memeorandum: Egypt's Mubarak names vice president for 1st time (Associated Press)

6:25 PM ET, January 29, 2011

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Obama's handling Egypt pretty well — After President Obama spoke last night about the situation in Egypt, my Twitter feed and inbox filled up with angry denunciations, with lots of people complaining bitterly that he had endorsed Mubarak's grim struggle to hold on to power …

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests — CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak struggled to maintain a tenuous hold on power on Saturday as the military did not act against tens of thousands of demonstrators who defied a new curfew to call for an end to his nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule.

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Al Jazeera Blogs:

Live blog 29/1 - Egypt protests — on January 29th, 2011. — Visit our special Anger in Egypt coverage page. — Watch Al Jazeera English broadcasting live from Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. — Read up on a timeline of the past four days of unprecedented protests.

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CNN:

Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Saudi Arabia slammed protesters in Egypt on Saturday as “infiltrators” who seek to destabilize their country, while a a top Palestinian official affirmed “solidarity” with Egypt.

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Latme / Babylon & Beyond:

EGYPT: Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei accuses U.S. of dropping the ball — Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei called the U.S. position on the Egyptian crisis a disappointment and condemned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's early Satruday morning speech as “almost an insult to the intelligence of the Egyptian people.”

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J.J. Gould / The Atlantic Online:

Liveblogging Egypt: Day 2, Cont'd — Tracking the ongoing demonstrations and government response in Egypt — 6:05 p.m. EST / 1:05 a.m. Scott Lucas at EA World View: “Escalating story tonight of at least one sniper in the Ministry of Interior picking off protesters outside the building.

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Washington Post:

The U.S. needs to break with Mubarak now — ON FRIDAY, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians did something that the Obama administration, and many others in Washington, believed they would never do: They rose up against their government, demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's autocracy.

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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Urging Restraint, U.S. Military Faces Test of Influence

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hrw.org:
Live Updates From Egypt

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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Egyptian troops let protests proceed as Mubarak names vice president

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The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt …

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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Al Jazeera Covers Protests Despite Hurdles

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France24:
Top dissident ElBaradei says President Mubarak must go

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CNN:
JOHN KING, USA

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Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter / Human Events:
America Must Stand With Her Ally Egypt

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Kerry: Premature to threaten cutting Egypt's $1.3B aid

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President Barack Obama / Time:
Transcript: President Obama's Remarks on Egypt

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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Egypt's Military Is Seen as Pivotal in Next Step

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The Politico:

Right takes refuge in Constitution — The federal lawsuits against last year's health care overhaul were greeted with eye-rolling and snickers from many conventional legal scholars. — Nobody's laughing now. — A federal judge in Virginia ruled late last year that a key underpinning …

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Myglesias / Yglesias:

WHPS: Who Cares? — Howard Fineman celebrates Jay Carney's elevation to the post of White House Press Secretary because it shows Barack Obama's understanding of the need to surround himself with savvy insiders: … This seems to me to be a reference to a change that simply never happened …

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama ‘willing’ to golf with Boehner

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Bloomberg:
Axelrod Says U.S. Will Push Egypt for Reforms (Transcript)

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Virginia House Revives Doctrine of ‘Interposition’ Last Used To Defend Jim Crow — Segregationist Virginia Senator Harry Byrd Sr. — In response to the landmark Affordable Care Act, numerous right-wing state lawmakers have introduced unconstitutional bills attempting to nullify this federal law.

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Myglesias / Yglesias:

Karl Marx, Real Business Cycle Theorist — Kudos to Benjamin Kunkel for trying to present an accessible Marxist account of the current financial crisis. I was struck reading the piece, though, by how similar the Kunkel/Harvery/Marx account of the crisis is to linguistically and ideologically quite different accounts from the right.

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Benjamin Kunkel / London Review of Books: Benjamin Kunkel: Marx's Return

Amb / Fox News:

AMB. JOHN BOLTON: Is Democracy Coming to Egypt at Last? — As seen on Fox News Channel's “Happening Now with Jon Scott and Jenna Lee” on January 28. — FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: I think what's clearly happened today [in Egypt] is that the Muslim Brotherhood …

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Caroline B. Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: The pragmatic fantasy

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

THE ANTI-SCIENCE PARTY.... This segment, by way of Daily Kos' Jed Lewison, helps reinforce much of what's wrong with the state of critical thinking in the Republican Party. — “Real Time” host Bill Maher asked Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) a fairly straightforward question: “Do you believe in evolution?”