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Mark Weaver / 630 WMAL:
Michelle Obama's ‘Get Moving’ Program Linked to Pedestrian Deaths — WASHINGTON — The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010 and the First Lady's program to get Americans to be more active could be partly responsible.
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Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
First Lady's anti-obesity campaign could be causing more pedestrian deaths — Pedestrian deaths increased sharply during the first half of 2010, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). The reason may be First Lady Michelle Obama and her “Let's Move” campaign.
Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
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James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
Michelle Obama “Linked” to Pedestrian Deaths
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Hot Air, Detroit News, The Atlantic Online, JustOneMinute, Mediaite and USA Today
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Safety Group Accidentally Touches Off Accusations That Michelle Obama …
Safety Group Accidentally Touches Off Accusations That Michelle Obama …
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GHSA, Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A number of the House GOP's leading conservative members on Thursday will announce legislation that would cut $2.5 trillion over 10 years, which will be by far the most ambitious and far-reaching proposal by the new majority to cut federal government spending.
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Washington Examiner:
Can't reduce federal spending? Here's a plan to cut $2.5 trillion by 2021
Can't reduce federal spending? Here's a plan to cut $2.5 trillion by 2021
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Cubachi, Whiskey Fire, The Foundry, Liberty Pundits Blog and Big Government
David Weigel / Slate:
House Conservatives Introduce Spending Cuts: $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years
House Conservatives Introduce Spending Cuts: $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years
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Firedoglake, RSC, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
Paul Bedard / US News:
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
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Don Surber, Hit & Run and Pajamas Media
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Social conservatives launch Iowa series, without Romney for now [UPDATED] — The Family Leader, Bob Vander Plaats' Iowa conservative group, announces a speaking series: — The series line-up begins with former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty on Monday, February 7.
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GOP 12, TPMDC and Right Wing Watch
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking stronger
Obama looking stronger
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Sabato's Crystal Ball, Firedoglake, msnbc.com, The Politico, GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's … and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
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The Plum Line, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, GOP 12 and The Other McCain
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Huckabee's book tour lavishes attention on Iowa, South Carolina
Huckabee's book tour lavishes attention on Iowa, South Carolina
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The Politico, ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Ben Smith's Blog and The Page
David Brody / The Brody File:
Rick Santorum Responds to Brody File on Comment About President Obama's Race and Abortion — EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: RICK SANTORUM HAS JUST SENT THE BRODY FILE A STATEMENT ON THE STORY BELOW: … Abortion is a toxic subject. Race is a toxic subject. And soon to be GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rick Santorum plays race card on President Obama — In eye-brow raising comments, possible presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is questioning how President Barack Obama - as an African-American - can support abortion rights. — Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania …
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Little Green Footballs, NJDC Blog, TPMDC, Taylor Marsh and FrumForum
Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal — While the health care repeal that the House passed Wednesday has little chance of passage in the Senate, Republicans will probably succeed in eventually forcing a vote on the measure — albeit with at least a 60-vote threshold.
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NationalJournal.com, Pajamas Media, Salon and AmSpecBlog
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How Should Dems Manage the Healthcare Repeal Circus? — It's a slow day, so let's do some political strategizing. Here's what the LA Times has to say about yesterday's vote in the House to repeal healthcare reform: … Here's my take: Democrats are nuts to take this attitude.
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Yglesias, A plain blog about politics, Ezra Klein and Prairie Weather
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Goodbye to a Guy Named Joe — On Wednesday, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced that he won't be a candidate for re-election in 2012. Normally people look particularly appealing when they're promising to go away. This time, not so much. — “I can't help but also think about …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIEBERMAN GETS FOREIGN POLICY AND FEMINISM WRONG AT THE SAME TIME. …
LIEBERMAN GETS FOREIGN POLICY AND FEMINISM WRONG AT THE SAME TIME. …
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The Huffington Post, TalkLeft, Hullabaloo and Commentary
The Note:
SPOTTED: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Waiting for Jury Duty — ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: If you thought Supreme Court justices are exempt from jury duty in their local courts, think again. — Justice Elena Kagan was spotted among a crowd of prospective jurors huddled in a waiting lounge this morning at D.C. Superior Court.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Say Prayer Helped Save Congresswoman Giffords — Nearly 8 in 10 American voters say they believe prayers helped Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survive the Tucson shooting, according to a Fox News poll (Reuters). — Nearly 8 in 10 American voters say they believe prayers helped Arizona …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Palinoia, the Destroyer — What's behind the left's deranged hatred. — Why does their hatred of her burn so hot? — Ask them, and they'll most likely tell you: Because she's a moron. But that is obviously false. To be sure, her skills at extemporaneous speaking leave much to be desired.
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Ezra Klein:
Greg Mankiw's thinking cap — There's an interesting mixture of callousness and accidental truth lurking within Greg Mankiw's satirical proposal to reduce the budget deficit: … Like health-care reform, Greg Mankiw's plan really would reduce the budget deficit. That's been contested, so I'm glad to see Mankiw admit it.
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Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Give me $1 billion to cut the budget deficit
Give me $1 billion to cut the budget deficit
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Modeled Behavior, The Incidental Economist and The New Republic
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Delusions of world-historical grandeur — One thing that is endlessly amusing about the contemporary right is their comical lack of historical proportion, their frequent tendency to compare their current situation to the plight endured by history's leading victims of oppression, persecution, and genocide.
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TPMDC and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Ted K's son may be eyeing Lieberman's seat in Conn. — The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's son, Ted Jr., is among the names being floated as potential candidates for Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's seat in 2012. — Kennedy, the middle child of the late senator and his former wife …
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Weigel, Ben Smith's Blog and New York Magazine
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Walmart joins FLOTUS health push — In an unusual endorsement, Michelle Obama appeared with Walmart executives at a community center on Thursday as the discount giant announced long-term plans to encourage healthy eating, including cutting prices of fresh fruits and vegetables and working …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Shifts Strategy to Promote Healthy Foods
Wal-Mart Shifts Strategy to Promote Healthy Foods
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Ezra Klein:
If Obama wants to be bold, he should be bold — Peter Baker has a lot of juicy tidbits about the frequent infighting and petty spats that split the White House economic team over the past two years, but the individual who comes off worst in the article is not Larry Summers or Christina Romer or Peter Orszag or Rahm Emanuel.
Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:
An update from the Chairman — When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective sum of the world's knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Police Seize ‘Large Amount’ Of Weapons From Blogger Who Praised Gifffords Shooting: ‘1 Down And 534 To Go’ — Police in Arlington, MA this week seized a “large amount” of weapons and ammunition from local businessman Travis Corcoran after he wrote a blog post threatening U.S. lawmakers …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama to Close Political Office and Start 2012 Campaign — WASHINGTON — President Obama will close the office of political affairs at the White House, aides said, restructuring his organization to prepare for his re-election campaign, which is to start building a fund-raising and grassroots operation based in Chicago by late March.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Racy Show With Teenagers Steps Back From a Boundary — MTV executives have a new hit drama on their hands, featuring the sexual and drug-fueled exploits of misfit teenagers. They also have something else — a fear that coming episodes of the show may break the law.
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Ed Stoddard / Reuters:
Exclusive: Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-10 — (Reuters) - Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally.
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Petraeus Team: Taliban Made Us Wipe Village Out [Updated] — Expect more Afghan villages to be destroyed by American rockets and bombs — if, that is, the Taliban “saturate” them with homemade explosives and kick out the villagers. But the U.S.-led coalition isn't going to destroy populated areas …
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