memeorandum: The U.S. Constitution Actually Bans Hillary's Foreign Government Payola (Sean Davis/The Federalist)

7:20 AM ET, March 3, 2015

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules — WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements …

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Hacked emails indicate that Hillary Clinton used a domain registered the day of her Senate hearings — The New York Times reported Monday night that, during her tenure at the State Department, Hillary Clinton never used her official email account to conduct communications, relying instead on a private email account.

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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
The U.S. Constitution Actually Bans Hillary's Foreign Government Payola

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Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:
Clinton spokesman circulates pro-Foundation talking points

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Victor Davis Hanson / Works and Days:
The Liberal Circus — This Nov. 28, 2012 file photo shows …

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Jeff Mason / Reuters:

Exclusive: Obama says Iran must halt nuclear work for at least a decade — (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran should commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on its nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but said the odds were still against sealing a final agreement.

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Reuters:

Exclusive: Full text of Reuters interview with Obama — (Reuters) - Reuters White House Correspondent Jeff Mason interviewed President Barack Obama on Monday on topics including U.S.-Israel relations, Iran, China and Russia. Here is a full transcript of the interview.

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Sean Gallup / National Review:

Netanyahu, Not Obama, Speaks for Us — While under fierce attack from President Obama, the Israeli prime minister defends Western values and speaks the truth about Iran. — The leader of the free world will be addressing Congress on Tuesday. The American president is doing everything possible to undermine him.

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Ari Yashar / Arutz Sheva:

Report: Obama Has Cut Intelligence Cooperation with Israel — Israeli report indicates a deep crisis as disagreement on Iran has stopped cooperation for IAEA reports on Iranian nuclear facilities. — Binyamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama — Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90

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Ahmad Al-Faraj / MEMRI:
Saudi Columnist: Netanyahu Is Right To Insist On Addressing Congress About Iran Deal

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Wall Street Journal:
Pro-Israel Group Publicly Breaks With White House Over Iran

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Lawyer Put Health Act in Peril by Pointing Out 4 Little Words — WASHINGTON — The first lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act were still in the early stages, but conservative lawyers were already working on a backup plan in December 2010 if the first line of attack failed.

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Marty Lederman / Balkinization: “Plain meaning,” absurdity, and the (almost forgotten) Gregory/Bond federalism canon, in King v. Burwell

Steven Brill / The Great Debate:
The Supreme Court hears an Obamacare fairytale

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Nicholas Bagley / New York Times:
In King v. Burwell, the Plaintiffs Misread Obamacare

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Nick Gass / Politico:

Warren Buffett: Elizabeth Warren should be ‘less angry’ — Warren Buffett says Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would be more effective on financial issues and Wall Street if she were “less angry.” — Speaking to CNBC's “Morning Squawk” from Omaha, Nebraska, the billionaire Berkshire Hathaway CEO …

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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Centrist Dems ready strike against Warren wing

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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Warren Buffett Says Elizabeth Warren Is Too ‘Angry’ And ‘Violent’ With Rich People

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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:

Let's Destroy Liberal Academia — It's time to give current university system the Old Yeller treatment, except normal Americans will giggle when this rabid mongrel gets put down. — Sure, the legions of administrative timeservers, otherwise unemployable tenure ticks …

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Spy chief: No threat from Americans who aided militants in Syria — The few dozen Americans who have gone to join militant groups fighting in Syria and then come back home don't pose a threat to the U.S., according to the nation's top intelligence official.

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters: U.S. spy chief says 40 Americans who went to Syria have returned

Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Syrian rebel group that got U.S. aid dissolves

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Daily Mail:

Isis ‘fed murdered kidnap victim to his own mother after she travelled to their headquarters and demanded to see him’ — A British fighter who travelled to Iraq to stop the Islamic State claims the terror group fed a murdered kidnap victim to his own mother after she went to their headquarters and demanded to see him.

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Andre Walker / BREITBART.COM:
Islamic State ‘Fed Murdered Man To His Own Mother’

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Streiff / RedState:

Boehner looks for a life line... from the Democrats — As we saw last week, Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)Heritage ActionScorecard Rep. John Boehner House Republican Average See Full ScorecardN/A's leadership has become so weak that he's being forced to subcontract the Speakership …

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Politico:
Senate vote boxes Boehner in

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Melissapamerktla / KTLA:

Police ID Teacher Found Hanging in Placentia Classroom as 31-Year-Old Photography Instructor — A 31-year-old female teacher was declared dead after students found her hanging inside a high school classroom in Placentia, authorities said Monday. — Jillian Jacobson is shown in a photo posted on El Dorado High School's website.

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Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:

Pat Robertson: Drinkers And Pot Smokers Are ‘Enslaved To Vegetables’ — Televangelist Pat Robertson said on Monday that marijuana users and drinkers are “enslaved to vegetables.” — Speaking on his Christian Broadcasting Network television show “The 700 Club,” Robertson said that addiction …

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Michael Allen / OpposingViews.com:

Texas Lawmaker, Married Five Times, Opposes Judge Who Allowed Gay Marriage — Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt recently filed a judicial conduct complaint against state District Judge David Wahlberg, who allowed the state's first gay marriage on Feb. 19. — Wahlberg allowed Suzanne Bryant …

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

American democracy is doomed — America's constitutional democracy is going to collapse. — Some day — not tomorrow, not next year, but probably sometime before runaway climate change forces us to seek a new life in outer-space colonies — there is going to be a collapse of the legal …

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Townhall.com:

Obama “Very Interested” In Raising Taxes Through Executive Action — White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is “very interested” in the idea of raising taxes through unitlateral executive action. — “The president certainly has not indicated …

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Danielle Kurtzleben / Vox:

Frank Underwood's jobs plan on House of Cards is bonkers — President Frank Underwood's “America Works” program — a plan to create 10 million jobs at the expense of entitlement programs — is one of the key plot points of House of Cards, Season 3. — Before we go further, two spoiler alerts …

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Daily Mail:

‘Enough is enough:’ U.S. Air Force officials say budget cuts and non-stop war have threatened U.S. air superiority and left the fleet smaller and weaker than ever before — A quarter of the number of fighter squadrons it did 25 years ago and two-thirds of the active duty airmen

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