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Glenn Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
More impact is what's next for the Tea Party movement — A year ago, the Tea Party movement didn't exist. Today, it is arguably the most popular political entity in America. The movement is already more popular than the Republican or Democratic parties, according to a recent NBC / WSJ poll .
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Howard Wilkinson / Cincinnati.com:
Tea Partiers aim to remake local GOP — A year ago, when the Tea Party movement first stirred to life, it had to shout to be noticed, with big public rallies that drew thousands of conservatives to places like Fountain Square and VOA Park in West Chester - citizens angry about government bailouts …
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Telegraph:
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article — The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
The State of the Union Is Comatose — HANDS down, the State of the Union's big moment was Barack Obama's direct hit on the delicate sensibilities of the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The president was right to blast the 5-to-4 decision giving corporate interests an even greater stranglehold …
CNN:
Top House Republican cites few opportunities to work with Dems — (CNN) - Despite White House overtures for congressional Republicans to work with Democrats, the top GOP official in the House said Sunday that such opportunities are limited. — “There aren't that many places where we can come together …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Senator suggests Holder step down — A top-ranking Senate Republican suggested that Attorney General Eric Holder should “step down” one year into the job. — GOP Conference Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) said on “Fox News Sunday” that the embattled Holder likely made the decision …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Harkin: Health deal was reached days before Brown's Senate victory — Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said negotiators from the White House, Senate and House reached a final deal on healthcare reform days before Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts.
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msnbc.com:
Gibbs: Accused 9/11 plotter likely to be executed — Still no decision on where Mohammed will be tried — WASHINGTON - Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to be executed after being tried and convicted, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico Live's Blog:
Gibbs won't commit to civilian trial for KSM
Gibbs won't commit to civilian trial for KSM
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Obama Organizing in High School — An Atlas reader, Chuck, has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama's Organizing for America (OFA is the former mybarackobama.com site.)
Paul Volcker / New York Times:
How to Reform Our Financial System — PRESIDENT OBAMA 10 days ago set out one important element in the needed structural reform of the financial system. No one can reasonably contest the need for such reform, in the United States and in other countries as well.
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Christopher Leake / Daily Mail:
Terrorists ‘plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies’ to foil new airport scanners — Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide ‘body bombers’ with explosives surgically inserted inside them. — Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines …
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John Pomfret / Washington Post:
China's strident tone raises concerns among Western governments, analysts — China's indignant reaction to the announcement of U.S. plans to sell weapons to Taiwan appears to be in keeping with a new triumphalist attitude from Beijing that is worrying governments and analysts across the globe.
Fox News:
Pakistan Taliban Chief Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike — The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone attack, Pakistan state television reported Sunday. — The report stated Mehsud had been injured in a drone attack in the Shaktoi area January 14 and died three days later.
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