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Mark Langfan / Reuters:
Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike — Kuwaiti paper claims unnamed Israeli minister with good ties with the US administration ‘revealed the attack plan to John Kerry.’ — The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma'an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Nearly Half of Voters Disapprove of GOP's Netanyahu Invite — Nearly half of American voters think that Republican lawmakers should not have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress without first notifying President Barack Obama, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds.
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Reuters, The Times of Israel and Political Wire
William Booth / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
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FOX News Radio and The Week
Julia Edwards / Reuters:
Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal
Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal
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The Moderate Voice, The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Israel Matzav and Josh Blackman's Blog
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Kerry Asks for Benefit of the Doubt on Iran Nuclear Talks
Kerry Asks for Benefit of the Doubt on Iran Nuclear Talks
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Israel Matzav and Bloomberg Business
ABC News:
Kerry Worries Israeli PM Visit May Become ‘Political Football’
Kerry Worries Israeli PM Visit May Become ‘Political Football’
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Associated Press
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Kerry Contradicts Administration: Bibi ‘Welcome to Speak in the U.S.’
Kerry Contradicts Administration: Bibi ‘Welcome to Speak in the U.S.’
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The Gateway Pundit and Patterico's Pontifications
Jennifer Emily / Dallas Morning News:
Free of Ebola but not fear — Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent, worries about continued health woes — Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.
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Ana Marie Cox / The Daily Beast:
Why I'm Coming Out as a Christian — I'm not scared that non-believers will make me feel like an outcast. I'm scared that Christians will. — Who do I need to prove my faith to—and why should I try? — I've lately observed conservatives questioning Obama's faith with more than professional interest.
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New York Times:
The Phony Legal Attack on Health Care — On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the most anticipated cases of the term: King v. Burwell, a marvel of reverse-engineered legal absurdity that, if successful, will tear a huge hole in the Affordable Care Act …
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Daily Kos, The Mahablog and Prairie Weather
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hard Cases — The great Supreme Court cases turn on the majestic ambiguities embedded in the Constitution. It is not a simple thing to define and apply terms like “the freedom of speech,” or “equal protection of the laws,” much less explain how much process is “due.”
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Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
Leigh Munsil / Politico:
Steve Scalise vows to continue immigration fight — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise vowed on Sunday to keep fighting against President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration in the midst of the Department of Homeland Security funding battle. — Congress passed a last-minute …
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Fox News:
Reports of possible deal on DHS funding reignites chatter about Boehner ouster
Reports of possible deal on DHS funding reignites chatter about Boehner ouster
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BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Politico
Alex Brown / National Journal:
Democrats: Boehner Promised Us a Vote on a Clean DHS Bill Next Week
Democrats: Boehner Promised Us a Vote on a Clean DHS Bill Next Week
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Fox News:
Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight — Special Guests: Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La. — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” March 1, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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Patterico's Pontifications and PoliticusUSA
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Republican fears grow over court challenge to ObamaCare — Republican fears are mounting over a Supreme Court case that the party has long hailed as its best chance to undo ObamaCare. — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on a GOP-backed case that threatens to erase healthcare subsidies for 8 million people.
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple's New Job: Selling a Smartwatch to an Uninterested Public — SAN FRANCISCO — For Apple, the hard part — making a smartwatch — is nearly over. — Soon it will be time for the harder part: selling the long-anticipated Apple Watch to consumers who, so far, are not very excited …
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Hugh Hewitt On The Kinds Of Questions He'll Ask At The Debate: No Evolution — And no questions meant to “divide on religious grounds.” The radio show host, who will be a part of CNN's debate, says foreign policy should come first in an interview with radio host Aaron Klein. — Alex Gallardo / AP Images
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Julia Ioffe / New York Times:
After Boris Nemtsov's Assassination, ‘There Are No Longer Any Limits’ — On Friday evening, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, went on a prominent Moscow radio station to exhort his fellow citizens to come out to protest President Vladimir Putin's policies.
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Radley Balko / Washington Post:
But for the video... The latest example of cellphone video vindicating someone from false charges is a doozy. It comes from Washington Parish, La., and WWL TV. … He was not only arrested, he was also charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. A prior drug charge on his record meant …
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The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Jeb Bush will refuse to sign tax pledges: spokeswoman — (Reuters) - Jeb Bush will not sign any “no new taxes” pledges or any other pledges if he decides to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. — The statement from Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Scott Walker, the Media and the 2016 Presidential Campaign — MAYBE those of us who write about politics and campaigns should adopt a bristly uniform of hair shirts, so that we're constantly atoning for our sins. — Maybe we should wear targets, the better for our critics to take aim at us.
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Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Walker, Reagan and Patco — On Friday at the winter meeting of the Club for Growth, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a possible contender for the GOP presidential nomination, was pressed for specifics of his foreign-policy views. Walker referred to policy professionals …
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SOOPERMEXICAN and Ed Driscoll
David Jackson / USA Today:
CPAC: Paul edges Walker in straw poll — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Rand Paul won a high-profile straw poll for a third straight year Saturday, capping an annual conservative conference at which delegates argued about how to turn their ideas into a presidential victory in 2016.
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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll, with Scott Walker a close second
Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll, with Scott Walker a close second
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The Week and New York Magazine