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10:30 AM ET, March 8, 2015

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Rich Schapiro / NY Daily News:
Billboard honoring KKK founder on display near Selma bridge on anniversary of historic march  —  WelKKKome to Selma!  —  Within sight of the bridge where President Obama will commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday march is a billboard set up by a group dedicated to honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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Maya Rhodan / TIME:
Transcript: Read Full Text of President Barack Obama's Speech in Selma  —  The President spoke on Saturday on the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’  —  President Obama spoke before thousands on Saturday during a commemorative ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the events of “Bloody Sunday” …
German Lopez / Vox:
Read the full transcript of Obama's rousing, emotional speech in Selma  —  It is a rare honor in this life to follow one of your heroes.  And John Lewis is one of my heroes.  —  Now, I have to imagine that when a younger John Lewis woke up that morning fifty years ago and made his way to Brown Chapel, heroics were not on his mind.
Harris Wofford / Politico:
What I Saw at Selma  —  King's genius was that he knew …
Chris Good / ABC News:
Obama: 50 Years After Bloody Sunday ‘Our March Not Yet Over’
James Hohmann / Politico:
The Iowa Ag Summit: 10 takeaways  —  The GOP's top contenders try to thread the needle on farm policy, ethanol mandates.  —  The politics of ethanol have shifted enough over the last 15 years that several Republican presidential candidates felt comfortable - at an agricultural summit in Iowa Saturday …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Walker: ‘There are jobs to be had’  —  Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) on Saturday urged unemployed Americans to stay positive about opportunities to rejoin the work force.  —  “I believe firmly that there are jobs to be had not just across my state but across America,” Walker said during …
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Iowa cattle call puts farm policy in the 2016 spotlight
Discussion: Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
Julianna Margulies / CBS News:
Obama weighs in on Hillary Clinton's private emails  —  Shares -  —  President Obama only learned of Hillary Clinton's private email address use for official State Department business after a New York Times report, he told CBS News in an interview.  —  CBS News senior White House correspondent …
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Black Teen Tony Robinson Shot Dead by Cop in Madison, Wisconsin, Was Unarmed  —  The 19-year-old black man who was shot dead Friday during a confrontation with a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, was unarmed, police said Saturday.  —  He was identified as Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. …
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Rand Paul says same-sex marriage ‘offends’ him  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (Washington Blade photo by Lee Whitman)  —  Potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said on Friday affording the distinction to marriage to same-sex couples “offends myself and a lot of other people.”
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Cruz: Menendez probe politically motivated  —  Des Moines, Iowa — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested Saturday that the Justice Department's criminal corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) are political retribution against the New Jersey Democrat for opposing the White House's negotiations with Iran.
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush, Confronted by DREAMer, Compares Obama Orders to Decrees of ‘Latin American Dictator’  —  Jeb Bush joined the elite, uncomfortable club of possible 2016 presidential candidates confronted by immigration reform supporters who want legal recognition for the undocumented.
Discussion: National Review and Balloon Juice
BBC:
Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State  —  Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.  —  The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and is believed to be by the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and PUNDIT PRESS
Daily Mail:
We were wrong to try to ban racism out of existence, says former equality chief  —  A former equality chief has branded his years working to stamp out racial discrimination as ‘utterly wrong’.  —  Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an ‘ugly new doctrine’.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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