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10:20 AM ET, February 16, 2015

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New York Post:
Let's see her e-mails  —  It's been nearly two years since Lois Lerner planted a question at an American Bar Association gathering to slip in the fact that the IRS had singled out Tea Party groups for special scrutiny.  —  Since then, we've learned the following:
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Scott Walker's national education effect: Column  —  The college dropout governor may bring reality back to an Ivy League-suffocated government.  —  A lot of people don't know much about him yet, and he may not even be running, but if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is elected president in 2016 …
Chris Stephen / Guardian:
Libya and Egypt launch air strikes against Isis after militants post beheadings video  —  President Sisi had vowed to ‘avenge the criminal killings’ after release of video purporting to show killing of 21 Christians, believed to be kidnapped Egyptians  —  Egypt reported that its war planes …
Discussion: CNN, The Intercept, Hot Air and NPR
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Daily Mail:
Mother of four shot in road rage horror while teaching daughter to drive dies as grieving husband vows to find mystery killer  — Las Vegas mom Tammy Meyers, 44, gave her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson that triggered an unthinkable chain of events  — A car allegedly followed …
Discussion: Liberaland, FOX News Radio and ABC News
Los Angeles Times:
Republican majorities struggle to get Congress working  —  After six weeks in session and 139 roll call votes in a House and Senate that feature some of the largest Republican majorities in generations, one of the most telling statistics from the new Congress is this: President Obama's veto threats outnumber …
Discussion: Political Wire
Richard Benedetto / The Hill:
Washington and Lincoln, forgotten on Presidents Day  —  According to the blizzard of furniture, appliance and auto ads in the newspapers and on TV, today is Presidents Day.  —  But according to Congress, it's not Presidents Day at all.  It's George Washington's Birthday.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
New York Times:
C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons  —  The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure …
Discussion: Hot Air and Antiwar.com
Matthewjbuettner / CBS Denver:
Union President Calls For Chief's Resignation Over Defaced Fallen Officer Memorial  —  DENVER (CBS4) - Two people were arrested Saturday afternoon while police monitored a group that had been staging protests throughout Denver.  —  During the protest a memorial dedicated to fallen police officers …
Telegraph:
Copenhagen suspect ‘was released from prison two weeks ago’  —  Copenhagen terror attack suspect named as 22-year-old Omar el-Hussein, who ‘had violent past’  —  Terror returned to Europe at the weekend when a suspected Islamist extremist gunned down two people in separate attacks …
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New York Times:
Terror Attacks by a Native Son Rock Denmark
David Carr / New York Times:
David Carr's Last Word on Journalism, Aimed at Students  —  David Carr was known at The New York Times as a supreme talent scout, a mentor to young reporters and a blunt critic of those who didn't measure up.  He was a natural teacher, and right up until the day he died last week …
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner: Didn't Want White House Screwing up Netanyahu Invitation with Their ‘Animosity’  —  House speaker John Boehner (R-OH) spoke to Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace Sunday morning about what Wallace characterized as the GOP's majority's slow start in Congress and his controversial invitation …
Discussion: Haaretz and FOX News Radio
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Agence France-Presse:
Netanyahu urges Jews to move to Israel after Copenhagen attacks
Discussion: Vox Popoli and The Daily Caller
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bibi Ad Shows ISIS Asking Directions to Jerusalem
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
North Carolina Paper Issues Correction: Obama Is Not The Antichrist (Whew!)  —  A North Carolina paper thinks Obama is so powerful that he will usher in the Antichrist.  He'll smite us all, just because.  At least they acknowledge that the letter they published didn't identify Obama as the dreaded Antichrist.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys, myfox8.com and Gawker
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Fox Host Grills Roy Moore: You Already Got Fired Once For Putting Yourself ‘Above The Law’  —  Alabama Chief Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Sunday insisted that he had a moral duty to defy the United States Supreme Court if they tried to change God's “organic law” by declaring that LGBT people had an equal right to marriage.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Judge Challenging Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore On Gay Marriage: 'We're On The Right Side Of History'
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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