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4:50 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.
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 …
Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry calls Scott Walker's ISIS-labor comparison ‘inappropriate’
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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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jeb Bush: 'I'm not backing down' from immigration stance
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nick Gass / Politico:
12 questions for John Ellis Bush
Discussion: 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 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
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
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 …
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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
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.
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
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 …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Netanyahu's Moment  —  Sometimes a speech is just a speech.  Benjamin Netanyahu's speech about Iran policy on March 3 will not be his first address to Congress.  It will make familiar, if important, arguments.  One might assume that, like the vast majority of speeches …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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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Daily Mail:
ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Failure  —  Barack Obama wants us all to simmer down about Iran.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
Rev. Franklin Graham Warns Fox Viewers DC Has Been ‘Infiltrated By Muslims’
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The fatal flaw in the Iran deal
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
Politico:
Aaron Schock didn't report gifts, meals in London
Discussion: US News, Mediaite and New York Magazine
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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: The Daily Caller, Hit & Run and Hot Air
New York Times:
Wisconsin, Workers and the 2016 Election