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The Liberty Counsel has lost yet again. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court has turned away a Christian university’s attempt to overturn a key part of the Obama administration’s health care law. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling dismissing Liberty University’s lawsuit. Liberty made several arguments in challenging the portion …

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Hobby Lobby’s appeal of the portion of Obamacare which mandates that employers provide contraception coverage. The high court last year narrowly upheld the key funding provision of the health care law, a blockbuster ruling affirming that most Americans would be required to purchase insurance or pay a financial penalty — the so-called “individual …

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“Americans For Prosperity” is an astroturf group invented by the multi-billionaire Koch Brothers.

Via Mediaite: When asked by Blitzer if she’s going to sign up for the exchanges, Bachmann first said, “Are you kidding? I’m not gonna waste an hour on that thing!” before telling him “I lost my health insurance under Obamacare.” She said her husband has some personal health issues and they need insurance, at which point Begala jumped in to …

Via the Chicago Tribune: President Barack Obama offered a fix to his troubled healthcare law today that would allow insurance companies to extend for one year the health plans of Americans that would otherwise face cancellation. Struggling to convince Americans he is on top of the growing crisis around the Affordable Care Act, Obama disclosed that he was not informed …

The president is scheduled to speak at 11:30am Eastern.

According to the 14th annual Survey Of Global English, the top word for 2013 is a number.  The Global Language Monitor has announced that ‘404’ is the Top Word, ‘Toxic Politics’ the Top Phrase and Pope Francis the Top Name of 2013 in its 14th annual global survey of the English language. 404 was followed by fail, hashtag, @pontifex, and …

The woman whose face adorned the Obamacare site has finally stepped forward, but is declining to give her last name because she says she’s been the subject of brutal cyber-bullying. Right wing sites today are taking particular glee at the news that the woman is not an American citizen. ABC News interviewed her this morning.

Three more clips are here.

Prior to the July swimming accident that left him a quadriplegic, when NOM communications director Thomas Peters wasn’t tweeting against gay marriage, he was issuing regular denouncements of Obamacare.  But now that he’s at the literal mercy of our current broken medical system,  a campaign for donations will be launched across social media later this week. I doubt that the …

Mediaite has the recap: “The key that has really undermined the president’s credibility in the hearts of the American people is that he went out, as a centerpiece of his campaign, and as a centerpiece of Obamacare, over the last several years, saying time and time again, that fundamentally his plan was the right people would have to keep their …

The Washington Post has given President Obama its four Pinnochios rating for his claim that you can keep your existing insurance under Obamacare.  From their Fact Checker blog: The administration is defending this pledge with a rather slim reed — that there is nothing in the law that makes insurance companies force people out of plans they were enrolled in …