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8:35 PM ET, February 20, 2014

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Bachmann has confidence tea party can best Clinton in 2016  —  With less than a year left in her fourth and final term in Congress, it's a little early for an exit interview, but not too early to get the views of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on issues dear to a “founding mother” …
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Natalie Villacorta / Politico:   Michele Bachmann: U.S. not ready for female president
Samantha Lachman / The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann's Bad News For Hillary Clinton: People 'Aren't Ready' For A Female President
Sarah Kendzior / Politico:
The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine  —  What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us?  —  Journalist Simon Shuster said it was “straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.”  Writer Philip Gourevitch thought it was more like Bruegel.  But the main word to describe the violent clashes …
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ThinkProgress:
Everything You Need To Know About The Growing Crisis In Ukraine
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Reuters
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's Social Security disaster: Conservatives just lost their chance to cut benefits  —  The president dropping Chained CPI from his budget is a reprieve for the left — and a message to the right  —  Back in November 2012, with the Bush tax cuts scheduled to expire and sequestration looming …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
OBAMA BUDGET TO DROP BUDGET COST-OF-LIVING TRIMS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama's upcoming budget proposal will not include his past offer to accept lowered cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs.
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Has Anyone in America Actually Been Harmed by Obamacare?  —  I'm beginning to think there's not actually a single person in America who's been harmed by Obamacare.  I know that seems unlikely, but take a look at the latest AFP ad pounding Obamacare.  It features Julie Boonstra …
Discussion: Liberaland and Balloon Juice
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Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
A hard-hitting anti-Obamacare ad makes a claim that doesn't add up  —  “I was diagnosed with leukemia.  I found out I only have a 20 percent chance of surviving.  I found this wonderful doctor and a great health care plan.  I was doing fairly well fighting the cancer, fighting the leukemia, and then I received a letter.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and Power Line
Fox News:
Why the FCC should keep its nose out of TV newsrooms  —  What on earth is the FCC thinking?  —  The last thing we need is the government mucking around with news content.  —  The title of this Big Brother-ish effort by the Federal Communications Commission sounds innocuous enough: “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs.”
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘House of Cards’ is really bad  —  The second season of Netflix's “House of Cards” was a pretty big let down.  The storylines were preposterous.  The principle characters were flat and cliched.  The efforts at narrative transgression, either violent or sexual, were pathetic and unconvincing.
Discussion: CNN, FishbowlDC and Mediaite
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Howard Fischer Capitol / Arizona Daily Star:
Arizona Senate: Business owners can cite religion to refuse service to gays  —  PHOENIX — State senators voted Wednesday to let businesses refuse to serve gays based on owners' “sincerely held” religious beliefs.  —  The 17-13 vote along party lines, with Republicans in the majority …
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Rick Santorum Gathers Advisers to Plot 2016 Run  —  The 2012 contender is weighing another run for the White House, and a second chance to be as conservative and “unelectable” as mainstream Republicans fear.  —  Listening to pundits talk about the potential 2016 Republican field, you'd be forgiven for forgetting about Rick Santorum.
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Francisco Toro / Caracas Chronicles:
Venezuela: The Game Changed Last Night  —  Listen and understand.  The game changed in Venezuela last night.  What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden.  —  What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
How Likely Are Democrats to Lose the Senate?  —  A few weeks ago, I produced two Senate analyses.  One focused on the relationship between the president's job approval, the fate of Senate Democrats during the 2010 and 2012 elections, and what that would mean if this relationship continues through 2014.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Four Reasons The GOP Has A Huge Advantage In The 2014 Elections
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Walker Aide Found Racist Email Comparing Welfare Recipients To Dogs ‘Hilarious’  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) deputy chief of staff from his days as Milwaukee County executive once called a racially charged email comparing welfare recipients to dogs “hilarious.”
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Another Racist Email Forward Found In Scott Walker's Former Deputy Chief Of Staff Emails
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
TAIBBLOG  —  Thank You, Rolling Stone  —  Today is my last day at Rolling Stone.  As of this week, I'm leaving to work for First Look Media, the new organization that's already home to reporters like Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.  —  I'll have plenty of time to talk about the new job elsewhere.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: “I thought the Affordable Care Act would save $2500 per family?”  —  “What happened?”  —  Senator Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Tim Walz came back to Mankato, MN yesterday to meet and greet constituents at South Central College, along with Rep. Collin Peterson.
Michael Powell / New York Times:
A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace  —  KEARNY, N.J. — Mater Dei Academy sits shuttered, blue drapes pulled across its windows, atop a hill in this working-class city.  From its steps, you can peer across the mist-shrouded expanse of the Meadowlands to the distant spires of Manhattan.
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Rick Perry has ‘problems’ with Ted Nugent  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that he has a “problem with” rocker Ted Nugent's “tough words,” but that shouldn't impact the campaign of Greg Abbott, who is running to replace Perry in office.  —  The Republican governor was asked on CNN's …
Discussion: CNN
Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Steve King: I Was Right and I Won't Apologize  —  Rep. Steve King not only isn't sorry about his controversial comments about illegal immigrants, he's taking credit for correcting other lawmakers' statements.  —  In a recent interview with his local newspaper, the Spencer Daily Reporter …
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic Online:
The Dark Power of Fraternities  —  A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.  —  One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck …
Discussion: The Awl
 
 
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
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