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3:50 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
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.”
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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 …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:   The Defenders of the Faith Apologize for America
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Muslim terrorists’ at summit
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 …
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 …
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
A Stupid and Sleazy Clinton Decision  —  If Hillary Clinton wants to be president, the Clinton Foundation should stop accepting money from foreign countries.  —  This is sleazy and stupid.  Just as Hillary Clinton is getting ready to run for president again, her family's charitable foundation …
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News, Politico and CNN
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Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Foundation Defends Acceptance of Foreign Donations
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Fox News
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 …
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama picks State's Psaki to head White House communications
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
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.
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.
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
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Tucker Carlson Blames ‘Hungover’ Editor For ‘Kill All The Jews’ Headline  —  Tucker Carlson, the editor-in-chief of the conservative news site The Daily Caller, told TPM on Thursday that a “hungover” editor was to blame for a headline on the site's “Guns and Gear” section that included the phrase “Kill All The Jews.”
Discussion: Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Gun groups launch new push for concealed-carry legislation  —  Gun rights groups are gearing up for a major push to move concealed-carry legislation through the new Republican Congress.  —  The National Rifle Association (NRA) and other Second Amendment advocates are throwing their weight behind …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Dems gloat over ObamaCare numbers  —  Democrats are touting the latest ObamaCare enrollment numbers as proof that the law is working.  —  The administration announced on Tuesday that 11.4 million people had signed up ahead of Sunday's deadline, a figure that puts the administration on track to beat its goal of 9.1 million enrollees.
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 …
Michelle Fay CortezAlexander Wayne / Bloomberg Business:
Obamacare Is Barely Denting Corporate Profits  —  Don't Miss Out —  (Bloomberg) — The biggest entitlement legislation in a generation is causing barely a ripple in corporate America.  —  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare …
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Haroon Siddique / Guardian:
RAF scrambles jets after Russian bombers spotted near Cornwall coast  —  David Cameron says Moscow ‘trying to make a point’, while Kremlin hits back at defence secretary's warning over threat to Baltic states  —  Anglo-Russian relations have taken another battering after the RAF escorted …
Discussion: NPR
DNAinfo New York:
Eric Garner's Family Has Yet to Receive Thousands of Dollars Raised Online  —  STATEN ISLAND — Online fundraisers are pulling in big bucks in the name of Eric Garner, but family members say they haven't seen any of the cash.  —  At least 19 crowd-funding projects that claim to raise money …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week and Mediaite
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: 'There Really Shouldn't Be Public Schools' Anymore  —  Fox host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery suggested getting rid of the nation's public schools during a discussion on Thursday's “Outnumbered.”  —  Kennedy's comments came during a segment about an Oklahoma bill, approved by a House committee …
Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat  —  Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said.  —  Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts …
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Why Outside Spending Is Overrated  —  Lessons from the 2014 Senate Elections  —  The Koch brothers and their network of wealthy conservative donors recently announced that they intend to spend almost $900 million on the 2016 elections.  This level of spending by a group operating independently …
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.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Unlikely Cause Unites the Left and the Right: Justice Reform  —  WASHINGTON — Usually bitter adversaries, Koch Industries and the Center for American Progress have found at least one thing they can agree on: The nation's criminal justice system is broken.  —  Koch Industries …
 
 
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats lining up behind 33-year-old Roy Blunt challenger
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Bruce Rauner is Scott Walker on steroids. But is that bad?
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
McCain to GOP: Fund DHS, let courts decide Obama's immigration actions
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
Chicago Tribune:
The Internet isn't broken. Obama doesn't need to ‘fix’ it.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's curious GOP connection
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $10 An Hour
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Walmart Corporate:
Walmart announces Q4 underlying1 EPS of $1.61 and additional strategic investments in people …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Iranian Nuke Negotiator Ordered to Stop Screaming at Kerry
New York Times:
When One Penalty Is Enough
Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Swing-State Voters Not Feeling Community College Plan or Obama In General, Poll Says
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico