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11:40 PM ET, January 20, 2011

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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 …
Discussion: RSC, Firedoglake, Grist, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
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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 …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:   Conservative Republican Study Committee Outlines $2.5 Trillion In Spending Cuts
Paul Bedard / US News:
House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
The Politico:
Conservatives lay out $2.5 trillion in cuts
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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
Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:   Michelle Obama Doesn't Kill People. Cars Kill People.
TBogg:   Michelle Obama Wants To Death Race 2000 Kill Your Fat Ass
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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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.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Economist's View
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Presidential Possibilities  —  A First Line-Up for 2012  —  Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics  —  Precisely two years from today, America will be inaugurating a president.  But much sooner, the full-blown contest for the White House will begin.
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huckabee points to Rudy and Hillary's failures
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Are the political winds changing?
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.
Discussion: AOL News, Mediaite and Harry's Place
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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 …
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.
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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Jason Brudereck / Reading Eagle:
Woman who fell into fountain faces theft charges, has criminal record  —  The Reading woman who became an Internet sensation by falling into a fountain while sending a text on her cell phone was in Berks County Court on Thursday for a status hearing on theft-by-deception and related charges.
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 …
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Note, TPMDC, GOP 12 and Right Wing Watch
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.
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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Runnin' Scared
Patterico's Pontifications:
No, Charles Johnson, Glenn Beck Did Not Tell His Viewers to Shoot Anyone in the Head  —  On Twitter, Charles Johnson excitedly says:  —  He links to a post, evidently written by an LGF user, which provides no context for the clip, but simply embeds it.  Here is a screenshot of the entire post:
Discussion: Raw Story, The BRAD BLOG and RedState
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Christie Attacked By Right-Wing Bloggers For Appointing Muslim Judge: 'He's In Bed With The Enemy'  —  Last week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) announced seven judgeship appointments to the New Jersey Superior Court, including the appointment of Sohail Mohammed to serve on the court in Passaic County.
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 …
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.”
Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
Abortion inserted into repeal effort  —  Republicans are turning to abortion as a key issue to rally their base as they attempt to replace the Democrats' health reform law.  —  The high-profile introduction of a Republican anti-abortion bill — just hours after the health repeal vote and prior …
 
 
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Daniel W. Drezner:
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The Huffington Post:
U.S. Forces Kill Children, Other Civilians in Marjah, Afghanistan …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House Dems vow to improve messaging
Judy Lin / Associated Press:
Calif governor decries polarized political attacks
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Hill
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
GAO reports high cost of 'don't ask'
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Gary Sick / Foreign Policy:
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New York Times:
Blackwater Founder Said to Back Mercenaries
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Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Giffords reading iPad, trying to speak
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 Earlier Items: 
The Note:
Rush Limbaugh Mocks Chinese President Hu Jintao
The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Karl Rove begins to handicap the next presidential and Senatorial cycle
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Walmart joins FLOTUS health push
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Delusions of world-historical grandeur
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Hubris heading for a fall
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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