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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Good morning! In the news today: Netanyahu finally arrives before Congress; Obama attacks his credibility; a quarter of Democrats to skip the speech; Hillary used her personal email account at state; Boehner expected to cave on Homeland security; and the coming plague of stoned bunnies.
Have a great day.
Keith
Netanyahu takes his case to Congress . . . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seizing the bully pulpit of Congress to warn against trusting Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions, even as President
Barack Obama's negotiators continue talking with the Iranians Tuesday in hopes of closing a deal this month. Associated Press Live Stream || Netanyahu's Address to Congress - scheduled to begin at about 11:00 am ET.
Obama attacks
Netanyahu's credibility . . . Obama said Netanyahu has been wrong before -- pointing to the 2013 interim deal with Iran. "Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting $50 billion worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true," Obama said. CNN
At least a quarter of House Dems to skip speech . . . The defections, which point to the increasingly strained relations between the White House and the Israeli government, have injected a partisan edge to the issue of
U.S. support for Israel, which has historically been overwhelming from both sides of the aisle. At least 55 Democrats — eight senators and 47 House members — are vowing to skip the speech. The Hill
Netanyahu: "We have a voice" . . . Evoking the ancient fear among Jews of annihilation at the hands of their enemies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday proclaimed “we have a voice,” saying the Jewish people will never again be passive in the face of threats to their existence. White House Dossier
Netanyahu, Obama differences widen into a chasm . . . Over six years of bitter disagreements about how to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel kept running into one central problem: The two leaders never described their ultimate goal in quite the same way. New York Times Top U.S. official: Tensions with Israel could last two years . . . "There are moments of significant agreement and then there are moments of tactical disagreement," US deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken told French radio station
Europe 1. "That's the nature of things and I imagine that will continue for the last two years of the Obama administration," he said. AFP ******* Support REDLINE and White House Dossier when you shop on Amazon. Just click on this link and bookmark it for use each time you make a purchase. REDLINE and White House Dossier will receive a percentage of the price of your purchase, but it doesn't cost you a thing! Thanks for your
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Hillary used personal email while Secretary of State . . . Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be
retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. New York Times Obama to promote girls' education - overseas . . . This is all very nice. But it of course begs the question, Why is the White House concerning itself with the worldwide education of
girls or the worldwide education of anyone else? White House Dossier 
State tweets anti-Semitic Muslim cleric . . . The State Department’s counterterrorism office is facing pushback after promoting recent remarks by a Muslim cleric who blamed regional unrest in the Middle East on what he called a “conspiracy” by a “new global colonialism allied to world Zionism.” Washington Free Beacon Obama moving in on local law enforcement powers . . . President Obama Monday introduced his plan for a progressive takeover of state and local policing. “We have a great
opportunity… to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations,” he said Monday. Obama’s strategy matches the progressive playbook, which continuously expands progressives’ power by gradually adding more conditions to federal aid. Daily Caller Blind man searching for Lerner emails . . . The first IT specialist to inspect the computer hard drive of former IRS exemptions director Lois Lerner was legally blind, according to an affidavit filed last year by Stephen Manning, deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the IRS. Daily Caller Official Clinton portrait includes sly Monica reference
. . . Hidden in the portrait of former President Bill Clinton is a subtle metaphor that represents the sex scandal that rocked his administration in the late 1990s, according to the man who painted it. The Blaze Quote of the Day || March 3, 3015 Obama Schedule ||
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More than a dozen ISIS operatives in Libya . . . The situation is raising fresh security concerns, as the U.S. and its allies struggle to keep tabs on the many arms of the ever-expanding ISIS network. One source, who is
not authorized to speak on the record given the sensitivity of the data,said they would not be surprised "if the next 9/11 came out of Libya." Fox
News North Korea: We can deter U.S. nuclear threat . . . North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong said on Tuesday that his country had the power to deter an "ever-increasing nuclear threat" by the United States with a pre-emptive strike if necessary. Reuters Iran backing the new Iraq offensive, not the United States . . . Press reports from Baghdad said Iranians were backing up the Shia militias, creating a possible combustible ethnic mix that could break out into sectarian
violence instead of a well-orchestrated campaign. Washington Times Support growing for boots on the ground . . . Obama has been reluctant to commit troops to the fight beyond
logistics support, but the country is moving in that direction, with American opinion about evenly split, according to a Pew Research Poll released last week. In October, 39 percent favored using U.S. ground forces. Washington Times
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Chuck Todd asks Ben Carson how a doctor could be religious . . . Really? Now candidates are being asked to justify their belief in God? Is that where this nation, founded as a God-fearing entity, has gotten
to? White House Dossier Dems expect Boehner to cave . . . House Democrats on Monday said they expect Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a clean Homeland Security bill to the floor this week, effectively ending the fight over funding for President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The Hill New CBO director may help cut your taxes . . . The biggest difference between Keith Hall and outgoing Democratic appointee Douglas Elmendorf, said budget expert Stan Collender, will show up in how Hall treats dynamic scoring for tax changes. Dynamic scoring, unlike conventional static analysis, takes into account feedback from overall economic growth generated by new laws, meaning that
changes that boost economic growth appear less costly to the government. Washington Examiner Which Hillary laugh are you? . . . There's a little bit of Hillary
in all of us, sometimes we're just too afraid to admit it. Washington Free Beacon
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Natalia Revuelta, the lover Fidel left behind, dies at 89 . . . She was the belle of Havana high society — the vivacious young wife of a renowned surgeon, a woman with expensive tastes, patrician good looks and a
mile-wide rebellious streak. He was a radical leftist with a wife, a young son, several unpaid electricity bills and an ambitious plan to overthrow Cuba’s conservative dictator. Washington Post |
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How much porn do you need to watch at work to get fired? . . . In the private sector, not much. But at the EPA, it seems you can fight pollution while polluting your desktop. White House Dossier Judge to EPA: Stop discriminating against conservative group . . . A federal judge rebuked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday for
discriminating against a conservative group, saying the agency was either lying or apathetic in its response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act. White House Dossier Students walk out on common core tests . . . New assessment tests that have angered parents and teachers across the nation prompted walkouts Monday by hundreds of high school students in New Mexico who had been set to take the exams. The backlash came as millions of U.S. students started taking the rigorous exams aligned with Common Core standards that outline math and language skills that should be mastered
in each grade. Fox News DEA warns of stoned rabbits . . . Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with
certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. Washington Post Keith Koffler
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