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11:45 AM ET, January 31, 2010

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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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Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures
Discussion: Vox Popoli and EU Referendum
Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
Discussion: Tim Blair, Biased BBC and EU Referendum
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
Judsonwheelerphillips / Free America:
Setting The Record Straight
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David Chalian / ABCNEWS:
Steele Rules Out 2012 White House Run  —  RNC Chairman Sees a Party in Transition  —  “Come on, don't ask me that,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said when presented with the inevitable question about his 2012 intentions and if his political aspirations included running for the White House next time around.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Note
The Note:   Brown: ‘Humbled’ by White House Talk, But Doesn't Rule Out 2012 Run
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.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Instapundit
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico Live's Blog:
Gibbs won't commit to civilian trial for KSM
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tony Romm / The Hill:   Bayh could oppose budget's terror trial fund
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 …
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.)
Discussion: Doug Ross, NewsBusters.org and POWIP
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.
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 …
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Rep. Hensarling fires back at Obama in the rumble over deficits  —  Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), who got President Barack Obama a bit miffed during the question-and-answer session after his address to the House GOP retreat Friday, fired back Saturday evening after the conclusion of the Baltimore conference.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Christopher Ketcham / Time:
The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont  —  The President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is “strong,” but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether.
Discussion: Veterans Today
 
 
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Fox News:
Pakistan Taliban Chief Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Armey tells House GOP: Win back the tea-partiers to win
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
The Audacity of Cope  —  Blame it on Scott Brown.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Monthly
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Alexander: Blame for debt-reduction panel's defeat also rests with president
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
GOP to tie Obama to Dem candidates
Discussion: Yourish.com and Alphecca
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Weekly remarks: GOP's Susan Collins asks, why stop interrogating a terrorist?
Discussion: NO QUARTER, Don Surber and Hot Air
Paul / Power Line:
A crisis averted in Iraq?
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Tony Romm / The Hill:
Dorgan: President should have focused on jobs, not healthcare, last year
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Book on Edwards details efforts to conceal affair
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Adolescent Angst-Free Curriculum
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

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The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

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