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12:50 PM ET, August 13, 2013

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama's health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Administration delays ObamaCare caps on out-of-pocket costs  —  The Obama administration has delayed a key provision in President Obama's healthcare reform law that would limit out-of-pocket insurance costs for consumers until 2015.  —  The cap, which includes deductibles and co-payments …
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Yet Another White House Obamacare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015  —  First, there was the delay of Obamacare's Medicare cuts until after the election.  Then there was the delay of the law's employer mandate.  Then there was the announcement, buried in the Federal Register …
Sharon Begley / Reuters:
Mitch McConnell Seeks Delay For Obamacare Insurance Exchanges
Discussion: Daily Kos and Green Eagle
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's next act: The family foundation  —  Hillary Clinton's next phase of life — the co-leader of a family foundation — has officially begun.  —  She's coming in to her husband's signature foundation, which has been renamed for all three Clintons (their daughter has an increased presence).
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Weiner: Wife will have role in Clinton campaign  —  Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) on Monday said his wife Huma Abedin would have a role in a 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential bid, but acknowledged that his sexting scandals had hurt his spouse “personally” and “professionally.”
Peter Maass / New York Times:
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets  —  This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.  For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities.  Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama's health care bill.
Richard Abowitz / The Daily Beast:
Porn Professor Hugo Schwyzer Comes Clean About His Twitter Meltdown and Life as a Fraud  —  He built a successful, if divisive, career as a ‘male feminist’ and porn advocate.  Then his life fell apart—on Twitter.  He talks to Richard Abowitz about what fueled his epic meltdown.
Hannah Post / spacex.com/news:
Hyperloop  —  SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON GOOGLE+ SHARE ON TWITTER  —  When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too.  How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL - doing incredible things like indexing …
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Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation
Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
ATTORNEY FOR WHISTLEBLOWER: 400 U.S. MISSILES STOLEN IN BENGHAZI  —  On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were “diverted to Libya” …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Times Change  —  Behold the power of Power Line.  Only one day after we wondered ("Start the Countdown Clock") whether the Sulzberger family would follow the Graham family and sell the New York Times before its market value sinks to Boston Globe levels, there emerged news that the family had …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself  —  Big headlines last Friday, as President Obama planned, for his news conference announcement.  —  He was naming “a high-level group of outside experts” to probe the nation's entire intelligence apparatus for abuses …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
This Is Not Rosa Parks  —  Oprah Winfrey's Swiss adventure.  —  Jesse Jackson hasn't yet declared Zurich the new Selma, but from some of the news coverage you'd think Oprah Winfrey was the next Rosa Parks.  The former TV-talk superstar experienced what New York's Daily News calls …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES  —  The phrase “unintended consequences” is going to get tossed around a lot over the next couple of days as a pair of techniques born of a three decades pissing-down-the-leg panic over crime get careful scrutiny.  First, Attorney General Eric Holder announced …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Weiner Stays Defiant, Blasts News Media And Critics  —  In a BuzzFeed Brews interview, the mayoral candidate knocks The New York Times, makes fun of BuzzFeed, and pledges victory.  —  His poll numbers have plummeted, and his campaign donations have dwindled, but in a wide-ranging …
Discussion: The Fix, Politico, Andrew Kaczynski and CNN
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New York Times:
Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk  —  Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in New York upheld the bedrock principle of individual liberty on Monday when she ruled that the tactics underlying New York City's stop-and-frisk program violated the constitutional rights of minority citizens.
Jay Korff / WJLA-TV:
President Obama's ambulance runs out of gas, sparks criticism  —  WASHINGTON (WJLA) - As President Barack Obama travels to and from the White House in his motorcade, the number one concern is keeping him safe.  —  A critical constant is a D.C. Fire and EMS ambulance, typically Medic 1 …
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Fort Hood Gunman Told Panel That Death Would Make Him a Martyr  —  KILLEEN, Tex. — One year after he waged a deadly shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here in November 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan told a panel of military mental health experts that he wished he had been killed during …
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Justice seeks to block US Air-American Airlines merger  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to block a proposed merger between US Airways and American Airlines.  —  The department claims the merger — which would combine the nation's fourth and fifth largest carriers to create …
Discussion: Politico
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama could ‘basically legalize’ millions of immigrants if reform fails  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a key architect of the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, warned Tuesday that President Obama could use an executive order to legalize millions of illegal immigrants if Congress does not act on the issue.
Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today:
LeBron James says he's not running for NBPA president  —  After days of careful consideration and research, Miami Heat star LeBron James decided he will not run for president or vice president of the National Basketball Players Association, a person familiar with James' decision told USA TODAY Sports.
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Does Obama need OprahCare?  —  Could Oprah sell ObamaCare to America?  —  That's the question on the lips of healthcare activists who are hoping the talk show queen will put her considerable influence behind the promotional campaign for President Obama's signature law.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and VodkaPundit
Ivan Betinov / The People's Cube:
First Dog Bo takes a well-deserved vacation  —  Americans can go to bed with a story to warm the cockles of their hearts tonight.  First Dog Bo has been successfully transported to join the First Family on their well-deserved vacation on Martha's Vineyard.  —  Bo was transported from Washington …
 
 
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