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9:40 PM ET, February 26, 2015

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Fox News:
FCC approves sweeping Internet regulation plan, Obama accused of meddling  —  The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted sweeping new regulations sought by President Obama for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, in a party-line vote that is sure to be challenged by the broadband industry.
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Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality  —  Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
Discussion: RedState
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Walker: If I Can Take On Union Protesters, I Can Take On ISIL (VIDEO)  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Thursday said that his experience with protests over his law eliminating collective bargaining rights for public employees has prepared him to confront terrorists.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Walker: I took on unions, I can take on ISIS  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) argued his fight with unions has prepared him to be commander-in-chief during his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.  —  “If I can take on 100,000 protestors I can do the same across the world …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson kicks off CPAC
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Why Did Boehner Make This Awkward Kiss Face at a Reporter?  —  Now that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has said he will present the House with a clean CR bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security open without the added measure that would block President Barack Obama executive action …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown  —  The House will try to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security this week by passing a stopgap bill that funds the agency for three weeks.  —  The measure is meant to buy time for Republicans to figure …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week and Politico
Politico:
Boehner vs. McConnell  —  As shutdown looms, tensions are just below the surface as the two operate on separate tracks.  —  Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid are ready to put an end to Capitol Hill's latest drama and fund the Department of Homeland Security.  —  There's just one problem: Speaker John Boehner.
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican  —  Shortly after the 2012 election ended, David Kochel, the top-flight Iowa Republican strategist who had run Mitt Romney's campaign in the state, decided to stop keeping his opinion of marriage equality to himself.  He had spent years helping …
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
At a conservative gathering, Jeb Bush hopes to change some minds
Politico:
Missouri gubernatorial candidate dead in apparent suicide  —  Missouri state Auditor Tom Schweich, a leading Republican candidate for governor in 2016, died Thursday in “an apparent suicide,” police said.  —  Schweich, 54, was hospitalized earlier Thursday following a single self-inflicted gunshot wound …
Discussion: PoliticMo and The Hill
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide  —  ST. LOUIS  • Tom Schweich, Missouri's Republican state auditor and a leading contender for the governor's office in next year's election, has died, according to his office.
Washington Post:
‘Jihadi John:’ Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi  —  LONDON — The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier … This may be a congressional first.  —  Sen. Jim Inhofe, a devoted climate change denier, tossed a snowball at someone on the Senate floor today as he tried to debunk climate change.  —  “In case we had forgotten because we keep hearing …
Discussion: Politico
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Inhofe hurls snowball on Senate floor
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle  —  It's starting.  —  As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic …
Ben Sasse / Wall Street Journal:
A First Step on the Way Out of ObamaCare  —  Cobra-like insurance could bridge the gap for people losing coverage if King v. Burwell goes the GOP's way.  —  By  —  The Supreme Court case King v. Burwell being argued March 4 is one of profound national importance.
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Politico:
Supreme Court ruling could upend Obamacare politics
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Is Washington Ready for the Death of Obamacare?
Discussion: Bloomberg View and neo-neocon
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Bill O'Reilly's LA riots ‘bombardment’ stories disputed by former colleagues  —  Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots  —  Former colleagues of Bill O'Reilly …
Joe Klein / TIME:
Jeb Bush's Sense and Sensibility  —  Joe Klein is TIME's political columnist and author of six books, most recently Politics Lost.  His weekly TIME column, “In the Arena,” covers national and international affairs.  —  The candidate's grown-up tone is a breath of fresh air amid so many strident conservative voices
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Numbers / Pew Research Center's Religion …:
Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities  —  Overall Decline in Social Hostilities in 2013, Though Harassment of Jews Worldwide Reached a Seven-Year High  —  Worldwide, social hostilities involving religion declined somewhat in 2013 after reaching a six-year peak the previous year …
Mike Allen / Politico:
Jay Carney to Amazon  —  Mike Allen's Politico Playbook will report: “Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs.  —  The new position brings the e-commerce giant's worldwide public relations and public policy shops into one department under Carney.
Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Conservative Campaign To Stop Cops From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws  —  WASHINGTON — Conservative lawmakers in at least 11 states are pushing legislation that would prevent state law enforcement from enforcing some or all federal gun restrictions.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Byron Allen Goes To War With Sharpton, Obama, Comcast For Future Of Black Media
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Nichola Groom / Reuters:
Google invests $300 million in U.S. residential solar projects
Discussion: Mashable and The Verge
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans divided on Williams return
Discussion: The Week and Strange Bedfellows
Ann Coulter / WND:
FOR DEATH BY ISIS YOU HAVE TO GO OUT, BUT ILLEGALS DELIVER!
Politico:
Democrats might skip Benjamin Netanyahu speech
Andrew Cline / UnionLeader.com:
The New Hampshire primary to come, if current journalism is a clue
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Politifact and Me  —  Intellectual dishonesty among the ‘fact-checkers’
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Leon Wolf / Townhall.com:
Welcome to the Brave New World of White Shaming
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Kelly Dudzik / WGRZ-TV:
Carl Paladino Accuses Board Members of Slander
Discussion: Raw Story and FreakOutNation
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
China submarines outnumber U.S. fleet: U.S. admiral
Nick Budnick / Oregonian:
With IRS, FBI investigating Kitzhaber, Oregon manager denies punishing managers for preserving evidence
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Politico:
The resurrection of Eric Cantor
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Andrew Wolfson / Courier-Journal:
Chris Jones charged with rape, sodomy
Discussion: abc30.com, SI.com, Deadspin and The Week
Amanda Andrade-... / OpposingViews.com:
Man Burns Down A Sex Offender's Would-Be Home
Discussion: The Smoking Gun and FOX News Radio