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2:25 PM ET, February 2, 2011

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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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Christiane Amanpour / ABCNEWS:
Egypt Protests Turn Violent  —  Pro- and Anti-Mubarak Crowds Collide in the Worst Clashes Since Friday  —  We just got back to the hotel after trying to film on the bridge into Tahrir Square.  —  An angry mob surrounded us and chased us into the car shouting that they hate America.
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 …
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.
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.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Crisis in Cairo Continues: Egyptians Ignore Obama, Resort to Violence
Discussion: Examiner, Raw Story, Washington Post and BBC
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Reagan's Solicitor General Charles Fried: ‘I Am Quite Sure That The Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional’  —  In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on “The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act,” President Ronald Reagan's former Solicitor General — Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried …
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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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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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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?
Discussion: The Impolitic and Joe. My. God.
The Note:
Senate Poised To Vote On Health Care Repeal  —  ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: The US Senate today is poised to vote on repealing President Obama's controversial new health care law.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today on the Senate floor that the repeal vote will likely occur sometime late this afternoon.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and HillBuzz.org
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Senate moves closer to deal repealing 1099 provision in healthcare law
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
Man arrested in threat made against Stuart's Rep. William Snyder shortly after Arizona shootings  —  A self-described Massachusetts “political activist” was arrested Monday night and charged with sending a threatening e-mail to Florida Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, an hour after the Arizona shooting …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Don Surber
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Sam Butterfield / The Daily Collegian:
UMass student arrested for alleged e-mail threat
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Jill Dougherty / CNN:
Clinton warns of ‘uncharted territory’ in wake of Egypt unrest  —  Washington (CNN) — In the midst of mass uprisings and historic change in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a gathering of U.S. diplomats Wednesday that “we are all in uncharted territory.”
Discussion: FrumForum
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton plays key role in dance with Hosni Mubarak
Discussion: Wonkette and Reuters
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Paul: Should the Tea Party compromise?  —  Washington (CNN) - During his first speech on the Senate floor, Tea Party champion Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, brought up what may be a dirty word for some of his constituents: compromise.  —  “Many ask will the Tea Party compromise?
Discussion: The Politico and The Page
Moira Welsh / Toronto Star:
Superior Court rules Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing was unfair  —  A Mississauga businesswoman whose home was ordered seized to pay an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal award to a former employee can keep her house — for now.  —  The Superior Court struck down the “fatally flawed” …
Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
Nelson says individual mandate ‘must change’  —  Speaking to more than 150 insurance brokers, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the individual mandate “the biggest sticking point” in the health reform law.  —  “It's time to change the mandate,” Nelson told members of the National Association …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and National Review
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Anderson Cooper And CNN Crew Attacked By Pro-Mubarak Mob In Egypt  —  CNN's Anderson Cooper has been attacked while reporting for the network in Egypt.  The anchor, who's been reporting nearly nonstop since the weekend, described the attack to viewers this morning shortly after a Twitter report …
Discussion: FrumForum 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 …
Hakim Almasmari / Wall Street Journal:
Yemeni President Won't Run Again  —  SANAA, Yemen—Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced that he won't run for re-election when his term ends in 2013, and that he wouldn't attempt to pass on the presidency to his son, abruptly ending his bid to change the constitution to erase all term limits on the post.
 
 
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