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4:40 PM ET, January 31, 2010

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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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Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
Brown: SNL Sketch ‘Pretty Funny’ — By: Robert Costa  —  The GOP isn't the only flagging franchise that Senator-elect Scott Brown (R., Mass.) is helping to revive.  Tonight on NBC's Saturday Night Live, host Jon Hamm, best known as the dashing Don Draper of AMC's Mad Men, portrayed Brown in a sketch …
ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Barbara Walters Exclusive with Massachusetts Senator-Elect Scott Brown  —  Transcript: “This Week” with Massachusetts Senator-Elect Scott Brown, Fox News' Roger Ailes, George Will, Paul Krugman and Arianna Huffington.  —  WALTERS: So you have a fascinating resume.
The Note:
Brown: ‘No Regrets’ on Cosmo Nude Spread
Discussion: The Swamp
The Note:
Brown: ‘Humbled’ by White House Talk, But Doesn't Rule Out 2012 Run
Discussion: TBogg
Howard Wilkinson / Cincinnati.com:
Tea Partiers aim to remake local GOP
Discussion: The Impolitic
Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim  —  A STARTLING report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.
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Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures
Discussion: Vox Popoli and EU Referendum
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.)
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 …
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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Scott / Power Line:   The Holder hangover (and whence it comes)
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico Live's Blog:
Gibbs won't commit to civilian trial for KSM
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Camus Fired Up  —  It began as a bit of partisan gamesmanship …
Discussion: Althouse
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 …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Paul Krugman Calls Fox News “Deliberate Misinformation” to Roger Ailes' Face on National Television  —  I have no idea why Jabba the Ailes decided to appear on “This Week” — but after this beatdown by Krugman, I doubt he'll be back.  —  Notice Jabba doesn't refute Krugman's charge.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
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 …
Discussion: The Politico
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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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José M. Guardia / Barcepundit:
TALIBAN LEADER IN PAKISTAN HAKIMULLAH MEHSUD has been killed …
Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
Latest Round-Up of Obama Poll Ratings by State  —  The latest round-up of President Obama's job approval or favorability ratings by state updates or adds Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Discussion: Don Surber
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
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Union leader: ‘Card check’ will pass in 2010  —  Congress will move to pass controversial “card check” legislation this year, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka predicted Sunday.  —  Trumka said that lawmakers would pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) as well as healthcare reform this year …
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats quietly working to resuscitate healthcare overhaul  —  While the focus shifts to legislation on jobs, party leaders are taking advantage of a cooling-off period to strategize, seek a new compromise and improve the public's opinion of the legislation.
Discussion: Politics Daily
 
 
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Alice Ritchie / Agence France Presse:
Blair says no regrets for removing Saddam
New Jersey Online:
Books: ‘Game Change’ Obama and the Clintons; McCain and Palin …
John C Abell / Epicenter:
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bulls**t,’ …
Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Apparently, Centrism Cannot Die
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Brown on Being ‘Independent’
Discussion: The Page
Christina Lamb / Times of London:
Chicago cools to Barack Obama, its hometown boy
Discussion: Instapundit
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
What Harry Reid may face after June's primary
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New York Times:
A Look at America's New Hope: The Afghan Tribes
Discussion: Registan.net and ATTACKERMAN
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Armey tells House GOP: Win back the tea-partiers to win
David Chalian / ABCNEWS:
Steele Rules Out 2012 White House Run
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
The Audacity of Cope  —  Blame it on Scott Brown.
Discussion: RedState and Washington Monthly
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Bayh could oppose budget's terror trial fund
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Alexander: Blame for debt-reduction panel's defeat also rests with president