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1:15 PM ET, November 14, 2014

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Rick Klein / ABC News:
Secret Emails of Potential Clinton Campaign Managers Revealed … For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the “Mook Mafia.”
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Erin McPike / CNN:   Is this the anti-Obama?  —  Cincinnati (CNN) — Rob Portman …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work  —  Or, if you prefer a more acerbic conclusion, taxpayers paid Jonathan Gruber in the mid-six-figures to lie to them, and then brag about it to all of his friends and fans later.  Glenn Kessler fact-checked an assertion …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Gruber Confession  —  It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch (the diplomatic cable Bismarck doctored to provoke the 1870 Franco-Prussian War).  But what the just-resurfaced Gruber Confession lacks in world-historical consequence, it makes up for in world-class cynicism.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Newly Insured Through Exchanges Give Coverage Good Marks  —  Story Highlights  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Over seven in 10 Americans who bought new health insurance policies through the government exchanges earlier this year rate the quality of their healthcare and their healthcare coverage as “excellent” or “good.”
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Obama, Down but Not Out, Presses Ahead  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama emerged from last week's midterm election rejected by voters, hobbled politically and doomed to a final two years in office suffering from early lame-duck syndrome.  That, at least, was the consensus in both parties.
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Kos and The PJ Tatler
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Dahlia Lithwick / The New Republic:
Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia  —  The thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court  —  Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has emerged as one of the most ideologically aggressive in decades, and its rightward trajectory …
Discussion: CNBC
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Bush Tells Hannity Why He Refuses to Criticize Obama  —  Sean Hannity dedicated his entire show Thursday night to an extended interview for former President George W. Bush.  At one point, Hannity expressed a little frustration over the fact that Bush is so reluctant to offer up any criticisms of President Barack Obama.
Discussion: Business Insider
Mayor Betsy Hodges:
pointergate  —  A few days before the November 4th election, I took a photo with an organizer while doorknocking to get the vote out.  In that photo, the organizer and I pointed at one another (after, it has often been remarked, an awkward moment of set-up).
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program  —  Fake Cellphone Towers on Planes Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed …
Maria L. La Ganga / Los Angeles Times:
Shell lawsuit against environmental groups ruled unconstitutional  —  Two years ago, in a preemptive move, Shell sued a host of environmental and advocacy groups to prevent them from suing Shell over its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.  —  On Wednesday, a federal appeals court called …
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
Politico:
Chris Christie's temperament spooks Wall Street  —  Top GOP donors still see the New Jersey governor as a risky investment.  —  Chris Christie has seemed on top of the world to donors and supporters in the days since the GOP racked up big wins in gubernatorial races with him leading the charge for the Republican Governors Association.
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Obama's Unexpectedly Good Week  —  Eight days ago, President Obama went before the White House press corps to acknowledge the previous day's midterm-election results and take his knocks.  “Obviously, Republicans had a good night,” he said.  “And they deserve credit for running good campaigns.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections)  —  The Democrats invested millions of dollars in a vaunted field operation to mobilize the young and nonwhite voters who do not usually participate in midterm elections.  Yet it was not enough to save Democrats from a Republican landslide.
CBS Miami:
Blind Man: Cops Arrested & Ditched Me By Side Of The Road  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) — On August 27th at approximately 8:30 pm, four plain clothes Miami Dade Police officers pulled onto a dead end street in South Dade and arrested three young black men.  The scene was captured on video camera.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big donors urge Warren to run  —  Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer.  —  The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars' welcome during …
Billy House / National Journal:
Dems Deny Duckworth a Proxy Vote in Democratic Leader Elections  —  The pregnant Illinois congresswoman and wounded war veteran is unable to travel to D.C.  —  Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who is expecting a baby in December, is being denied a request to vote by proxy …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress  —  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is a shoo-in to keep her spot as the top House Democrat in the next Congress.  But another intra-party election this month - the contest for ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
Washington Post:
GOP debates its immigration strategy as Obama prepares executive action  —  Congressional Republicans have split into competing factions over how to respond to President Obama's expected moves to change the nation's immigration system, which are likely to include protecting millions from being deported.
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Washington Post:
Boehner weighs expanding suit over Obama executive powers to cover immigration
 
 
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Obama Veto Pen Could Soon Get a Workout
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USA Today:
Rural hospitals in critical condition
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Duckworth interested in challenging Kirk for Senate seat in 2016
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
New York Times:
Pentagon Studies Reveal Major Nuclear Problems
Discussion: US News, Gizmodo and NPR
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Leahy eyes NSA reform as crowning glory
Discussion: Politico
The Atlantic Online:
The Conservative Case for Net Neutrality
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Cassidy leads Landrieu in internal poll
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Adam Silver / New York Times:
N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver: Allow Gambling on Pro Games
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Dempsey: 'We're Certainly Considering' Dispatching US Forces To Fight With Iraqi Troops Against ISIS
CNN:
The immigration waiting game will end soon
Discussion: Washington Monthly and RedState
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The Ben Carson Super PAC Is Pretty Lucrative If You're Running It
Hans von Spakovsky / Daily Signal:
Is Loretta Lynch Another Eric Holder? Here's What We Know About Her Troubling Past