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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” …
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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 …
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National Journal and Washington Post
Associated Press:
Pressure Centers on House GOP on Homeland Security Bill
Pressure Centers on House GOP on Homeland Security Bill
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Washington Monthly, Washington Times and ABC News
Politico:
GOP lawmakers clash over shutdown
GOP lawmakers clash over shutdown
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The Atlantic Online, New York Times, Hot Air, Daily Kos, ABC News and Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
McConnell plan moves Senate closer to deal on DHS funding, but House support unclear
McConnell plan moves Senate closer to deal on DHS funding, but House support unclear
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Political Insider blog, Political Wire, Truth Revolt, Hit & Run, Fox News, Daily Kos and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
National Journal:
Mitch McConnell Announces a Vote on Clean DHS Funding Is Coming
Mitch McConnell Announces a Vote on Clean DHS Funding Is Coming
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Algemeiner.com, Fox News, Power Line, Roll Call, Pat Dollard and Political Wire
Steven Dennis / The World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
McConnell Throws in Towel on DHS Fight, but Reid Is Waiting for Boehner to Cave (Updated)
McConnell Throws in Towel on DHS Fight, but Reid Is Waiting for Boehner to Cave (Updated)
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The Hill, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Hot Air, Roll Call, CBS DC, The Last Tradition and Daily Kos
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Can Washington Avoid Another Shutdown? Don't Count On It.
Can Washington Avoid Another Shutdown? Don't Count On It.
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Wall Street Journal, Balloon Juice, New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Truth Revolt
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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Mediaite, The Times of Israel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Daily Banter and Talking Points Memo
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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 …
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Reuters, BarbWire.com, Daily Kos, Power Line, Algemeiner.com, Israel Matzav and Political Wire
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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The Hill, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, Gizmodo, The Great Debate, Guardian, Gawker, The Agonist and Eschaton
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Randolph J. May / The Hill:
Is the FCC lawless? — This Thursday, Feb. 26, will be a fateful …
Is the FCC lawless? — This Thursday, Feb. 26, will be a fateful …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Rogerpielkejr / The Climate Fix:
I am Under “Investigation” — As some of you will already know, I am one of 7 US academics being investigated by US Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) who is the ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
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Weekly Standard, BarbWire.com and Watts Up With That?
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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.
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The Huffington Post and Hullabaloo
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 …
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Bloomberg Business
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.
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 …
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Mediaite and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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.
Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette:
GOP-backed bill would make it criminal to enforce ACA in W.Va. — In another salvo against the federal Affordable Care Act, some Republicans in West Virginia's House of Delegates want to make it a crime for state and federal officials to enforce the health-care law.
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Political Wire and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Washington Post, Forbes, Pat Dollard, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Hot Air
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.
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Associated Press, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Power Line, New York Magazine and The PJ Tatler
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
H&R Block: Majority of ObamaCare customers paying back subsidy — A majority of ObamaCare customers, 52 percent, are being forced to pay back some of their subsidies during this year's tax season, according to new data from H&R Block. — Customers are paying back an average of $530 …
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Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Daily Caller
Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
GOP Pollster Explains Why Republicans Need Record Minority Support To Win In 2016 — WASHINGTON — The American electorate is more diverse than ever, which means Republicans will have to attract a record percentage of minorities to win the presidency in 2016, a GOP pollster said Tuesday.
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Salon, US News, Booman Tribune and Political Wire
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Back-and-Forth View of the President's Executive Power — WASHINGTON — For President Obama, this has been a week to guard his power. He went to court to defend his executive action on immigration while fighting an effort by lawmakers to reverse it. And he vetoed legislation …
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 …
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 …
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Democratic Strategist and FishbowlDC
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.”