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3:50 PM ET, March 5, 2015

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton breaks silence on email controversy  —  She calls on the State Department to release her emails.  —  After two days of silence, Hillary Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state late on Wednesday night …
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Democrats See a Familiar Pattern in the Clinton E-mail Story  —  Reports of Democrats fretting about Hillary's future have been overstated.  —  “You're not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?” says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  “I know you would not do that.
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Clinton State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email  —  In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post.  According to a Foreign Policy report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a whithering evaluation from the State Department:
ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham … One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the discovery that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account and private server during her time as Secretary of State was the fact that the system was registered to a man that no one had ever heard of.
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton's Secret Staff Email System?  —  When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn't just an affront to Obama's vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats …
Discussion: Hot Air and VodkaPundit
Lauren French / Politico:
Trey Gowdy: Not backing off subpoena of Hillary Clinton emails
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Mediaite
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton's penchant for secrecy rattles Democrats
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Did John Roberts Tip His Hand?  —  The Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday in King v. Burwell featured thousands of words, dozens of provocative questions, two engaged and skillful lawyers—and one very striking silence.  Chief Justice John Roberts, usually among the most active questioners …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Roberts will uphold ObamaCare  —  In this “friend of the court” column, I suggest with 90 percent confidence that Chief Justice John Roberts, who remained virtually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, will join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: RedState
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Triumph of the leftist will  —  The Supreme Court held oral argument in King v Burwell yesterday.  The Supreme Court has posted the transcript of the oral argument here.  —  At issue in King is the legality of the IRS's provision of tax credits in Obamacare exchanges established by the federal government.
Jonathan H. Adler / USA Today:   Law means what it says: Opposing view
Paul Barrett / Bloomberg Business:   Hundreds of Big Companies Urge Supreme Court to Back Gay Marriage
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  March 5, 2015 - Walker, Bush In Tight Race Among U.S. Republicans, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Clinton Sweeps Dem Field, With Biden In The Wings  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 18 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 16 percent …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Likely 2016 GOP hopefuls recast immigration views
Jim Salter / Associated Press:
Michael Brown's parents announce civil lawsuit in death  —  3 photos  —  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson said Thursday that they would file a civil lawsuit in Michael Brown's death.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Feds vs. Ferguson
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
The 12 key highlights from the DOJ's scathing Ferguson report
Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
N. Korea: U.S. ambassador attack ‘just punishment’  —  North Korea called the knife attack on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea on Thursday “just punishment” for U.S. military exercises with its southern neighbor.  —  Ambassador Mark Lippert was slashed in the face early Thursday while speaking at a breakfast forum in Seoul.
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Reuters:
Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea
Mike Allen / Politico:
Kathleen Matthews likely to run for Van Hollen's seat  —  Kathleen Matthews, Marriott International's executive vice president and chief global communications and public affairs officer, and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
Alan Sepinwall / Hitfix:
ONE LAST ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ Q&A WITH MIKE SCHUR  —  ON HILLARY CLINTON, THE SWANSON BROTHERS, HARRIS WITTELS, AND MORE
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Ringling Bros. Circus to give up elephant acts in 3 years  —  12 photos  —  POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public concern …
Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
Speculation over successor after Iran's Khamenei reportedly hospitalized in serious condition  —  Media blitz on Khamenei's health raises questions abo...  Khamenei on Twitter: No cure for barbaric Israeli reg...  Iran's Khamenei: 'Increasing global hatred of Israel ...
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Christie's Office Drove Exxon Settlement, Ex-Official Says  —  For more than a decade, the New Jersey attorney general's office conducted a hard-fought legal battle to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation responsible for decades of environmental contamination in northern New Jersey.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Week
 
 
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Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Sheriffs sue Colorado over legal marijuana
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
Politico:
The Outsider  —  Elizabeth Warren wants to be the most powerful …
Gallup:
Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Jeb Bush to Visit an Iowa Where Fatigue With His Family Has Set In
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Rein in the IRS  —  Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) is now chairman …
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Kevin Swanson: Girl Scouts Turn Girls Into Lesbians And 'I Don't Want My Little Girl Turning Into A Lesbian'
CyberDust ID / blog maverick:
Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
Guardian:
Katharine Viner wins staff ballot for Guardian editor
Christopher Baxter / New Jersey Online:
Applebee's not liable for N.J. man burned while praying over fajita skillet
Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story
Dr. Ben Carson / Facebook:
In a recent interview on CNN, I realized that my choice …