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9:45 PM ET, February 7, 2010

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Stefan Sirucek / The Huffington Post:
EXCLUSIVE (Update): Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes  —  Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand.  The words “Energy”, “Tax” and “Lift American Spirits” are clearly visible.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Palin's Cheat-Sheet  —  I was too busy tapping away at my laptop to notice this little high-school trick.  Having mocked president Obama for using a TelePrompter - not long after he made mincemeat of Republicans with no such TelePrompter at their retreat - she had to scribble down her priorities …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Sarah Palin has had us in the palm of her hand all day.  —  Isn't it funny how she caught our attention with her scrawled-on hand?  I picture her — hanging out with Todd today — laughing at how absurdly fascinated everyone is with her.  —  Hey, Palin fans!
Discussion: The Other McCain
Judson Berger / Fox News:
Palin ‘Would Be Willing’ to Take On Obama in 2012  —  Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Of Course She's Running For President, Ctd  —  She now confirms it on Fox, the only channel on which she will now appear.  Remember the last campaign?  The MSM was shut out as far as humanly possible - and they colluded in the McCain strategy.  Some, like the Washington Post's Howie Kurtz …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Founding Blogger / Founding Bloggers:
(UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Confirms Huffington Post's Completely …
Discussion: Big Government and Gateway Pundit
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Palin, TEA Party, won't ‘sit down, shut up’
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Hullabaloo
Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: Fox News Sunday Interview With Sarah Palin
Discussion: Guardian and The Nation
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting
The Politico:
W.H. plans televised health meeting  —  President Barack Obama is planning to host a televised meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on health care reform.  —  The Feb. 25 meeting is an attempt to reach across the aisle but not a signal that the president plans to start over …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama invites GOP to health-care summit  —  President Obama made a dramatic attempt to jump-start the stalled health care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to a half-day summit on the subject to be televised live later this month.  —  The president made the offer in an interview …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Bond: White House should apologize for intel leak, not me
Discussion: SENATUS
Hartford Courant:
Witness To Middletown Explosion: ‘There Are Bodies Everywhere’  —  (RICHARD MESSINA / HARTFORD COURANT / February 7, 2010)  —  MIDDLETOWN - Witnesses and authorities said as many as 100 people may have been injured and two killed when a massive explosion, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook …
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WFSB-TV:
Explosion At Plant Kills 2, Injures 250
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bj Lutz / NBC Chicago:
Cohen... Cohen... Gone  —  Gov. Quinn calls it the “right decision”  —  That breeze you feel is Gov. Pat Quinn and the Illinois Democratic Party letting go a huge sigh of relief.  —  Scott Lee Cohen, the Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor, removed himself from the campaign Sunday …
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Chicago Breaking News:
Cohen drops out of lt. gov. race
Discussion: Clout St and The Page
Daily Mail:
U.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet'  —  A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.  —  Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Scrubbed Toe in the Race  —  Between bites of an egg-white garden omelet at a bistro in his Union Square neighborhood, Harold Ford Jr. defended himself on pedicures and flip-flops.  —  “I either run or try to play basketball every day,” he said.  “I have severe athlete's foot — feet.
Jonny Paul / Jerusalem Post:
Benny Morris talk stirs uproar at Cambridge  —  University's Israel Society called off talk “for fear of being portrayed as a mouthpiece of Islamophobia.”  —  Talkbacks (24)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts & Culture
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Israel Matzav
San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial  —  The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay.
 
 
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