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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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Mubarak Says He Will Not Run for Presidency Again — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would not leave Egypt although he would step down from the presidency at the end of his term, due to end when the country holds a presidential election in September.
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USA Today, Commentary, National Review, The Moderate Voice, Guardian, Washington Post, Time, Big Peace, AMERICAblog News and World Threats
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.”
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TalkLeft, Jihad Watch, American Power and The Other McCain
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 …
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Guardian, AOL News and Shakesville
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
How They're Attacking Obama — Matt Yglesias takes time out for some ideological point-scoring: … I honestly don't have a good enough recollection of 2003 to 2005 to gauge the accuracy of Matt's characterization. But it is interesting to me that President Obama is being attacked …
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driftglass and Jay Bookman
John Kerry / New York Times:
Allying Ourselves With the Next Egypt
Allying Ourselves With the Next Egypt
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The Politico, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Politics Daily, Guardian, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, Blogcritics, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, The Hill, Examiner, The Maddow Blog, The Democratic Daily, Boston Globe, The Note, Raw Story, Ben Smith's Blog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Other McCain and Fact Checker
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Obama to Mubarak: Transition ‘Must Begin Now’ (Transcript)
Obama to Mubarak: Transition ‘Must Begin Now’ (Transcript)
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The Gateway Pundit
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama calls for transition in Egypt to begin immediately
Obama calls for transition in Egypt to begin immediately
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The Politico and Hot Air
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
Clueless in Cairo — So President Hosni Mubarak has announced …
Clueless in Cairo — So President Hosni Mubarak has announced …
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The Huffington Post, Telegraph, Jay Bookman, Pajamas Media, The Daily Dish, Boing Boing and New York Times
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Quest for Dignity — I wonder if sometime around 50 years ago …
The Quest for Dignity — I wonder if sometime around 50 years ago …
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The Maddow Blog and POMED
Reuters:
Protesters defiant after Mubarak speech
Protesters defiant after Mubarak speech
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The Maddow Blog, Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, FP Passport and Weasel Zippers
Eric Dondero / Libertarian Republican:
Egyptian Lt. Gen. Sami Enan to take over for Mubarak?
Egyptian Lt. Gen. Sami Enan to take over for Mubarak?
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Fox News, Gulf News, The Maddow Blog, AmSpecBlog, The Other McCain, Danger Room, Reuters, Big Government and Hot Air
Max Boot / Commentary:
The Mubarak Mirage and the ElBaradei Conundrum
The Mubarak Mirage and the ElBaradei Conundrum
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Fox News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daniel W. Drezner
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? — Live Action released another undercover expose of Planned Parenthood today, this time at the Perth Amboy, New Jersey clinic. Posing as a pimp and a prostitute, the pair asked the PP manager how best …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Planned Parenthood, ‘Safe Haven’ for Sex Trafficking: A Shocking, Breaking Video
Planned Parenthood, ‘Safe Haven’ for Sex Trafficking: A Shocking, Breaking Video
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Gawker, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org blogs, iOwnTheWorld.com, Grim's Hall, In The Agora and Pundit & Pundette
Lila Rose / Big Government:
Shock Investigation: Planned Parenthood Advises ‘Pimp’ …
Shock Investigation: Planned Parenthood Advises ‘Pimp’ …
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Live Action Blog, Big Journalism, NewsReal Blog, AOL News, Sister Toldjah, The Blast and JammieWearingFool
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 — Sen. Jim Webb's (D-Va.) latest fundraising numbers won't do much to ease the concerns of Virginia Democrats, worried that the senator isn't doing nearly enough to gear up for a 2012 challenge from former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).
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Outside the Beltway and National Review
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
MSNBC's Maddow Reports Internet Spoof Story as Fact
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Weasel Zippers, Riehl World View and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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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!”
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Maggie's Notebook, Fox Nation, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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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Crooks and Liars, Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, alicublog, Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Oliver Willis
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“This Is Important Stuff” — Above is a Glenn Beck clip …
“This Is Important Stuff” — Above is a Glenn Beck clip …
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Wonkette, Rumproast and Greg's Opinion
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 …
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Washington Post and The Fix
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Senate Appropriations announces earmark ban
Senate Appropriations announces earmark ban
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Sunlight Foundation Blog, The Politico, CNN and The Note
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.
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New York Times, Wonk Room, PostPartisan and ImmigrationProf Blog
Rep. Joe Courtney / The Huffington Post:
Anti-Health Care Republicans Officially Receive Taxpayer-Funded Coverage — Today, Republican Members of Congress who ran on a platform of repealing health care and patients' rights for millions of Americans officially began receiving their own Congressional health insurance.
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Crooks and Liars, Comments from Left Field, The Caucus and Brilliant at Breakfast
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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
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The Jawa Report and Maggie's Notebook
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senate to hold vote on repeal of health care law — By: CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash — Washington (CNN) - Senate leaders from both political parties have agreed to hold a vote on legislation repealing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul - a top priority of GOP congressional leaders.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Mitch McConnell grabs opening for health care vote
Mitch McConnell grabs opening for health care vote
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The Daily Caller, The Atlantic Online, Weigel, Politics Daily and The Note
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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Sky Dancing, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Marginal Revolution and The Incidental Economist
New York Times:
King of Jordan Dismisses His Cabinet — AMMAN, Jordan — King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his government on Tuesday following weeks of demonstrations challenging his regime, part of a wave of demands of public accountability sweeping the Arab world that has brought throngs of demonstrators into the streets of Egypt.
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msnbc.com, AOL News, CNN, Outside the Beltway, The Monkey Cage, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Firedoglake, Zandar Versus The Stupid and TalkLeft