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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.
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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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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution
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Al Jazeera Blogs:
Live blog Feb 2 - Egypt protests
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Dcrisscnn / This Just In:
Egypt crisis: Pro-Mubarak crowd overturns military truck; see latest video
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The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Situation in Egypt
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Obama presses Mubarak to move ‘now’
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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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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, Mondoweiss and The Moderate Voice
James Hohmann / The Politico:
GOP 2012-ers cold on Egypt strategy — Unlike top congressional Republicans, the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls isn't quite ready to express support for President Barack Obama's cautious approach to the crisis in Egypt. — In fact, many of them aren't ready to say anything at all.
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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
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Publius / TheFourthBranch.com:
The alternatives to the health care law
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Guess who predicted the ObamaCare ruling?
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform
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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 …
Ahmad F Al-Shagra / The Next Web:
Internet Restored in Egypt — This just in: Reports from bloggers and Egyptian twitterati have confirmed that the Internet has been restored in Egypt by the country's major Internet Service Providers ISPs. — The decision has yet to be clarified as whether it is a single sided decision …
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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Returns To The Internet
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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.
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Can Jay Carney hack it as top flack? — The e-mail, coming from the Executive Office of the President and addressed to me, had a catchy subject line: “You are a hack.” — This was tough - but accurate. I read on. — The body of the message began with the phrase “shamelessly misrepresented …
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Yemen's Leader Pledges Not to Seek Re-election — PARIS — In the latest shock wave from protests across the Arab world, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen sought to forestall new displays of opposition, announcing on Wednesday that he would not stand for re-election when his term expires …
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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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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 …
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The Politico:
Gingrich, Dean debate immigration — Gingrich's peppered his remarks with standard-fare bombast, those sky-is-falling warnings about the epic struggles ahead. — “Any honest assessment on 9/11 this year, 10 years after the attack, I think will have to conclude that we are slowly losing the war,” he said.
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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.
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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American Thinker:
The Story of the Egyptian Revolution — A friend of mine in academia forwarded this email to me from an Egyptian student whose good sense he vouches for. He tells a story very different than that most of you are seeing on television or reading in your papers.
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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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The Politico, The Greenroom, Guardian, Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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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Associated Press:
AP sources: House GOP readies restrictions on EPA — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharp challenge to the Obama administration, House Republican leaders intend to unveil legislation to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, officials said. They expect to advance the bill quickly.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Paradox of Corporate Taxes — The Carnival Corporation wouldn't have much of a business without help from various branches of the government. The United States Coast Guard keeps the seas safe for Carnival's cruise ships. Customs officers make it possible for Carnival cruises to travel to other countries.
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