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2:30 PM ET, February 27, 2015

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Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83  —  Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” …
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Terry Flores / Variety:
Leonard Nimoy, 'Star Trek's' Spock, Dies at 83  —  Leonard Nimoy lived up to his longtime catchphrase: Live long and prosper.  Having achieved success in many arenas during his lifetime, the actor, director, writer and photographer has died at age 83.  His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy …
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
‘Star Trek’ icon Leonard Nimoy dies at age 83
Discussion: Army Times and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper / Jezebel:
Scott Walker Wants Colleges to Stop Reporting Sexual Assaults  —  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget—which would cut $300 million dollars out of the state's beloved public university system—has a non-fiscal bombshell tucked in between its insane pages.
Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry calls Scott Walker's ISIS-labor comparison ‘inappropriate’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, and the ISIS Gaffe
The Hill:
House will vote Friday to prevent Homeland Security shutdown  —  The House will vote Friday on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks in an attempt to avert a shutdown slated for Saturday at the massive agency.  —  If the bill is approved by the House …
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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 …
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Effects of DHS shutdown might not be obvious to public but could run deep
Discussion: Daily Kos
Adam Rogers / Wired:
The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress  —  The original image is in the middle.  At left, white-balanced as if the dress is white-gold.  At right, white-balanced to blue-black. swiked  —  Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.
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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
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open  —  Democrats may be ready for Hillary, but nothing is inevitable for the GOP.  —  Thoughts on the 2016 presidential primaries:  —  No one expects anything from the Democrats.  They will back, accept or acquiesce in a coronation.  This will not be called passive but disciplined.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marco Rubio looks forward at CPAC, calls Hillary Clinton ‘yesterday’
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Marco Rubio would cancel Obama's agenda, foreign and domestic
Discussion: Hot Air
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say?  —  Everywhere Hillary Clinton goes, a thousand cameras follow.  Then she opens her mouth, and nothing happens.  —  Clinton made a much-ballyhooed appearance in Iowa over the weekend, giving a speech widely noted for its substancelessness.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Failure  —  Barack Obama wants us all to simmer down about Iran.  He wants Senator Bob Menendez, a fellow Democrat, and the donors he represents to butt out of the sanctions debate.  He wants Republicans to quit crying wolf about Iran's nuclear weapons program.  He wants the media to stop hyping terror threats.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Rubio: Obama Sees Deal With Iran as His Legacy
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The fatal flaw in the Iran deal
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.
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Julie Appleby / Philly.com:
Supreme Court could trigger Obamacare meltdown
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brian Faler / Politico:
George Bush vet Keith Hall named as CBO chief  —  House Republicans on Friday named former Bush administration economist Keith Hall as head of the Congressional Budget Office, an influential position with the power to set the price tag on legislation.  —  The move comes on the heels …
Discussion: Bloomberg View
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:   Congressional Republicans Name New Budget Referee
The White House:
This is net neutrality:  —  More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago.  And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic equally.
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Politico:
The new GOP split on net neutrality
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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: FreakOutNation and Balloon Juice
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
8 shot dead at multiple crime scenes in rural Missouri  —  The bodies of 8 people were found shot to death early Friday at multiple locations in rural south-central Missouri after sheriff's deputies responded to a call from a young girl reporting gunshots in her house in Tyrone, Mo., according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich  —  He was my BFF.  —  That's how my editorial board colleagues jokingly referred to my relationship with state auditor Tom Schweich, who on Thursday morning raised a gun to his head in his Clayton home and shot himself dead.
 
 
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Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
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Daniel Carpenter / Washington Monthly:
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Politico:
Aaron Schock didn't report gifts, meals in London
Discussion: US News, Mediaite and New York Magazine
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Rep. Mia Love: Government Has Made it Impossible for Legal Immigrants to Start Their Own Lives
Discussion: BizPac Review
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Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
Investigators probing for criminal activity with Lois Lerner's missing emails
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
New York Times:
Wisconsin, Workers and the 2016 Election
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Inhofe hurls snowball on Senate floor