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As we noted a week ago today, this is the last edition of The Daily Felltoon Commentary and Newsletter - and our staff is a bit bittersweet over it.

We thoroughly enjoy each other's company as individuals, and our staff plans to keep working together in different ways - as well continuing our friendships - after we publish today's final edition. There will always be something different in our conversations now, a deeper ability to communicate rapidly yet thoroughly, developed after years of working together as a team.

Even as we paste up the final edition and head off into the sunset, we're sharing a unique feeling of pride and accomplishment in what we've accomplished over the last six years, through hard work and honest intent.

Before we go, we have to thank our loyal readers, including those in both politics and the media. Your suggestions, comments, and words of thanks and praise as we wrap up this endeavor have been greatly appreciated. Events like having had our work mentioned in the New York Times, even as Paul's always smart political cartoons would keep finding their way into places like Politico's and NPR's websites, reminded us that weren't creating some ineffectual publication, and the people we reached weren't just your average run-of-the-mill folks...
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Wall Street Watch  

Hoping to Fend Off Lawsuits, G.M. Is Returning to Bankruptcy Court
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Merck Said to Be Near Closing Deal With Bayer
Fighting Inequality  

Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S.

In Spite of Corporate Lobbyists, Vermont Residents Organize to Raise the Minimum Wage
Fighting Equality

Senate Republicans block minimum wage increase bill

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): I Don't Believe There Should Be A National Minimum Wage
Health Care Checkup

States that didn't set up marketplaces see surge in health plan enrollment, figures show

Confirmed: Young adults fueled final surge in health insurance enrollment

Update Confirms: Most Obamacare Enrollees Lacked Prior Health Insurance

Jonathan Cohn: The Four Things We Learned About Obamacare This Week

Report Confirms: Major Corporations Likely To Move Employees to Obamacare Exchanges, to save $700B
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Vox.com: Insurers pretty happy about Obamacare outcomes

Greg Sargent: Sorry, Republicans - The politics of Obamacare are getting scrambled once again, & not in your favor

Desperate House GOP Releases Its Own Incomplete Obamacare Data

Michael Tomasky: Right-Wing Obamacare Truthers Get Caught in a Lie on Delinquency Rate

Baker & Novack: Where Obamacare Is Really Strongest - and Where It's Falling Short
Assaulting Injustice   

House Votes To Expand Sexual Harassment Training For Members

Report notes U.S. military sexual assault reports jumped 50 percent last year

'Dozens and Dozens' of Hollywood Sex Assault Victims Now Coming Forward, Lawyer Says
The Spying Game

U.S. and Germany Fail to Reach a Deal on Spying

Germany blocks Snowden from testifying in person in Parliamentry inquiry into U.S. NSA surveillance

Apple, Facebook, others, defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands from governments
Communications Breakdown  

As Ratings Continue To Fall, 50 Positions Cut Across CNN

Limbaugh's Ratings Collapse; Now Rated 37th in LA, Worse Than Previous Progressive Talk Format
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Scientific American Editor Says Fox Producer Told Him not To Talk About Climate Change

Fox Smears Scientific Amer. Editor; Attempts to Brand Him A 'Coward'
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White House Update  

White House Calls For Limits on Use of Customers' Web Data By Private Corporations
National News

NBA owners agree to force sale of LA Clippers by current racist owner, Donald Sterling
SCOTUS Brief

Justice Scalia Makes Epic Blunder In Supreme Court Opinion

Senility Rising? Scalia's Blunder Is Unprecedented, Legal Experts Say

94 year-old retired Justice Stevens reaffirms dissent on campaign finance before Senate panel

SCOTUSblog Commentary: Justice Stevens, from the bench to the podium
News From Capitol Hill

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) Subpoenas Secretary of State John Kerry To Testify On Benghazi

Sahil Kapur: Why is Issa Really Subpoenaing Kerry? Benghazi!

Repubs also to push anti-Obamacare message in upcoming Senate confirmation hearings

J. Bernstein: Republicans Seize On Opportunity to Waste An Opportunity
On The Left   

Ed Kilgore: Preserving May Day Redux

Fernando Espuelas: Driving the Latino vote could save Democrats in 2014

John Oliver on 'Last Week Tonight,' Turning Down CBS, and 'Nauseating' American Politics
On The Right   

Right-wing Benghazi conspiracy theorists are coming unglued

Paul Waldman: The GOP hunt for a Watergate-scale scandal continues - and finds nothing

Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Nation Needs a Better Class of Racist
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