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5:10 PM ET, March 1, 2015

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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.
William Booth / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life
Discussion: FOX News Radio and The Week
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Kerry Asks for Benefit of the Doubt on Iran Nuclear Talks
ABC News:
Kerry Worries Israeli PM Visit May Become ‘Political Football’
Discussion: Associated Press
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Kerry Contradicts Administration: Bibi ‘Welcome to Speak in the U.S.’
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.
Discussion: RedState and Progress Pond
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.
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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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hard Cases  —  The great Supreme Court cases turn on the …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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Alex Brown / National Journal:
Democrats: Boehner Promised Us a Vote on a Clean DHS Bill Next Week
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.
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
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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Reuters:
Russians to march in memory of murdered critic of Putin
Discussion: The Week and Samizdata
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
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo
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 …
Discussion: SOOPERMEXICAN and Ed Driscoll
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.
Discussion: Hot Air
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
Discussion: The Week and New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Jeb Bush: Read My Lips, No New Pledges
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Martin O'Malley, in Veiled Jab at Hillary Clinton, Derides Politics of ‘Triangulation’
Discussion: Booman Tribune and FOX News Radio
Roberta X / The Adventures of Roberta X:
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Race Starts in Lavish Haunts of Rich Donors
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 Earlier Items: 
Bob Williams / Episcopal News Service:
Malcolm Boyd, activist-writer priest, dies at 91
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
GOP urges Obama to sign college savings bill
Laura Kipnis / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe
Discussion: Althouse
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New York suffers coldest February in 81 years: Brutal winter continues to shatter records …