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12:00 PM ET, February 25, 2016

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Washington Post:
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump  —  THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
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Jon Ward / Yahoo Politics:
Why Chris Christie never went after Donald Trump  —  Twenty-four hours before Chris Christie dropped out of the presidential race, the New Jersey governor chatted on his campaign bus about taking on Donald Trump the way he went after Marco Rubio.  —  Three days earlier …
Discussion: Politico
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Romney: There's a ‘bombshell’ in Trump's tax returns  —  Mitt Romney is going after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump  —  for not yet releasing his taxes.  —  “Frankly, I think we have a good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes,” the 2012 GOP nominee told Fox News on Wednesday.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?  —  New Hampshire has fallen.  South Carolina has been overwhelmed.  Nevada has surrendered.  And the Republican establishment, like the British Empire in the darkest days of 1940, finds its strength scattered on the beach at Dunkirk, desperately awaiting evacuation …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
RNC sees leverage over Trump  —  Donald Trump has steamrolled toward the Republican nomination by lambasting all things political establishment, and now that establishment thinks it can convince their insult-wielding front-runner he needs them.  —  Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Ceiling Buster  —  Last Sunday, Marco Rubio voiced the conventional wisdom that guides much horse-race commentary about the GOP campaign: “Part of the dynamic up to this point,” Rubio declared, “is Donald [Trump] has been, you know, in the mid 30s to low 30s, high 20s, in most polls …
Associated Press:
Debate Another Chance for Rubio, Cruz to Try to Slow Trump
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads Marco Rubio by 16 Points in New Florida Poll
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Can Donald Trump be stopped?
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Circulates Letter Urging Rubio Or Cruz To Drop Out Of Presidential Race
Discussion: Slantpoint
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out
Discussion: The Week
Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters  —  When Justice Antonin Scalia died 11 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.
The Hill:
How Obama, Dems plan to win fight on high court  —  President Obama and Senate Democrats plan to reach deep into their bag of tricks and tactics to ensure the Supreme Court dominates the political debate up until Election Day.  —  Their strategy is to portray the Senate Republican majority …
Discussion: Politico
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Trump's negatives among Hispanics rise; worst in GOP field … Donald Trump has used the issue of immigration to help make himself the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but his harsh rhetoric also has earned him the highest negative ratings among Hispanic voters …
Christopher Cameron / The Statesman:
Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner  —  A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Donald Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.  —  Professor Helmut Norpoth's …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The poorly educated’ people of America cut an ad for Donald Trump [Video]  —  An ebullient Donald Trump declared Tuesday night after his victory in the Nevada caucuses that he loved “the poorly educated.”  —  It was, to say the least, an odd way of phrasing it.
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Natalie Swaby / KING-TV:
Boy removed from plane over allergies, passengers applaud  —  COUPEVILLE, Wash. - Instead of sightseeing on a ferry, 7-year-old Giovanni, his mom, Christina Fabian, and dad, George Alvarado should have already boarded a flight.  —  “We were on Flight 171,” said Fabian.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Taps Foreign Work Force for His Florida Club  —  Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach describes itself as “one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world,” and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.  —  Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents …
Jason M. Breslow / FRONTLINE:
Eric Holder: If Sentencing Reform Dies, “I'd Be Ashamed”  —  As a judge in Washington, D.C. in the '80s and '90s, Eric Holder says it didn't take much to tell that the nation's criminal justice system - especially when it came to low-level drug offenses - was “fundamentally unfair.”
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Tom Angell / Marijuana:
Reschedule Marijuana, Says Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Post and Courier:
Woman, 50, died after being ‘deprived of water’ at Charleston County jail  —  A woman who was arrested at a hospital over the summer for failing to pay court fines died the next day because she was deprived of water at the Charleston County jail, her family's attorneys said Wednesday.
Discussion: Raw Story, Shakesville and Fusion
Jeremy Roebuck / Philly.com:
ACLU plans challenge to ruling finding no First Amendment right to film police  —  Civil rights lawyers said Wednesday that they intend to appeal a federal court ruling in Philadelphia that citizens do not necessarily have a right protected by the First Amendment to record police activity.
Los Angeles Times:
Biden and Lady Gaga to team up at Oscars  —  Vice President Joe Biden speaks in St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 18.  —  Vice President Joe Biden will team up with Lady Gaga during Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony for a special presentation aimed a combating sexual violence, White House officials said Thursday.
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Just Jared
 
 
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MIT Technology Review:
Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Discussion: Daily Mail
Ashley Collman For / Daily Mail:
Act better! Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx takes a dig at Will Smith's Oscar boycott
Hollywood Reporter:
Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: Voter Skewers ‘Revenant’ ("Road Runner Movie"), ‘Brooklyn’ ("Sentimental Drivel")
Janell Ross / Washington Post:
Melania Trump defends Donald by saying she immigrated legally.  But for models like her, it's easier.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Fight the soulless juggernaut: Big money, machine politics and the real issue separating Sanders and Clinton
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Google robot is ‘the end of manual labor’: VC
Jeremy Tanner / New York's PIX11:
Baby sitter charged with murder in death of Staten Island 16-month-old
Bill James / The Federalist:
Trump Is A Rump, But He Has A Point
Discussion: Bill James Online and Politico
 

 
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