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Wayne Barrett / NY Daily News:
What Rudy Giuliani knows about love — a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama — Rudy Giuliani knows a lot about love. — Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
First Draft: Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I'm Not a Racist
First Draft: Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I'm Not a Racist
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Fire Bell in the Night — Dozing off as we pored through a raft of mostly meaningless polls this week, we were startled awake by one set of findings. The CNN/ORC survey released February 18 was The Weekly Standard's own little fire bell in the night. — What, you surely ask, alarmed us so?
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Big hire for Jeb: Tim Miller as comms director — Jeb Bush plans to name Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising PAC, as his top communications aide, Republican sources told POLITICO on Friday. — Miller initially will be a senior adviser to Bush's Right to Rise PAC …
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Political Wire
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
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Talking Points Memo, Metro Weekly and The Daily Caller
Robert Pear / New York Times:
800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data — WASHINGTON — About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected.
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New York Magazine, hrms.urban.org, Josh Blackman's Blog and The Week
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Fox News:
Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms
Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms
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“The Lid” and Allen West Republic
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
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Daily Kos, Liberal Values and Twitchy
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info
800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info
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Hit & Run, Hot Air, Business Insider and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
James Hohmann / Politico:
The POLITICO Caucus: Christie slips from first tier — In other findings, GOP insiders say a pro-immigration reform candidate can win, and Carly Fiorina impresses. — Twice as many early state insiders believe that New Jersey's credit downgrades are a bigger problem for Chris Christie's presidential hopes …
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Algemeiner.com and The Week
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Mother Jones:
Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem — The Fox News host has said he was in a “war zone” that apparently no American correspondent reached. — After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
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The Daily Banter, Taylor Marsh and Mediaite
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Plot to Kill Health Care — Republicans hate activist judges — those black-robed elites who are willing to upset the lives of millions of people just to further a political cause. Ditto trial lawyers trolling for clients, the ambulance-chasing, “Better Call Saul” guys. They hate them, until they need them.
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The PJ Tatler
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
The GOP Strategy To Pave The Way For The Supreme Court To Gut Obamacare
The GOP Strategy To Pave The Way For The Supreme Court To Gut Obamacare
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Washington Monthly and ACS Blog
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
After MSNBC Axes Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid's Shows, Is Chris Hayes Next? — As its afternoon shows hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid are canceled due to poor ratings, MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow. — It was hardly a surprise Thursday …
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The Daily Caller, Gawker, The Other McCain, US News, Mediaite, Truth Revolt, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll and TVbytheNumbers
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC pulls ‘Ronan Farrow’, ‘Reid Report’
MSNBC pulls ‘Ronan Farrow’, ‘Reid Report’
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine
CNN:
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat — Hunter: Terrorists crossed U.S. border — Story highlights — Intelligence assessment focuses on domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists — Some law enforcement groups view domestic terror threat …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, Raw Story, FreakOutNation and Booman Tribune
E. J. Graff / New York Times:
Boston's Winter From Hell — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — BY now you've seen the starkly beautiful shots of Boston buried under snow: the panoramic city under a white blanket; snowbanks so high they crest over parked cars; piercing icicles glinting for two full stories from gutters dammed with ice …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Abolish the filibuster — I've been radicalized. By Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Goodbye moderation and sweet reason. No more clinging to constitutional and procedural restraint. It's time to go nuclear. — In the fourth quarter of his presidency, Obama unbound is abusing presidential authority …
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Power Line
New York Post:
NYPD's idea of reform included breath mints and baby oil — Reform czar Michael Julian's odd ideas like breath mints for officers on the verge of cursing, got him reassigned after only two months. — Mayor de Blasio ordered sweeping reforms for the NYPD after the Eric Garner death …
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The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider and Washington Times
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Attacks on Koch brothers contributed to Democrats' midterms losses, party officials say … Democratic officials are second-guessing the party's obsession with attacking the Koch brothers, saying it bears some of the blame for last year's devastating election losses as the focus …
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Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller
BBC:
Ukraine: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia — The UK and the EU have been accused of a “catastrophic misreading” of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine. — The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe “sleepwalked” into the crisis.
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Shakesville, KVNF Public Radio, The Agonist, New York Times and NPR
Amanda Taub / Vox:
Kim Jong Un has an amazing new haircut. We have many, many questions. — North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un debuted a new haircut — and a new ... eyebrowcut? — at a politburo meeting on Wednesday. The style is a variation on Kim's signature shaved sides, but with the top now sculpted into a high …