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11:25 PM ET, March 14, 2015

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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Santorum: Obama ignoring evil — Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who is weighing a 2016 presidential bid, accused President Obama on Saturday of ignoring evil. — In his speech to a conservative audience at the National Security Action Summit in South Carolina, Santorum blasted …

Discussion: Political Wire

Joshua Muravchik / Washington Post:

War with Iran is probably our best option — Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. — The logical flaw in the indictment of a looming “very bad” nuclear deal with Iran that Israeli Prime Minister …

Discussion: The Talking Dog, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Liberal Values, CANNONFIRE, The Atlantic Online, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Chicago, The Federalist, The Diplomat and USA Today

Colbert I. King / Washington Post:

The GOP takes it a letter too far — “To the President of the United States,” intoned the master of ceremonies. Members of an Army advocacy group and active-duty soldiers stationed in the Buffalo area rose to their feet for the toast. The year was 1962, John F. Kennedy was president …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Hugh Hewitt Show

Dan Williams / Reuters:

Flagging before election, Netanyahu ramps up rhetoric — (Reuters) - Flagging in opinion polls before Tuesday's election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally Israeli rightists by casting his centre-left challengers as tools of a global campaign to usurp power.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Jerusalem Post, Slate, PoliticusUSA, FOX News Radio, American Spectator and Haaretz

Steven Edwards / Fox News:

Source: Senate panel probing possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort — A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit's funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama …

Discussion: The Times of Israel and FOX News Radio

Julia Ioffe / Washington Post:

This is why it's impossible for the Kremlin to lie about Putin's weird disappearance — The president's carefully cultivated image rests on never showing weakness. — It's been more than a week now since anybody's seen Russian President Vladimir Putin. He had a mundane meeting …

Discussion: France 24, Patterico's Pontifications, Mediaite, Telegraph, Hullabaloo, Bloomberg View, Business Insider, NPR, Reuters and New York Times

Tom / The War Room:
If Putin Dies — Buh bye? — Is Vladimir Putin dead? — Who knows?

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Moe Lane and New York Magazine

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

As governor, Jeb Bush used e-mail to discuss security, troop deployments — Jeb Bush used his private e-mail account as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants, according to a review of publicly released records.

Discussion: Political Wire and Balloon Juice

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Jeb Bush, a Clinton Critic, Took Time Releasing His Own Emails

Discussion: OpposingViews.com, @politifact, Hot Air, Bloomberg Business, FOX News Radio, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Joe Raedle / National Review:

It's Hillary All the Way Down — If you want to know what Hillary Clinton would be like as president, you're seeing it right now. … Dear Reader (including some intrepid Indiana Jones of the future who will one day stumble on the last missing piece of the “Clintonemail” …

Discussion: Twitchy and Moe Lane

Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's fear of the trail

Discussion: Political Wire, Ed Driscoll and Hot Air

Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:

Housemate Takes Blame for Shining Laser at Planes in Bronx — After being charged this week with injuring several pilots by shining a laser beam at their planes, Frank J. Egan was held up as a pest, his arrest an example of pinpoint investigative work leading the authorities to a typically elusive target.

Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine

Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:

C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2010, Afghan officials struck a deal to free an Afghan diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda. But the price was steep — $5 million — and senior security officials were scrambling to come up with the money.

Discussion: Business Insider, Mediaite and Lawfare

Mark Green / fox13now.com:

Body camera captures incredible rescue of baby Lily from car in Spanish Fork River — WARNING: The videos in this story contain raw footage of emergency crews responding to a crash that left a woman dead and her daughter in critical condition. Some may find some of the images disturbing, viewer discretion is advised.

Discussion: WTKR-TV, FOX2now.com and Raw Story

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Walker tests his message in New Hampshire — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, tested his message of “growth, reform and safety” in New Hampshire on Saturday with a speech at a grassroots workshop in Concord. — In his first trip to the second …