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12:40 PM ET, February 27, 2015

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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
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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.
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 …
Politico:
GOP leaders set to swerve DHS off the cliff
Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown
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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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,” …
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
ABC News:
Rick Perry Tells CPAC: Obama Has Made the World Less Safe  —  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says the Islamic State group seizing territory in the Middle East represents the worst threat to freedom since communism.  —  The likely Republican presidential contender spoke Friday morning in front …
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg Business
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Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry calls Scott Walker's ISIS-labor comparison ‘inappropriate’
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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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.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Yahoo! News
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Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
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
Discussion: Shakesville and The Week
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
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.
Daniel Carpenter / Washington Monthly:
What Piketty Missed: The Banks  —  The explosion of finance, and its weak regulation, has exacerbated inequality.  Stronger regulation could lead to higher middle-class wages.  —  Critics of Piketty's call for a global wealth tax have rightly noted that the infrastructure would be very difficult to build and maintain.
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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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Democrats Have More Positive Image, But GOP Runs Even or Ahead on Key Issues
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Wes Johnson / Springfield News-Leader:
Proposal: Banning armor piercing bullets for the public
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Why Did Boehner Make This Awkward Kiss Face at a Reporter?