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11:10 AM ET, February 25, 2015

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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Right turns fire on McConnell  —  Conservative hardliners laid into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday night for what they view as capitulating to Democrats on immigration.  —  McConnell announced earlier in the day that the Senate would vote on a “clean” …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Will Boehner risk the Tea Party's wrath over DHS funding?  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is back in a familiar spot: between a rock and a hard place.  —  The Senate appears poised to send the House a “clean” bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), free …
Associated Press:
Pressure Centers on House GOP on Homeland Security Bill  —  Days ahead of a looming partial agency shutdown, the pressure is on House Republicans after Senate GOP leaders agreed to Democratic demands and announced legislation to fund the Homeland Security Department without contentious …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality  —  WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right …
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Randolph J. May / The Hill:
Is the FCC lawless?  —  This Thursday, Feb. 26, will be a fateful day for the future of the Internet.  In the nearly 40 years that I have been involved in communications law and policy, including serving as the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) associate general counsel, this action …
Slate:
The FCC's Plan to Protect the Internet
Discussion: The Hill, UT San Diego and Backchannel
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Netanyahu Invites Arab Diplomats to His Big Speech—and Gets Rejected  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to meet with a group of ardently pro-Israel Democratic senators next week in Washington, but he very much wants to see the faces of Arab ambassadors in the audience during his controversial address to Congress.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Aide Calls Netanyahu's Planned Visit ‘Destructive’ to U.S.-Israel Ties  —  WASHINGTON — Susan E. Rice, President Obama's national security adviser, sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday over his plans to address a joint meeting of Congress next week …
Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:
Rev. Graham: America is ‘Morally Crumbling Within ... We Have Turned Our Back on God’  —  “Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken a lot of heat from the media for his remark that he's not sure if President Obama really loves America,” said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Must-See Late Night Clip: Seth Meyers Proves That Obama Loves America
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
University of Colorado settles with student accused of sexual assault  —  A University of Colorado Boulder student has settled with the university after filing a lawsuit alleging mishandling of the investigation into whether he sexually assaulted another student.
James Rosen / Fox News:
Senior State Dept. official arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor  —  EXCLUSIVE: A senior State Department official in charge of federal counterterrorism programs was arrested Tuesday afternoon for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor, Fox News has learned.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Hillary's State Department OK'd Bill's big-money speeches  —  Ethics reviews came easy at Hillary Clinton's State Department, documents show.  —  Less than a year after Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton asked the State Department to approve a paid …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Virginia Hale / BREITBART.COM:
Adam Baldwin Could Have Been the Latest Victim of the Censorious Left  —  Mainstream “geek culture” media have been frothing at the mouth this month because Supanova, an Australian convention for sci-fi, comic, anime and gaming fans, has refused to rescind actor Adam Baldwin's invitation to appear …
Ian Ayres / New York Times:
Research Shows White Privilege Is Real  —  NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy's 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that …
James Barron / New York Times:
Commodes, if Not Commutes, Have Improved at Port Authority Bus Terminal  —  But what would John Oliver say?  —  The subject here is the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, and it was Mr. Oliver, the host of the fake-news show “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, who called this less …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Dr. Fiore is in: Cancer is a fungus that can be flushed out!  —  I think we should start a betting pool on just how many insane effusions will come out of Assemblywoman Michele Fiore's mouth every week.  —  Last week it was the “hot little girls” on campus remark to the paper of record.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Emma Roller / National Journal:
Can Democrats Ever Win Back State Legislatures?  —  One group is putting $70 million on it happening in the next five years.  —  Caring about the 2016 presidential race is so over; now all the cool kids are watching 2020.  —  Since 2008, Democrats have lost control of 30 state legislative chambers …
Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Emanuel heads to runoff against Garcia
James Carville / The Hill:
Does the US really want another Bush?  —  The 2016 Republican presidential field, we are told, will be made up of adults, as compared to the clown car that was the 2012 field.  But as Roger Simon recently noted, “the Republican Party's clown car has become a clown van.”
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border  —  MOSCOW — U.S. military combat vehicles paraded Wednesday through an Estonian city that juts into Russia, a symbolic act that highlighted the stakes for both sides amid the worst tensions between the West and Russia since the Cold War.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Chris Hayes Literally Applauds Laura Ingraham's Terror Comments  —  MSNBC's Chris Hayes appeared to shock even himself Tuesday night by giving credit where credit is due to Fox News contributor and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham for comments she made about ISIS on Fox & Friends this morning.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Incredibly Awkward Interview With Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett
Discussion: Guardian, Mashable and Spectator
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
House Dems: Did Big Oil seek to sway scientists in climate debate?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
GOP Lawmaker Urges Constituents To Monitor Food Stamp Users At Grocery Stores
BBC:
UN climate head Rajendra Pachauri resigns
Discussion: Power Line and The Agonist
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Company plans to sell kosher marijuana in NY
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and FOX News Radio
New York Times:
Clinton '16 Would Give Gender More of a Role Than Clinton '08 Did
Discussion: Hit & Run
Tanya Basu / The Atlantic Online:
Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago's Homan Square
USA Today:
No federal charges for Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin death
Discussion: Hot Air
 

 
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Om Malik / On my Om:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at Crunchyroll's challenges, including current and former employees saying its management is out of touch, as Disney and Netflix's expand into anime
 
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