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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Leaves the Internet — Thanks to all for great comments and questions. Please see below for latest updates on the ongoing Egyptian Internet blackout. —jim — Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears …
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Guardian:
Egyptian government on last legs, says Mohamed ElBaradei — Exclusive: Mohamed ElBaradei says he is sending a message ‘to the Guardian and to the world’ — The Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei warned President Hosni Mubarak today that his regime is on its last legs …
New York Times:
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
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msnbc.com:
Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew
Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew
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The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
wikileaks.ch:
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Al Jazeera Blogs:
Liveblog - Egypt's protests erupt
Liveblog - Egypt's protests erupt
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Michelle Malkin:
Uprising in Egypt — An iconic Egyptian protest image reminiscent …
Uprising in Egypt — An iconic Egyptian protest image reminiscent …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Time, American Power and Theo Spark
Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down...
Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down...
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Hill
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Egypt's High-Powered D.C. Lobbying Ties
Egypt's High-Powered D.C. Lobbying Ties
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The Nation and Ben Smith's Blog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Egypt in flames: Ruling party's headquarters burning in Cairo …
Egypt in flames: Ruling party's headquarters burning in Cairo …
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Firedoglake, CNSNews, The Atlantic Online and The Jawa Report
Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape — Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans are pushing to limit rape and incest cases eligible for government abortion funding. — Post Comment — Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE ODIOUS GOP PLAN TO REDEFINE RAPE.... Last week, after a rather pointless vote to repeal the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans announced their second major initiative: the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” — It was additional evidence that the new House GOP majority …
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Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Republicans terrified of tea — When Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was named to the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year, one of her Republican colleagues responded this way: “Is that a punchline?” Another simply said, “Jumbo shrimp. Oxymoron.” — Neither dared to attach his name to his comment.
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Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
‘Tea party’ gathering a tepid draw among senators
‘Tea party’ gathering a tepid draw among senators
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Crooks and Liars and Mother Jones
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Senate Tea Party Caucus holds first meeting without some who had embraced banner
Senate Tea Party Caucus holds first meeting without some who had embraced banner
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RedState, The Note, Prairie Weather and Virginia Politics Blog
Jason Millman / The Hill:
Some healthcare waiver requests denied even as HHS approves 500 others — While some 500 groups got waivers for a healthcare reform provision setting annual coverage requirements, about 50 requests for such exemptions were denied, the Department of Health and Human Services told The Hill Thursday.
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The Politico:
Barack Obama fires up the health team
Barack Obama fires up the health team
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USA Today, Right Wing News, The Hill and Wonk Room
Elizabethe Holland / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Furor at Washington U. nixes Bristol Palin appearance — Anger over a decision to pay Bristol Palin several thousand dollars in student fees to talk to Washington University students about abstinence led to a decision Thursday night to nix Palin's appearance on a panel here next month.
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USA Today:
TNT apologizes for Tracy Morgan's lewd comments on Palin — UPDATE: TNT sponsor AutoTrader.com is complaining to the network about being stuck in the middle, literally, of Tracy Morgan's lewd remarks about Sarah Palin on last night's edition of Inside the NBA.
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
On Sputnik vs. Spudnut — Please read this article by the Hoover Institution's Research Fellow Peter Schweizer. Schweizer, who has written extensively on the subject of the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, offers a Washington Post writer an important refresher on the real history of Sputnik …
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Peter Schweizer / Big Peace:
Sarah Palin Schools the Washington Post on History
Sarah Palin Schools the Washington Post on History
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PostPartisan, Conservatives4Palin, TPMDC and Fox Nation
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Bush takes swing at former press secretary — Washington (CNN) - Former President George W. Bush is landing a stinging jab at his former longtime aide and press secretary, Scott McClellan, saying the man who served as the public face of his administration for three years was irrelevant.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
A big warning sign for Mitt Romney — An array of Republican heavyweights who backed Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential bid are not yet committed to - and in some cases, downright skeptical of - the former Massachusetts governor's all-but-certain 2012 campaign.
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Commentary, Conservatives4Palin and FrumForum
Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Biden thinks The Onion's spoofs of him are ‘hilarious’ — A mock photo of Vice President Joe Biden washing a Trans-Am shirtless. Strange? Distasteful? Crossing the line? — Not so, Biden says. — “I think it's hilarious,” Biden told Yahoo! in a wide-ranging interview Thursday.
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Fox News, Indecision Forever and TPMDC
Ezra Klein:
Too young not to work, too old to get a job — Pew's new report on long-term unemployment is sobering stuff: … The interplay between age and unemployment really worries me. On some level, we have a rosy view of “structural unemployment”: It's a guy in Reno, Nev., who has skills better suited …
Jason Millman / The Hill:
Obama vigorously defends Dems' healthcare reform: ‘Granny is safe’ — In his most vigorous defense of the healthcare law since Republicans took control of the House, Obama fired back Friday at GOP claims that the law deprives essential care for seniors and balloons the deficit.
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Washington Monthly and Associated Press
Suleiman al-Khalidi / Reuters:
Jordanian protesters demand political reforms — (Reuters) - Islamists, leftists and trade unionists gathered in central Amman Friday for the latest protest to demand political change and wider freedoms. — A crowd of at least 3,000 chanted: “We want change.”
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Outside the Beltway and Weasel Zippers
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Cold truths about electric cars' cold-weather shortcomings — Count me among the many thousands of Washington area residents who spent Wednesday night stuck in traffic as a snowstorm sowed chaos all around us. Being car-bound in sub-freezing weather for six hours can make a guy think.
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Right Turn and Betsy's Page
Reuters:
FACTBOX-Deepwater rigs moved out of the Gulf of Mexico — Some of the 30-plus deepwater rigs that were in the Gulf of Mexico have moved to other markets, first because of a U.S. halt called last May after BP Plc's (BP.L: Quote) well blowout, and then because of the lack of permits once the moratorium was lifted.
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Hot Air and Pajamas Media
Rick Maze / Air Force Times HOME:
Bachmann plan would cut veterans benefits — Tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has unveiled a plan for cutting $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing Veterans Affairs Department health care spending and cutting veterans' disability benefits.
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Washington Monthly, Raw Story, TPMDC and Minnesota Independent
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Their Own Private Europe — President Obama's State of the Union address was a ho-hum affair. But the official Republican response, from Representative Paul Ryan, was really interesting. And I don't mean that in a good way. — Mr. Ryan made highly dubious assertions about employment, health care and more.
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David Harsanyi / Real Clear Politics:
Who Are We in This ‘Sputnik Moment’? — One of the difficulties progressives face is trying to make centralized planning sound like a good idea. Even the president, with all his rhetorical genius and majestic vagueness, can struggle with the task. So from time to time …
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Patrick Hynes / New Hampshire Journal:
Top Dem: We will ‘hang’ Republicans — Amidst a national dialogue about softening political rhetoric, members of an Obama-affiliated organization are threatening to hang Granite State Republicans in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, according to a news story in the Citizen of Laconia.
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