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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 …
Al Jazeera Blogs:
Liveblog - Egypt's protests erupt — on January 28th, 2011. … Follow staff tweets on the protests from Egypt and Doha. — Watch Al Jazeera English broadcasting live from Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. — View a gallery of photos from the past four days of protests.
New York Times:
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
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Protests in Egypt - live updates
Protests in Egypt - live updates
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wikileaks.ch:
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msnbc.com:
Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew
Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew
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Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Liveblogging Egypt: Day 1 — Tracking the ongoing demonstrations …
Liveblogging Egypt: Day 1 — Tracking the ongoing demonstrations …
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Firedoglake, Little Green Footballs, Foreign Policy and Associated Press
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Egyptians' Fury Has Smoldered Beneath the Surface for Decades
Egyptians' Fury Has Smoldered Beneath the Surface for Decades
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The Awl
Michelle Malkin:
Uprising in Egypt — An iconic Egyptian protest image reminiscent …
Uprising in Egypt — An iconic Egyptian protest image reminiscent …
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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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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
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
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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Power Line, CNSNews, Time 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
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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Jeff Labrecque / Inside TV:
TNT apologizes for Tracy Morgan's crude Sarah Palin remark
TNT apologizes for Tracy Morgan's crude Sarah Palin remark
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newsfeed.time.com, Wonkette and Anchorage Daily News
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
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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Weasel Zippers
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
Popular Protests Spread To Jordan
Popular Protests Spread To Jordan
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The Atlantic Online and New York Times
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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The Political Carnival
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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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 …
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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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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Michelle Malkin and protein wisdom
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J. Lester Feder / The Politico:
HHS: Health care reform is already working
HHS: Health care reform is already working
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Verum Serum and Right Wing News
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
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
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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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
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Downgrading America — Karl Smith on the possibility that ratings agencies will downgrade U.S. debt from its current AAA rating: … I can't speak for Obama, but I have a feeling that the significance would be: zero. Granted, there's symbolic importance to something like this …
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Prairie Weather
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
House Dems call for gun hearings — House Democrats are calling for hearings on gun safety in the wake of the Jan. 8 massacre in Arizona, with the focus on high-capacity ammunition clips and preventing those with a history of mental illness or drug abuse from buying guns.
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The Note, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air