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11:20 PM ET, February 26, 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.
Discussion: Liberaland
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Yahoo! News, Bloomberg Business and CNN
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Scott Walker Says He Can Take On ISIS Because He Took On Labor Unions
Discussion: Mediaite, FreakOutNation and Twitchy
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson kicks off CPAC
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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New York Times:
F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes.
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.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
Discussion: RedState
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
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
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
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.
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senate Snowball Toss a Message From Climate Change Denier
Discussion: Politico
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.
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 …
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 Pompeo / Capital New York:
Mort Zuckerman exploring sale of Daily News  —  Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman is exploring a sale of the tabloid and has retained the firm Lazard to assist in the process.  —  In a Thursday email to staff, Zuckerman said he hadn't been considering an imminent sale of the paper …
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 …
Wes Johnson / Springfield News-Leader:
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public  —  Surplus armor piercing ammunition — the same kind used by U.S. troops — might soon be much harder for the public to buy under a proposal being floated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Speakers Fling Scorn and Sarcasm at Hillary Clinton  —  The presumed Democratic front-runner isn't far from Republican minds.  —  Hillary Clinton wasn't in attendance Thursday, but she wasn't far from the minds of Republicans at the Conservative Political Action Conference who are hoping to impede her path to the White House.
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
Tennessean.com:
Muslim group: Rep. Sheila Butt's Facebook post racist  —  The nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization Wednesday urged Tennessee Republican leaders to repudiate what it considers a racist Facebook post by a GOP state lawmaker.  —  Republican Rep. Sheila Butt's Facebook post said …
 
 
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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
Oliver Laughland / Guardian:
‘Gestapo’ tactics at US police ‘black site’ ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
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: Strange Bedfellows and The Week
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
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Politifact and Me  —  Intellectual dishonesty among the ‘fact-checkers’
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Ben Sasse / Wall Street Journal:
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Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
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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
Mike Allen / Politico:
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