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7:00 PM ET, February 7, 2010

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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.

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 …

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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.

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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 …

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Denny McAuliffe / Washington Post:

Sarah Palin watch: She looks trim, fit — and brimming with energy and plans — It had been a while since we had seen Sarah Palin live and in person. And then she popped onto stage Saturday night at the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, and we made these observations:

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The Huffington Post:
Palin Considering 2012 Run, Defends Limbaugh's Use Of ‘Retard’ On Fox News Sunday

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Kleinheider / Post Politics:
Beginning Of The End: Sarah Palin Hijacks The Tea Party Movement

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dulles snow set 140-yr record …

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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting

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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: Fox News Sunday Interview With Sarah Palin

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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Palin, TEA Party, won't ‘sit down, shut up’

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Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
Palin's Ready for ‘Another Revolution’ — By: Robert Costa

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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
SOME PICS FROM SARAH PALIN'S SPEECH. I had some idle time backstage, and my Lumix.

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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press: Sarah Palin assails Obama at ‘tea party’ gathering

David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Palin Speaks: 'How's that Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out for Ya?'

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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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CNN:
5 dead in power plant explosion

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WFSB-TV:
Explosion At Plant Kills 2, Injures 250

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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 …

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The Politico: W.H. plans televised health meeting

New York Times:
The Truth About the Deficit — When the White House released …

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Bond: White House should apologize for intel leak, not me

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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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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.

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Mike Allen / Politico Live's Blog:

Brennan briefed GOP on Christmas — White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan revealed Sunday that he briefed four Republican congressional leaders on Christmas night about the arrest and subsequent handling of the suspect in an attempted sky bombing.

Discussion: Hot Air and The Page

CNN: Obama aide says Republicans playing politics with terrorism

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

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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:

Too Close to Home — LATE last month, a Web site called the Electronic Intifada reported that Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief of The Times, has a son in the Israeli military. Others, including Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a liberal media watchdog group …

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Walter Russell Mead / Walter Russell Mead's Blog:

The Great IPCC Meltdown Continues — It's not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035. — Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away. A report in Sunday's London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC. … There is however one teensy-weensy little problem.

Discussion: Telegraph, Hot Air and Tim Blair

Richard Kerbaj / Times of London:

Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link — An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist’ — A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims.

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