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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Chris Christie Says Aides in Bridge Scandal ‘Inexplicably Stupid’ … New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said today that former aides were “inexplicably stupid” when they allegedly shut down lanes of busy George Washington Bridge and flooded a New Jersey town with traffic.
Discussion: CNN and Business Insider
Katie Glueck / Politico:   Report: Messy office dynamics in Bridgegate
ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Obamacare Enrollment Tops 6 Million  —  On Thursday, President Obama announced on a call with volunteers that the number of Americans who have enrolled in health insurance plans under Obamacare has hit six million.  —  With several days left to go before open enrollment ends on March 31 …
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Marilyn Tavenner / HHS.gov:
6 Million and Counting!  —  As this historic open enrollment period enters its final days, more than 6 million Americans have signed up for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces since October 1, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.  Those looking to get covered …
Wall Street Journal:
The Individual Mandate Goes Poof
Discussion: Politico, AEIdeas and Betsy's Page
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Baghdad Bob of Health Insurance
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
Daniel Rothberg / Los Angeles Times:
Reid will refund campaign for purchases from granddaughter's business  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to reimburse his campaign more than $16,000 for purchasing holiday gifts from his granddaughter's jewelry business.  —  The Federal Election Commission …
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Dan Steinberg / DC Sports Bog:
Harry Reid predicts Redskins name changes within three years
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEightDataLab:
For Columnist, a Change of Tone  —  A New York Times columnist has expressed substantially more negative sentiments about FiveThirtyEight since it left The New York Times, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.  —  The columnist, Paul Krugman, who writes about economics and politics for The Times …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Krugman-Silver Sparring Match
Discussion: Eschaton
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
The Nate Silver-Paul Krugman Feud Just Won't End
Discussion: New York Times and ACASignups.net
San Francisco magazine:
The Indictment Against Leland Yee Puts “The Wire's” Clay Davis to Shame  —  Sheeeeeeeeeit, partner.  —  If you thought the charges against Leland Yee would be bad, you had no idea.  As in, he offered to set up an arms deal with Islamic rebels for $2 million in cash.  As in, he has ties to a gangster named Shrimp Boy.
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Emily E. Smith / Oregonian:
Jessica Dutro murder trial: Motive for Tigard killing was 4-year-old's perceived homosexuality, prosecutors say  —  Jessica Dutro believed her 4-year-old son, Zachary Dutro-Boggess was gay, prosecutors told the court Wednesday, and that was her motive for subjecting him to deadly beatings.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership  —  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Barack Obama of dramatically weakening the United States' position in the world, drawing a straight line between Obama's ever-yielding foreign policy and the increasing troubles around the world.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Matthew Yglesias is Juice Vox Media's Village Idiot and Liar-in-Chief  —  Well, now we know why the Washington Post did not want to invest in Ezra Klein's “explanatory journalism” nonsense.  Turns out it is just a left-wing propaganda tool trying to spin instead of explain.
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Matt Yglesias Fails Big With Voxsplainer on the National Debt: The First Words Out of His Mouth Are Flatly False
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Abruptly Passes Medicare Pay Fix By Voice Vote  —  The Republican-led House abruptly and unexpectedly passed a Medicare physician payment fix Thursday by an unrecorded voice vote, amid questions about whether the bill had the votes to clear the chamber.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
ThinkProgress:
Homeless Mother Gets Job Interview But Doesn't Have Childcare, Ends Up In Jail  —  CREDIT: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office  —  Shanesha Taylor, a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona, is homeless.  So when she got asked to come in for a job interview last Thursday, she must have been excited by the prospect.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Oversight Dems To Issa: Drop The Charade And Let's Do Some Real Work  —  All 17 Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to cease his “partisan investigation” into the deadly September 2012 attack in Benghazi …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Federal Judge Tells Women Lawyers Not To Dress Like ‘An Ignorant Slut’  —  Judge Richard Kopf, a George H.W. Bush appointee to a federal court in Nebraska, offered some strange advice to women litigators in a piece posted to his personal blog on Tuesday: don't wear clothing that would cause …
Geoffrey Skelley / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Putting Their Eggs in the Wrong Midterm Basket  —  Why Democrats' increased reliance on young voters may lead them to struggle in midterm elections in the near future  —  Barring significant changes in group voting habits, many commentators have argued that “The Coalition of the Ascendant” …
Bill Schmalfeldt / Liberaland:
The Release Of Roger Shuler Is Good News, But The Fight Continues  —  Roger Shuler slept in his own bed for the first time in five months last night.  The details of his release are not clear yet, but the important thing for now is that the proprietor of “The Legal Schnauzer” …
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Legal Schnauzer
Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes:
Why Wu-Tang Will Release Just One Copy Of Its Secret Album  —  Somewhere on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco, inside a vault housed beneath the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, there sits an engraved silver-and-nickel box with the potential to spawn a shift in the way music is consumed and monetized.
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Why Can't the Left Govern?  —  The Left can win elections.  Why can't it run a government?  —  Surveying the fall in support for the governments of Barack Obama, New York City's progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio and France's Socialist President François Hollande …
 
 
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Michael K. Lavers / Washington Blade:
Lesbian couple files marriage lawsuit in Puerto Rico
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Bloomberg:
Citigroup Fails Fed's Stress Test as BofA Gets Dividend Boost
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
President Obama got elected on competence. Now people are starting to wonder.
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: JOHN CORNYN RIPS CHUCK SCHUMER'S MEDIA ‘SHIELD LAW’
Discussion: Politico and Shot in the Dark
James Oliphant / The Atlantic Online:
Conservatives Are Taking the Gun Fight to Knives
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data, 1990-2006
Discussion: Hit & Run and Firedoglake
Jonathan Zimmerman / Los Angeles Times:
Good for the Bushes and the Clintons, but not good for America
Hartford Courant:
Minimum Wage Boost Wins Senate And House Approval
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Gothamist
Greg Botelho / CNN:
Charlotte mayor accused of bribery, extortion
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Disapproval of Obama climbs to new high
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
Economist Tyler Cowen Pepper Sprayed While Teaching Class at George Mason University
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Giving Up on 4-Year-Olds  —  A new report released by the Department …
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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