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2:30 PM ET, February 15, 2015

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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Bill Clinton's libido threatens to derail Hillary — again  —  She hasn't even announced, but the question has already resurfaced: Will Bill Clinton's baggage derail Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes?  —  Just a few weeks ago, reports broke that Bill Clinton had flown at least 11 times on …
Discussion: Gothamist, Tea Party and CANNONFIRE
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Call Off the Dogs  —  WASHINGTON — I'LL pay for this column.  —  The Rottweilers will be unleashed.  —  Once the Clintons had a War Room.  Now they have a Slime Room.  —  Once they had the sly James Carville, fondly known as “serpenthead.”  Now they have the slippery David Brock, accurately known as a snake.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: I Didn't Want ‘Interference’ From Obama In Netanyahu Speech  —  “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace on Sunday quizzed House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on his decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress.  —  Boehner invited Netanyahu without consulting …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Nick Gass / Politico:
John Boehner blames Senate Dems for blocking DHS funding  —  Speaker John Boehner says the House has done its job in passing a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and it's Senate Democrats' fault if the department runs out of money at the end of the month.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Reuters and NPR
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner ‘Certainly’ Prepared to Let DHS Funding Expire: Senate Dems ‘Would Be to Blame’  —  Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeatedly questioned House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) Sunday morning over the upcoming deadline for Department of Homeland Security funding …
Discussion: Liberaland
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Lawmaker Opposes Education Funding Because It Would Go To ‘Blacks’ Who Get ‘Welfare Crazy Checks’  —  Mississippi state Rep. Gene Alday (R-Wells), right, listens to a colleague.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis  —  A Mississippi state lawmaker said he opposed putting more money …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Eschaton
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Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Miss. third-grade gate: Fear of failure  —  Mississippi school superintendents expect to see more than 28 percent of their students forced to repeat third grade as a result of the governor's third-grade gate.  —  “We are setting these kids up for failure,” predicted Nancy Loome …
Discussion: FreakOutNation
David Cameron / Observer:
Copenhagen shootings suspect was ‘known to police’  —  Suspect shot dead in Denmark's capital after one person was gunned down at cafe and another at a synagogue  —  The gunman shot dead by police after a double terror attack on a cafe and a synagogue in Copenhagen that claimed two lives …
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Ken Stone / Times of San Diego:
Obama Depicted as Rape Suspect in Fox 5 News Graphic Error  —  In a stroke of Friday the 13th bad luck, Fox 5 San Diego briefly portrayed President Obama as a sex-assault suspect on its 10 o'clock news.  —  At 10:04 p.m., viewers heard anchor Kathleen Bade say: “The only suspect in a sex assault at SDSU will not be charged.”
Matt Peterson / Crime Blog:
UT-Arlington student admits making up claim that gunman followed her to campus, threatened her  —  Texas Hall is a few blocks north of Lot 49, where the student said she was confronted.  —  A UT-Arlington student who claimed she was threatened at gunpoint on campus this week admitted Friday that she'd lied …
Agence France-Presse:
Hezbollah chief urges backers to stop celebratory gunfire  —  Beirut (AFP) - The head of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday urged supporters to refrain from the volleys of celebratory gunfire that they unleash during his periodic speeches.  —  “I urge you... to abstain categorically …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bibi Ad Shows ISIS Asking Directions to Jerusalem  —  In the latest Likud ad for the upcoming Israeli elections, a group of ISIS terrorists (played by actors, of course) are seen asking for directions to Jerusalem.  Likud is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Elections there are a month away.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Autopsy Cites Cancer as Cause in Death of David Carr, Times Reporter
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
FAA finally issues its small drone rule
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
New York Times:
As Dynasty's Son, Jeb Bush Used His Connections Freely
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Washington Post
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
Female Thor Is What Happens When Progressive Hand-Wringing And Misandry Ruin A Cherished Art-Form
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Los Angeles Times:
Column Republicans haven't quite worked out a foreign policy beyond ‘not Obama’
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Israpundit
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Norman Miller / MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA:
Framingham man faces assault with bagel charge
Discussion: FOX News Radio
New York Times:
Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
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The Killer, the Reporter, and the Southern Poverty Law Center
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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