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2:00 PM ET, February 20, 2015

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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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?
Discussion: alicublog
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team
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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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.
Discussion: Josh Blackman's Blog and The Week
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Fox News:
Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
Discussion: Liberal Values and Twitchy
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 …
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and The Week
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Washington Post:
Chris Christie losing home-state donors as Jeb Bush makes inroads
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
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly: Mother Jones report ‘garbage’
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC pulls ‘Ronan Farrow’, ‘Reid Report’
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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
Discussion: Washington Monthly and ACS Blog
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 …
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 …
Jon Harper / Stars & Stripes:
CENTCOM: US-Iraq mission to take back Mosul to launch in April or May  —  WASHINGTON — American military officials and their Iraqi counterparts have developed a detailed battle plan to recapture Iraq's second largest city, and a brutal urban fight could kick off as early as April, according to U.S. Central Command.
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Agence France-Presse:
US wants Mosul offensive on IS in April-May
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Guardian, CNN, US News and USA Today
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Complex Corporate Ties  —  Family charities collected donations from companies she promoted as secretary of state  —  Among recent secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton was one of the most aggressive global cheerleaders for American companies, pushing governments to sign deals …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
F.B.I. Chief Not Invited to Meeting on Countering Violent Extremism
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Marie Harf Wrote Thesis on How Conservative Support for Israel Complicates U.S. Foreign Policy
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Abolish the filibuster  —  I've been radicalized.  By Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Discussion: Power Line
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Rent-stabilized tenant evicted after cashing in on Airbnb
Discussion: Mashable
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Warren acknowledges 2016 supporters, says public ‘ready to fight back’
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Mediaite
Mike Nowatzki / INFORUM:
ND House Republicans cancel opening prayer from Muslim on Ash Wednesday
Discussion: Watchdog.org and Political Wire
Paul Singer / Associated Press:
Rep. Schock's flights may violate House rules
Discussion: Political Wire
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Joe Tacopino / Page Six:
Prince Charles ‘exploited’ sons & Diana to ‘boost’ image: doc
Discussion: Liberaland
Reuters:
Germany softens tone ahead of crunch Greek debt talks
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Cranking Up for 2016  —  Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin …
Laura Borchers / WBNS-TV:
Woman Shoots And Kills Suspected Burglar
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ new study says
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Debbie's damage control
 

 
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