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Mubarak Reportedly Leaves NDP Role; Mubarak's Son, Party Chief Also Exit; U.S. Signals Support for VP to Head Transition — CAIRO - The leadership of Egypt's ruling party has resigned is what is seen as a major concession to try to appease protesters who have demonstrated against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
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New York Times:
West Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition — MUNICH — The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country's vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman, to broker a compromise with opposition groups without …
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Outside the Beltway, Prairie Weather and Washington Post
Aljazeera:
Egypt protesters hold their ground — With protests demanding end to Mubarak's rule entering the 12th day, people in Tahrir Square prepared to wait him out. — Demonstrators are still standing their ground in Cairo hours after hundreds of thousands of people gathered to call for Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to quit.
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msnbc.com, Firedoglake and World Blog
CBS News:
Despite Army's Pleas, Cairo Protesters Dig In
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english.ahram.org.eg and Weasel Zippers
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Sarah Palin's Full Speech At Event Marking Ronald Reagan's 100th Birthday — Tonight, Young America's Foundation held a banquet honoring the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin delivered the keynote. Palin lovers will love it. Palin haters will hate it.
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Politics Daily, Conservatives4Palin, No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, The Caucus, sisu, Hot Air and Israpundit
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
10 Things Conservatives Don't Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan — Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan's birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others' remembrances of the great conservative icon. Senate Republicans spent …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, StarkReports.com, NPR, Sky Dancing and Crooks and Liars
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Palin Keeps Position Clear and Intentions Vague
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Ben Smith's Blog and Conservatives4Palin
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Siege of Planned Parenthood — As if we didn't have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood. — Maybe it's all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to repeal the health care law. This month, they're going after an organization …
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National Review, Daily Kos, Pajamas Media and Media Matters for America
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Adele M. Stan / AlterNet.org:
The Right-Wing Dough Supporting the ‘Stings’ at Planned Parenthood
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Pajamas Media, National Review, The Mahablog, Big Journalism, Media Matters for America and Da Techguy's Blog
BBC:
State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron — David Cameron said Britain had encouraged different cultures to live separate lives — David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Bush cancels Switzerland visit under threat of protests, efforts to arrest him — President George W. Bush has canceled an event in the famously neutral country Switzerland because of expected protests to his presence there. — Bush was supposed to give the keynote address at a Jewish group's charity gala on Feb. 12 in Geneva.
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Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion — The controversy over “forcible rape” may be over, but now there's a new Republican-sponsored abortion bill in the House that pro-choice folks say may be worse: this time around, the new language would allow hospitals …
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Jodi Jacobson / RHRealityCheck.org:
(UPDATED) Protecting Life? New Bill Says Its OK to Let Women Die
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Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Obama: Businesses have responsibility to help economy grow — President Obama called on U.S. businesses to do more to help grow the economy, saying that while the unemployment rate is getting better and jobs are being added, the U.S. needs “to get there faster.”
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The Powers That Be, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Sister Toldjah, The Politico and JammieWearingFool
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Kristol rebukes ‘hysterical’ Beck, conservatives on Egypt — Sharpening the divide on the right over whether Egypt's uprising should be viewed with fear or optimism, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol writes in the magazine's new edition that conservativism must support democracy in the largest Arab country:
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Weekly Standard and Swampland
New York Times:
Crisis in Egypt Tests U.S. Ties With Israel — WASHINGTON — The demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's government in Egypt are rocking the relationship between the United States and its most important Arab ally. But they are also rocking an even more fundamental relationship …
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Mondoweiss and The Caucus
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Rex Murphy / National Post:
Human rights meets their match: The microwave oven — Thank God for the Ontario Superior Court. Or, if you're a Dawkins man, thank Providence, or Fate, or whatever benign anonymous forces silently preserve the common sense of things. For the Ontario Superior Court, in overruling …
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Right Wing News
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Obama Said to Fault Spy Agencies' Mideast Forecasting — WASHINGTON — President Obama has criticized American spy agencies over their performance in predicting and analyzing the spreading unrest in the Middle East, according to current and former American officials.
Discussion:
Power Line and The Reality-Based Community
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Everybody Does It? Really? — Common Cause's “condemnation” is even more damning than its supporters' monstrous behavior. — (Best of the Tube this weekend: We're discussing the latest setbacks to ObamaCare on “The Journal Editorial Report,” Fox News Channel, Saturday at 2 and 11 p.m. ET.)
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protein wisdom and Don Surber
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