memeorandum: Senate GOP budget to break with Paul Ryan's blueprints (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

10:45 AM ET, March 15, 2015

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Edward Klein / New York Post:

Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton's email scandal — President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, right, and Hillary Clinton — It's the vast left-wing conspiracy. — Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton's use …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Althouse

ABC News:

Hillary Clinton Emails: John Boehner Expected to Announce New House Investigation into Her Practices … House Speaker John Boehner is expected to announce this week a new investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices as Secretary of State, including her admission that more than 31,000 emails …

Discussion: Political Wire

David Remnick / New Yorker:

Today's Woman — Early last week, while the political world was waiting for Hillary Clinton to address the moral, diplomatic, and technological questions posed by her e-mail habits, the United Nations issued a report asserting that more than one in three women experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetimes.

Joe Raedle / National Review:
It's Hillary All the Way Down

Discussion: Moe Lane

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

Discussion: Ed Driscoll

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate GOP budget to break with Paul Ryan's blueprints — Senate Republicans will not include detailed plans to overhaul entitlement programs when they unveil their first budget in nearly a decade this week, according to GOP sources. — The decision would break from Rep. Paul Ryan's …

Discussion: Political Wire

Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:

Jeb Bush slams Obama, Republicans in NH — Jeb Bush lobbed attacks at both President Obama and Congressional Republicans in an appearance in Dover, N.H. — “Pass a budget for crying out loud,” the Republican former governor of Florida said, slamming members of his own party. “Let the process work again.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Walker tests his message in New Hampshire

Discussion: WKOW 27, Reuters, Associated Press, The PJ Tatler, Althouse, Weekly Standard and JSOnline

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 …

Steven Edwards / Fox News:
Source: Senate panel probing possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort

Discussion: The Times of Israel and FOX News Radio

Dan Williams / Reuters:
Flagging before election, Netanyahu ramps up rhetoric

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Liberaland, FOX News Radio, American Spectator and Haaretz

Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
The GOP takes it a letter too far

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

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Will April bring shower of announcements? — Get ready for April to bring a shower of presidential campaign announcements. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) is moving hard towards a launch early next month, according to sources close to her team.

Discussion: Liberaland

Washington Post:
Mitt Romney warms to Marco Rubio as young senator cultivates relationship

Discussion: 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: In Moscow's Shadows, National Review, Hot Air, BuzzFeed, Reuters, Patterico's Pontifications, France 24, Mediaite, Hullabaloo, Telegraph and Bloomberg View

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

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Moe Lane

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com — WASHINGTON — SINCE open letters to secretive and duplicitous regimes are in fashion, we would like to post an Open Letter to the Leaders of the Clinton Republic of Chappaqua: — It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during …

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

White House Issues Saturday Night Iran Deal Warning To Senate — WASHINGTON — In an effort to reassert control over the domestic political debate surrounding sensitive negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, the White House penned a letter Saturday night warning senators to hold back on legislation …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Washington Post

Scott Wong / The Hill:

House Freedom Caucus hires first staffer — The House Freedom Caucus, the nascent group of conservative lawmakers who've frustrated GOP leaders, has hired its first staff member as it gears up for upcoming spending battles. — Steve Chartan will serve as executive director of the Freedom Caucus, the group said Friday.

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, Bloomberg Business, @politifact, Hot Air, FOX News Radio and Reuters

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

New Hampshire, Shaping Up as Free-for-All, Gets Early G.O.P. Attention — DOVER, N.H. — The Belknap County Republican Committee's “First-in-the-Nation Presidential Sunset Dinner Cruise” on Lake Winnipesaukee is still over two months away. But three potential presidential prospects have already committed …

Discussion: Politico