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Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton may delay campaign — Top Democrats give a new date for the campaign's likely start. — Hillary Clinton, expecting no major challenge for the Democratic nomination, is strongly considering delaying the formal launch of her presidential campaign until July …
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Big GOP field unfazed by Hillary Clinton — She's strong, they say, but hardly invincible. — The bumper crop of 2016 GOP hopefuls, bustling and seemingly growing by the day, reflects several realities: No prohibitive front-runner in the party; an eagerness to reclaim the White House …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Hillary Clinton looks to Barack Obama digital alums
Hillary Clinton looks to Barack Obama digital alums
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Why Hillary Clinton needs to fight hard for Iowa.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi warns Netanyahu: Speech to Congress will hurt Iran talks — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his coming speech before Congress threatens to sink the nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, the Democratic leader said Wednesday.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
The great GOP overreach — While Republicans bask in the glory of their victories in 2014 and continue their hyperpartisan onslaught in the new Congress, some early numbers should keep GOP strategists awake at night. — According to a recent ABC/Washington Post poll …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Administration Official Criticizes Israeli Ambassador Over Netanyahu Visit — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, after days of mounting tension, signaled on Wednesday how angry it is with Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Republican leaders' invitation to address Congress …
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Balloon Juice, Elder Of Ziyon and The Times of Israel
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
A Note To My Readers — One of the things I've always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers. This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw; sometimes it just means a monthly update on our revenues and subscriptions …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama seizes leverage from Republicans on immigration — President Obama on Thursday will call on congressional Republicans to approve a “clean” funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that preserves his executive actions on limiting deportations.
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David Nather / Politico:
President Obama to propose ending sequester — President Barack Obama will tell House Democrats on Thursday that his budget will call for an end to sequestration cuts and build on the “middle class economics” package he outlined in the State of the Union — setting up a clear contrast …
New York Times:
Inconvenient Truths in Afghanistan — In late December, as they do every few months, American military officials in Kabul sent a trove of data to the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction for its quarterly report. Over the years, such figures have told …
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Prairie Weather
Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg Business:
The Re-Re-Rebranding of Mitt Romney — STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Romney family has a predilection for reinvention. George Romney, the former governor of Michigan, made his name remaking the gas-guzzling American Motor Co. into a producer of fuel-efficient Ramblers.
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Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Romney began building expensive homes after 2012 loss
Romney began building expensive homes after 2012 loss
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af.mil:
AF Identifies Boeing 747-8 platform for next Air Force One — WASHINGTON (AFNS) — Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, in coordination with the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall, has determined the Boeing 747-8 will serve …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
American Family Association Evangelist Bryan Fischer Has Been Fired, Maddow Reports — Rachel Maddow tonight broke news that the American Family Association has officially fired notorious evangelist Bryan Fischer after a controversy involving the RNC and Israel.
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Debra Nussbaum Cohen / Haaretz:
U.S. NGO: ‘Hate group’ funding Republican National Committee trip to Israel
U.S. NGO: ‘Hate group’ funding Republican National Committee trip to Israel
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The New Republic addresses its ‘perceived legacy of racism’ — The forthcoming issue of The New Republic — its first since a mass staff shakeup in December — features a cover story by Canadian journalist Jeet Heer about the magazine's “perceived legacy of racism.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Koch cash triggers Dem angst about 2016 — Democratic lawmakers say they are deeply worried about how much money Charles and David Koch plan to spend on the 2016 elections. — The billionaire brothers have played a massive role in GOP politics in recent years and were seen by Democrats …
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Political Wire
Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women — On a spring afternoon last year at an outdoor café in San Francisco, two denizens of the tech community sketched out their strategy for a startup. Like most 28-year-olds in Silicon Valley, they had smarts and dreams.
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Talking Points Memo
McDonalds:
McDonald's Announces Key Management Changes — Board Elects New Chief Executive Officer Upon Retirement of Don Thompson — The Board of Directors of McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced that Don Thompson will retire as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member …
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New York Times, Washington Post and NPR
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Exclusive: Spending- why ‘red’ states shoulder the deepest cuts under Obama — As Washington has tightened its belt in recent years, the budget cuts have sliced most deeply in states where President Obama is unpopular, according to an analysis of federal spending by Reuters.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
N.H. Republicans to host presidential candidate summit in April — The Republican Party in New Hampshire is organizing a two-day festival of political speechmaking in April designed to formally kick off the 2016 presidential campaign in the early primary state.
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Talking Points Memo
Robert Moran / Philly.com:
Freezing, thawing cited in Center City collapse — City inspectors believe that the freezing and thawing of water caused part of a nearly 90-year-old building to collapse, crashing through the roof of a neighboring Center City clothing store Tuesday and injuring three people, a top city official said Wednesday.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker's “Our American Revival” PAC Uses Foreign Stock Videos In Debut Ad — “America stands on the brink.” — Republican Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday the creation of a political action committee to help him raise money as he mulls a presidential run. The PAC, “Our American Revival,” debuted with this video:
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Sergio Bichao / Courier News:
Bound Brook cops stop teens seeking snow shoveling work — Local law bans unlicensed door-to-door soliciting; police worried about ‘state of emergency’ — BOUND BROOK - School was closed for the blizzard that wasn't, but there was still enough snow on the ground that two Bridgewater-Raritan …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Associated Press and Hit & Run
MiAtheistGal / FreakOutNation:
Police Dogs Turned Loose On Restrained Female Student — Warning: Contains graphic image. — London Colvin, a junior at Norfolk State University and an Army Reservist, was at an off-campus party when things got out of hand. A fight broke out, and it was a large fight, reportedly involving 35 people according to the call to police.
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