memeorandum: Rick Perry hires Iowans, heads to Sioux City (Jennifer Jacobs/Des Moines Register)

7:25 PM ET, February 15, 2015

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Boehner: I Didn't Want ‘Interference’ From Obama In Netanyahu Speech — “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace on Sunday quizzed House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on his decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress. — Boehner invited Netanyahu without consulting …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Jerusalem Post, Guardian, The Huffington Post and Booman Tribune

Nick Gass / Politico:

John Boehner blames Senate Dems for blocking DHS funding — Speaker John Boehner says the House has done its job in passing a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and it's Senate Democrats' fault if the department runs out of money at the end of the month.

Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air, Bloomberg Business and NPR

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Boehner ‘Certainly’ Prepared to Let DHS Funding Expire: Senate Dems ‘Would Be to Blame’ — Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeatedly questioned House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) Sunday morning over the upcoming deadline for Department of Homeland Security funding …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner: Didn't Want White House Screwing up Netanyahu Invitation with Their ‘Animosity’

Discussion: Haaretz and FOX News Radio

Maureen Callahan / New York Post:

Bill Clinton's libido threatens to derail Hillary — again — She hasn't even announced, but the question has already resurfaced: Will Bill Clinton's baggage derail Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes? — Just a few weeks ago, reports broke that Bill Clinton had flown at least 11 times on …

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Call Off the Dogs — WASHINGTON — I'LL pay for this column. — The Rottweilers will be unleashed. — Once the Clintons had a War Room. Now they have a Slime Room. — Once they had the sly James Carville, fondly known as “serpenthead.” Now they have the slippery David Brock, accurately known as a snake.

Steven Erlanger / New York Times:

Police Say They Killed Suspect in 2 Attacks in Copenhagen — LONDON — The Copenhagen police said on Sunday that they had shot and killed a man they believed carried out two attacks that left two people dead, one at a cafe and one outside a synagogue, and wounded at least five policemen.

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Telegraph:
Copenhagen suspect ‘was released from prison two weeks ago’

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David Cameron / Observer:
Copenhagen shootings suspect was ‘known to police’

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Reuters:
Denmark sees possible ‘Charlie Hebdo’ motive behind Copenhagen attacks

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BBC:
Danish shooting: Audio of moment gunman struck in Copenhagen cafe

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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:

Lawmaker Opposes Education Funding Because It Would Go To ‘Blacks’ Who Get ‘Welfare Crazy Checks’ — Mississippi state Rep. Gene Alday (R-Wells), right, listens to a colleague. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis — A Mississippi state lawmaker said he opposed putting more money …

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Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Miss. third-grade gate: Fear of failure

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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Fox Host Grills Roy Moore: You Already Got Fired Once For Putting Yourself ‘Above The Law’ — Alabama Chief Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Sunday insisted that he had a moral duty to defy the United States Supreme Court if they tried to change God's “organic law” by declaring that LGBT people had an equal right to marriage.

Discussion: Liberaland and FOX News Radio

Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Judge Challenging Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore On Gay Marriage: 'We're On The Right Side Of History'

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Kyle Smith / New York Post:

How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation — So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided. Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.

Discussion: Gothamist and Power Line

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

Conservatives not sweating Homeland Security shutdown — Hard-line House GOP conservatives aren't worried about a looming Department of Homeland Security shutdown as the deadline for congressional action draws near. — Many of the conservative lawmakers who most want to aggressively …

Tami Luhby / CNNMoney:

I have to pay back my Obamacare subsidy — Janice Riddle got a nasty surprise when she filled out her tax return this year. — The Los Angeles resident had applied for Obamacare in late 2013, when she was unemployed. She qualified for a hefty subsidy of $470 a month …

Discussion: ACASignups.net and RedState

Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:

Rick Perry hires Iowans, heads to Sioux City — Republican Rick Perry continues to build steam for a likely presidential bid, booking a return trip to Iowa and hiring Iowa political operatives. — The former Texas governor will be in the Sioux City area Monday for a full day of private meetings …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, New Hampshire Journal and ketknbc.com