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12:55 PM ET, February 20, 2015

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Fire Bell in the Night  —  Dozing off as we pored through a raft of mostly meaningless polls this week, we were startled awake by one set of findings.  The CNN/ORC survey released February 18 was The Weekly Standard's own little fire bell in the night.  —  What, you surely ask, alarmed us so?
Discussion: alicublog
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Big hire for Jeb: Tim Miller as comms director  —  Jeb Bush plans to name Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising PAC, as his top communications aide, Republican sources told POLITICO on Friday.  —  Miller initially will be a senior adviser to Bush's Right to Rise PAC …
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Opposition Research Hand Tim Miller Joins Jeb Bush Team  —  Tim Miller, who helps run one of the most prominent Republican attack machines in national politics, is joining Jeb Bush's political committee as a senior adviser.  —  If the former Florida governor runs for president …
Wayne Barrett / NY Daily News:
What Rudy Giuliani knows about love — a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama  —  Rudy Giuliani knows a lot about love.  —  Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was “offended” when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
800,000 Using HealthCare.gov Were Sent Incorrect Tax Data  —  WASHINGTON — About 800,000 taxpayers who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov received erroneous tax information from the government, and were urged on Friday to hold off on filing tax returns until the error could be corrected.
Discussion: Josh Blackman's Blog and The Week
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info  —  1 photo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Health Exchange Sign-Up Period Extended Through Tax Season
Discussion: Liberal Values and Twitchy
Mother Jones:
Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem  —  The Fox News host has said he was in a “war zone” that apparently no American correspondent reached.  —  After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly: Mother Jones report ‘garbage’
Discussion: Mediaite
Dylan Byers / Politico:
David Corn hits back at Bill O'Reilly
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Mediaite
New York Times:
Critics in G.O.P. Say Chris Christie Is in a ‘Bubble’  —  He does not return phone calls.  He does not ask for support.  He arrives late for meetings.  And he acts as if he has all the time in the world.  —  The complaints have piled up for weeks, dismaying many longtime supporters …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
The POLITICO Caucus: Christie slips from first tier
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and The Week
Washington Post:
Chris Christie losing home-state donors as Jeb Bush makes inroads
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
After MSNBC Axes Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid's Shows, Is Chris Hayes Next?  —  As its afternoon shows hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid are canceled due to poor ratings, MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow.  —  It was hardly a surprise Thursday …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC pulls ‘Ronan Farrow’, ‘Reid Report’
Jon Harper / Stars & Stripes:
CENTCOM: US-Iraq mission to take back Mosul to launch in April or May  —  WASHINGTON — American military officials and their Iraqi counterparts have developed a detailed battle plan to recapture Iraq's second largest city, and a brutal urban fight could kick off as early as April, according to U.S. Central Command.
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Agence France-Presse:
US wants Mosul offensive on IS in April-May
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Complex Corporate Ties  —  Family charities collected donations from companies she promoted as secretary of state  —  Among recent secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton was one of the most aggressive global cheerleaders for American companies, pushing governments to sign deals …
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CNN:
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat  —  Hunter: Terrorists crossed U.S. border  —  Story highlights  — Intelligence assessment focuses on domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists  — Some law enforcement groups view domestic terror threat …
Discussion: FreakOutNation and Raw Story
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Attacks on Koch brothers contributed to Democrats' midterms losses, party officials say … Democratic officials are second-guessing the party's obsession with attacking the Koch brothers, saying it bears some of the blame for last year's devastating election losses as the focus …
Amanda Taub / Vox:
Kim Jong Un has an amazing new haircut.  We have many, many questions.  —  North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un debuted a new haircut — and a new ... eyebrowcut? — at a politburo meeting on Wednesday.  The style is a variation on Kim's signature shaved sides, but with the top now sculpted into a high …
Discussion: Guardian, CNN, US News and USA Today
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Cranking Up for 2016  —  Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is said to be a rising contender for the Republican presidential nomination.  So, on Wednesday, he did what, these days, any ambitious Republican must, and pledged allegiance to charlatans and cranks.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Debbie's damage control  —  Wasserman Schultz's office said she'd switch positions on medical pot if a donor took back his criticism, emails show.  —  Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted …
BBC:
Ukraine: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia  —  The UK and the EU have been accused of a “catastrophic misreading” of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine.  —  The House of Lords EU committee claimed Europe “sleepwalked” into the crisis.
 
 
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Mike Nowatzki / INFORUM:
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Paul Singer / Associated Press:
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Reuters:
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