memeorandum: The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet (Jonathan Mahler/New York Times)

8:45 PM ET, February 27, 2015

Top Items:

John Boehner scrambles for Plan B — Boehner and the GOP leadership searching for a way to keep DHS from shutting down at midnight. — What's the Plan B? — After 52 GOP lawmakers brought down a three-week spending bill for the agency, House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team …

Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:

Chaos in House as lawmakers reject DHS bill; shutdown nears — A short-term funding measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security open (DHS) was defeated on Friday in a stunning vote that could result in a partial government shutdown at midnight. — The bill failed 203-224 …

Discussion: Politico

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

STUNNER: House GOP Votes Down Own Bill To Avert Shutdown — WASHINGTON — In a huge embarrassment for Republican leaders, the House voted down their bill Friday to avert a Homeland Security shutdown hours before the midnight deadline. — The House GOP plan was to pass a three-week stopgap bill …

Discussion: Liberaland

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, The Nation, Daily Kos, RedState, Washington Monthly, Foreign Policy, PoliticusUSA and Hot Air

Emma Dumain / Roll Call:

House GOP Fails to Advance 3-Week DHS Funding Bill — House Republicans fell short of votes to advance a three-week bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security Friday evening, 203-224. — Just hours before the agency is set to shut down, GOP leaders must now decide whether to risk …

Discussion: FreakOutNation and Political Wire

Politico:
Uncompromising Reid still in command

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos and The Hill

Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 — Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” …

Terry Flores / Variety:
Leonard Nimoy, 'Star Trek's' Spock, Dies at 83

Discussion: Washington Post, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Ed Driscoll, The Week, Boing Boing, abc30.com, Mediaite and Bleeding Cool Comic Book …

Natasha Vargas-Cooper / Jezebel:

Scott Walker Wants Colleges to Stop Reporting Sexual Assaults — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget—which would cut $300 million dollars out of the state's beloved public university system—has a non-fiscal bombshell tucked in between its insane pages.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, FreakOutNation, Raw Story and The Week

Featured stories:

Boy, Blowing Up A DNC Media Hit Job On Scott Walker In Realtime Sure Is Fun! — The Latest Attempt To Launch A New Walker Smear Crashes & Burns On The Launch Pad. And There Was Much Rejoicing — Embed

Discussion: Hot Air

David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, and the ISIS Gaffe

Discussion: Slate, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hit & Run

Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry calls Scott Walker's ISIS-labor comparison ‘inappropriate’

Discussion: Hot Air, Associated Press, Reuters, The Atlantic Online, Talking Points Memo, Althouse, Weekly Standard, prospect.org/blogs …, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, JSOnline and Real Clear Politics

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Jeb Bush was very, very good at CPAC today — Did people walk out when Jeb Bush started speaking at CPAC today in Maryand? Sure. Did he get heckled and booed at times during his q and a with conservative commentator Sean Hannity? Sure. Did Bush more than hold his own with an audience …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, OnPolitics, Political Wire and RH Reality Check

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform. — Rubio, a onetime Tea Party favorite whose support for a comprehensive immigration reform package hurt …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, PoliticusUSA, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week and Hot Air

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance — PALM BEACH, Fla. — In perhaps his most campaign-style speech so far, not-yet-official GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Thursday not to alter his views on immigration despite intense opposition among some parts of the Republican base.

Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller

Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open

Discussion: ABC News, Bloomberg Business, Washington Monthly, Yahoo! News, Politico and ABC News

Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush

Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business

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.

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet

Discussion: The Huffington Post, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Hot Air, Poynter, Fox News Insider, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, abc30.com, Bloomberg View, Patterico's Pontifications, Mashable and Whoa wow wow!

Washington Post:

Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow — MOSCOW — Boris Nemtsov, a longtime Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot and killed in central Moscow, the Russian Interior Ministry said early Saturday.

Discussion: Fox News, Guardian and Hit & Run

BBC:

Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead — A leading Russian opposition politician, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, has been shot dead in Moscow, Russian officials say. — An unidentified attacker in a car shot Mr Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin, police say.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Reuters, Guardian, Bloomberg View, New York Times, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Gawker, Mediaite, Mashable, Political Wire and New York Magazine

Joel Gehrke / National Review:

CPAC Hails ‘President Paul’ — CPAC activists waited an hour-and-a-half for Senator Rand Paul after congressional votes delayed his speech, and the pent-up energy made for a rowdy welcome. — “President Paul! President Paul! President Paul!” the attendees chanted in the middle …

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online: Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say?

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marco Rubio looks forward at CPAC, calls Hillary Clinton ‘yesterday’

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and ABC News

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

GOP scrambles to keep Obamacare subsidies flowing in case of Supreme Court victory — What happens if Republicans win the Supreme Court case against Obamacare? They might end up like the dog that caught the car. — Next Wednesday the court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money, prospect.org/blogs …, The Daily Caller and Wall Street Journal