memeorandum: Local group cancels Palin visit, citing “personal attacks” (Jeremy P. Meyer/Denver Post)

11:15 AM ET, February 6, 2011

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Exclusive: Sarah Palin Interview With The Brody File — In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Sarah Palin criticized President Obama for his handling of the situation in Egypt saying that this was his, “3am White House phone call” and, “that call went right to the answering machine.”

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Jeremy P. Meyer / Denver Post:

Local group cancels Palin visit, citing “personal attacks” — Saying it received an “onslaught of personal attacks,” a Colorado nonprofit announced in a news release today that it was canceling a scheduled May appearance in Glendale by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Palin: Obama's 3 a.m. call went to answering machine — Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin, in her first comments on the uprising in Egypt, called the situation President Barack Obama's 3 a.m. phone call and said, “It seems the call went right to the answering machine.”

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:

Palin Criticizes Obama on Egypt — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — As Sarah Palin delivered a weekend address here, paying tribute to Ronald Reagan on the centennial of his birth, she directed a forceful line of criticism at President Obama and his administration, though she did not mention the crisis in Egypt.

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Aljazeera:

Egypt remains at an impasse — Crowds occupy Cairo demanding president's resignation, while Muslim Brotherhood says it will join talks with government. — After nearly two weeks of anti-government demonstrations in Egypt, the standoff continues between tens of thousands of protesters …

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BBC:

Egypt unrest: US disowns envoy comment on Hosni Mubarak — Frank Wisner: ‘This is an ideal moment for Mubarak to show the way forward’ — The US state department has distanced itself from comments by a US special envoy, to the effect that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should stay in office during a power transition.

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Political Punch:
Obama Administration Distances Self From Own Envoy to Mubarak

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Washington Post:
In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood reverses course, agrees to talks on transition

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Terrence Aym / Salem-News.com:

Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms — Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other.

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Frank Rich / New York Times:

Wallflowers at the Revolution — A month ago most Americans could not have picked Hosni Mubarak out of a police lineup. American foreign policy, even in Afghanistan, was all but invisible throughout the 2010 election season. Foreign aid is the only federal budget line that a clear-cut majority of Americans says should be cut.

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Peter Finn / Washington Post:

Bush trip to Switzerland called off amid threats of protests, legal action — A planned trip to Switzerland next week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president sanctioned the torture of terrorism suspects.

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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
Bush's Swiss visit off after complaints on torture

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Rasmussen Reports:

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll — The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama …

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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Is Dead — Tura Satana, the actress whose authoritative presence, exotic looks and buxom frame commanded the attention of viewers of Russ Meyer's 1965 cult movie “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”, died on Friday evening in Reno, Nev.

Discussion: Big Hollywood and Hit & Run

New York Times:

Clean Air Under Siege — Shortly after he entered the Senate in 2007, John Barrasso told his Wyoming constituents that the country's biggest need was an energy policy to deal with carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. — That was then. In lockstep with other Senate Republicans …

John F. Burns / New York Times:

Cameron Criticizes ‘Multiculturalism’ in Britain — LONDON — Faced with growing alarm about Islamic militants who have made Britain one of Europe's most active bases for terrorist plots, Prime Minister David Cameron has mounted an attack on the country's decades-old policy of “multiculturalism …

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