Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
The Last Tradition and Liberaland
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
CNN, Hit & Run, Yahoo! News and Bloomberg Business
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 …
Discussion:
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
Discussion:
Mediaite, Twitchy, Slate and FreakOutNation
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.
RELATED:
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
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
Discussion:
Bloomberg Business, The Verge, Guardian, Liberal Values, Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh, USA Today and National Journal
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
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 …
Discussion:
Hot Air, Booman Tribune and Washington Times
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
The Week
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Discussion:
Politico
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
Discussion:
Booman Tribune
RELATED:
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
Discussion:
Daily Kos, ABC News, Washington Monthly, The Hill and Politico
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
Discussion:
Hit & Run, Hot Air, Good As You and New York Times
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 …
Discussion:
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition
RELATED:
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
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, JFKfacts, The Huffington Post, Gawker, TVNewser and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
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
Discussion:
UT San Diego, Washington Post, Mashable, Patterico's Pontifications, Gawker, WKRN-TV and Jezebel, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
Bloomberg View, Bloomberg Business and Daily Kos
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mort Zuckerman exploring sale of Daily News — Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman is exploring a sale of the tabloid and has retained the firm Lazard to assist in the process. — In a Thursday email to staff, Zuckerman said he hadn't been considering an imminent sale of the paper …
Discussion:
FOX News Radio, more at Mediagazer »
Tennessean.com:
Muslim group: Rep. Sheila Butt's Facebook post racist — The nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization Wednesday urged Tennessee Republican leaders to repudiate what it considers a racist Facebook post by a GOP state lawmaker. — Republican Rep. Sheila Butt's Facebook post said …
Discussion:
WKRN-TV, The Huffington Post, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo