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2:05 PM ET, February 19, 2015

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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Rudy Giuliani: President Obama doesn't love America  —  The former New York mayor makes his remarks at a Scott Walker event.  —  NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani went straight for the jugular Wednesday night during a private group dinner here featuring Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …
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Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani claims Obama 'doesn't love America' while Wisc.  Gov. Scott Walker goes after Mitt Romney
Discussion: The Week and The Right Scoop
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama picks State's Psaki to head White House communications
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Scott Walker to attend private dinner with supply-siders in New York
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Faulted for Avoiding ‘Islamic’ Labels to Describe Terrorism, White House Cites a Strategic Logic  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama chooses his words with particular care when he addresses the volatile connections between religion and terrorism.  He and his aides have avoided labeling acts …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Defenders of the Faith Apologize for America  —  “Defender of the Faith” is one of the British sovereign's titles.  Of course, Britain has an official faith, the Church of England.  The United States has no state religion, and if it did, it wouldn't be Islam.
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Obama: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’  —  (CNSNews.com) - We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Muslim terrorists’ at summit  —  WASHINGTON — They're burning and beheading victims in the name of Islam, but President Obama delivered a major speech Wednesday on combating violent extremism — while refusing to use the words “Muslim terrorists.”
The White House:
Remarks by the President at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism | February 19, 2015
Mustafa Akyol / New York Times:
A Letter Concerning Muslim Toleration
Discussion: Religion Dispatches
Oliver Sacks / New York Times:
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer  —  A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health.  At 81, I still swim a mile a day.  But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver.  Nine years ago it was discovered …
Discussion: Mashable, Whatever and Althouse
Amy Lange / Fox 2 News in Detroit:
Doctor refuses treatment of same-sex couple's baby  —  Bay Windsor Contreras is 4 months old and she's the apple of her mothers' eye.  —  Both of her mothers, Krista and Jami Contreras were married in Vermont in 2012.  —  In October 2014 they welcomed a beautiful baby bay into the world …
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Pediatrician wouldn't care for baby with 2 moms  —  Sitting in the pediatrician's office with their 6-day-old daughter, the two moms couldn't wait to meet the doctor they had picked out months before.  —  The Roseville pediatrician — one of many they had interviewed — seemed the perfect fit …
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $10 An Hour  —  On Thursday, Walmart announced that it will raise all of its full-time and part-time employees' pay to at least $9 an hour starting in April.  The lowest wage will rise to $10 an hour by February of next year.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Walmart Raising Wage to at Least $9
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Eschaton
Walmart Corporate:
Walmart announces Q4 underlying1 EPS of $1.61 and additional strategic investments in people …
Tim Jones / Bloomberg Business:
Wisconsin to Skip Debt Payments to Make Up for Walker's Tax Cuts  —  (Bloomberg) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, facing a $283 million deficit that needs to be closed by the end of June, will skip more than $100 million in debt payments to balance the books thrown into disarray by his tax cuts.
CBS News:
Do Americans want to send ground troops to fight ISIS?  —  Shares -  —  Amid more executions by the militant group ISIS, Americans increasingly see the group as a threat to the U.S. Now, 65 percent of Americans view ISIS as a major threat - up from 58 percent in October - while another 18 percent view it as a minor threat.
USA Today:
Electric car benefits?  Just myths … It is time to stop our green worship of the electric car.  It costs us a fortune, cuts little CO2 and surprisingly kills almost twice the number of people compared with regular gasoline cars.  —  Electric cars' global-warming benefits are small.
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Former ‘SNL’ Actress Victoria Jackson on Political Bias at Anniversary Show: “Is Lorne Ashamed of Me?”  —  Victoria Jackson, a six-year veteran of Saturday Night Live, is publicly wondering if her opposition to gay marriage prompted Lorne Michaels to treat her differently than the other cast members …
Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Won't Back Egypt's Attacks on ISIS  —  Two long-time allies are attacking ISIS—and growing frustrated with one another.  That's good news for the so-called Islamic State.  —  The Obama administration was given multiple chances Wednesday to endorse a long-time ally's airstrikes …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Jeb's Foreign-Policy Problem  —  On Wednesday at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Jeb Bush declared that “I'm my own man and my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences.”  But the speech itself undermined his claim.  In two very different ways, Jeb's speech made it unmistakably clear: He's a Bush.
New York Times:
When One Penalty Is Enough  —  Millions of Americans may be in for a shock when they file tax returns and learn that they have to pay a fine for failing to enroll in health insurance in 2014 and an even bigger fine for failing to enroll in 2015 before the enrollment period ended on Feb. 15.
Chicago Tribune:
The Internet isn't broken.  Obama doesn't need to ‘fix’ it.  —  If you like your wireless plan, you should be able to keep it.  But new federal regulations may take away your freedom to choose the best broadband plan for you.  It's all part of the federal government's 332-page plan to regulate …
Reuters:
Greece submits request for loan extension from skeptical euro zone  —  (Reuters) - Greece formally requested a six-month extension to its euro zone loan agreement on Thursday as it races to avoid running out of cash within weeks and overcome resistance from skeptical partners led by Germany.
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
McCain to GOP: Fund DHS, let courts decide Obama's immigration actions  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday said Congress should not let the Department Homeland Security (DHS) shut down because it appears the courts will decide the fate of President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Sarah Rose / Canon City Daily Record:
Hudson Taylor Clark to undergo psychiatric evaluation
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Biden headed to New Hampshire
Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Business:
Sheldon Adelson Presidential Endorsement ‘A Year Away,’ Aide Says
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Daniel Bice / JSOnline:
Fired Tammy Baldwin aide rejects severance deal
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Moe Lane and Fox News
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's curious GOP connection
Discussion: FOX News Radio, Liberaland and Fox News
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Unlikely Cause Unites the Left and the Right: Justice Reform
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Iranian Nuke Negotiator Ordered to Stop Screaming at Kerry
Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Swing-State Voters Not Feeling Community College Plan or Obama In General, Poll Says
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
CNN:
Justice Dept. could sue Ferguson for racial discrimination
 

 
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