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CBS News:
Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin (Video) — Posted by Brian Montopoli Following President Obama's surprise appearance at the White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs garnered laughter from the press corps by holding up his hand to reveal that he had written notes on his palm in black marker.
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Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
Brilliant: ‘Vagina Monologues’ Creator Tells Palin to Look at ‘Earthquakes and Tsunamis’ for Global Warming Proof — No matter what former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does, she's not going to win any friends in the mainstream modern feminism activist movement in the United States. But that might not be a bad thing.
Punkin / Media Matters for America:
Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends not to notice
Palin headlines birther conference; press pretends not to notice
Alan Schroeder / The Huffington Post: Sarah Palin's Tea Party Speech: Beneath Her Wrath A Troubling Contradiction Lurks
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Robert Gibbs Goes Dane Cook: Steals Jokes from Sarah Palin to Make Fun of Her
Robert Gibbs Goes Dane Cook: Steals Jokes from Sarah Palin to Make Fun of Her
Washington Post:
In poll, Republicans gaining political ground on Obama — Republicans have significantly narrowed the gap with Democrats on who is trusted to deal with the country's problems and have sharply reduced several of President Obama's main political advantages, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Bloomberg:
Obama Doesn't ‘Begrudge’ Bonuses for ‘Savvy’ Blankfein, Dimon — Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said he doesn't “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Scott Brown plans inspirational book — Obama aims to show he isn't anti-business: doesn't ‘begrudge’ bonuses — POTUS weighs recess appointments — Rebecca Naomi Bash b'day — Playbook made our CBS hit this a.m. by slipping a Benjamin to a plow driver- thank you, Ray.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Cantor On The Summit: We'll Be There!
Cantor On The Summit: We'll Be There!
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
New York Senate Expels Monserrate Over Assault — ALBANY — The State Senate on Tuesday expelled a senator convicted of domestic assault, the first time in nearly a century that the Legislature has forced a member from office. — The Senate voted 53-to-8 to immediately oust the senator …
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NY Daily News:
State Senate votes to boot Sen. Hiram Monserrate, citing his misdemeanor assault conviction — ALBANY - Embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate was ousted from his seat Tuesday night by colleagues who say his conviction for misdemeanor assault against his girlfriend brought shame on the chamber.
New York Times:
In Albany, a Rumor of a Rumor Catches Fire — Albany — long a place of scandal, the rumor of scandal and the echoing talk about the rumor of scandal — has had a week a bit unlike any other. Newspapers, blogs, reputable outfits and fringe gossip sites have worked themselves into a frenzy …
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Michael Calderone's Blog, New York Post, Hotline On Call, The Note, Capitol Confidential, Gawker, Romenesko and The Page
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Paterson pens J'accuse letter to Times editor — David Paterson's Secretary Lawrence Schwartz has just sent a pretty extraordinary letter to Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times, essentially accusing the paper of doing nothing to counter the firestorm of speculation over its highly anticipated profile of him.
CBS News:
Obama Says Bipartisanship, But What He Wants Is GOP Surrender — Posted by Mark Knoller Unannounced, President Obama took to the lectern in the White House briefing room today to give a personal readout of his meeting earlier with congressional leaders of both parties.
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
New Wind Farms in the U.S. Have Not Led to Jobs — Millions Have Been Invested in Wind Farms, but That Hasn't Brought Jobs — Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report …
Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds — A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country's biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.
Simon Johnson / The Baseline Scenario:
Revised Baseline Scenario: February 9, 2010 — Caution: this is a long post (about 3,000 words). The main points are in the first few hundred words and the remainder is supportive detail. This material was the basis of testimony to the Senate Budget Committee today by Simon Johnson.
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Prairie Weather, EconLog, The Atlantic Online, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The Atlanticist
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Paul Joseph Watson / Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com:
Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff — Authorities' claim that virtual strip search pictures immediately destroyed proven fraudulent - use of devices needs to be halted now — Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images …
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Israel Matzav, LewRockwell.com Blog, Boing Boing, New York Magazine, Gateway Pundit and Althouse
iowahawk:
Heart of Redness — [Ungawa! The Tea Party natives are restless, sparking alarm among the civilized panjandrums of the coastal media Raj. Who are these mysterious Fly-Over savages? What do they want? Conjectures abound, but only a few brave souls have dared strap on the pith helmet and safari into the belly of the beast.
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The Other McCain
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sen. Jim DeMint twitters: D.C. snow will continue ‘until Al Gore cries uncle’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday used the D.C. snowstorm to make a political jab, saying that it provides evidence for global warming skeptics. — The conservative senator took to Twitter on Tuesday amid reports …
Tim Johnston / Washington Post:
Burma sentences Md. man to 3 years of hard labor — BANGKOK — A court in Burma has sentenced Nyi Nyi Aung, a Burmese-born U.S. citizen, to three years in prison for using forged identity documents and carrying undeclared foreign currency. — Nyi Nyi, 40, was arrested in September …
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Politics Daily
Reuters:
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S. — BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
Popular Mechanics:
Target Toyota: Why the Recall Backlash Is Overblown — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Getty Images) — To judge by press accounts and statements
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Burka-wearing gunmen raid French bank — Two burka-wearing bank robbers have pulled off a heist near Paris using a handgun concealed beneath their full Islamic veil. — Employees let the pair through the security double doors of the banking branch of a post office, believing them to be Muslim women.
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Israel Matzav
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
The Trucking Index of GDP — USA Today highlights a new measure of economic activity that is based on truckers' use of diesel fuel. This is an interesting way to try to get an up-to-date measure of the production and sale of goods in the economy. By contrast GDP numbers only come …
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