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12:50 PM ET, March 5, 2013

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Disagrees With His Own Book Hours After It's Published  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) told MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday that he would support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants “if you can craft that in law where you can have a path to citizenship …
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Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Jeb Bush's Poorly Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's new book was aimed at nudging a reluctant Republican Party toward reforms that would allow illegal immigrants to live and work without fear of deportation.  —  But by recommending only legal residency …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Jeb Bush: Heartbroken by Mitt Romney loss
Discussion: American Prospect
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush immigration flip could upend amnesty debate
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Jeb Bush reverses stance on immigration: No citizenship path for undocumented
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Post Politics
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Washington Post report confuses one prostitute with another in bid to debunk Menendez allegations  —  The Washington Post mistook one prostitute for another Monday in a report that initially seemed to debunk a November 2012 Daily Caller exposé of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.
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Washington Post:
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up  —  View Photo Gallery — Sen. Robert Menendez: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has been embroiled in a controversy involving his relations with a Miami campaign contributor and the awarding of a security contract at a port in the Dominican Republic.
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The Powerless Presidency  —  Last Friday's press conference by Barack Obama marked the end of an era.  It was March 1st, the day that the sequester was set to kick in, and the President had just come from a meeting with congressional leaders in the Oval Office.
Discussion: TalkLeft and American Prospect
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Peter Foster / Agence France Presse:
Barack Obama a ‘dithering, controlling, risk-averse’ US president
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
2012 blame game: Will it ever end?  —  Four months after taking an electoral pounding, Republicans can't agree on what went wrong in 2012 — let alone on a path to recovery.  —  Each week brings a new diagnosis of the party's woes.  Karl Rove says it's candidate quality.
Paul Krugman:
Urk, Charlie Rose Edition  —  Well, we'll see how it comes out after editing, but I feel that I just had my Denver debate moment: I was tired, cranky, and unready for the blizzard of misleading factoids and diversionary stuff (In 1997 you said that the aging population was a big problem!
Reuters:
North Korea threatens to scrap armistice ending war  —  (Reuters) - North Korea threatened on Tuesday to scrap an armistice that ended the 1950-53 civil war and sever a military “hotline” with the United States if South Korea and Washington pressed on with two-month-long war games.
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Associated Press:
North Korea vows to cancel Korean War cease-fire amid talk of new sanctions, continued U.S. military drills
Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker and The Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: I won't make practice of passing bills without GOP support  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Tuesday he doesn't plan to make a habit of passing bills through the House that lack the support of a Republican majority.  —  “It's not a practice I would expect to continue long-term …
Discussion: Politico
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Pew Research Center:
Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion  —  The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys.  This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that compared …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama's Thirteen Words  —  Remember George W. Bush's famous “16 words”?  They came from Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, where Bush said: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Discussion: The Other McCain and Whiskey Fire
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gun talks hit a snag in Senate over universal background checks  —  The centerpiece of President Obama's gun violence agenda is in peril amid a deadlock among Senate negotiators over how to implement and enforce a proposal requiring background checks for private gun sales.
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Kurtis Lee / Denver Post:
Colorado gun bills: Senate committee votes 3-2 for universal gun checks
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
ACORN, In New GOP Budget Bill, Would Be Defunded Again, Even Though It No Longer Exists  —  WASHINGTON — A new short-term budget bill introduced on Monday by House Republicans includes a bizarre provision banning federal funding to anti-poverty group ACORN, despite the fact that the group …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Urges a Right to Unlock Cellphones  —  WASHINGTON — For a decade consumers have been able to keep their cellphone numbers even if they switched their wireless carriers.  On Monday, the Obama administration and the Federal Communications Commission said consumers should also be able …
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Andrea Peterson / ThinkProgress:
The White House Agrees: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
Discussion: loc.gov and The Daily Caller
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Hotel boots rowdy Rodman over Kim Jong Un scene  —  Dennis Rodman, just back from visiting Kim Jong Un, was escorted out of the Time Hotel in Midtown on Sunday after spending hours at the restaurant bar loudly telling anyone who would listen what a great guy the North Korean dictator is.
Discussion: Gothamist and Jammie Wearing Fools
Roger Simon / Politico:
Simon: GOP yearning for crazy  —  In politics, snubs are more important than invites.  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and social conservative, has been refused a speaking spot at the Conservative Political Action Conference to be held next week just outside Washington .
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Yahoo! News:
Is your vanity license plate banned in D.C.?  —  Getting a politics-themed slogan on a vanity license plate in Washington, D.C. may be harder than you think.  —  According to the official list of banned D.C. plate combinations, it may take some extra creativity to get your idea accepted by the city's meticulous censors.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Bill would forbid parents from getting no-fault divorce  —  Seven Republicans in the Iowa House are pushing a bill to prohibit parents of minor children from getting a “no fault” divorce and the proposal could be debated in a House committee this week.  —  A three-member subcommittee debated the bill today.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Army Spokesman Reminds Employees and Civilians Not to Criticize Commander in Chief  —  Stephen D. Abney, the chief public affairs official for the Army's Joint Munitions Command, recently sent a message to all 6,000 employees he speaks for: Don't criticize President Barack Obama or any political party to members of the press.
Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Dow Reaches Record High, Spurred by Fed and Profits  —  Despite everything, the stock market is back at a record high.  —  The Dow Jones industrial average, which measures the performance of 30 blue-chip companies, rose more than 100 points in morning trading on Tuesday …
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester-Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms  —  (CNSNews.com) - The impending sequester did not prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from acting in late February to seal a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents—uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan: New Medicare Plan Won't Affect Americans ‘In Or Near Retirement’  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is facing speculation that he may update his Medicare privatization plan to include changes for Americans older than 55 — people his prior budgets exempted from his reforms …
Discussion: The Hill
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Speaking Fees Bring Booker $1 Million; He Says He ‘Kept Very Little of It, if Any’  —  NEWARK — Mayor Cory A. Booker has earned about $1 million from public speaking engagements during his seven years in office, as he has built his position at City Hall into a national brand.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Politico
 
 
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Kevin / Lowering the Bar:
UPDATE II: School Offers Counseling for Students Troubled by Pastry-Gun Incident
Discussion: Hit & Run
Reuters:
Budget crisis eases as Republicans seek to avoid shutdown
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
CNN:
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New York Times:
Obama Names 2 to Fill E.P.A. and Energy Posts
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Dems say sequester will hurt blacks, women more than others
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Feds keep hiring with sequesters in place: 400 jobs posted on first day back
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
BBC:
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 Earlier Items: 
Talking Points Memo:
Florida House Committee Blocks Medicaid Expansion
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Balloon Juice
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
The Reverse-Joads of California  —  Low- and middle-income residents …
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Gov. Chris Christie fumes over sequester
Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, Althouse and BuzzFeed