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11:50 AM ET, February 28, 2015

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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
House Passes One-Week Funding Extension for Homeland Security  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans vowing to govern effectively as a congressional majority failed a fundamental test Friday, when House leaders managed to narrowly pass only a seven-day funding extension to avert a partial shutdown …
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Politico:
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
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
STUNNER: House GOP Votes Down Own Bill To Avert Shutdown
Discussion: The Mahablog
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Prepares For DHS Shutdown
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
House GOP Fails to Advance 3-Week DHS Funding Bill
Discussion: FreakOutNation
Betsy Woodruff / Slate:
Jeb Bush Backers Are Busing Supporters From K Street to CPAC  —  It sounds like Jeb Bush's supporters are taking CPAC pretty seriously this year.  Emails provided to Slate show that backers of the former Florida governor are busing supporters from downtown Washington D.C. to CPAC in National Harbor …
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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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Peter King: 'I've Had It with This Self-Righteous, Delusional Wing' of the GOP  —  Republican Congressman Peter King said today that he's incredibly frustrated with the “self-righteous, delusional” wing of his party that may shut down the Department of Homeland Security because they're …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
New York Times:
White House Offers Rebuttal Before Netanyahu's Speech  —  WASHINGTON — Just four days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint meeting of Congress, the Obama administration sought on Friday to refute the Israeli leader's expected critique, arguing that he has failed …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Netanyahu's Moment
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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
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Associated Press:
Former US Rep. Rick Renzi reports to prison for 3-year term  —  PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi reported to a federal prison in West Virginia on Friday to begin serving a three-year sentence for corruption, money laundering and other convictions.
Discussion: Liberaland and Political Wire
NASA:
The Shuttle Enterprise  —  In 1976, NASA's space shuttle Enterprise rolled out of the Palmdale manufacturing facilities and was greeted by NASA officials and cast members from the ‘Star Trek’ television series.  —  From left to right they are: NASA Administrator Dr. James D. Fletcher …
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
Missouri's Constitution Now Allows Felons To Possess Firearms  —  It was inevitable that this would happen when the Constitution is slanted in order to fit an extreme agenda.  —  It all started in 2014, when the Missouri General Assembly asked voters to approve a constitutional amendment that said …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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.
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Washington Post:
Putin critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
New Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden's Secret Ties With Iran  —  This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect.  The U.S. government accuses Abid Naseer of taking part in al Qaeda's scheme …
Sean Kelly / OpposingViews.com:
Jim Inhofe ‘Disproves’ Climate Change With A Snowball (Video)  —  Oklahoma Rep. Jim Inhofe took to the Senate floor to once again speak out against the existence of climate change.  This time, however, he brought a snowball.  —  “In case we have forgotten - because we keep hearing that 2014 …
 
 
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Zach Noble / TheBlaze.com:
Scott Walker Pulls Thunderous Applause at CPAC — Here's How He Responded to Lone Heckler
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:
Exclusive: Google campus plan would explode the concept of buildings, workspace (renderings)
Discussion: Mashable, The Verge and VentureBeat
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
White House releases online privacy bill
Discussion: Microsoft on the Issues and Gigaom
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Ken Silverstein / Politico:
Where Journalism Goes to Die
Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
In Early Polling, Walker Stands Apart
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP scrambles to keep Obamacare subsidies flowing in case of Supreme Court victory