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8:50 AM ET, February 23, 2015

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Rudolph Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message  —  Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership.  —  There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’
Discussion: Raw Story
Juan Williams / The Hill:
McConnell fails to deliver  —  After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week.  —  Somehow the bruised Reid looks good compared to the new Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Congress faces five-day deadline for funding Homeland Security  —  Lawmakers will begin returning to Washington on Monday with only five days left to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  —  Legislation funding the agency is at an impasse over provisions demanded …
Discussion: Political Wire, ABC News and The Week
Politico:
Homeland Security fight goes into crunch time
Discussion: ABC News
Sen. Lindsey Graham / ABC News:
‘No Doubt’ President Obama Loves His Country, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and Washington Post
USA Today:
Homeland Security chief: Be ‘vigilant’ at malls
Discussion: Mashable, Mediaite and Chicago
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mall Of America Ups Security After Alleged Terrorist Threat
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Washington Post:
Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife  —  In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
President Obama's cyber pitch misses mark in Silicon Valley  —  The Obama administration is stumbling in its cybersecurity message to Silicon Valley, according to tech executives and a former White House official.  —  The White House recently made a big show of going to Stanford University for a major cybersecurity summit.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why are Americans confused about Obama's religion?  —  Fresh from a controversy over his views on evolution, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is now involved in a controversy over his views, or lack of them, on President Obama's religion.  On Saturday, two Washington Post reporters asked Walker …
Jim Romenesko:
Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership  —  Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
Walker's anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin  —  KING, Wis. — At the old union hall here on a recent afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18 empty chairs.  A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour earlier, but the small house …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Jeb Bush's Brainless Trust  —  WASHINGTON — I had been keeping an open mind on Jeb Bush.  —  I mean, sure, as Florida governor, he helped his brother snatch the 2000 election.  And that led to two decade-long botched wars that cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Discussion: Roger Ailes
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush
Discussion: FOX News Radio
New York Times:
Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.  —  They made the trip to learn about Android Auto, a new dashboard system meant …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama Calls for Tighter Rules on Retirement Account Brokers  —  The Obama administration is proposing tougher restrictions on brokers who manage Americans' retirement accounts, reigniting a confrontation with the financial services industry over rules affecting trillions of dollars in 401k and other savings accounts.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Daily Mail:
The milk of human kindness came before intelligence: Skulls of early humans show they developed compassion up to 3million years ago - before they could even speak  — Study suggests kindness and compassion came before intelligence, and may have helped early humans develop reasoning skills and speech
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Harry Davies / Guardian:
Swiss account secret of HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver revealed  —  Leaked files covering 2005-2007 show bank chief executive sheltered £5m of his own money at Panamanian company with Swiss HSBC account  —  Stuart Gulliver, the HSBC chief executive who has vowed to reform the crisis-hit bank …
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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