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5:40 PM ET, February 3, 2011

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ABCNEWS:
For Complete Coverage of the Crisis in Egypt, Featuring Exclusive Reporting From Christiane Amanpour, Click Here  —  When I asked him what he thought seeing the people shouting insults about him and wanting him gone, he said, “I don't care what people say about me.  Right now I care about my country, I care about Egypt.”
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Robert Springborg / Foreign Policy:
Game over: The chance for democracy in Egypt is lost  —  While much of American media has termed the events unfolding in Egypt today as “clashes between pro-government and opposition groups,” this is not in fact what's happening on the street.  The so-called “pro-government” …
New York Times:
Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers  —  CAIRO — Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.
George Soros / Washington Post:
Why Obama has to get Egypt right  —  Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.  In the case of the Middle East, the tears could be avoided if President Obama stands firmly by the values that got him elected.  Although American power and influence in the world have declined …
John R. Bolton / Los Angeles Times:
Beirut calling  —  Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate …
Discussion: Commentary and Israel Matzav
Christian Hartsock / Big Government:
White Political Ralliers Call for Lynching of Black Justice (Sorry MSM, No Tea in this Blend)  —  I recently took a two-day trip down to Palm Springs to attend an event called “Uncloaking the Kochs” hosted by Common Cause.  Accompanied by my dear friend, former assembly candidate Alvaro Day …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Koch protests include calls to lynch Clarence Thomas
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
What should we do with the Constitutionalists?
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Reporter Brian Hartman Threatened With Beheading  —  Attacks on Foreign Press Growing During Egyptian Uprising  —  A group of angry Egyptian men carjacked an ABC News crew and threatened to behead them today in the latest and most menacing attack on foreign reporters trying to cover the anti-government uprising.
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Charlotte charred by FLOTUS roast reference  —  Charlotte residents were ecstatic to hear this week that their city was selected to host the Democratic convention.  But there was one line in the e-mail announcement from First Lady Michelle Obama that made locals say, “Huh?”
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Like Michelle Obama, The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority Touts Area's BBQ  —  The stupidest “story” you'll encounter all day is the Drudge-hyped “gaffe” allegedly committed when an email announcement that next year's Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte mentioned “great barbecue.”
Discussion: The Impolitic
TIME NewsFeed / newsfeed.time.com:
TIME Exclusive: CBS's Lara Logan and Crew Detained in Cairo As Violence Escalates  —  Sources have told TIME Magazine that Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, has been detained along with her crew by Egyptian police outside Cairo's Israeli embassy.
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World News:
We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in …
BlogPost:
Egypt news day 10: Army steps in; journalists arrested and more live updates
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Hill
New York Times:
Crackdown in Egypt Widens to Foreign Observers
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
GOP loses ‘forcible rape’ language  —  House Republicans plan to sidestep a charged debate over the distinction between “forcible rape” and “rape” by altering the language of a bill banning taxpayer subsidies for abortions.  —  The provision in question, written as an exemption from the ban …
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Michael J. Totten / Pajamas Media:
Sandmonkey's Last Post  —  The blogger known as Egyptian Sandmonkey is a friend of mine.  Many Americans read him.  I actually know him.  I met him years ago in Cairo, and he's one of the good guys.  —  I don't know if what's happening in Egypt is a good thing or a bad thing because I don't know how it will end.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / New York Times:
Get Ready for the Muslim Brotherhood
Discussion: Yglesias
Scott Shane / New York Times:
As Islamist Group Rises, Its Intentions Are Unclear
Discussion: RubinReports
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Sophistry And Defining The Muslim Brotherhood, Ctd
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Charles Levinson / Wall Street Journal:
ElBaradei's Role Cast in Doubt
Discussion: The Daily Caller and This Just In
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
GOP offers $32B budget cut  —  House Republican leaders on Thursday said they would seek $32 billion in spending cuts from the resolution currently funding the government.  —  Republicans framed their proposal as cutting $74 billion from President Obama's 2011 budget request.
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David Rogers / Reuters:
GOP scales back budget cut goals
Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid blasts House GOP proposal as ‘draconian’ and ‘unworkable’
Discussion: CNN
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The Politics of Saving ‘Granny’
Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg:
U.S. in Contempt Over Gulf Drill Ban, Judge Rules  —  The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater-drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.  —  Interior Department regulators acted with “determined disregard” …
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Judge holds Interior in contempt over drilling ban  —  A Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday held the Interior Department in contempt for re-imposing a deepwater oil-drilling ban last year after the judge had struck down an earlier version of the moratorium.
Discussion: The Politico and Maggie's Notebook
The Note:
Sarah Palin Turns Down Coveted Keynote Speaking Slot At CPAC Conference  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone:  —  UPDATED: After skipping the popular Conservative Political Action Conference for the past three years, Sarah Palin has once again turned down the invitation of CPAC officials to address the conference this year.
Stephen Lowman / Political Bookworm:
President Carter named in $5 million lawsuit over his “Palestine” book  —  More than four years after its publication, five disgruntled readers have filed a class-action lawsuit against President Jimmy Carter and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, alleging that his 2006 book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” …
Washington Post:
Senate probe faults Army, FBI for missing warning signs before Fort Hood attack  —  A Senate investigation into the Fort Hood shooting faults the Army and FBI for missing warning signs and failing to exchange information that could have prevented the massacre.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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CNN:
Ft. Hood warning signs missed
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Dan Gilgoff / CNN:
TRENDING: Obama delivers major speech on personal faith  —  President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that “it is the biblical injunction to serve the least of these that keeps me going and keeps me from being overwhelmed,” in address to a prayer breakfast in Washington.
 
 
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