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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests — CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down — On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Horrendous: CBS reporter brutally sexually assaulted during Cairo protests — It's not entirely clear what happened, but it's clear enough. Unspeakable. … Logan wasn't the only reporter in danger while covering the protests. Katie Couric and Brian Williams ended up leaving Egypt early …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney and the Birthers — Birtherism is alive and well within the GOP ranks, and their 2012 nominee preferences tell a story about the difficulty Mitt Romney faces in trying to appeal to an electorate that's a whole lot further out there than he is. — Birthers make a majority among …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Birthers love Sarah Palin far more than any other 2012 GOP hopeful — The new poll from the Dem firm Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of likely GOP primary voters falsely believe Obama wasn't born in the United States. But this breakdown of their attitudes towards Sarah Palin is of particular interest:
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
51% of GOP voters: Obama foreign — In a shocking finding, more than half of GOP primary voters believe President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new poll. — Fifty-one percent of 400 Republican primary voters surveyed nationwide by Public Policy Polling …
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Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers — A bill under consideration in the Mount Rushmore State would make preventing harm to a fetus a “justifiable homicide” in many cases. — Post Comment — A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
South Dakota legislator defends bill to make killing to defend fetuses a “justifiable homicide” — An incendiary story by Mother Jones making the rounds on the Web reports that a law being considered in South Dakota would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to apply to killings intended to prevent harm to unborn children.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner: If Jobs Are Lost As A Result Of GOP Spending Cuts ‘So Be It’ — If House Republicans succeed in cutting tens of billions of dollars in discretionary spending over the next six months, some of the most immediate victims will be federal employees, many of whose jobs will be slashed as their agencies pare back.
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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Boehner: ‘So Be It’ If Federal Workers Are Laid Off
Boehner: ‘So Be It’ If Federal Workers Are Laid Off
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... As of this morning, the official Republican line …
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... As of this morning, the official Republican line …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Boehner: If some federal workers lose jobs because of GOP cuts, ‘so be it’
Boehner: If some federal workers lose jobs because of GOP cuts, ‘so be it’
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Guardian:
‘I lied about WMD to topple Saddam’ — • Man codenamed Curveball ‘invented’ tales of bioweapons — • Iraqi told lies to try to bring down Saddam Hussein regime — • Fabrications used by US as justification for invasion — Read the full story of how the US was duped
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Chances up for federal shutdown — The chances of a government shutdown are on the rise. — With less than three weeks to strike a deal before government funding for the year is scheduled to expire, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are moving in opposite directions.
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The Hill:
Obama threatens to veto House GOP spending measure — The Obama administration on Tuesday threatened to veto the House GOP's measure funding the federal government. — In a statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget said cuts included in the Republican continuing resolution …
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Ezra Klein:
How penicillin fooled us — Perhaps it's the mark of a good book that after you read it, you begin seeing evidence for its thesis in lots of different areas. Since reading Tyler Cowen's “The Great Stagnation,” I've been seeing a lot of support for a claim that I'd initially resisted …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Experience Economy — Tyler Cowen's e-book, “The Great Stagnation …
The Experience Economy — Tyler Cowen's e-book, “The Great Stagnation …
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Paul Krugman, Daily Kos and EconLog
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Trump's Flip-Flop on Abortion — Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking at the 2011 CPAC conference. — Donald Trump is describing himself as pro-life as he courts Republican support for a potential presidential bid - a complete reversal of his position on abortion during a previous flirtation with a White House run.
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Trump reveals stance on social issues
Trump reveals stance on social issues
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Rachel Maddow / msnbc.com:
Closed captioning of: Prosecutors gear up to charge Edwards in criminal case — >> for two years a federal grand jury has been in fact investigating john edwards and whether he break campaign finance laws to try to cover up an affair with rielle hunter. now the investigation reached a decisive point.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Should Republicans Fret Over Their Presidential Field? — Republican insiders, reports the Washington Post's plugged-in Jennifer Rubin, are worried about the quality of their slate of presidential candidates for 2012. Indeed, it has become the conventional wisdom to assert that the Republican field is a fairly weak one.
John / Power Line:
More Racism on the Left — On Friday, AlterNet—you know, the organization that “confront[s] the failures of corporate media, as well as the vitriol and disinformation of right wing media, especially ‘hate talk’ media”—published a vile attack on conservative businessman Herman Cain, who was the last speaker at CPAC:
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Media Machine: State Run Media 2.0? — White House Hones Online Messaging Operation Ahead of 2012 Campaign — As the 2012 presidential campaign kicks into gear, President Obama's White House media operation is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to broadcast its message through social media …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Ever-More-Desperate Health Care Budget Gimmicks — I attracted a lot of angry comments last October when I wrote that I didn't trust the Democrats to be much more fiscally responsible than the Republicans. What made people especially angry was that I argued that ObamaCare …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Village onthe rocks: CW shift? — Village on the rocks — Oh my God. I think hell froze over int he Village. Talking to Elijah Cummings about all this slashing of discretionary spending in the President's budget, Andrea Mitchell wondered why he would want to hit the poor but not even touch entitleme —
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
KS GOP Rep. Connie O'Brien Says She Can Tell Who Is ‘Illegal’ Because They Have ‘The Olive Complexion’ — One week ago, the Kansas House Federal and State Committee held a hearing about in-state tuition being granted to the children of undocumented immigrants, which has been the policy in the state since 2004.
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Myra MacDonald / Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Afghanistan: Petraeus, personalities and policy — Buried in the Washington Post story on Marc Grossman taking over as the new U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan are some interesting references to the possible departure of U.S. commander General David Petraeus.
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Paul Begala / The Daily Beast:
It's Time to Defund Kentucky — While its small-government crusaders decry Obama's budget and government spending, the Bluegrass State is thriving on D.C. welfare. Paul Begala says it's the perfect place for a truly democratic experiment. — The great Mark Shields has said that most Americans …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Common Cause Asks Court About Thomas Speech — WASHINGTON — Discrepancies in reports about an appearance by Justice Clarence Thomas at a political retreat for wealthy conservatives three years ago have prompted new questions to the Supreme Court from a group that advocates changing campaign finance laws.
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Trudy Muller / Apple:
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …
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Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann swipes at Michelle Obama — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann ripped Michelle Obama on Tuesday, speculating that the first lady might one day run for office, and accusing her of trying to implement a “nanny state” based on her newest push to get mothers to breastfeed their children …
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The Politico:
Liberals launch anti-Darrell Issa crusade — Democrats are understandably obsessed with Darrell Issa — he's built himself up as a one-man investigative machine aimed straight at the Obama presidency. — But a handful of liberal political operatives in California — including …
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Sasha Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Asteroid defense and libertarianism — I agree with Jonathan below that the Constitution (through the spending power) allows Congress to spend tax money to protect the Earth from an asteroid. — On the other hand — and at the risk of confirming Mark Kleiman in his belief that libertarians are loopy …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The GOP loves freedom, but not for Egypt — Why don't conservatives love freedom? — Judging by last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, that's a fair question. As Egyptians overthrew the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak, politicians who spoke at the annual CPAC gabfest …
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Laura Brown / Harper's BAZAAR:
HILLARY CLINTON: MYTH AND REALITY — It's been a long journey for Hillary Clinton. But after years of political and personal challenges, the secretary of state is exactly where she belongs. Read the interview below and then check out behind-the-scenes images from Clinton's Bazaar photo shoot.
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