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Debt Ceiling Could Get Short-Term Deal, Pentagon Still Buying Planes it Doesn't Need, ATF Agent Can't Publish 'Fast and Furious' Book: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 10.7.2013 4:30 PM


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    Because the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is going to make it harder to actually schedule doctor's appointments (because we have a shortage of them), maybe it's a good thing the health care exchanges aren't working.

  • White House officials say President Barack Obama is open to the possibility of kicking the can down the road on the debt ceiling again.
  • How about that budget that just cannot be cut in any way, shape or form? The Pentagon continues to buy $50 million cargo planes and then put them right into storage because it has no use for them.
  • An ATF agent has been denied permission to publish a book about the "Fast and Furious" debacle because it would have a "negative impact on morale."
  • The Taliban has not given up on its failed effort to kill a 16-year-old girl.
  • A 9-year-old boy managed catch a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas without a ticket. Security was apparently oblivious. He was caught by the flight crew on the plane.

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Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.