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3:30 PM ET, February 13, 2016

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
He's Beatable  —  We seem to be at a point in the election season where, to quote George Orwell, “restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”  So to restate the obvious: Choosing Donald Trump as the Republican party's nominee would be a mistake.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
How Cruz rescued Carson  —  It would take a miracle for Ben Carson to win the Republican nomination.  Fortunately for him, he can afford to wait for one.  —  The retired neurosurgeon's campaign says it has raised about $2 million since the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, a startling windfall …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Cruz and Trump poised for the ugliest debate yet
Discussion: whorunsGov, The State, Mediaite, RedState and AOL
CBS News:
CBS News releases Republican presidential debate lineup
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Gingrich calls on pro-Bush super PAC to take down Kasich attack
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
GOP mega-donors frozen in frustration
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Keith BieryGolick / USA Today:
Regulating sex: Uncharted waters in the suburbs … WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The chairman of West Chester Township's Board of Zoning Appeals cleared his throat.  He asked anyone leaving the January zoning meeting to do so quietly.  —  Melissa Warren stood up.  She didn't say a word.
Laurie Mason Schroeder / Morning Call:
Jamie Silvonek: ‘I was a monster’  —  PHOTO GALLERY: It was one of the most shocking homicides the Lehigh Valley has ever seen; 14-year-old eighth-grader Jamie Silvonek plotted her mother's death.  Her 20-year-old soldier boyfriend was charged with helping her carry out the brutal slaying.
New York Daily News:
KING: Peyton Manning's squeaky-clean image was built on lies, as detailed in explosive court documents showing ugly smear campaign against his alleged sex assault victim  —  Thirteen years ago, USA Today obtained 74 pages of explosive court documents on Peyton Manning, Archie Manning …
Discussion: NBCSports.com, Balloon Juice and WGN-TV
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
15 percent of latest Clinton emails marked classified; 551 released Saturday  —  More than 15 percent of the latest batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails released Saturday contain classified information, with three of the messages being labeled “secret” …
Discussion: BizPac Review
New York Times:
With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Donald J. Trump has defied conservative orthodoxy on policy, shunned traditional politicking and even insulted prisoners of war and the disabled, sacrosanct constituencies that other candidates would no more slur …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:
Want Viagra?  Not without a note from the wife  —  Kentucky men would have to visit a doctor twice and have signed permission from their wives before obtaining a prescription for Viagra or other such drugs for erectile dysfunction, according to a bill filed by a state legislator Thursday.
NBC News:
FBI Looked at Ohio Machete Attacker Four Years Ago  —  An Ohio man who slashed four restaurant patrons with a machete and was later killed by police had come to the attention of the FBI four years ago for radical comments, law enforcement officials said.  —  Agents took a brief look at Mohamed Barry but moved on, the officials said.
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Dallas Morning News:
We recommend Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential nomination  —  It's been 44 years since Hillary Clinton arrived in Texas as a firebrand feminist working to register Hispanics and others in South Texas to vote for a long-shot liberal senator running to unseat President Richard Nixon.
Discussion: The Hill and Tampa Bay Times
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Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's attack on reality
Discussion: Vox, Hit & Run and Mother Jones
The Commercial Appeal:
Bill Clinton makes Memphis stop for wife's campaign
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
DNC rolls back restrictions on lobbyist donations  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has dismantled the last of its prohibitions on receiving donations from lobbyists and political action committees.  —  The ban has been in place since 2008, when President Obama became the party's presumptive nominee.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Super PAC moves to ramp up financial firepower for Clinton
Bloomberg Business:
Russia's Medvedev: We Are in ‘a New Cold War’  —  Russian premier accuses U.S.-led alliance of confrontation  —  NATO chief warns of tension spurring risk of ‘accidents’  —  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said his country is in a new cold war with the U.S. and its allies …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Albright: ‘Special place in hell’ comment came at ‘wrong time’  —  Former secretary of State Madeline Albright is softening her controversial comment that there's a “special place in hell for women who don't help each other” in a New York Times opinion piece released Friday afternoon.
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Adminweb / ARA News:
ISIS extremists stone four women to death on charges of ‘committing adultery’  —  ERBIL - Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) has executed four women in the city of Mosul in Iraq's northwestern Nineveh province, after accusing them of “committing adultery”, local sources reported on Thursday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
NO TOUCHING: Huma Abedin caught on camera shoving a woman away who tries to give her a hug and then uttering a few stern words before walking away  — The unidentified woman shook Hillary's hand and then went to hug Huma, who seemed upset and later said some stern words to the individual
CBS New York:
Whole Foods Considers Tattoo Parlors To Attract Millennial Shoppers  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — You soon may be able to get a tattoo while you shop for your groceries.  —  Whole Foods is considering adding tattoo parlors to its stores in an effort to target millennial shoppers, CBS2 reported.
Margaret Dawson / ABC News:
Columbine Killer's Mother Sue Klebold on Relationship with Her Son, Warning Signs She Missed, What She Went Through After the Tragedy
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and The Week
 
 
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Corey Davis / WYFF-TV:
Loyal supporters of GOP granted tickets to debate in Greenville
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Trump Jumps to 44% Nationally, Rubio Drops to 10%
Associated Press:
AFTER OREGON STANDOFF, SOME SAY: RIGHT FIGHT; WRONG TACTICS
Discussion: Associated Press
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
U.S. Plans to Resume Commercial Flights to Cuba This Year
Discussion: The Verge and Outside the Beltway
Texas / Raw Story:
Texas A&M students taunt black high schoolers with N-word: ‘Go back where you came from’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Zero Tolerance: 2 Teens Face Expulsion, Jail for Fishing Knives, Advil in Their Cars
Sean Martin / Daily Express:
Scientists take a step closer to ETERNAL LIFE as they PRESERVE and REVIVE brain
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David Robson / BBC:
The secret “anti-languages” you're not supposed to know
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hillary wore yellow debate jacket when meeting Goldman Sachs CEO
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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