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Alvin Felzenberg / US News:
Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama's second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince.
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Blue Crab Boulevard and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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NPR:
The State Of The Union, In Your Words — Right after President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, we asked our listeners to describe his speech in three words. We received responses from more than 4,000 of you. We've run them through a word cloud generator and this is what all of you said:
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Tim Blair, Gawker, Federal Eye, Wonkette and The Wire
Nielsen Wire:
43 Million Watch President Obama's State of the Union Address — On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. The address was carried live from approximately 9:00 PM- 10:15 PM on 11 networks. The sum of the average audience for those networks …
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Washington Wire, TVbytheNumbers and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Medicare official doubts health care law savings — WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare's independent economic expert told Congress on Wednesday. — The landmark legislation probably …
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The Daily Caller, National Review, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, YID With LID, Commentary, Viking Pundit and Pajamas Media
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Rep. Weiner: ‘I just needed a drink’ after GOP response
Rep. Weiner: ‘I just needed a drink’ after GOP response
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TPMDC, Weasel Zippers, Left Coast Rebel, The TrogloPundit, Gawker and Althouse
Ross Douthat:
The Politics of Evasion
The Politics of Evasion
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Hot Air, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, The Note, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, The Anchoress, Hullabaloo, The Plum Line, Liberal Values, PostPartisan, Outside the Beltway, Yglesias, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly, Left Coast Rebel, National Review, Connecting.the.Dots, TalkLeft and FrumForum
Alessandra Stanley / The Caucus:
TV Watch: Michele Bachmann's Rogue Rebuttal Defies Unity Theme
TV Watch: Michele Bachmann's Rogue Rebuttal Defies Unity Theme
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Mediaite, Gawker, Indecision Forever, The Impolitic, Politics Daily, AOL News and The Politico
Gallup:
Americans Oppose Cuts in Education, Social Security, Defense — Large plurality call for Congress to agree on deficit reduction before raising debt limit — PRINCETON, NJ — Prior to the State of the Union address, a majority of Americans said they favor cutting U.S. foreign aid …
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The Moderate Voice, Top of the Ticket, Washington Monthly, The Note, Daily Kos, Hot Air, The Plum Line, Politics Daily, The Hill and New York Times
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Gawker:
Dennis Kucinich Sues Congressional Cafeteria Over Olive Pit — Congressman Dennis Kucinich bought a sandwich from the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria in April 2008, and bit into it only to find an unpitted olive that cracked a tooth. This month, he sued the cafeteria for selling “dangerous” sandwiches.
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Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues cafeteria over olive pit in sandwich — Rep. Dennis Kucinich has sued a U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria for selling him a sandwich wrap that caused dental damage when he bit into an olive pit, according to a Jan. 3 lawsuit filed in Superior Court for the District of Columbia.
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Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, Pajamas Media and FrumForum
CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
BUDGET AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: FISCAL YEARS 2011 THROUGH 2021 — Text-only. — The United States faces daunting economic and budgetary challenges. The economy has struggled to recover from the recent recession, which was triggered by a large decline in house prices and a financial crisis …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
U.S. Budget Deficit to Pass $1.5 Trillion This Year — “Grim” doesn't seem to be a terrifying enough word to describe the budget outlook that the CBO released today. Oh, sure, we sort of knew this was coming—tax cuts are expensive if you don't find spending cuts to match.
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Blue Crab Boulevard and Instapundit
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
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Politics Daily, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and The Politico
ABCNEWS:
Sen. Harry Reid Says Earmarks Will Return, Despite Obama's State of the Union Vow — Senate Democratic Leader Concedes GOP Can Force Health Care Repeal Vote — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told ABC News that earmarks will return to Capitol Hill despite President Obama's vow …
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Weasel Zippers, CNN, Hot Air, Right Pundits and Liberty Pundits Blog
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate nears approval of filibuster changes
Senate nears approval of filibuster changes
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The Huffington Post, The Hill and Balloon Juice
Jana Winter / Fox News:
Celebrity Journalist: I Never Spoke to Hawaii Gov About Obama Birth Certificate — A celebrity journalist now claims he misspoke when he said last week that Hawaii's governor told him he was unable to find President Barack Obama's original birth certificate after a search of state and hospital archives.
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Loughner researched lethal injection before Tucson shooting, sources say — TUCSON — In the weeks and days before the shooting rampage in Tucson, suspect Jared Lee Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer in what investigators believe was an effort to prepare for his alleged assassination attempt …
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TalkLeft, Los Angeles Times, The Politico, New York Times, Raw Story, Scared Monkeys, TPMMuckraker, Hullabaloo, msnbc.com and FrumForum
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled — This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication. Not really, I confessed. The Times doesn't have encrypted phone lines, or a Cone of Silence.
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Brian Donohue / New Jersey Online:
Slopes behind ropes: fear of lawsuits closing great New Jersey sledding hills … It's one of the simple, most wonderful pleasures of life: zooming down a snow-covered hill just fast enough for a touch of fear to quicken your pulse. Maybe it's a solo run. Maybe you're clinging to a loved one as you tear down the hill tandem.
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Maggie's Farm, Outside the Beltway and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
After Failing to Change Senate Rules, Democrats Lose Right to Blame Mitch McConnell — Senate Democrats must blame themselves now, rather than Mitch McConnell. — Senate Democrats had an opportunity to get together and make the Senate a working, majority-rule-based chamber.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Against Obligatory Editorials — He still loves his wife. But after 25 years of marriage, he has lost his enthusiasm for sex with her. Still. It is Valentine's Day. And she has been hinting. So he takes her to a nice dinner, uncharactertistically orders an after-dinner drink …
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Border authorities arrest controversial Muslim cleric east of San Diego — U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch and AOL News
Derek Willis / The Caucus:
Palin's PAC Raised $279,000 in Late 2010 — SarahPAC, the leadership committee of former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, said in its latest fund-raising report on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission that it brought in $279,000 from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31, 2010.
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Politics Daily, Right Pundits and Conservatives4Palin
Spokesman.com:
MLK bomb laced with chemical, sources say — A bomb maker mixed chemicals with shrapnel in what law enforcement officials say was a weapon designed to inflict maximum injuries during last week's Martin Luther King Jr. march in downtown Spokane. — Tests are being conducted to determine …
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Raw Story, TPMMuckraker and Daily Kos
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Axelrod mocks Tea Party response: ‘Am I looking at the right camera?’ — A top White House adviser gently mocked the Tea Party response to the State of the Union delivered by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Tuesday night. — White House senior adviser David Axelrod joked …
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CNN, TPMDC, Weasel Zippers and Firedoglake
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Bachmann Speech
The Bachmann Speech
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE MISSING DEPTH OF THOUGHT.... I've long considered Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) the Republican version of John Edwards. After one largely underwhelming term, in which he didn't tackle any noteworthy policy initiatives and failed to distinguished himself as an expert in an area …
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TPMDC
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Paul Krugman:
Shiny Lazy People — A few further thoughts about the Ryan response to the SOTU, which was deeply revealing. — Again, let me focus first on this passage: … Imagine yourself in Ryan's position. You've been chosen by one of America's two great political parties to respond to the president of the United States.
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
House votes to end public financing — The House passed a GOP-sponsored bill to end public financing for presidential campaigns Wednesday. Ten Democrats, most of them Blue Dogs, joined Republicans in the vote. — The bill suspends a 35-year-old program that lets taxpayers direct $3 …
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Ballot Box and CNN
Barbara Ehrenreich / Los Angeles Times:
A call to protest ignites a call to arms — The reaction to Frances Fox Piven's essay urging the unemployed to protest for change shows that we are no longer a democracy but a tyranny of the heavily armed. — Why are Americans such wusses? Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit cuts …
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Instapundit, American Power, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Political Carnival and National Review