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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.
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Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising — The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned. — Protesters and army on the streets of Cairo
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Hit & Run, Atlas Shrugs and The Angry Arab News Service/
Political Punch:
Axelrod: President Obama Has “On Several Occasions Directly Confronted” Mubarak on Human Rights for the Past 2 Years “To Get Ahead of This” — In a network exclusive interview to air on Nightline tonight, we sat down this afternoon with White House senior adviser David Axelrod …
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ABCNEWS, Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Pajamas Media
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Would an American President Tout Mubarak's Regime? — Two weekends ago, I was at a wedding, and another guest mentioned that he was being “good,” and honoring his wife's request that he not check his Blackberry or Twitter feed. Knowing that the Ravens-Steelers NFL Playoff game was underway …
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Outside the Beltway
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Mubarak Orders Ministers to Resign but Backs Armed Response to Egypt Protests — CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appeared on television late Friday night and ordered his government to resign, but backed his security forces' attempts to contain the surging unrest around the country …
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Guardian:
Mubarak defiant in face of Egyptian protests — • President Mubarak will form new government on Saturday — • Officials say US is reviewing $1.5bn aid to Egypt — • Mohamed ElBaradei has been detained — • Teargas and rubber bullets used in crackdown
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Heather Hurlburt / The New Republic:
Five Things to Understand About the Egyptian Riots — It takes some hubris to write about events unfolding as fast as the protests in Egypt, especially when it's clear that nobody saw this coming. Mubarak is preparing to address the nation, and it's unclear what will follow.
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Rortybomb and The Daily Dish
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Liveblogging Egypt: Day 1 — Tracking the ongoing demonstrations and government response in Egypt — Egypt's fourth day of nationwide protests has ended in uncertainty. Police have withdrawn from much of Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria, the largest centers of protest, and the Egyptian military has moved in.
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Foreign Policy, CNN, New York Times, The Daily Dish, Little Green Footballs and Samizdata.net
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Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world
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Wonk Room, Commentary and Elliott Abrams
New York Times:
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Galvanizes Arab Frustration
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Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, CFR.org, Salon, GigaOM, Wonkette, The Note, No More Mister Nice Blog and RubinReports, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A careful briefing — Robert Gibbs, like all White House press …
A careful briefing — Robert Gibbs, like all White House press …
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press and The Plum Line
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?
Who's doing Mubarak's bidding in Washington?
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The Hill and Ben Smith's Blog
Gil Yaron / Spiegel Online:
Israel Fears Regime Change in Egypt
Israel Fears Regime Change in Egypt
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Salon and Newshoggers.com
CNN:
Unrest in Egypt: President Mubarak dissolves Cabinet after night of protests
Unrest in Egypt: President Mubarak dissolves Cabinet after night of protests
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Fox News, Examiner, Pajamas Media, Patterico's Pontifications, Opinion L.A., New York Times and Parker Spitzer
Tobin Harshaw / Opinionator:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mubarak?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mubarak?
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Marc Lynch, Weekly Standard and Lawyers, Guns & Money
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Leaves the Internet
Egypt Leaves the Internet
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Associated Press:
US to review aid to Egypt, WH spokesman says
US to review aid to Egypt, WH spokesman says
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The Daily Dish, Reuters, Associated Press and The Atlantic
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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American Power and The Awl
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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
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, USA Today and TPMDC
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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 and Conservatives4Palin
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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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NO QUARTER, PopEater, Salon, Pajamas Media, The Other McCain, iOwnTheWorld.com and AOL News
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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 and Wonkette
VFW:
VFW WILL DEFEAT BACHMANN PLAN — “NO WAY, NO HOW, WILL WE LET THIS PROPOSAL GET ANY TRACTION IN CONGRESS.” — America's oldest and largest major combat veterans' organization announced it will do everything within its power to defeat a plan introduced by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) …
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and TPMDC
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Rick Maze / Air Force Times HOME:
Bachmann plan would cut veterans benefits
Bachmann plan would cut veterans benefits
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Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Minnesota Independent and TPMDC
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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 …
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Hullabaloo
Associated Press:
Fla. rep failed to explain thousands in expenses — MIAMI (AP) — Freshman U.S. Rep. David Rivera, who is facing a state criminal investigation of his finances, paid himself more than $60,000 in unexplained campaign reimbursements over the eight years he served in the state legislature …
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Ballot Box
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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Modeled Behavior and The Atlantic Online
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Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Wire:
World Grows Jittery About American Debt
World Grows Jittery About American Debt
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The Atlantic Online
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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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Daily Kos, 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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Political Punch, Fox News, Indecision Forever and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
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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, The Atlantic Online, Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
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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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Grim's Hall, CNN, Washington Monthly, The Blotter, The New Republic and FrumForum
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GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter: The Federal Government Can't Legislate Bike Paths Because They're Unconstitutional — As ThinkProgress has previously noted, there is a radical strain of conservativism, dubbed “tentherism,” that invokes the Tenth Amendment to claim that a whole host …
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Grist and Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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The most subversive protest of all: An Egyptian protestor kisses a riot police officer. — necrophiliaisnottheanswer reblogged this from waste-ofpaint and added:
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Mediaite
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Egyptian Police Using U.S.-Made Tear Gas Against Demonstrators — Photographs From Cairo Document Canisters Labeled ‘Made in U.S.A.’ — Egyptian riot police are firing tear gas canisters bearing the label “Made in U.S.A” against street demonstrations in Cairo, according to protesters …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Political Carnival and Ben Smith's Blog
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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