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New York Times:
Iran Is Warned Over Nuclear ‘Deception’ — PITTSBURGH — President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.
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Washington Post:
Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant — President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain blasted Iran's construction of a previously unacknowledged uranium enrichment facility and demanded Friday that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law …
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Ahmadinejad Rejects Obama's Nuke Warning, and His Stance May Succeed — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned President Barack Obama against pressing Tehran about new revelations that Iran has been constructing a secret uranium-enrichment plant. “If I were Obama's adviser …
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
MEDVEDEV ON OBAMA, IRAN — From NBC's Andrea Mitchell — According to representatives of the Russian government, Russia's President Medvedev praised President Obama effusively during a question-and-answer session with students at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Experts weigh in on Iran revelations (UPDATED)
Experts weigh in on Iran revelations (UPDATED)
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Weekly Standard, ArmsControlWonk, Newshoggers.com, Commentary, The New Republic and The Washington Independent
Firstread / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: IRAN'S SECRET FACILITY
FIRST THOUGHTS: IRAN'S SECRET FACILITY
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Los Angeles Times, The Note, The New Republic, Commentary and The Washington Independent
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising — Complacency, Absence of Big Donors Cited — Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Where's the GOP health care alternative? — House Democrats are marking today as the 100-day anniversary of House Republicans promising to produce their own alternative health reform bill as part of their larger effort to shed the Party of No label. — “I guarantee you we will provide you with a bill …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
So Off Message — From the new Times/CBS poll out this evening ... “Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?”
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
STABENOW 1, KYL 0.... As a rule, if a senator is pushing back against a colleague's rhetoric, and references the other senator's mother, it would be a fairly dramatic breach of protocol. But that's not always the case. — Igor Volsky reports today that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) …
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Confederate Yankee:
Drudge's Easy Libel of the Military — Earlier today I noted that Drudge's link to the use of LRADs as “acoustic weapons” was over the top, which he would have easily recognized on his own if he had simply applied logic to the very video he linked. Put simply, if an LRAD is being used as a weapon …
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Boston Globe:
Judge rejects GOP bid to block Senate appointment — A Suffolk Superior Court judge today rejected a request by the state Republican Party to block the appointment of Paul G. Kirk Jr. as interim US senator, clearing the way for the Democrat to take the oath of office this afternoon in Washington.
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Ezra Klein:
CBO: A Strong Public Plan Saves Lots of Money — According to Congress Daily, the CBO says attaching the public plan to Medicare rates will save even more money than originally thought: … In other words, the conservatives want to spend $85 billion more than the liberals do.
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New York Times:
Terror Case Is Called One of the Most Serious in Years — WASHINGTON — Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, senior government officials have announced dozens of terrorism cases that on closer examination seemed to diminish as legitimate threats. The accumulating evidence …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: California Senate — 2010 California Senate: Boxer Beats Fiorina, DeVore — So far, so good for incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer in match-ups against her two best-known Republican opponents to date in California's 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Afghan Imperative — Always there is the illusion of the easy path. Always there is the illusion, which gripped Donald Rumsfeld and now grips many Democrats, that you can fight a counterinsurgency war with a light footprint, with cruise missiles, with special forces operations and unmanned drones.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Easy Being Green — So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? — If so, you'll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change.
Telegraph:
Pakistan discovers ‘village’ of white German alQaeda insurgents — Investigators have discovered a “Jihadi village” of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan's tribal areas close to the Afghan border. — By Dean Nelson in New Delhi and Allan Hall in Berlin
New York Post:
Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe — After struggling to turn Khadafy's insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator's personal interpreter got lost in translation. — “I just can't take it any more,” Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone - in Arabic.
Robert Naiman / The Huffington Post:
MoveOn to Obama: Exit Strategy, Not More Troops to Afghanistan — The cavalry has arrived! — MoveOn.org is asking MoveOn members to write to President Obama in opposition to Pentagon/ McCain/Lieberman demands for more U.S. troops to be sent to Afghanistan, Greg Sargent reports.
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Sources: Emanuel wanted Claypool to be placeholder — Plan to keep House seat warm may have included Cabinet consideration — It has long been claimed that Rahm Emanuel wanted to find someone to keep his congressional seat warm while he served as President Obama's chief of staff.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Banish the Cyber-Bigots — The transformation of Germany in the 1920s and '30s from the nation of Goethe to the nation of Goebbels is a specter that haunts, or should haunt, every nation. — The triumph of Nazi propaganda in this period is the subject of a remarkable exhibit …
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Ezra Klein