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8:10 AM ET, February 27, 2015

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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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Scott Walker's Awful Answer on ISIS  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received a lot of completely undeserved grief from the national news media in the past weeks.  But he may have made a genuine unforced error in one of his remarks today.  —  Asked about ISIS, Walker responded …
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Walker: I took on unions, I can take on ISIS
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 …
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Politico:
Uncompromising Reid still in command  —  ‘He is controlling the agenda,’ one Republican senator complains.  —  He only controls 46 seats, but Harry Reid is acting like he has 60.  —  Reid's uncompromising posture during the flap over homeland security funding and his emerging plans …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Politico:
The new GOP split on net neutrality  —  Some want to use every tactic to fight the FCC; others are seeking a bipartisan effort to weaken the rules.  —  Republicans have always insisted that the federal government keep its hands off the Internet.  —  But the FCC's landmark vote Thursday …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Inhofe hurls snowball on Senate floor  —  Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) threw a snowball on the Senate floor Thursday in an effort to disprove what he sees as alarmist conclusions about man-made climate change.  —  Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works …
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Jason Plautz / National Journal:
Watch Jim Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor  —  Aide confirms the underhand toss was caught by a page.  —  The debate over funding for the Homeland Security Department wasn't the only thing that froze over in the Senate Thursday  —  Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Environment …
Discussion: The Week
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Discussion: Politico
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.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:   FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
BuzzFeed:
What Colors Are This Dress?  —  There's a lot of debate on Tumblr about this right now, and we need to settle it.  This is important because I think I'm going insane.  —  Cates Holderness  —  5 hours ago  —  1671 responses
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Wes Johnson / Springfield News-Leader:
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right  —  The New Jersey governor tells CPAC voters he's an everyman alternative to Jeb Bush, who is the candidate for DC “elites” making “backroom deals.”  —  Pointedly criticizing his chief rival, Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie portrayed himself …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush, 2016's Gay-Friendly Republican
Discussion: Hit & Run, Hot Air and Good As You
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
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 …
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 …
Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
King v. Burwell Isn't About Obamacare  —  It's all about states' rights—but the plaintiffs would rather you didn't know that.  —  King v. Burwell—the challenge to the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court will hear on March 4th—is about more than health care.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Uninsured Ex-Sheriff Who Fought O-care Struggles To Pay Medical Bills  —  Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the “constitutional sheriff” movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Democrats Have More Positive Image, But GOP Runs Even or Ahead on Key Issues
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mort Zuckerman exploring sale of Daily News
Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Conservative Campaign To Stop Cops From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws
Discussion: Daily Kos
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Byron Allen Goes To War With Sharpton, Obama, Comcast For Future Of Black Media
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Truth Revolt
Oliver Laughland / Guardian:
‘Gestapo’ tactics at US police ‘black site’ ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
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Nichola Groom / Reuters:
Google invests $300 million in U.S. residential solar projects
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans divided on Williams return
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Politico:
Democrats might skip Benjamin Netanyahu speech
Leon Wolf / Townhall.com:
Welcome to the Brave New World of White Shaming
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Chris Jones charged with rape, sodomy
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