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6:30 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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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.
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, and the ISIS Gaffe  —  How Scott Walker's fandom of the 40th president hurts him.  —  The ledes were written, the narrative was set.  At CPAC, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was going to have another knockout speech in front of conservatives and national media.
Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry calls Scott Walker's ISIS-labor comparison ‘inappropriate’
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Scott Walker's Awful Answer on ISIS
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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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
STUNNER: House GOP Votes Down Own Bill To Avert Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — In a huge embarrassment for Republican leaders, the House voted down their bill Friday to avert a Homeland Security shutdown hours before the midnight deadline.  —  The House GOP plan was to pass a three-week stopgap bill …
Discussion: Liberaland
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Chaos in House as lawmakers reject DHS bill; shutdown nears  —  A short-term funding measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security open (DHS) was defeated on Friday in a stunning vote that could result in a partial government shutdown at midnight.  —  The bill failed 203-224 …
Discussion: Roll Call, Politico and Political Wire
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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP scrambles to keep Obamacare subsidies flowing in case of Supreme Court victory  —  What happens if Republicans win the Supreme Court case against Obamacare?  They might end up like the dog that caught the car.  —  Next Wednesday the court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell …
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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.
Julie Appleby / Philly.com:
Supreme Court could trigger Obamacare meltdown
Discussion: Daily Kos
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform.  —  Rubio, a onetime Tea Party favorite whose support for a comprehensive immigration reform package hurt …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Marco Rubio would cancel Obama's agenda, foreign and domestic
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Marco Rubio looks forward at CPAC, calls Hillary Clinton ‘yesterday’
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — In perhaps his most campaign-style speech so far, not-yet-official GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Thursday not to alter his views on immigration despite intense opposition among some parts of the Republican base.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush was very, very good at CPAC today
Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
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 …
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
CPAC Hails ‘President Paul’  —  CPAC activists waited an hour-and-a-half for Senator Rand Paul after congressional votes delayed his speech, and the pent-up energy made for a rowdy welcome.  —  “President Paul!  President Paul!  President Paul!” the attendees chanted in the middle …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:   Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say?
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
In Early Polling, Walker Stands Apart  —  Not since George W. Bush in 2000 has a GOP presidential candidate drawn support across so many divides.  —  Can Scott Walker keep his balance?  —  That's quickly become one of the most consequential early questions as the 2016 Republican presidential race begins …
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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.
Agence France-Presse:
American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh  —  Protests in Dhaka after Avijit Roy, whose blog championed liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, was attacked along with his wife  —  A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death …
Mike Allen / Politico:
Eric Holder's parting shot: It's too hard to bring civil rights cases  —  In an exit interview, the attorney general says his critics may be partly driven by race.  —  Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses …
 
 
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Michael J. Totten / World Affairs Journal blogs:
ISIS' Next Target
Discussion: RedState
Ken Silverstein / Politico:
Where Journalism Goes to Die
Daily Mail:
ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Netanyahu's Moment
Discussion: New York Magazine
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Failure  —  Barack Obama wants us all to simmer down about Iran.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Brian Faler / Politico:
George Bush vet Keith Hall named as CBO chief
Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
Rev. Franklin Graham Warns Fox Viewers DC Has Been ‘Infiltrated By Muslims’
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
Rick Perry Tells CPAC: Obama Has Made the World Less Safe
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg Business
Daniel Carpenter / Washington Monthly:
What Piketty Missed: The Banks
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Rep. Mia Love: Government Has Made it Impossible for Legal Immigrants to Start Their Own Lives
Discussion: BizPac Review
Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
Investigators probing for criminal activity with Lois Lerner's missing emails
Discussion: Hot Air, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller