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6:00 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  —  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 …
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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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
Julian Hattem / The Hill:   FCC chief: Obama didn't dictate Web rules
USA Today:
FCC approves new net neutrality rules
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
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
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 …
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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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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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Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Conservative Campaign To Stop Cops From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws
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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
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
Ann Coulter / WND:
FOR DEATH BY ISIS YOU HAVE TO GO OUT, BUT ILLEGALS DELIVER!
Politico:
Democrats might skip Benjamin Netanyahu speech
 Earlier Items: 
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’
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Leon Wolf / Townhall.com:
Welcome to the Brave New World of White Shaming
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ben Sasse / Wall Street Journal:
A First Step on the Way Out of ObamaCare
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
China submarines outnumber U.S. fleet: U.S. admiral
Mike Allen / Politico:
Jay Carney to Amazon
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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