BACK-DOOR BOEHNER: A Trojan Horse on amnesty in the defense bill?

TRANSPARENCY: ABC News: Monica Lewinsky E-Mail Omitted From Latest Batch of Clinton Documents. “Vaguely referenced as concerning a ‘medical record,’ the omitted email is listed as four pages long.” Hmm. What could that be about?

MICKEY KAUS: Obamacare’s Core Flaw?

Risk-filled sump, update: If everyone knew the risk pool on the Obamacare exchanges would be sicker-than-normal — as the last sentence of this NYT piece suggests — then why throw the hapless unsubsidized people (e.g. singles making $46,000) into that pool, where their policies will inevitably be more expensive, with more restrictions, than if they were in a more normal pool? Did Obamacare’s designers think they’d be happy about it? This seems like the programs’ core flaw, no? It’s why, despite all the seemingly impressive numbers, Obamacare leaves a bad taste. … $350,000 a year lawyers with fancy employer plans get care from the best doctors and check into Sloan Kettering if they need it, while even previously insured $46,000-a-year suckers can’t, and are told that’s just the price of insuring the uninsured.

ObamaCare: Of, by, and for the 1%!

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): ‘This thing is working’? Widows of Alabama county workers dropped from health plans.

As President Obama touts rising enrollment in ObamaCare and declares “this thing is working,” one Alabama county has reported another negative side effect from the law — widows of county workers getting dropped from their insurance.

A report by Huntsville-based WHNT said that more than a dozen widows of retired Madison County employees lost their coverage earlier this year.

They originally had been covered under the county’s self-insured plan. But, according to WHNT, officials learned that it would have been too expensive to keep providing that coverage and comply with the Affordable Care Act’s coverage mandates.

The county instead joined a statewide network that dozens of county governments already are in. That plan, though, does not offer coverage to husbands and wives when their government employee spouses die.

You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Er, but where’s my damn omelet?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Vet asked to leave Pizza Hut after manager thinks his USMC patches are gang symbols.

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POLITICS IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: IRS “wants to throw us in jail,” says tea party leader.

Related: More Lerner Smoking Gun Emails At The IRS: Correspondence reveals administration collusion in attack on Tea Party groups.

OOPS: Cherokee women want to meet Elizabeth Warren on book tour, to get Warren to understand why they are hurt and angry that she assumed, then discarded, Native American identity.

VIDEO: How To Get Kicked Out Of A Clay Aiken Fundraiser. “While Aiken’s success could allow him to largely self-fund the effort, politics still requires you to get out there and do some fundraising, pressing the flesh with the local donors and power brokers. But as the following video shows, don’t bother stopping by if you’re a Republican. You’re likely to get an icy – and expletive laden – welcome.”

PAR FOR THE COURSE: Obama signs Ted Cruz bill into law, but says he won’t enforce it. “Obama frequently criticized President George W. Bush for such signing statements during his 2008 campaign.”

SPACE: Cargo Launch and Rocket Test Add Up to ‘Happy Day’ for SpaceX.

JAMES TARANTO: Shut Up, He Explained Again: Obama continues a debate he insists is over.

They say it’s the sincerest form of flattery. At a press conference yesterday President Obama asserted that when it comes to ObamaCare, the Republican Party “is going through the stages of grief–anger and denial and all that stuff–and we’re not at acceptance yet.” We used the same gag in October, though ObamaCare supporters were the butt of our joke. And we were recycling our own material: We also invoked the Elisabeth Kübler Ross “stages of grief” way back in November 2000 in reference to Al Gore’s refusal to concede his loss to George W. Bush.

Blogress Ann Althouse astutely observes that Obama skipped “bargaining,” perhaps “because he doesn’t want his party to have to bargain with the other side.” . . .

Another adjective that comes to mind is “unpresidential.” Obama, after all, isn’t president of only Democrats, nor are only Republicans opposed to ObamaCare or worried about its consequences. To those who see an inconsistency in this column’s criticizing Obama for using a gag we’ve employed in the past, let us clarify things with a Shermanesque answer to a question nobody is asking: We promise that we will never run for, or serve as, president.

Would that Obama had given such a pledge. And kept it.

TEXAS: Wendy Davis’s Deals Are The Subject Of FBI Corruption Investigation.

NON-COMPLIANCE SPREADS: Bob Corker, other Tennessee Republicans refuse subpoenas from Big Labor.

ORGANIZATION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE LITTLE GUY, HURTS THE LITTLE GUY: Six small shopkeepers are big losers in CFPB headquarters building renovation.

Federal officials have ignored six small businesses on the ground floor next to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new headquarters, refusing to share information about the building’s renovation or the future of their shops.

The shopkeepers’ fears are warranted, because CFPB’s renovation blueprints assume the businesses will be forced to leave in the bureau’s $136 million project.

The sight of CFPB officials forcing out independent shopkeepers may not sit well with Congress, which created the bureau in 2010 to protect consumers and small businesses in the marketplace.

Are there any federal agencies that actually help the little guy?

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Reflections On The Confidence Gap: Why Are Feminists So Insecure?

Nothing shouts “be confident in your natural abilities!” like “your brain is mushy and able to be reshaped by propaganda!” But maybe that’s just me. Still, all this second-guessing of female traits doesn’t feel empowering. At all. Feminists seem to be on a constant campaign of obsessive gender reflection, the net result of which is to tell women they’re bad at what they’re doing. Don’t call bossy people bossy. Don’t be considerate of others. Please keep kids out of the picture for the vast majority if not entirety of your fertility. If you do choose to stop fighting your fertility for a brief period, you shouldn’t let kids affect your career. You need to crush or at least smother your maternal instincts at all costs. In order to succeed in life, you must be like men — emulate everything they’re doing.

I love being female, and I’m actually quite confident about being a woman, but the only time I even come close to feeling bad about myself is when major media outlets and elite feminists use their power to tell me there’s some major flaw with me being female.

Feminism is a political herding mechanism for insecure women. It’s thus no surprise that (1) feminists tend to be insecure; and (2) they send messages that tend to enhance insecurity in other women.

GOOGLE: The Unelected Superpower. “Google has cosied up to governments around the world so effectively that its chairman is a White House advisor.”

TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO REVOLT. I recommend the miniseries Uprising, for those unfamiliar. Or you can always read Mila 18.

ANOTHER FRINGE BENEFIT LOST TO LONG-SUFFERING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: Hawaii Police No Longer Allowed To Have Sex With Prostitutes.