
Alyssa Rosenberg to join The Post as new pop culture blogger in Opinions
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace
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The Dark Power of Fraternities
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