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9:35 PM ET, February 23, 2016

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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
With GOP nomination looming, Trump slated to take witness stand in fraud trial  —  Here's a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald Trump could be forced …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
My very peculiar and speculative theory of why the GOP has not stopped Donald Trump  —  What if political scientists are to blame for his rise?  —  GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's victory in South Carolina, his expected victory Tuesday in Nevada, his poll dominance in the upcoming states …
Rasmussen Reports:
Trump's Lead Grows with Jeb Out of the Race  —  With Jeb Bush out, Donald Trump has widened his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Voters finds Trump with 36% support …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP wakes up to Trump nightmare
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Times and The Hill
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kasich: 'I don't know if my purpose is to be president'
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Talking Points Memo:
Key GOP Senators Emerge From Meeting: No Hearing For Obama SCOTUS Nom  —  Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Nightmare builds for Senate GOP  —  It's a bad time to be a Senate Republican.  —  Justice Antonin Scalia's death has put Supreme Court politics at the top of the Senate agenda — to the detriment of vulnerable Republican senators running for reelection in blue states.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell Is Already Threatening To Block The Next President's Supreme Court Nominee Too  —  Just hours after Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would confirm no one President Obama nominates to fill Scalia's seat.
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Flatly Rejects Hearing on Any Court Nominee  —  With a few cracks showing in Republican ranks, Senator McConnell showed no sign of relenting to pressure from the president and Senate Democrats.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Judiciary: No hearing on Obama court nominee
Adan / Infowars:
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH
CNN:
McConnell: Senate won't act on Obama Supreme Court nominee
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. judge orders discovery to go forward over Clinton's private email system  —  A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that State Department officials and top aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether they intentionally thwarted federal open records laws by using …
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Judicial Watch:
Federal Court Grants Judicial Watch Discovery on Clinton Email Issue
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton Outspends Sanders in Super Tuesday States  —  Hillary Clinton and her allies are spending $4.1 million on ads in 11Super Tuesday states, while Bernie Sanders is advertising in just five states at $3.3 million, according to ad-spending data from SMG Delta through Feb. 28.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Shouts of ‘liar’ are taking their toll on Ted Cruz's campaign
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Obama asks lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing prison at Guantanamo Bay  —  President Obama on Tuesday urged lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as he presented to Congress a long-awaited roadmap for shutter a facility he said symbolized …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders praises Gitmo plan, takes shot at Clinton
Discussion: Common Dreams
Financial Times:
Bill Gates backs FBI iPhone hack request  —  Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple and the US government, saying technology companies should be forced to co-operate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations.  —  The Microsoft founder took issue …
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Here are the Emails Between Rubio Campaign and ACU Regarding Rubio's Attendance at CPAC  —  A minor firestorm has erupted on the Internet over whether Marco Rubio will be attending CPAC this year.  The ACU (which hosts CPAC) released a statement to Breitbart News indicating that Rubio has said that he is …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. - Ben Carson is the only person in the 2016 presidential field who is vying to become the country's second African-American president.  —  If truth be told, however, he's not entirely sure he wouldn't actually be the first.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
ANOTHER GLITCH... RUBIO ROBOT Short Circuits - Repeats Itself 8 Times on O'Reilly (VIDEO)  —  Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my...  Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my...  Man or Robot?  —  Marco ‘Robot’ Rubio suffered a glitch Monday on The O'Reilly Factor.  —  The computer chip repeated himself 8 times
Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
The Ted Cruz Campaign Will Win Or Lose By March 6  —  Many things about this campaign have been unfair, but are no less real for being unfair.  One is that the primary calendar is not evenly distributed.  As I have argued for months now, the front-loading of states favorable to Ted Cruz …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Melissa Pamer / KTLA:
Car Salesman Killed in Crash During Corvette Test Drive at Ontario CarMax; Driver Arrested  —  A used car salesman was killed when a red Corvette crashed during a test drive in Ontario, and the prospective car buyer was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Discussion: myfox8.com and fox13now.com
New York Times:
Donald Trump in New York: Deep Roots, but Little Influence  —  It is impossible to miss when you fly into New York City and spot the golf course in the shadow of the Whitestone Bridge.  It is hard to avoid when you stroll along Fifth Avenue, or venture past the skating rink or carousel in Central Park.
Breitbart:
BEWARE THIS MAN: State College President Bans Breitbart's Shapiro  —  On Monday evening, just three days before Breitbart News Senior Editor-At-Large was scheduled to give his speech at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) titled “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” …
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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:   Conservative Writer Ben Shapiro Banned from CSULA
WSB-TV:
Business owner requiring all employees to be armed  —  GRIFFIN, Ga. —  A local business owner with several offices in Georgia is now requiring all of his employees to get a concealed carry license and be armed.  —  After each employee at Lance Toland Associates gets their license …
Chuck Hickey / FOX31 Denver:
Dynel Lane, accused of cutting baby from womb, found guilty of attempted murder … BOULDER, Colo. — Dynel Lane, the Longmont woman accused of attacking another woman and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, was found guilty of six felony counts, including attempted first-degree murder …
Discussion: LifeNews.com, fox8.com, Jezebel and KTLA
 
 
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz names Rick Tyler replacement
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: We Could Use ‘Truth Serum’ Instead Of Torture To Get Information (VIDEO)
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Study: lottery winners' neighbors tend to spend themselves into bankruptcy
Discussion: Daily Mail and Mother Jones
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Why aren't the Nevada Republican caucuses a bigger deal?
Discussion: The Atlantic
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge won't block proof-of-citizenship for new voters
Discussion: Salon and Hullabaloo
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
This Pastor Is Sleeping Outside Until His Church Accepts LGBT People
Discussion: Raw Story
Steve Birr / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: Arrests Made In DC Assault Of Marine, Hate Crime Charges Not Pursued
 Earlier Items: 
Correctrecordk / Correct The Record:
AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Cop Caught Masturbating To Cell Phone Porn In Patrol Car Is Arrested For Misconduct
Discussion: LawNewz
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Comedy Central's Nightly Show: Rubio and Cruz Aren't Really Hispanic
Discussion: Downtrend and The Daily Caller
Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times:
Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’
Discussion: Mashable
 

 
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