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9:15 AM ET, February 16, 2015

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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
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner ‘Certainly’ Prepared to Let DHS Funding Expire: Senate Dems ‘Would Be to Blame’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bibi Ad Shows ISIS Asking Directions to Jerusalem
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Nick Gass / Politico:
John Boehner blames Senate Dems for blocking DHS funding
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air, Bloomberg Business and NPR
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Viking Pundit
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
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
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
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
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: Antiwar.com
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
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.
Discussion: BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
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 …
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 …
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: myfox8.com and Gawker
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: NewsBusters
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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New York Times:
Terror Attacks by a Native Son Rock Denmark  —  COPENHAGEN — After killing a Danish film director in a Saturday afternoon attack on a Copenhagen cafe and then a Jewish night guard at a synagogue, the 22-year-old gunman responsible for Denmark's worst burst of terrorism in decades unleashed …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Rick Perry hires Iowans, heads to Sioux City  —  Republican Rick Perry continues to build steam for a likely presidential bid, booking a return trip to Iowa and hiring Iowa political operatives.  —  The former Texas governor will be in the Sioux City area Monday for a full day of private meetings …
 
 
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