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Fox News:
Small Plane Crashes Into Austin, Texas, Office Building — A small single-engine plane crashed into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, around 10 a.m. local time Thursday. — An NTSB official told Fox News that they are investigating this as an intentional act …
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Joe Stack / Austin American-Statesman:
Internet note posted by man linked to plane crash — Editor's note: We found this note on a Web site being pointed at by social media users. A search showed the domain that the note was posted on is registered to Joe Stack of San Marcos. A man by the same name, who has addresses …
CNN:
Texas plane crash deliberate, officials say — (CNN) — An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.
The Smoking Gun:
Plane Crash Suspect's Online Diatribe — Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand” — The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe attacking the Internal Revenue Service and declaring that …
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Austin American-Statesman:
Plane crashes into Northwest Austin office building — A plane crashed into a Northwest Austin building that houses federal offices about 9:30 this morning, sending plumes of smoke into the air that could be seen for miles. — Paramedics have set up a triage center at the scene, though it is unclear how many people are injured.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NTSB: Plane crash into Austin office building may have been …
NTSB: Plane crash into Austin office building may have been …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
In surprise CPAC speech, Cheney says Obama will last one term — President Barack Obama will be a one-term president, former Vice President Dick Cheney confidently predicted Thursday. — During a surprise appearance at the end of his daughter Liz's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Dick Cheney: ‘Barack Obama is a One-Term President’ — Former Vice President, Scott Brown Make Surprise Appearance at CPAC to Rally Conservatives — Former Vice President Dick Cheney rallied conservative activists today during a brief yet surprise appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney: ‘Obama fails to understand America’ — Mitt Romney has gone from being an overeager suitor to being a favored son of the Conservative Political Action Conference since he ended his presidential campaign here in 2008, and his speech today was well-calibrated to an audience basking …
Say Anything:
Photo Evidence: Michelle Obama Keeps Socialist Books In The White House Library — I arrived in Washington DC today to cover CPAC and since I was in town, and since CPAC doesn't really get rolling until tomorrow, I tagged along with some Scott Hennen Show listeners on an extensive tour …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
At CPAC, a new conservative order — Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation. On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year's conference …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For release at 4:30 p.m. EDT — The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that in light of continued improvement in financial market conditions it had unanimously approved several modifications to the terms of its discount window lending programs. — Like the closure of a number …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sixteen Senators Now Calling For Vote On Public Option — Sixteen and counting. — Senators Barbara Boxer, Jack Reed and Tom Udall have all now signed the letter pushing for a reconcilation vote on the public option, the group organizing the push confirms, bringing the total of Senators …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society — The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be incompatible with presidential responsibilities.
WRAL-TV:
Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder, arson — DURHAM, N.C. — Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum, 33, late Wednesday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's federal government can weatherize your home for only $57,362 each — Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes …
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
In Blow to Taliban, 2 More Leaders Are Arrested — KABUL, Afghanistan — Two senior Taliban leaders have been arrested in recent days inside Pakistan, officials said Thursday, as American and Pakistani intelligence agents continued to press their offensive against the group's leadership …
Wall Street Journal:
The WellPoint Mugging — The brawl over rate increases is a preview of ObamaCare. — Democrats and their media allies have found a new insurance piñata: WellPoint and its recent health-premium price increases in California. This spat deserves more attention …
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Dramatic Olbermann vs. Dramatic Chipmunk — No one is more self-dramatizing on cable news than male hysteric, unsolicited janitor of Cooperstown, and Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who includes more special effects during his Castro-length “Special Comment” segments than Mikhail Kalatozov did in I Am Cuba …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle — Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash — On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs.
Emily Miller / The Huffington Post:
National Enquirer Officially in Running for Pulitzer Prize — The Pulitzer Prize Board has officially accepted The National Enquirer's submissions for breaking the John Edwards scandal, according to sources close to the Board. In a historic move, the Pulitzer Board conceded …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home — According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated …
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Eric Bradner / courierpress.com:
Sources: Ellsworth to run for Senate, state Rep. Van Haaften for Congress — INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth will run for Senate, and state Rep. Trent Van Haaften will seek his seat in Congress, multiple Democratic sources said Thursday morning. — As Democrats have searched …
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Jeffrey Rosen / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama? — He's too detached and cerebral. Too deferential to Congress. Too willing to compromise. And he's too much of a law professor and not enough of a commander in chief, as Sarah Palin recently admonished. — These are some of the qualities for which the president …