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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Donald Trump defends size of his penis  —  (CNN)Donald Trump assured American voters Thursday night that despite what Marco Rubio had suggested, there was “no problem” with the size of his hands — or anything else.  —  “Look at those hands, are they small hands?” the front-runner …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
GOP freakout goes from bad to worse  —  DETROIT — The high-speed unraveling of the Republican Party somehow accelerated further on Thursday, as the party's last two presidential nominees joined the chorus of establishment voices warning voters not to allow Donald Trump to become the GOP's standard-bearer.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Five Big Questions After a Vulgar Republican Debate  —  Does the size of Donald Trump's penis matter?  —  I'm not being cheeky.  I'm not being shocking.  I'm noting something that we cannot lose track of, should not shrug our shoulders about and must not gloss over: Trump has succeeded …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Brags About His Penis Size: ‘I Guarantee You There Is No Problem’  —  Donald Trump responded to a jab Marcio Rubio has made about the size of Trump's hands — a line widely interpreted to be a reference to Trump's manhood — by promising that when it comes to the size of “something else,” he guarantees “there is no problem.”
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Blistering attacks upend Trump's pivot to statesman mode  —  First, Donald Trump attacked former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for being a “failed candidate.”  Then he turned to “little” Marco Rubio.  He angrily listed his recent wins and poll standings.
Discussion: Politico
Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Donald Trump Was Set Up  —  The word came in from our best-sourced Fox News Kremlinologists: Fox News had settled for Donald Trump.  Roger Ailes had given up on the hapless Marco Rubio.  Megyn Kelly was sounding conciliatory, granting that Trump appeared more and more presidential.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Rivals pile on Trump in Republican candidates' debate  —  The GOP debate, in less than 3 minutes  —  DETROIT — The calamity brought upon the Republican Party by Donald Trump was laid bare Thursday by its two most recent presidential nominees, who delivered unprecedented denunciations …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways from the GOP debate  —  It might be too late to beat Donald Trump, but it wasn't too late to give Trump a beating.  —  Two days after Super Tuesday put the billionaire frontrunner on a nearly unstoppable path to his party's nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz …
Discussion: New York Times
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Clash of Republican Con Artists  —  So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.
Robert F. Bukaty / Los Angeles Times:
GOP elites have a new strategy to stop Donald Trump, but it carries a big risk  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump waves to supporters after a campaign stop Thursday in Portland, Maine.  —  Now it's the establishment that wants to blow up the Republican Party.
Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Politics:
In sign of apocalypse, Donald Trump defends the size of his ... hands
Discussion: Politico, Vox, The Week and Mother Jones
Danny Vinik / Politico:
The Trump platform that Mitt Romney just attacked looks a lot like Mitt Romney's
Discussion: Hinckley Institute
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
GOP crackup has Democrats in stitches
Discussion: Telegraph
Eliza Collins / Politico:   Graham: A brokered convention wouldn't be fair to Trump
Lisa Belkin / Yahoo Politics:   John Kasich argues he's the grown-up on the GOP debate stage
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus: There will be no ‘shell games’ with GOP nomination
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic  —  Afraid of Trump's reaction, they're “subtly trying to make it disappear,” says an industry source.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Audiences at screenings around the world …
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Lion Ted: Cruz Crushes the Detroit Debate  —  In theory, Ted Cruz's best states are behind him.  But at the Detroit debate, Cruz was clearly the class of the field and it's clear that no one should count him out as the delegate race moves into its next phase.
Discussion: New York Times and Power Line
Dawn Ennis / Advocate:
She Is Cait, and I Am Not: Face to Face with Jenner  —  Winding my way 'round deadman's curves at unsafe speeds all the way up a Malibu mountaintop to meet Caitlyn Jenner, I asked myself: who would live here except a recluse?  Cut off from the rest of the world, high above it all …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Miley Cyrus pledges to leave US if Trump wins  —  becomes president.  —  “Honestly f— this s— I am moving if this is my president!” the 23-year-old “We Can't Stop” singer wrote to her more than 38 million Instagram followers on Wednesday.  —  In a lengthy post that included photos …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Rubio's path to an outright win has vanished  —  Marco Rubio's path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney offers scathing indictment of Republican tax policies  —  Donald Trump, in Maine, just got through unloading on Mitt Romney in response to the speech that Romney gave earlier today, casting the Mittster as a loser who begged for his endorsement — “on his knees” — and choked in 2012 …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Hits Back At Romney: He Would've Dropped To His Knees For Me In '12
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump kills GOP autopsy  —  Reeling from a second straight loss to Barack Obama, a flailing Republican Party in 2013 found its culprit: Mitt Romney's callous tone toward minorities.  Instead of being doomed to irrelevance in a changing America, the party would rebrand as a kinder, more inclusive GOP.
Discussion: New York Post and ABC News
Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:
Number of Troubled Companies Nears 2009 Peak  —  Financially strapped companies' ranks are swelling.  —  A Moody's Investors Service tally of the least-creditworthy companies rose by 10 to 274 this month, pushing it nearer to April 2009's record 291.  The list comprises companies rated …
Breitbart:
Mittens: GOP Establishment Chooses Mount Romney as Hill to Die on  —  After , , , , , and , the Republican establishment is now turning once again to the Adlai Stevenson of the GOP - Willard Mitt Romney.  —  Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment's death drive …
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Facebook to pay millions more in UK tax  —  Social media company to pay more tax as revenue from largest advertisers to be routed through UK rather than Ireland  —  Facebook will pay millions of pounds more in UK tax after approving fundamental changes to its corporate structure in Europe.
Discussion: Forbes and Tax Research UK
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Sasha Obama's high school classes will keep first family in Washington for a while  —  MILWAUKEE — President Obama can issue sweeping directives and deploy troops to faraway corners of the world.  But it became clear Thursday that the leader of the free world sometimes takes orders from his 14-year-old daughter.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
Joe Biden: The Senate's Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee  —  IN my 36-year tenure in the United States Senate — nearly half of it as chairman or ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee — I presided or helped preside over nine nominees to the Supreme Court, from both Republican and Democratic presidents.
Discussion: Slantpoint
 
 
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