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12:15 PM ET, March 6, 2015

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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
The Hillary Camp's Rationale for Staying Quiet  —  Hillary Clinton won't be presiding over a soul-searching press conference or sitting down for a come-clean interview about her use of a private email address any time soon — at least if everything goes according to her team's plan.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
‘Who knows?  She could implode totally’  —  Clinton email scandal alarms Democrats.  —  Three days into the rolling controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email address as Secretary of State, Democrats are showing signs of stress.  —  In interviews with more than three dozen …
James Hohmann / Politico:
The POLITICO Caucus: Dems fret over toll of Clinton email stories
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton private email violated ‘clear-cut’ State Dept. rules
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup  —  Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.  —  And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.
Discussion: RedState, Hot Air and Political Wire
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Politico:
GOP leaders to skip Selma event  —  'They've lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,' one black lawmaker says.  —  Getty  —  Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary.
Politico:
Rebels with a cause  —  A new group of far-right House Republicans tries to show they're not just a band of demagogues.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is a member of the right-leaning Freedom Caucus.  Getty  —  Sitting in a room on the fourth floor of the Cannon building …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Supreme Court Weighs Health Law, G.O.P. Plans to Replace It  —  WASHINGTON — The legal campaign to destroy President Obama's health care law may be nearing its conclusion, but as the Supreme Court deliberates over the law's fate, the search for a replacement by Republican lawmakers is finally gaining momentum.
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
More Than 300 Republicans Call on Supreme Court to Recognize Gay Marriage Nationally  —  Signers include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sens. Susan Collins and Mark Kirk and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker  —  More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservative Justices: If we gut Obamacare, Republicans will fix it!  (No, they won't.)  —  At oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday, two of the conservative justices — Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia — both floated versions of the idea that, if the Court does strike …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama: Ferguson ‘not an isolated incident’  —  The work of the civil rights movement remains unfinished, President Obama said ahead of his trip to Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery.  —  “I think that the generation that has followed the civil rights generation …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Gangsters of Ferguson  —  Yesterday the Justice Department released …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
What Obama's trip to Selma means
Oliver Roeder / FiveThirtyEight:
Obamacare's Chances Of Survival Are Looking Better And Better  —  Solicitor General Donald Verrilli won Wednesday's oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.  Or at least that's what the wisdom of the crowd is telling us.
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Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
How States' Rights Shapes King v. Burwell
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases  —  LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council's Judicial Board.
Wall Street Journal:
How America Was Misled on al Qaeda's Demise  —  The White House portrait of a crumbling terror group is contradicted by documents seized in the bin Laden raid.  —  By  —  In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside …
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Rep. Don Young: Wolves would solve homelessness  —  Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, famous for his salty tongue and brusque demeanor, suggested Thursday that if he let loose wolves in some congressional districts, they “wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore.”
CNN:
Jeb Bush aides used private domain for public business  —  Photos: Political families 28 photos  —  Photos: Political families - Debbie Dingell announced Friday, February 28, that she would run for the seat held for 58 years by her husband, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, who announced earlier that he was retiring.
Discussion: US News
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's Churchillian warning  —  Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress was notable in two respects.  Queen Esther got her first standing O in 2,500 years.  And President Obama came up empty in his campaign to preemptively undermine Netanyahu before the Israeli prime minister could present his case on the Iran negotiations.
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Philip Stephens / Financial Times:   The answer for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is war against Iran
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Lucy Nicholson / NBC News:
Harrison Ford Injured in Plane Crash
Discussion: CNN, NPR, Mediaite, The Week and The Verge
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Andrew Lack is back at NBC News  —  What started with a phone call last month about Brian Williams ended on Friday in Andy Lack's appointment as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.  —  Lack will replace Pat Fili-Krushel.  He will start work in April, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said.
Fred Klonsky:
Rahm screams at mental health activists, “YOU'RE GONNA RESPECT ME!”  —  Photo montage of Rahm at Wicker Park incident: Kenzo Shibata.  — By Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle as posted on the Mental Health Movement's Facebook page.  —  Mental Health Movement members Debbie Delgado and Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle …
Discussion: DSWright and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg Business:
Payrolls Rose by 295,000 in February, U.S. Jobless Rate at 5.5%
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Michael Brown / Townhall.com:
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Did Jeb Bush Go Far Enough to Try to Save Terri Schiavo to Save His Iowa Chances?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Clinton e-mail review could find security issues
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
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Q13 FOX News:
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Did the Obama Administration Lie to the Federal Court About Implementation of Executive Amnesty?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John R. Morris / The Hill:
Modern media and the destructive representation of conservativism
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Ban or not, kids allowed to sled at Capitol
Discussion: Hot Air and The Week
Science:
Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs
Tony Dejak / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Republicans Or Democrats More Likely To Survive The Apocalypse?
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite