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New York Times:
Clashes Erupt in Cairo Between Mubarak's Allies and Foes — CAIRO — President Obama's calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators for and against President Hosni Mubarak, some on horses and camels, fought running battles in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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Wall Street Journal:
Egypt's Army Calls for End to Protests — By MARGARET COKER and CHARLES LEVINSON in Cairo and JONATHAN WEISMAN in Washington — Egypt's army called on protesters to return home Wednesday, and Internet connections were restored, as the government moved to restore some normalcy after a wrenching week of protests.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
B.E., Before Egypt. A.E., After Egypt. — I'm meeting a retired Israeli general at a Tel Aviv hotel. As I take my seat, he begins the conversation with: “Well, everything we thought for the last 30 years is no longer relevant.” — That pretty much sums up the disorienting sense of shock …
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The Daily Dish, Israel Matzav, Mondoweiss and The Moderate Voice
Los Angeles Times:
Violence in Egypt as foes, supporters of Hosni Mubarak clash — Fighting erupts in Tahrir Square as anti-government demonstrators and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak throw rocks and brandish clubs. The clashes follow a call by the Egyptian military for protesters to go home.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pajamas Media and Atlas Shrugs
CNN:
Click to watch video — [Update 4:59 p.m. Cairo, 9:59 a.m. ET] CNN iReporter Marianamin is an American living in a suburb an hour north of Cairo. She says her friends and neighbors “don't know who they want in, but they just know they want Mubarak out. ... Their thinking is he had 30 years to make changes.
James Hohmann / The Politico:
GOP 2012-ers cold on Egypt strategy
GOP 2012-ers cold on Egypt strategy
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution
How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution
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FP Passport, Guardian and EA WorldView
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Returns To The Internet
Egypt Returns To The Internet
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Threat Level, ProPublica, Danger Room and wampum.wabanaki.net, more at Techmeme »
Guardian:
Chaos as supporters of Mubarak attack crowds
Chaos as supporters of Mubarak attack crowds
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Nicholas D. Kristof, Firedoglake, CNN, The Daily Dish, Gawker, Newshoggers.com, Gizmodo and Shakesville, more at Techmeme »
Al Jazeera Blogs:
Live blog Feb 2 - Egypt protests
Live blog Feb 2 - Egypt protests
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Wisconsin attorney general: “Health care law is dead” — Okay, so here's the next frontier in the war over the Affordable Care Act: Republican state officials around the country who are hostile to the law may now seize on Judge Vinson's decision yesterday to threaten to stop implementing it — right now.
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
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Patterico's Pontifications, SEIU, Prairie Weather, Don Surber, Cato @ Liberty, UNCOVERAGE.net, Balkinization and Liberty Pundits Blog
David Weigel / Weigel:
Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform
Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform
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Balloon Juice, CNN, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Wonk Room and Washington Monthly
Publius / TheFourthBranch.com:
The alternatives to the health care law
The alternatives to the health care law
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Crooks and Liars and Balloon Juice
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Neocons Split with Israel Over Egypt — Well, this is interesting. The neoconservative (or liberal interventionist) wing of American Jewish political thought (not that all neocons are Jewish, God forbid anyone should think that!) is cheering on the revolution in Egypt …
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New York Times, Harry's Place and National Review
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Leading Neoconservative Frank Gaffney Argues Muslim Brotherhood …
Leading Neoconservative Frank Gaffney Argues Muslim Brotherhood …
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Mike Stark / StarkReports.com:
Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever? — Remember the videos at the bottom of this post? — The New York Times passed on the story (if there ever was one; Page 6 of the New York Post isn't known as the beginning and end of truth), but evidently Boehner hasn't been successful in making the story go away.
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Joe. My. God. and The Impolitic
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 …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Senate moves closer to deal repealing 1099 provision in healthcare law — The Senate this week seems closer than ever to approving a repeal of the widely opposed 1099 language in last year's healthcare law, with Democrats and Republicans prepared to support nearly identical repeal language.
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Michelle Malkin
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Maddow Blames Beck and Other Conservatives for Her Getting Duped by Satirical Website — As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday got duped by a satirical website quoting from their spoof article about Sarah Palin advocating an attack on Egypt as if it was a serious commentary.
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The Wire, ChristWire, The Atlantic Wire, Pajamas Media and Fox Nation
Dave Mosher / Wired Science:
Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. White — A NASA photograph of the Midwest megastorm gives profound visual truth to what it means for a snowstorm to blanket the United States. — The image was captured from space Jan. 31 by the GOES 13 satellite, which regularly photographs …
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theblogprof and Simply Left BehindThe …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
The Kochs fight back — RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Faced with an avalanche of bad publicity after years of funding conservative causes in relative anonymity, the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, Charles and David, are fighting back. — They've hired a team of p.r. pros with experience working …
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Ben Smith's Blog, The New Republic, FrumForum, MyDD and Crooks and Liars
Susan K. Livio / New Jersey Online:
Central Jersey Planned Parenthood fires worker after release of undercover video — PERTH AMBOY — The man and woman walked into the Planned Parenthood clinic in Perth Amboy sounding like the operators of a child sex ring looking for help with their business.
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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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Moonbattery, Bookworm Room, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Fox Nation, JammieWearingFool and Hot Air
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
All The Daily Details Leaked — Just minutes before the presentation, here are all the details of Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, sent by Rupert himself. $40 will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents: — • Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment, opinion and sports-every single day of the year
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The Wire, GigaOM, Mixed Media and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Michelle Malkin:
Stop the hate campaign against law-abiding American businesses — My column today spotlights the left-wing/New York Times alliance against Chick-Fil-A. Anti-corporate/anti-Christian blogs + MSM advocacy journalism = job-sabotaging smear machine. — Chick-Fil-A isn't the only one in the …
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AmSpecBlog, Innovations and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lawmakers press Supreme Court for verdict on healthcare law — Democratic and Republican lawmakers believe the Supreme Court will ultimately decide the fate of President Obama's healthcare law, and some of them are already exerting pressure on the justices.
Spengler / Asia Times:
Food and failed Arab states — Even Islamists have to eat. It is unclear whether President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will survive, or whether his nationalist regime will be replaced by an Islamist, democratic, or authoritarian state. What is certain is that it will be a failed state.
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and Pajamas Media
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?
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Obama's antique vision of technological progress — Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.
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Betsy's Page
Washington Post:
Mental health specialist recommended WikiLeaks suspect not be deployed to Iraq — A mental health specialist recommended that the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks not be deployed to Iraq, but his immediate commanders sent him anyway …
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Bryan Caplan / EconLog:
The Tiger Mother versus Cost-Benefit Analysis — One of my favorite economists urged me to cut this passage from Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: … In his view, my three questions were banal and useless. I begged to differ. Sure, this advice is just common sense.
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