memeorandum: Miss. third-grade gate: Fear of failure (Jerry Mitchell/The Clarion Ledger)

5:20 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 …

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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

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.

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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: Washington Monthly

Steven Erlanger / New York Times:

Police Say They Killed Suspect in 2 Attacks in Copenhagen — LONDON — The Copenhagen police said on Sunday that they had shot and killed a man they believed carried out two attacks that left two people dead, one at a cafe and one outside a synagogue, and wounded at least five policemen.

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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 …

Discussion: Guardian, Friendly Atheist, ITV, Mediaite, Hinterland Gazette and Telegraph

BBC:
Danish shooting: Audio of moment gunman struck in Copenhagen cafe

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BBC:
Injuries in second Copenhagen shooting

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Associated Press:
2 Deadly Shootings Within Hours in Copenhagen; 5 Wounded

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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 …

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Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Miss. third-grade gate: Fear of failure

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Kyle Smith / New York Post:

How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation — So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.

Discussion: Gothamist and Power Line

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

Conservatives not sweating Homeland Security shutdown — Hard-line House GOP conservatives aren't worried about a looming Department of Homeland Security shutdown as the deadline for congressional action draws near. — Many of the conservative lawmakers who most want to aggressively …

Ahmed Tolba / Reuters:

Egyptian Church confirms 21 killed in Libya after Islamic State issues video — (Reuters) - Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo's concerns over security threats …

Discussion: Al Jazeera English, Mashable, Gawker, New York Magazine and Guardian

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.”