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10:40 AM ET, February 27, 2015

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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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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.
New York Times:   Wisconsin, Workers and the 2016 Election
The Hill:
House will vote Friday to prevent Homeland Security shutdown  —  The House will vote Friday on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks in an attempt to avert a shutdown slated for Saturday at the massive agency.  —  If the bill is approved by the House …
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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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown
Politico:
GOP leaders set to swerve DHS off the cliff
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
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Adam Rogers / Wired:
The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress  —  The original image is in the middle.  At left, white-balanced as if the dress is white-gold.  At right, white-balanced to blue-black. swiked  —  Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.
The White House:
This is net neutrality:  —  More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago.  And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic equally.
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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 …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Regulators OK ‘net neutrality’ rules for Internet providers
Discussion: US News
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
Discussion: Shakesville and The Week
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: FreakOutNation and Balloon Juice
Judicial Watch:
Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Reveal Top Hillary Clinton Advisers Knew Immediately that Assault on Benghazi was Armed Attack  —  First “OpsAlert@State.gov” email at 4:07 PM on September 11, 2012, reports, “... diplomatic mission is under attack ... 20 armed people fired shots …
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.
Discussion: Balkinization
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich  —  He was my BFF.  —  That's how my editorial board colleagues jokingly referred to my relationship with state auditor Tom Schweich, who on Thursday morning raised a gun to his head in his Clayton home and shot himself dead.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Politico:
Missouri gubernatorial candidate dead in apparent suicide
Discussion: PoliticMo and The Hill
Wes Johnson / Springfield News-Leader:
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public  —  Surplus armor piercing ammunition — the same kind used by U.S. troops — might soon be much harder for the public to buy under a proposal being floated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Eric Holder's parting shot: It's too hard to bring civil rights cases  —  In an exit interview, the attorney general says his critics may be partly driven by race.  —  Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open  —  Democrats may be ready for Hillary, but nothing is inevitable for the GOP.  —  Thoughts on the 2016 presidential primaries:  —  No one expects anything from the Democrats.  They will back, accept or acquiesce in a coronation.  This will not be called passive but disciplined.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Yahoo! News
 
 
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Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
Investigators probing for criminal activity with Lois Lerner's missing emails
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Kareem Shaheen / Guardian:
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Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
When Your Religion Makes You Too Uncool to Work at Abercrombie
Discussion: Refinery29
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Democrats Have More Positive Image, But GOP Runs Even or Ahead on Key Issues
Discussion: Commentary Magazine and Hot Air
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mort Zuckerman exploring sale of Daily News
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Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Conservative Campaign To Stop Cops From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws
Discussion: Daily Kos
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Byron Allen Goes To War With Sharpton, Obama, Comcast For Future Of Black Media
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