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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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The Other McCain, Danger Room, Daniel W. Drezner, The Plum Line, Sky Dancing, Taylor Marsh, Reuters, Hot Air, Fausta's Blog, Outside the Beltway, Israel Matzav, The Lede, LewRockwell.com Blog, The Daily Dish, AOL News, Pajamas Media, Pirate's Cove, Elder of Ziyon, FrumForum, The Agonist and The BLT
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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.
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
The View From Tahrir — Today President Mubarak seems to have decided to crack down on the democracy movement, using not police or army troops but rather mobs of hoodlums and thugs. I've been spending hours on Tahrir today, and it is absurd to think of this as simply “clashes” between two rival groups.
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News Desk, The Daily Dish, Guardian, Jay Bookman and New York Times
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
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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Emptywheel, EA WorldView and FP Passport
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Returns To The Internet
Egypt Returns To The Internet
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Threat Level, ProPublica, Danger Room and wampum.wabanaki.net, more at Techmeme »
Los Angeles Times:
Violence in Egypt as foes, supporters of Hosni Mubarak clash
Violence in Egypt as foes, supporters of Hosni Mubarak clash
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pajamas Media and Atlas Shrugs
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Egypt protests - live updates
Egypt protests - live updates
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Firedoglake, Guardian, The Daily Dish, Newshoggers.com, Gawker, Gizmodo and AlterNet, more at Techmeme »
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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Left Coast Rebel, Wonk Room, Daily Kos, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Althouse, Prairie Weather and The New Republic
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New York Times:
States Diverge on How to Deal With Health Care Ruling — States took broadly divergent approaches on Tuesday to a federal judge's ruling that invalidated the Obama health care law, while Congressional Republicans used the decision to build momentum for a vote on repealing the act.
Publius / TheFourthBranch.com:
The alternatives to the health care law
The alternatives to the health care law
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The Impolitic and Balloon Juice
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
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 and Harry's Place
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hullabaloo, Alternate Brain and mediabistro.com
Mike Stark / StarkReports.com:
Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever? — [UPDATE] In the comments, Boy Culture's Matthew Rettenmund leaves a link to photos of the National Enquirer story. Can't quite make out the text, but it's a two-page spread. — Remember the videos at the bottom of this post?
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Joe. My. God. and The Impolitic
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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The Note, Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
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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 …
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
Elana Schor / New York Times:
Enviro Groups' Public Health Pivot in Support of EPA Regs Hitting Red States Too — The first signs of a shift came even before Election Day 2010, arriving as letters (pdf) and dramatic ads (pdf). But as the 112th Congress gets to work, environmental groups are stepping up their transition toward …
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TPMDC, Weigel and The New Republic
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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LifeNews.com, Hot Air, Live Action Blog, Weasel Zippers, Raw Story, Big Government, ABCNEWS and In The Agora
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 »
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.
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
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
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, Outside the Beltway, Bookworm Room, Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool, Fox Nation and Hot Air
Sam Butterfield / The Daily Collegian:
UMass student arrested for alleged e-mail threat — Web update: 5:23 p.m. — The Daily Collegian obtained a statement from Rep. William Snyder, the Stuart, Fla. state representative who was the target of threatening emails allegedly sent by a University of Massachusetts student.
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Michelle Malkin, Palm Beach Post and Instapundit
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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