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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 — WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes.
Fox News:
FCC approves sweeping Internet regulation plan, Obama accused of meddling — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted sweeping new regulations sought by President Obama for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, in a party-line vote that is sure to be challenged by the broadband industry.
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USA Today:
FCC approves new net neutrality rules
FCC approves new net neutrality rules
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
At last, FCC to vote Thursday on net neutrality rules
At last, FCC to vote Thursday on net neutrality rules
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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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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Walker: I took on unions, I can take on ISIS — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) argued his fight with unions has prepared him to be commander-in-chief during his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. — “If I can take on 100,000 protestors I can do the same across the world …
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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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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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson kicks off CPAC
Ben Carson kicks off CPAC
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Scott Walker / USA Today:
Gov. Scott Walker: I refuse to take the media's bait
Gov. Scott Walker: I refuse to take the media's bait
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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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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 …
Joe Klein / TIME:
Jeb Bush's Sense and Sensibility — Joe Klein is TIME's political columnist and author of six books, most recently Politics Lost. His weekly TIME column, “In the Arena,” covers national and international affairs. — The candidate's grown-up tone is a breath of fresh air amid so many strident conservative voices
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
At a conservative gathering, Jeb Bush hopes to change some minds
At a conservative gathering, Jeb Bush hopes to change some minds
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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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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide — ST. LOUIS • Tom Schweich, Missouri's Republican state auditor and a leading contender for the governor's office in next year's election, has died, according to his office.
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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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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier … This may be a congressional first. — Sen. Jim Inhofe, a devoted climate change denier, tossed a snowball at someone on the Senate floor today as he tried to debunk climate change. — “In case we had forgotten because we keep hearing …
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Washington Post:
‘Jihadi John:’ Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi — LONDON — The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.
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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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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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Numbers / Pew Research Center's Religion …:
Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities — Overall Decline in Social Hostilities in 2013, Though Harassment of Jews Worldwide Reached a Seven-Year High — Worldwide, social hostilities involving religion declined somewhat in 2013 after reaching a six-year peak the previous year …
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Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Conservative Campaign To Stop Cops From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws — WASHINGTON — Conservative lawmakers in at least 11 states are pushing legislation that would prevent state law enforcement from enforcing some or all federal gun restrictions.
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Speakers Fling Scorn and Sarcasm at Hillary Clinton — The presumed Democratic front-runner isn't far from Republican minds. — Hillary Clinton wasn't in attendance Thursday, but she wasn't far from the minds of Republicans at the Conservative Political Action Conference who are hoping to impede her path to the White House.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Jay Carney to Amazon — Mike Allen's Politico Playbook will report: “Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs. — The new position brings the e-commerce giant's worldwide public relations and public policy shops into one department under Carney.