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David Weigel / Slate:
House Conservatives Introduce Spending Cuts: $2.5 Trillion Over Ten Years — You can stop needling Republicans about what programs they want to cut now. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)'s Republican Study Committee is introducing the Spending Reduction Act of 2011, to cut back …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE LAYS DOWN A RADICAL ‘MARKER’ ON SPENDING.... The new House GOP majority suffered some embarrassment a couple of weeks ago when party leaders backed off a promise to cut $100 billion from the budget in their first year. — This week, a leading right-wing contingent within …
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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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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A number of the House GOP's leading conservative members on Thursday …
A number of the House GOP's leading conservative members on Thursday …
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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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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Conservative Republican Study Committee Outlines $2.5 Trillion In Spending Cuts
Conservative Republican Study Committee Outlines $2.5 Trillion In Spending Cuts
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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.
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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.
Scott McCabe / Washington Examiner:
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
Exercise, iPods could be causing pedestrian deaths
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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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Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
Michelle Obama Doesn't Kill People. Cars Kill People.
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 — I have a plan to reduce the budget deficit. The essence of the plan is the federal government writing me a check for $1 billion. The plan will be financed by $3 billion of tax increases. According to my back-of-the envelope calculations …
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huckabee points to Rudy and Hillary's failures — On Fox News this afternoon, Mike Huckabee responded to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, showing him with a slight edge in the 2012 primary race. … Results from the WaPo/ABC poll in question: — 1. Mike Huckabee 21% — 2. Sarah Palin 19%
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Presidential Possibilities
Presidential Possibilities
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
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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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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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Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:
The 20 Best Nicknames in the Big Mafia Bust — News came down this morning about the FBI's largest organized crime bust in New York history, in which raids resulted in the arrest of over 100 alleged mobsters from all five crime families including the Gambinos, Genoveses, Luccheses, Bonannos and Colombos.
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
More Than 125 Charged in Sweeping Mob Roundup
More Than 125 Charged in Sweeping Mob Roundup
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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.
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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Dan Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal
GOP Can Force a Senate Vote on Repeal
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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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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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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.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIEBERMAN GETS FOREIGN POLICY AND FEMINISM WRONG AT THE SAME TIME.... Gail Collins noted this morning the Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has “reached a point in his public career when every single thing he does, including talking about his grandparents, is irritating.”
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Goodbye to a Guy Named Joe
Goodbye to a Guy Named Joe
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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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David Parker / The Awl:
The Most Emailed ‘New York Times’ Article Ever — It's a week before the biggest day of her life, and Anna Williams is multitasking. While waiting to hear back from the Ivy League colleges she's hoping to attend, the seventeen-year-old senior at one of Manhattan's most exclusive private schools …
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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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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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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House Dems vow to improve messaging — CAMBRIDGE, Md. - House Democrats kicked off their annual retreat here with a vow to improve the flawed messaging that contributed to the loss of their majority last fall. — The down-sized Democratic Caucus is meeting for three days …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Petraeus Team: Taliban Made Us Wipe Village Out — 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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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.