memeorandum: Debbie Dingell will run for husband's seat (Cameron Joseph/The Hill)

5:30 PM ET, February 25, 2014

Top Items:

Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:

Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer being ‘bullied’ to veto — Right talk radio is turning its focus this week to Arizona's controversial bill that would allow business owners to deny service to gay and lesbian customers, and Rush Limbaugh is leading with the charge that Gov. Jan Brewer is being …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, The Week, Daily Kos, Hinterland Gazette, Arizona Capitol Times and ABC News

Arizona Republic:

SB 1062 opponents are putting Arizona at risk — Advocates: Bill offers necessary protections, clarification — FONT: — Our Turn — Opponents of the proposed amendment to Arizona's Religious Freedom Restoration Act are putting the people of Arizona in a high-risk disaster zone when it comes to their First Amendment freedoms.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Jeremy Duda / Arizona Capitol Times:
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus

Discussion: BuzzFeed, NBC News, TechCrunch, Advocate, Valley Fever, Re/code, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay

Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Senators on SB1062: “We made a mistake”

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast

ThinkProgress:
Apple Warns Arizona Governor Anti-Gay Bill Will Hurt Highly Anticipated Sapphire Glass Factory

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, NBC News and Daily Kos

Arizona Republic: Don't wait to veto SB 1062, Gov. Brewer

ThinkProgress:

Oops: Dick Cheney Unintentionally Trashes Troops In Attempt To Hit Obama — Former Vice President Dick Cheney took to Fox News on Monday night to lambaste the Obama administration's proposed cuts to the military budget, lamenting the president's desire to ensure that Americans have access …

Discussion: The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, Americans Against the …, Shakesville and The Agonist

Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dick Cheney: President Obama favors food stamps

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Plum Line, The Daily Caller, The Dish, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and TIME

Reuters:
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014

Discussion: Fox News, Liberaland, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air

Jaime Fuller / Post Politics:
Cheney says Obama would rather have food stamps than a strong military

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Associated Press and Washington Wire

Dan Merica / CNN:

Atheists plan conservative outreach with booth at CPAC — Washington (CNN) - American Atheists, an outspoken organization that advocates for atheists nationwide, will have a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. — The atheist institution, which is well known …

Discussion: Politico, Joe. My. God. and Hot Air

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

Conservatives Boot American Atheists From Booth At Conference — The Conservative Political Action Conference has revoked the booth belonging to the group American Atheists at the right-wing convention beginning later this week. — The group, which advocates on behalf of atheists across the country …

Discussion: CNN, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.

Dave Muscato / American Atheists:
Atheists March Into Lions' Den at CPAC

Discussion: Post Politics

Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:

Mt.Gox site disappears, Bitcoin future in doubt — What was once the world's largest trading platform for bitcoins is now a blank page. — The Bitcoin-trading website Mt.Gox was taken offline late Monday, putting at risk millions of dollars put there by investors who gambled on the digital currency.

Discussion: Re/code and The Switch

New York Times:
Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World

Discussion: Fortune, Re/code, Forbes, The Switch, The Monkey Cage, DealBook, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »

The Two-Bit Idiot:
Bitcoin's Apocalyptic Moment: Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins

Discussion: Fortune, DealBook and Mashable

Reuters:
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency

Discussion: Bloomberg, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Two-Bit Idiot

Bill / The Hill:

Bill Press: Democrats' Enemy No. 1 — Democrats have a big job in 2014: they need to hold onto control of the Senate, win back leadership of the House, and elect Democratic governors and state legislators in key states. But to get there, they face one big obstacle.

Eliana Johnson / National Review: Bill Cassidy: The End of the Landrieu Line?

Curtis Gans / Washington Monthly:
Midterm Signals and Noise

Discussion: Booman Tribune and BillMoyers.com

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Debbie Dingell will run for husband's seat — Democratic power player Debbie Dingell will run for her husband's congressional seat and announce her campaign on Friday, a source close to the Dingells tells The Hill. — “She is going to announce her candidacy on Friday.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Power Line and Post Politics

Post Politics:
Debbie Dingell to run for House seat being vacated by John Dingell

Discussion: Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and The Fix

Emmeline Zhao / RealClearEducation:

Blue Devil: The Duke Porn Star and College Costs — Stories about soaring college costs are perennial media favorites, at once playing to parental anxiety while highlighting a genuine education problem. But this one was different: A Duke University freshman confirmed to her college paper …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Real Clear Politics, Eduwonk, Hit & Run, The Daily Beast and Questions and Observations

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

Opponents of Pentagon-Budget Cuts Just Played the Entire Media — On Monday, large swaths of the news media reported on the Obama Administration's proposed military budget using the same misleading frame. As the New York Times stated in its headline, “Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level.”

Discussion: American Prospect, Reuters, Daily Kos, The Week, Guardian, Duck of Minerva, Hit & Run, Washington Post, Right Wing Watch, Mashable, Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire, Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress and Gawker

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Bibi, Merkel Photo Makes Waves — German chancellor Angela Merkel is in Israel visiting Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This photo, apparently taken by photographer Marc Israel Sellem of the Jerusalem Post is making waves: — As Jerusalem Post report Ben Hartman notes on Twitter:

Discussion: Jerusalem Post, Israel Matzav, rubber hose and Althouse

The Hill:

ObamaCare stars fade — The Obama administration is short of star power as it begins its last public relations blitz for ObamaCare. — President Obama's celebrity supporters are not in the forefront as they were during the star-studded campaign-style videos that hogged the airwaves in 2008.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and Weekly Standard

Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:

House GOP tax plan would cut top rates but also hit high earners with a surtax — The long-awaited simplification of the tax code being drafted by House Republicans would slash the top income tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent and impose a surtax on some of the nation's wealthiest households.

Discussion: OnPolitics, Wonkblog, Politico, AEIdeas, Washington Monthly and Washington Wire

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video — BY RICHARD LAWLER @RJCC FEB 25TH 2014 6:56AM — Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Verge, CBS San Francisco, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:

Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners — Welcome center: DanTD/Wikimedia Commons; Plank: Nuttapong/Shutterstock. Photoillustration by Matt Connolly. — A bill moving swiftly through the Georgia House of Representatives would allow business owners …

Discussion: The Raw Story, Daily Kos, PoliticusUSA, Ajc Blogs and Joe. My. God.

Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:

When ‘leave us alone’ became ‘bake us a cake!’ — Would Jesus bake a cake for a gay wedding? — It's a weird question, but we do live in interesting times. And believe it or not, this has become one of the most heated debates of the week. This week, liberal Christians began arguing …

Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll

Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.

Discussion: Boing Boing, Taylor Marsh, Techdirt, Althouse, Informed Comment, CANNONFIRE, RT, Daily Kos and The Agonist

Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:

@GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator) — A three-year parlor game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify the Goldman Sachs employee behind a Twitter account that purports to reveal the uncensored comments overheard in the firm's elevators.