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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Walker: If I Can Take On Union Protesters, I Can Take On ISIL (VIDEO) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Thursday said that his experience with protests over his law eliminating collective bargaining rights for public employees has prepared him to confront terrorists.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Scott Walker's Awful Answer on ISIS — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received a lot of completely undeserved grief from the national news media in the past weeks. But he may have made a genuine unforced error in one of his remarks today. — Asked about ISIS, Walker responded …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Walker: I took on unions, I can take on ISIS
Walker: I took on unions, I can take on ISIS
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Bloomberg Business and Politico
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Scott Walker Says He Can Take On ISIS Because He Took On Labor Unions
Scott Walker Says He Can Take On ISIS Because He Took On Labor Unions
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Slate, Twitchy, Mediaite and FreakOutNation
Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown — The House will try to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security this week by passing a stopgap bill that funds the agency for three weeks. — The measure is meant to buy time for Republicans to figure …
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Politico:
Uncompromising Reid still in command — ‘He is controlling the agenda,’ one Republican senator complains. — He only controls 46 seats, but Harry Reid is acting like he has 60. — Reid's uncompromising posture during the flap over homeland security funding and his emerging plans …
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The Hill, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Politico:
The new GOP split on net neutrality — Some want to use every tactic to fight the FCC; others are seeking a bipartisan effort to weaken the rules. — Republicans have always insisted that the federal government keep its hands off the Internet. — But the FCC's landmark vote Thursday …
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Inhofe hurls snowball on Senate floor — Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) threw a snowball on the Senate floor Thursday in an effort to disprove what he sees as alarmist conclusions about man-made climate change. — Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works …
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Jason Plautz / National Journal:
Watch Jim Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor — Aide confirms the underhand toss was caught by a page. — The debate over funding for the Homeland Security Department wasn't the only thing that froze over in the Senate Thursday — Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Environment …
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The Week
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
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Politico
Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality — Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.
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New York Times:
F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility
F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility
Fox News:
FCC approves sweeping Internet regulation plan, Obama accused of meddling
FCC approves sweeping Internet regulation plan, Obama accused of meddling
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
BuzzFeed:
What Colors Are This Dress? — There's a lot of debate on Tumblr about this right now, and we need to settle it. This is important because I think I'm going insane. — Cates Holderness — 5 hours ago — 1671 responses
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle — It's starting. — As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic …
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Wes Johnson / Springfield News-Leader:
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right — The New Jersey governor tells CPAC voters he's an everyman alternative to Jeb Bush, who is the candidate for DC “elites” making “backroom deals.” — Pointedly criticizing his chief rival, Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie portrayed himself …
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Joe Klein / TIME:
Jeb Bush's Sense and Sensibility
Jeb Bush's Sense and Sensibility
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The Last Tradition, Wall Street Journal and Booman Tribune
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
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Hit & Run, Hot Air and Good As You
Politico:
Missouri gubernatorial candidate dead in apparent suicide — Missouri state Auditor Tom Schweich, a leading Republican candidate for governor in 2016, died Thursday in “an apparent suicide,” police said. — Schweich, 54, was hospitalized earlier Thursday following a single self-inflicted gunshot wound …
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Why Did Boehner Make This Awkward Kiss Face at a Reporter? — Now that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has said he will present the House with a clean CR bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security open without the added measure that would block President Barack Obama executive action …
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FreakOutNation, Liberaland and New York Magazine
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Bill O'Reilly's LA riots ‘bombardment’ stories disputed by former colleagues — Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots — Former colleagues of Bill O'Reilly …
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Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, JFKfacts, The Huffington Post, Gawker and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
King v. Burwell Isn't About Obamacare — It's all about states' rights—but the plaintiffs would rather you didn't know that. — King v. Burwell—the challenge to the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court will hear on March 4th—is about more than health care.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Uninsured Ex-Sheriff Who Fought O-care Struggles To Pay Medical Bills — Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the “constitutional sheriff” movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses.
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