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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)
Walker: If I Can Take On Union Protesters, I Can Take On ISIL (VIDEO)
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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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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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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 …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown
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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.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say? — Everywhere Hillary Clinton goes, a thousand cameras follow. Then she opens her mouth, and nothing happens. — Clinton made a much-ballyhooed appearance in Iowa over the weekend, giving a speech widely noted for its substancelessness.
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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 …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Speakers Fling Scorn and Sarcasm at Hillary Clinton
Speakers Fling Scorn and Sarcasm at Hillary Clinton
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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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FCC Adopts Strong, Sustainable Rules to Protect the Open Internet
FCC Adopts Strong, Sustainable Rules to Protect the Open Internet
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Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
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Craig Aaron / The Huffington Post:
How We Won Net Neutrality
How We Won Net Neutrality
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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.
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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
Watch Jim Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor
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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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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.
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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
Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Rep. Mia Love: Government Has Made it Impossible for Legal Immigrants to Start Their Own Lives — Rep. Mia Love's (R-Utah) parents came to America from Haiti with $10 in their pocket in the 1970s. After holding down several jobs, they eventually earned their own way to success.
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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 …
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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.
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