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12:30 PM ET, February 14, 2010

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Jonathan Petre / Daily Mail:
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995  —  The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
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Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
World may not be warming, say scientists  —  The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.  —  In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
Reuters:
U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw  —  OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt.
Robin McKie / Guardian:   Climate scientists admit fresh error over data on rising sea levels
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
VP v. VP: Cheney calls Biden ‘dead wrong’  —  Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney hurtled barbs across the airwaves Sunday in a split-screen debate over terrorism, charging each other with being dangerously “misinformed” or just “dead wrong.”
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Cheney endorses effort to repeal DADT: 'It strikes me that it's time to reconsider the policy.'  —  On ABC News' This Week today, former Vice President Dick Cheney threw his support behind President Obama's effort to change the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, saying that …
CNN:
Obama adviser suggests Cheney uninformed on national security  —  Washington (CNN) - One of President Obama's top national security advisers suggested Sunday that former Vice President Dick Cheney, a persistent critic of the Obama administration on national security issues, might not be informed enough to criticize the White House.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CONFUSION-BASED RAGE.... National Review published a couple of items recently about President Obama having cut taxes for 95% of working families.  This is, in reality, what happened, but the conservative magazine was incredulous.  “If the taxes of 95 percent of Americans actully [sic] …
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Las Vegas Sun:
Tea Party to field candidate in battle for Harry Reid's Senate seat
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, PoliBlog and MyDD
New York Times:
Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis  —  Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Palin's Cunning Sleight of Hand
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Can Sarah Palin translate celebrity into real political power?
New York Times:
A Previous Shooting Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect  —  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The neurobiologist accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, on Friday fatally shot her brother in 1986 in suburban Boston, and the police there are now questioning whether …
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Boston Globe:
Professor accused in Ala. slayings shot her brother in Mass. 24 years ago
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Kyl: Dems have already decided how to force health bill through  —  Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona on Sunday threw more cold water on the chances that his party would cooperate with a Feb. 25 healthcare reform summit at the White House, protesting that Democrats already seem poised to force a bill through Congress.
Discussion: CNN
Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:
Delahunt says he might be the next to go  —  ORLEANS - US Representative William Delahunt said yesterday that he is considering retiring from his congressional seat representing the South Shore and Cape Cod, although he portrayed his deliberations as routine and said they are not related …
Pubradiopolitics / State House Sound Bites:
A few minutes with Joe the Plumber  —  Joe the Plumber (aka Samuel J.Wurzelbacher) headlined state Representative Sam Rohrer's Mobilize for Liberty event in Harrisburg today, giving the Berks County lawmaker his support a few hours after Rohrer mustered just a dozen votes …
Discussion: The Hill and Power Line
 
 
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Why the House Democrats are about 100 votes short
Rep. Aaron Schock / New York Times:
Meet the Press guest list for February 14, 2010
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Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
“Hello, police? Screw your sister!”
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Paul Grimaldi / Projo 7 to 7 News Blog:
Cicilline: ‘Moment’ has arrived to run for Congress
Discussion: MyDD
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The US-Israel Relationship, Ctd
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MICHAEL YON SENDS THIS DISPATCH TO INSTAPUNDIT READERS.
Discussion: TigerHawk
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Lieberman: I'm trying to be less political in 2010, focus on legislative agenda
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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