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Obama to Offer Health Bill to Ease Impasse as Bipartisan Meeting Approaches — WASHINGTON — President Obama will put forward comprehensive health care legislation intended to bridge differences between Senate and House Democrats ahead of a summit meeting with Republicans next week …
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Sebelius: White House may fight for public option in health bill — The White House is willing to make a push for the public option if Senate Democrats decide to bring it up for a vote, Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said tonight. — Eighteen Senators have signed …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Huh? Since when is attempting to blow up a federal building NOT an act of domestic terrorism? — Fox News' anchors seemed eager to assure viewers today that the plane-crash attack on IRS offices in Austin this morning was not an act of domestic terrorism. — Oh really?
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Max Bergmann / Think Progress:
Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’ — Today a man flew a plane into a Texas federal building in an apparent domestic terrorist attack. The suicide bomber, identified as Joseph Andrew Stack, was allegedly a right wing extremist who wrote on a website that violence …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo columnist: That insane pilot sounds kind of like a tea partier, huh? — Dedicated to my pal Michael Roston, who thought it was silly of me to cite examples at dKos and DU of people blaming this on tea partiers. Those are mere partisan echo chambers, after all, and such nonsense is to be expected.
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Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Alienated in Austin — Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal …
Alienated in Austin — Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal …
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Fox News:
RAW DATA: Joseph Stack Suicide Manifesto
RAW DATA: Joseph Stack Suicide Manifesto
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Erick Stakelbeck / Stakelbeck on Terror:
CBN Exclusive: Five Muslim Soldiers Arrested at Fort Jackson in South Carolina — CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas. It is unclear whether the men are still in custody.
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Army Investigates Alleged Attempt by Soldiers to Poison Food at Fort Jackson — The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. — The ongoing probe began two months ago, Chris Grey …
Political Punch:
Exclusive: War in Iraq to Be Given New Name — ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq — currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom — a new name. — The new name: “Operation New Dawn.” — In a February 17, 2010, memo to the Commander of Central Command …
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
War in Iraq will be called ‘Operation New Dawn’ to reflect reduced U.S. role
War in Iraq will be called ‘Operation New Dawn’ to reflect reduced U.S. role
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New York Times:
As Campaign Nears, Paterson Is Seen as Increasingly Remote — When a plane crashed outside Buffalo about 10:20 on a Thursday evening last year, killing 50 people, aides to Gov. David A. Paterson of New York could not find him for more than three hours, and it was nearly five hours …
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The World Newser:
Stephen Baldwin on Obama: ‘Homey Made His Bed’ — ABC's Jonathan Karl and Z. Byron Wolf report from Washington D.C.: — It is one of the biggest annual gatherings of conservatives in Washington. The yearly CPAC convention hosts everyone from Sen. Scott Brown to Mitt Romney.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
California Death Spiral — Health insurance premiums are surging — and conservatives fear that the spectacle will reinvigorate the push for reform. On the Fox Business Network, a host chided a vice president of WellPoint, which has told California customers to expect huge rate increases …
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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘Family Guy’ Voice Actor Says Palin ‘Does Not Have a Sense of Humor’ — Since it was shown on Sunday, an episode of the Fox animated comedy “Family Guy” has drawn the repeated condemnation of Sarah Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential nominee.
Kate Zernike / The Caucus:
CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones — How can conservatives win the youth vote that overwhelming went for President Obama in 2008? At the Conservative Political Action Conference, apparently, some are betting on using racially charged language. — In a panel appealing …
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Joe Tetreault / TetreaultVision:
Healthcare Protestors Wield Pitchforks, Torches in CT — CT News Junkie, which is non partisan, has coverage of a rally outside of the CBIA - Connecticut Business and Industry Association. — Menacing marchers threaten civic organization that provides health insurance to small businesses.
Randy Haddock:
Response to Olbermann: ‘People of color’ at Tea Parties — So last night that race-peddlin' buffoon over at MSNBC... wait, that's pretty much everyone on that network. Let me be more specific. OK, so, last night Keith Olbermann used his self-parodying Special Comment segment to ask …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Whoa: More than a dozen Taliban leaders seized by Pakistan intel — Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. … Also among the captured: Mullah Mir Mohammed, the second Taliban “shadow governor” to be pinched by Pakistan in the past few weeks. A senior U.S. official told the Times …
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New York Times:
Two Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks — SAN FRANCISCO — A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
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George Rush / NY Daily News:
CNN legal eagle Jeffrey Toobin in baby mama drama - with daughter of CBS News' Jeff Greenfield — Casey Greenfield (l.) leaves Manhattan Family Court after a hearing in her suit against CNN's Jeffrey Toobin (r.) — One of the media elite's most whispered-about scandals went public Wednesday …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
CPAC embraces the new Romney — When Mitt Romney, candidate for president, came to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2007, he was a fresh-faced over-eager student of Republican politics: He won cheers for a newfound social conservatism, and won a straw poll amid charges he'd packed the hall.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republican Marco Rubio is anti-Crist challenging Florida governor in Senate primary — The anti-Crist came to Washington on Thursday. In the ballroom of the Marriott Wardman Park, they acted as if he were the Messiah. — His name: Marco Rubio, the far-right challenger to Florida …
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V. Dion Haynes / Washington Post:
In D.C., more evidence that commercial real estate headed for foreclosure crisis — A mortgage crisis like the one that has devastated homeowners is enveloping the nation's office and retail buildings, and few places are likely to be hit as hard as Washington.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama to Seek Ratification of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday that it would ask the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, more than a decade after President Bill Clinton failed to convince the treaty's opponents …
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