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12:45 PM ET, March 22, 2015

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Theodore Schleifer / Houston Chronicle:
Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday  —  Senator will be first declared GOP candidate  —  Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Ted Cruz to Announce on Monday He Plans to Run for President, Report Says
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Israel: Beware of Obama  —  First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
McCain Blasts Obama on Israel: ‘Get Over Your Temper Tantrum’  —  John McCain slammed President Obama on Israel on CNN's State of the Union this morning, telling the president to “get over your temper tantrum” with Benjamin Netanyahu because “the least of your problems is what Bibi Netanyahu said during an election campaign.”
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Details His Disappointment With Netanyahu In First Post-Election Comments  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is operating under the assumption that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not support the creation of a Palestinian state, despite the Israeli leader's post-election efforts …
Anna Galland / BostonGlobe.com:
Elizabeth Warren, run for the White House  —  Why Senator Warren should campaign to be president  —  LESS THAN three years into her Senate term, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has established herself as the country's leading advocate for working and middle-class families.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Reaction
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BostonGlobe.com:
Democrats need Elizabeth Warren's voice in 2016 presidential race  —  Why Senator Warren should campaign to be president  —  DEMOCRATS WOULD be making a big mistake if they let Hillary Clinton coast to the presidential nomination without real opposition, and, as a national leader …
Discussion: The Week and The Huffington Post
Niall Stanage / The Hill:   What makes the dark horses run?
John Wagner / Washington Post:
O'Malley steps up Wall Street critique in swing through Iowa
Discussion: RedState
Judith Shulevitz / New York Times:
In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas  —  KATHERINE BYRON, a senior at Brown University and a member of its Sexual Assault Task Force, considers it her duty to make Brown a safe place for rape victims, free from anything that might prompt memories of trauma.
Reuters:
Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel  —  (Reuters) - Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its “brothers residing in America” to kill them.
Discussion: ABC, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Caller
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Wallace Grills CIA Head: Why Won't You Call ISIS ‘Islamic Extremists’?  —  For months now, the Obama administration has made it very clear that they have no intention of referring to ISIS as “Islamic extremists.”  President Obama has rejected that label, and so has CIA Director John Brennan.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems want to empower Boehner  —  House Democrats fighting for leverage in the GOP Congress are hoping they can empower an unlikely ally: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).  —  Democrats are outnumbered by more than 50 members - and have almost no power to bring bills to the floor.
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The Hill:
Conservatives seethe after attacks from allies of Boehner
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Mike Allen / Politico:
TED CRUZ summons reporters for Mon. speech …
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New York Times:
Chicago Mayor's Race Is Cast as a Test of Liberalism
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Solar eclipse: schoolchildren banned from watching on ‘religious and cultural’ grounds
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Mayoral Candidate Apologizes For Performing In Black Face
Discussion: Raw Story and KFOR-TV
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Petraeus: Iran a greater threat to Iraq than ISIS
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
12-Year-Old Girl Accused of Trying to Poison Mother for Taking Away iPhone
Discussion: Liberaland and Scared Monkeys
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Bundyville coming to Carson City
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
The Hill:
Senate GOP punts on Medicare reform