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11:30 PM ET, February 1, 2011

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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Urges Mubarak Not to Run Again  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama has told the embattled president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, that he should not run for another term in elections in the fall, effectively withdrawing American support for its closest Arab ally, according to American diplomats in Cairo and Washington.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Obama presses Mubarak to move ‘now’  —  President Obama, clearly frustrated by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's intention to retain his hold on power until elections later this year, said Tuesday evening that he has told Mubarak that a transition to representative government “must begin now.”
Stellaa / Sarthanapalos:
A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt  —  The past few days I have heard so many stupid things from friends, blogs, pundits, correspondents, politicians, experts, writers that I want to pull my hair.  So, I will not beat around the bush, I will be really blunt and give you a handy list …
Discussion: Guardian, AOL News and Shakesville
American Thinker:
The Story of the Egyptian Revolution
Discussion: National Review
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Quest for Dignity  —  I wonder if sometime around 50 years ago …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and POMED
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama calls for transition in Egypt to begin immediately
CNN:
Obama to Mubarak: Time for change
Discussion: Jihad Watch and FrumForum
John Kerry / New York Times:
Allying Ourselves With the Next Egypt
Reuters:
Protesters defiant after Mubarak speech
David Weigel / Weigel:
Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform  —  Senators John Barasso, R-WY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have introduced The State Health Care Choice Act, written to allow states to opt out of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, expansion of Medicaid programs and …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senate to hold vote on repeal of health care law
Discussion: The Note
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Sens Admit: Goal Of Changing Health Care Law Is To Kill It
David Perel / The Huffington Post:
Technology & Psychology: The Never-Before-Revealed Details of Why John Edwards Finally Confessed to Affair  —  It took two years, thousands of man hours and a cross-country chase to catch John Edwards cheating.  —  That was the easy part.  —  Even after gathering and publishing overwhelming proof …
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Sen. Webb raises $12K in final quarter of 2010
USA Today:
Sen. Webb's fundraising raises question about 2012 bid
John Hudson / Los Angeles Times:
Rachel Maddow and NBC Struggle With Satire  —  WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet's finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night.  In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama's Egypt policies.
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
MSNBC's Maddow Reports Internet Spoof Story as Fact
Ezra Klein:
An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate  —  In 1991, economist Mark Pauly was the lead author of a Health Affairs paper attempting to persuade President George H.W. Bush and his administration to adopt a universal health-care proposal that would keep the government from eventually taking over the sector.
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Argus Leader:
Bill would require all S.D. citizens to buy a gun  —  Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”  —  The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012 …
Balkinization:
The Civic Republican Roots of the Individual Mandate
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Mike Riggs / The Daily Caller:
Valerie Jarrett to uniformed general: More wine, garçon!  —  In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention.  And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”
David Eldridge / Washington Times:
Tardy senator draws dressing-down  —  Back home they were often superstars, governors, or state attorneys general, but here in Washington they are now just freshman senators — a lesson Sen. Richard Blumenthal learned on Monday when he got dressed down by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Fix
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Senate Appropriations announces earmark ban
Bill Status / The United States Senate Committee …:
Committee Announces Earmark Moratorium
Discussion: USA Today, Daily Kos and Seattle Times
Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America:
HOAX VIDEO EXPOSED: Planned Parenthood Already Reported “Sex Trafficking” To FBI  —  Today, anti-abortion rights propagandist Lila Rose released her latest in a series of heavily edited videos seeking to demonstrate that Planned Parenthood engages in criminal activities.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Planned Parenthood offering advice to pimps?  Update: Did PP call the feds?
Vancouver Sun:
‘Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb’  —  Al-Qaida members participate in military training in Afghanistan in this file photo.  —  Photograph by: Agence France-Presse Files, National Post, With Files From News Services  —  Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons …
Dana Milbank / PostPartisan:
Day one of my Sarah Palin moratorium  —  I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium, defeating the evil plans of ABC News's Rick Klein.  Only 27 days to go...  Mr Milbank,  —  in addition, how about a PERMANENT moratorium on your fawning over every little/ignorant/weak/leftist DIMocRAT extremist?
Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away  —  The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.  —  An airliner explodes in a fireball as it hits the south tower of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A VISION OF FOREIGN POLICY THAT ONLY BECK CAN PROVIDE.... Over the last year or so, Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost about a third of his audience, which is a pretty significant drop, and may very well lead the deranged media personality to think of ways to bring viewers back.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“This Is Important Stuff”  —  Above is a Glenn Beck clip …
Discussion: Rumproast, Wonkette and Greg's Opinion
Al Gore / Al's Journal:
An Answer for Bill  —  Last week on his show Bill O'Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me.  I appreciate the question.  As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question …
Pew Hispanic Center:
Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010  —  As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according to new estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results  —  Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google's results, then uses that information to improve Bing's own search listings.  Bing doesn't deny this.
 
 
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The Huffington Post:
Michigan Family Says Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Program Cost Them Their Home
Washington Post:
Mental health specialist recommended WikiLeaks suspect not be deployed to Iraq
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Huckabee: Palestinians Should Be Resettled In ‘Muslim’ Territory
Discussion: Associated Press and Swampland
Guardian:
Britain under pressure to take up Manning case
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Raw Story
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Former Sen. Kennedy staffer convicted of stealing from Senate
The Politico:
Obama, Bingaman to talk energy
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Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
It's Always the Urban Pot That Boils Over
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Not many House Republicans rejecting health benefits on principle
First Read / msnbc.com:
Senate GOP to try to force health care repeal vote
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Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Baroness Ashton in political correctness row over word ‘Christian’
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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