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Steven Dennis / The World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
McConnell Throws in Towel on DHS Fight, but Reid Is Waiting for Boehner to Cave (Updated) — Updated 5:20 p.m. | In an extraordinary sequence of events, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered Democrats exactly what they have been asking for Tuesday — “clean” full-year funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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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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Washington Post and National Journal
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 …
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Washington Monthly, Washington Times and ABC News
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama: Keystone pipeline bill ‘has earned my veto’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on a threat to reject a proposal embraced by Republicans as a jobs measure but opposed by environmentalists as contributing to climate change.
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” …
National Journal:
Mitch McConnell Announces a Vote on Clean DHS Funding Is Coming
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Fox News, Algemeiner.com, Power Line, Roll Call, Pat Dollard and Political Wire
Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Mitch McConnell endorses Rand Paul's call for GOP presidential caucus in Kentucky
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Hit & Run
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 Great Debate, The Agonist, Guardian, Gawker, Gizmodo and Eschaton
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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 …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Eleventh-hour drama for net neutrality
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Pat Dollard, Allen West Republic, The Daily Caller and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
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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Power Line, Political Wire and Israel Matzav
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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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Reuters, Mediaite, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Daily Banter
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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Wheat-dogg's World and Little Green Footballs
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out
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PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
New Clinton Foundation flap for Bill, Hillary — Ethics reviews came easy at Hillary Clinton's State Department, exclusive 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
U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Officials Close Investigation Into Death of Trayvon Martin — The Justice Department announced today that the independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida.
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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.
Susan Page / USA Today:
50 years after Selma, John Lewis on unfinished business — Shannon Rae Green, Darr Beiser, Paulo Fugen — WASHINGTON — John Lewis rubs the scar, still visible on his forehead, from the blow of a nightstick as Alabama state troopers assaulted the civil-rights marchers he was leading across …
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RealClearPolitics Videos and Talking Points Memo
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Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite:
John Lewis: Giuliani's Comments Show ‘Scars and Signs of Racism’ Still Present in U.S.
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The Last Tradition and FOX News Radio
Tanya Basu / The Atlantic Online:
Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago's Homan Square — The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman published a scathing account of Homan Square in Chicago on Tuesday, detailing a ‘black site’ in which Guantanamo-esque interrogation techniques are used to question suspected criminals.
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’
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.”
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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Forbes, Pat Dollard, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Hot Air
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won't run for U.S. Senate — Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Tuesday that he would not enter the race for Barbara Boxer's seat in the U.S. Senate, leaving state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris as the only major candidate.
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Washington Post and KTLA
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Antonio Villaraigosa / Facebook:
My grandfather came to this great state more than 100 years ago …
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Politico and Washington Post
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, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and The PJ Tatler
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
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 …
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