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New York Times:
White House and Egypt Discuss Plan for Mubarak's Exit — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately and turn over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
We Are All Egyptians — Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh time in 24 hours …
BBC:
‘Day of departure’ rally in Egypt — The BBC's Jim Muir in Tahrir Square: “The sense of imminent attack has eased and people are relaxing” — Tens of thousands of Egyptians are taking part in a “day of departure” to try to oust President Hosni Mubarak. — There is an increased army presence …
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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Kerry's sharp eye on the secretary spot — AS EGYPT battles over its future, Senator John Kerry is negotiating his own. — The Bay State's senior senator is running an unofficial campaign to become the next secretary of state. For once, he looks artful, as well as ambitious.
Al Jazeera Blogs:
Live blog Feb 4 - Egypt protests
Live blog Feb 4 - Egypt protests
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Aljazeera:
Egypt's ‘final push’ protests begin
Egypt's ‘final push’ protests begin
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The Monkey Cage, The Gateway Pundit, AMERICAblog News and Sky Dancing
CNN:
Tens of thousands pack Cairo square
Tens of thousands pack Cairo square
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Parker Spitzer, CBS New York, This Just In and Gothamist
Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
Unemployment falls to 9.0 pct., only 36K new jobs — Economy adds 36K jobs in January, unemployment rate falls to 9 pct., lowest since April 2009 — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — BAC — 14.43 — WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate dropped sharply …
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Weather a Factor in Slow U.S. Job Growth
Weather a Factor in Slow U.S. Job Growth
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Ratings More Polarized in Year 2 Than Year 1 — Ranks as fourth-most-polarized year for a president since 1953 — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in office than during his first …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Poll reveals striking divide on Obama
Poll reveals striking divide on Obama
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Rand Paul sole GOP holdout on laser pointer bill — In his first few weeks in office, newly elected Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) could quickly be stealing his colleagues' reputation as “Dr. No.” — Paul, an ophthalmologist, was the sole vote Thursday against an amendment supported by 96 …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Rand Paul: GOP Not ‘Brave Enough’ to Hit Deficit
Rand Paul: GOP Not ‘Brave Enough’ to Hit Deficit
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The Politico, Washington Wire, Raw Story, The Hill and The Plum Line
Steve Gutow / The Politico:
Abandoning allies and consciences
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Gabrielle Giffords's husband Mark Kelly will command final shuttle flight — Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will fly the space shuttle Endeavour's final mission in April, according to a source familiar with the decision. — Kelly and NASA are expected to make an announcement at a press conference Friday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Hamas, the Brotherhood and Egypt — What the U.S. mistakes of 2006 can teach Arab democrats. — Hovering like a dark cloud over the demonstrations in Egypt is the memory of the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. For critics of the Bush Administration, those elections …
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Commentary, NewsReal Blog and Israel Matzav
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Muslim Brotherhood seeks end to Israel treaty
Muslim Brotherhood seeks end to Israel treaty
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The Atlantic Online and FrumForum
Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Pressure on Mubarak Opens a Rift With Arab Allies
U.S. Pressure on Mubarak Opens a Rift With Arab Allies
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Power Line, Israel Matzav, PostPartisan and Washington Post
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Scores Legal Victory On Health Care … WASHINGTON — The Obama administration won a victory Thursday in the winding legal debate surrounding the president's signature health care law, as a federal judge in Mississippi threw out a suit challenging the constitutionality of the bill.
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The Politico:
Finger-pointing begins on Egypt — The debate over who “lost” Egypt seems to have begun. — Critics are openly questioning the quality of information and analysis given to President Barack Obama by U.S. intelligence agencies in the days leading up to the dramatic uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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The Gateway Pundit and Right Wing News
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Senators question intelligence agencies' anticipation of Egypt uprising
Senators question intelligence agencies' anticipation of Egypt uprising
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Bruce Siceloff / Raleigh News & Observer:
Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals — RALEIGH — David N. Cox says he was merely exercising his right to petition the government, but a state Department of Transportation official has raised allegations that Cox committed a misdemeanor: practicing engineering without a license.
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Yglesias, Right Wing News and Instapundit
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Open Left is closing — I have some sad news. After nearly four years in operation, today will be the final day Open Left publishes new content. — The site will not disappear, and all published content will remain online, but after today we will cease producing new content.
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Ben Smith's Blog
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
New Jersey Gov. Christie Vetoes Planned Parenthood Funding Bill — Following the release of a video that has received nationwide attention showing Planned Parenthood staff at a New Jersey abortion center helping alleged sexual traffickers cover up their crimes with abortions and STD testing …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Christie won't rule out running — in 2016
Christie won't rule out running — in 2016
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The Daily Caller and The Note
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare's Repeal Has Begun — This week's Senate vote to scrap an IRS reporting requirement is the start of a piece by piece approach. — Mark this date: On Feb. 2, 2011, a Democratic Senate killed the first piece of the health-care law it passed less than a year ago.
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The New Republic and Betsy's Page
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Report: Political Correctness Prevented FBI, DoD from Stopping Maj. Hasan — Today the Senate Homeland Security Committee released an independent report on the Ft. Hood shootings. The 91 page report is titled A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the US Government's Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack.
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Five Feet of Fury, Betsy's Page and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
J. Andrew Curliss / Raleigh News & Observer:
Perdue hires defense lawyers — Gov. Bev Perdue has hired two of the state's most prominent criminal defense lawyers as scrutiny of her 2008 campaign activity continues. — Raleigh lawyers Joseph B. Cheshire V and Wade Smith are both assisting Perdue, whose office declined to comment.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Hotline On Call
Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
Dan Snyder, Owner of a Team Named After an Ethnic Slur, Sues Over Perceived Anti-Semitism — This is rich. The owner of the Washington Redskins, Dan Snyder, has sued the Washington City Paper for a column he claims defamed him and used anti-Semitic imagery.
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Crooks and Liars, Suburban Guerrilla, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, Mediaite and Associated Press
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Bad Faith of Mandate Critics, Part 2 — Read part 1 of this argument here. — The conservative legal brief against the Affordable Care Act rests heavily on a simple proposition. Government can't make us obtain private insurance because, as the argument goes, that would be forcing us to buy a private product.
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Washington Monthly, The Enterprise Blog, A plain blog about politics and AmSpecBlog
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Report rips U.S. envoy who resigned — An Obama bundler picked for a choice ambassadorship brought the U.S. embassy she led to “a state of dysfunction” in a year on the job, a State Department probe has found. — Cynthia Stroum, who last month left her post as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg …
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