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8:55 AM ET, February 27, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
GOP's New Plan to Repeal Obamacare: Dare Fellow Republicans to Block Effort  —  GOP lawmakers gamble that setting bill in motion to strike Affordable Care Act will help break through intraparty disagreements  —  WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress …
Discussion: Axios, CBS News and New York Magazine
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
A divided White House still offers little guidance on replacing Obamacare  —  A meeting Friday afternoon between President Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his former rival in the GOP primaries, had no set agenda.  But Kasich came armed with one anyway: his hope to blunt drastic changes …
Discussion: Politicus USA and Vox
Oren Cass / National Review:
No, Obamacare Has Not Saved American Lives  —  The arguments of the law's defenders don't stand up to scrutiny.  —  Repealing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats say, will “make America sick again.”  Bernie Sanders warns “36,000 people will die yearly as a result.”
Discussion: Instapundit
Axios:
Exclusive: Spicer arranged CIA, GOP intelligence push-back  —  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer personally picked up the phone and connected outside officials with reporters to try to discredit a New York Times article about Trump campaign aides' contact with Russia …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Claim: Reporter laughs at Trump aide's emotion over SEAL death  —  A Sunday Politico story about President Trump's press secretary cracking down on media leaks included a claim that the top-ranked woman in the White House communications office cried in frustration.
Discussion: Politico, The Federalist and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak crackdown
Benny Johnson / IJR:
Inside Trump's Secret Dinner: A Side of the President You Don't Ever See  —  The animosity between the press and President Trump has reached a fever pitch in recent days.  Much of the grudge match stems from access, or lack thereof, between the President and the press.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST and twitchy.com
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: GOP congressman calls for special prosecutor for Trump-Russia  —  Trump's first 100 days with ABC's RICK KLEIN and SHUSHANNAH WALSHE  —  The big story: Of all the bubbling questions and potential scandals of the early Trump administration, the one that now appears likely to hold …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:   The DNC isn't enough: Democrats demand more leadership changes
Matt Bruenig:
Be clear about what happened to Keith Ellison
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
Megan Garvey / Los Angeles Times:
Correction: ‘Moonlight’ wins best picture.  ‘La La Land’ was read in error  —  In a moment that will go down as one of the strangest and most shocking in Oscar history, “Moonlight” was named Oscar winner for best picture only after “La La Land” was announced first.  —  The room was in disarray as they sorted out the error.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael Rothman / ABC News:
‘Moonlight’ wins best picture after ‘La La Land’ mistakenly announced
Philly.com:
‘Beyond belief’: 75-100 headstones toppled at Jewish cemetery  —  Stacy Silver prayed as she drove with her husband to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia's Wissinoming section Sunday: Please don't let my mother and great-grandmother be among the victims.  —  When Silver, 50, of Cherry Hill …
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
He's a Local Pillar in a Trump Town.  Now He Could Be Deported.  —  WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Ask residents of this coal-mining crossroads about President Trump's decision to crack down on undocumented immigrants and most offer no protest.  Mr. Trump, who easily won this mostly white southern Illinois county …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump to Ask for Sharp Increases in Military Spending, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that would include sharp increases in Defense Department spending; major cuts to other agencies …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump, Archenemy of Truth  —  Donald Trump's unrelenting assault on the media is in fact an assault on the implacability of truth, the notion of accountability and the power of free speech.  It is also a bit of a bow to the conspiracy theorizing that Trump is wont to do.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Geert Wilders, Reclusive Provocateur, Rises Before Dutch Vote  —  SPIJKENISSE, the Netherlands — He wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax head scarves and ban the Quran.  He is partly of Indonesian heritage, and dyes his hair bright blond.  He is omnipresent on social media …
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Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
These Iowans voted for Trump.  Many of them are already disappointed.  —  CLINTON, Iowa — Tom Godat, a union electrician who has always voted for Democrats, cast his ballot for Donald Trump last year as “the lesser of two evils” compared to Hillary Clinton.  —  He's already a little embarrassed about it.
Mike Parker / Daily Express:
OJ Simpson set to walk free 24 years early to enjoy pension millions  —  DISGRACED former American football star OJ Simpson is set to walk free from prison exactly nine years into his 33-year sentence.  —  A parole board hearing scheduled for the week beginning July 3 - six days before his 70th birthday …
Kent Babb / Washington Post:
Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs identifies as a male.  He just won the Texas state girls title.  —  CYPRESS, Tex. — Booed and bloody, Mack Beggs dropped to his knees to celebrate.  He was, after four wins and two days and all the rest, a state champion.  —  In a 12-2 victory …
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Molly O'Toole / Foreign Policy:
Trump Administration Seeks to Loosen Hiring Requirements to Beef Up Border Patrol  —  According to an internal memo, laxer standards are needed to expand the number of Border Patrol agents, but that could come at a cost in security.  —  The Trump administration is seeking to loosen …
Carrie Wells / Baltimore Sun:
Ivanka Trump attends Monster Jam truck rally in Baltimore … First Daughter Ivanka Trump attended Baltimore's Monster Jam truck rally on Sunday.  It's her second time in the city in several days.  —  Trump posted several pictures to Twitter and Instagram showing her and one of her sons at the truck rally.
 
 
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New York Times:
Missing: Donald Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Many Americans Disapprove of Trump But Are Open to His Agenda, Poll Finds
Discussion: Instapundit and Political Wire
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Buffett and Gates: America Is Already Great, Thanks to Immigrants
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Celebrities sport ACLU ribbons on Oscars red carpet
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
5 ways politics could steal the show at Oscars
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History
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A referendum on Trump in Newt's old district
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Why de Blasio Might as Well Be Running Unopposed
Paul Jacob / Townhall.com:
The Stars of Sexist and Racist Hollywood Shine Bright Tonight
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Rick Santorum: ‘Millions of Americans’ with preexisting conditions are scammers stealing health care
Daily Mail:
Swedish policeman blames migrants for the majority of country's rapes and shootings and accuses …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Voters, Your Savior Is Betraying You
Maureen Callahan / Reuters:
God help us if Chelsea Clinton runs for office
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