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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.
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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.
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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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 some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time. (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)
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Egypt news day 10: Army steps in; journalists arrested and more live updates
Egypt news day 10: Army steps in; journalists arrested and more live updates
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Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:
Journalists attacked by mobs, detained in Cairo
Journalists attacked by mobs, detained in Cairo
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Charles Levinson / Wall Street Journal:
ElBaradei's Role Cast in Doubt
ElBaradei's Role Cast in Doubt
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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” …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu
Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu
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George Soros / Washington Post:
Why Obama has to get Egypt right
Why Obama has to get Egypt right
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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
Video: Koch protests include calls to lynch Clarence Thomas
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
What should we do with the Constitutionalists?
What should we do with the Constitutionalists?
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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
Like Michelle Obama, The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority Touts Area's BBQ
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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid blasts House GOP proposal as ‘draconian’ and ‘unworkable’
Reid blasts House GOP proposal as ‘draconian’ and ‘unworkable’
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The Politics of Saving ‘Granny’
The Politics of Saving ‘Granny’
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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.
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Rachel Weiner / The Fix:
Why Sarah Palin keeps skipping CPAC — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today turned down an invitation to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference even after being offered the plum keynote speaking spot, the fourth year in a row she's turned down an offer to speak at the event.
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.
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Stephen Power / Wall Street Journal:
Administration's Drill Ban Draws Blast From Judge
Administration's Drill Ban Draws Blast From Judge
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RIA Novosti:
Muslim Brotherhood wants end to Egypt-Israeli peace deal … Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement has unveiled its plans to scrap a peace treaty with Israel if it comes to power, a deputy leader said in an interview with NHK TV. — Rashad al-Bayoumi said the peace treaty with Israel …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
As Islamist Group Rises, Its Intentions Are Unclear
As Islamist Group Rises, Its Intentions Are Unclear
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Sophistry And Defining The Muslim Brotherhood, Ctd
Sophistry And Defining The Muslim Brotherhood, Ctd
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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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Report: Republicans Give Up On Redefining Rape
Report: Republicans Give Up On Redefining Rape
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John McCain: ‘Thank God’ Donald Rumsfeld stepped down — Sen. John McCain said he “thank[s] God” that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped down from the post in 2006 and didn't lead the Pentagon's strategy in Iraq during the last two years of George W. Bush's presidency.
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John R. Bolton / Los Angeles Times:
Beirut calling — Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate …
Beirut calling — Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
McCain Calls Middle East Pro-Democracy Movement A ‘Virus’
McCain Calls Middle East Pro-Democracy Movement A ‘Virus’
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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” …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
John Thune Should Run For President — I can't think of any reason whatsoever why John Thune is considered a viable presidential candidate. There are literally dozens of other incumbent senate Republicans who, as best I can tell, are identical to Thune. Therefore, I take the fact that Thune …
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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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