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5:35 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Politico:
Obama, the puppet master  —  President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.  —  Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
White House Reporters versus the Obama Administration
Discussion: CNN, Politico and The Daily Caller
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game'
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative?  —  Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week.
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Joe Scarborough / Politico:
Tearing down the conservative echo chamber  —  A “Morning Joe” discussion from Tuesday is sure to set off extremists within the Republican Party who remain more interested in defending the GOP's losing ways than charting a new course to victory.  After Chuck Todd concluded that Republicans …
momentoftruthproject.org:
A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD TO SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE  —  Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the Moment of Truth project and formerly co-chaired the President's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  —  The United States faces two big risks …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why Does the New Simpson-Bowles Deficit Plan Look So ... Republican?
Discussion: CRFB.org and Hullabaloo
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: New Simpson-Bowles plan
Discussion: Slate, Washington Monthly and alan.com
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
More Republican Denial  —  Conservatives keep reminding everyone that the sequester was Obama's idea.  But, says Michael Tomasky, that doesn't mean he's to blame for the current crisis.  —  Whose “idea” was the sequester, and why should it matter?  My Twitter feed these last couple of weeks …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Report: Hagel Said Israel Headed Toward Apartheid, Netanyahu a ‘Radical’  —  Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University, according to a contemporaneous account by an attendee.
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Filibuster Hagel  —  If Republicans refuse, they won't be standing …
Discussion: Right Turn
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Tea party group pictures Rove in Nazi uniform  —  A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email Tuesday featuring a photoshopped image of the GOP operative in an SS uniform.  —  “Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove's Face,” …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with drug-sniffing dog; supports soldier's child custody case  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a drug-sniffing German shepherd named Aldo in ruling that police do not have to extensively document a dog's expertise to justify relying on the animal to search someone's vehicle.
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Sam Baker / Ballot Box:
High court to look at unlimited campaign contributions
Discussion: Politico, Mother Jones and CNN
Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel:
Genius Alabama Rep. Says a Baby is the ‘Largest Organ in a Body’  —  The Alabama House of Representatives is set to vote on abortion legislation Tuesday that would impose a variety of uneccesary restrictions on abortion clinics: providers would need to have admitting privileges at local hospitals …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Alabama Politician Thinks A Fetus Is The Largest Organ In A Woman's Body
Discussion: Montgomery Advertiser
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Prof Strips, Shows 9/11 Footage, Impales Stuffed Animal (VIDEO)  —  A science professor at Columbia University on Monday began a quantum mechanics lecture by stripping into his boxers and eating a banana while rap music played in the background.  —  Then it got weird.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Quote of the Day  —  “I'm not much different from Andrew Cuomo.  I probably agree with him on 98% of the issues.”  — Chris Christie (R), quoted by the Glen Falls Chronicle, in a conversation with a union organizer.
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Jimmy Vielkind / Capitol Confidential:
Christie: 'I'm not much different from Andrew Cuomo'
Discussion: Hot Air
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Missouri Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Make It A Felony To Propose Gun Control Legislation  —  “I filed HB 633 as a matter of principle and as a statement in defense of the Second Amendment rights of all Missourians.”  —  Via: mikeleara.politicalwebmarketing.com
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws
New York Times:
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.  —  On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors.  —  The building off Datong Road …
New York Times:
Pistorius Denies Murdering Girlfriend  —  PRETORIA, South Africa — Facing a charge of premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee track star and one of the world's best-known athletes, denied on Tuesday that he intended to take her life when he opened fire …
NBC Southern California:
Police ID Gunman in OC Shooting Deaths  —  Four people are dead after a series of shootings and carjackings near freeways in Orange County that began after the shooting death of a woman at a home in Ladera Ranch.  —  Map: Shooting Investigation Locations  —  The gunman, identified …
Wall Street Journal:
Christensen, Flier and Vijayaraghavan: The Coming Failure of ‘Accountable Care’  —  The Affordable Care Act's updated versions of HMOs are based on flawed assumptions about doctor and patient behavior.  —  Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of pilot programs called Accountable Care Organizations …
Michael Lind / Salon:
Southern poverty pimps  —  The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor  —  Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., as I and others have argued.  Neither can contemporary American economic debates.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David Ariosto / CNN:
NASA restores communication with International Space Station  —  (CNN) — NASA restored communication with the International Space Station on Tuesday after connections went dark following a routine computer software update.  —  Before the fix, the space agency said the craft was able …
 
 
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Is There Room for Varied Approaches to Energy and Climate Progress?
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How Not to Fix Climate Change
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Gen. John Allen intends to retire, decline military's top post in Europe
Elhanan Miller / The Times of Israel:
‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012? Ohio poll worker target of investigation
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts
Discussion: Hot Air and AMERICAblog
Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:
War on women: Press secretary Carney sneers at female reporter; ‘I know you are just filling in’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Liz Szabo / USA Today:
McCready's death highlights role of guns in suicide
David Brooks / New York Times:
What Data Can't Do  —  Not long ago, I was at a dinner …
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Leonard Greene / New York Post:
Police probing Baldwin's ‘race’ rant at Post fotog as hate crime
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Scott Brown blames phone for unusual ‘Bqhatevwr’ tweet
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet
Celia Llopis-Jepsen / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Bill asks teachers to question climate change in class
Discussion: ThinkProgress and alan.com
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Virginia Pizza Shop Offers A Discount To Anyone Who Carries A Gun
Discussion: Shakesville and NBCNews.com
David Rogers / Politico:
Why John McCain turned on Chuck Hagel
Discussion: The Dish
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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