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In major reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council — The U.S. has informed Arab governments that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Right Turn, The Raw Story, Hot Air, Booman Tribune, The Foundry, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Don Surber, Sky Dancing, Israel Matzav, theblogprof, Israpundit, The Other McCain, Jihad Watch, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Gateway Pundit, GOP 12, Weasel Zippers, protein wisdom, Elder of Ziyon, Taylor Marsh, Atlas Shrugs and AmSpecBlog
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U.S. offered to back U.N. Israel rebuke [UPDATED]
U.S. offered to back U.N. Israel rebuke [UPDATED]
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The Right Scoop
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The Christie speech: We must fix America — Chris Christie took Washington by storm on Wednesday with his first national address - a blunt call for the country's leaders to follow in his fiscal footsteps by making real cuts in unsustainable levels of spending if they want to pull America back from the “edge of disaster.”
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UrbanGrounds and Taegan Goddard's …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Experts: His 2012 moment is now — With just one impressive speech, Chris Christie put three full days of CPAC speakers to shame. — That's the bottom line from a bipartisan panel of experts, who watched the New Jersey governor's address on Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute for POLITICO …
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The Daily Beast, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org and Althouse
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Gov. Christie chides Republicans over entitlement reform
Gov. Christie chides Republicans over entitlement reform
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Reuters
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Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It's Not — YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — In the end, the humans on “Jeopardy!” surrendered meekly. — Facing certain defeat at the hands of a room-size I.B.M. computer on Wednesday evening, Ken Jennings, famous for winning 74 games in a row on the TV quiz show, acknowledged the obvious.
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The Moderate Voice, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wired Campus, National Review and Gawker
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Bahrain's Military Takes Control of Key Areas in Capital — MANAMA, Bahrain — The Bahrain military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, took control of most of this capital on Thursday hours after hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers fired shotguns …
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Political Punch, CNN, The Awl, newsfeed.time.com, Al Jazeera Blogs and Hit & Run
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ABCNEWS:
Click HERE or on video in upper left to listen to Marquez's report. — “There was a canister that looked like — No! No! No! Hey! I'm a journalist here!” he yelled. — “I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! I'm going!,” he said. “I'm hit. ” I just got beat rather badly by a gang of thugs," Marquez said later. "
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Guardian, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, TVNewser, New York Magazine, FrumForum, Gawker and Runnin' Scared, more at Mediagazer »
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
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Weasel Zippers, Elder of Ziyon and The Raw Story
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Nameless Republican Ties Obama in 2012 Election Preferences — Young voters less supportive of his re-election than of his election in 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. registered voters are evenly split about whether they would back President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012 (45%) or “the Republican Party's candidate” (45%).
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Gallup finds Obama deadlocked against generic Republican
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Wisconsin teachers give labor bill an ‘F’ — Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WISC. — (CNN) — At least 15 school systems in Wisconsin canceled Thursday's classes because teachers and other public employees will continue protests at the state Capitol over a bill that would strip …
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WISC-TV, The League of Ordinary … and Michelle Malkin
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Deficit Plan Details Emerge — Bipartisan Senate Group Mulls Spending Caps That Could Trigger Tax Increases — A bipartisan group of senators is considering legislation that would trigger new taxes and budget cuts if Congress fails to meet a set of mandatory spending targets and other fiscal goals aimed at reducing federal deficits.
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The New Republic, ThinkProgress, AmSpecBlog, Grasping Reality …, The Politico, xpostfactoid, Ezra Klein, New York Magazine and SENATUS
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As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret — WASHINGTON — As the players here remake the nation's vast regulatory system, they have been grappling with a subject that is more the province of poets and philosophers than bureaucrats: what is the value of a human life?
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Yglesias, Federal Eye, New York Magazine, Felix Salmon, AOL News, EconoSpeak, Prairie Weather and Marginal Revolution
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bachmann on Obama's birthplace: 'That isn't for me to state' — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Thursday it's not for her to say whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States — or a Christian. — “That isn't for me to state; that's for the president to state,” Bachmann …
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CNN, Outside the Beltway and Shakesville
Guardian:
Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball — Former US secretary of state asks why CIA failed to warn him over Iraqi defector who has admitted fabricating WMD evidence — Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain …
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The Politico, CBS News, Firedoglake and The Agonist
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The One-Man Political Machine — On a brutally cold morning in mid-December, Rahm Emanuel, hatless and wearing a glove on only his left hand, stood for an hour in front of the turnstiles at the Paulina el station, which sits in his old Congressional district on Chicago's North Side.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Lynn Sweet
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Thune: GOP can't ‘minimize’ social issues in picking president — Republican primary voters can't “minimize” the importance of social issues in deciding their candidate for president, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said Thursday. — Thune is considering running for president and has said he'll make a decision by the end of this month.
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GOP 12, The Brody File and CNN
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David Brody / The Brody File:
John Thune to Brody File on Social Issues: “I don't think we can minimize those in the debate”
John Thune to Brody File on Social Issues: “I don't think we can minimize those in the debate”
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CNN, Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, Argus Leader and National Review
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Urban Planning in South Sudan — Southern Sudan, the world's newest country, seems to me to be off to a bad start with its urban planning concepts: — And: — I don't think you necessarily want too much “planning” of a growing city at all. I'd like to see land used roughly as densely as market conditions warrant.
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Sudan Votes
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Mrs. Bush, Abstinence and Texas — Today, let's discuss choices, starting with Barbara Bush raising an alarm and Gov. Rick Perry's personal experience with sexual abstinence. — I did throw in the last one to keep you interested. Sue me. — This month, The Houston Chronicle published …
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Pam's House Blend and Daily Kos
Russell Berman / The Hill:
House adds $500 million in cuts — The House on Wednesday made its first substantive changes to a $1 trillion Republican spending bill, adopting amendments that underscore the new Tea Party bent in Washington. — Yet the most costly questions will come before lawmakers on Thursday …
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New York Times, USA Today, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution — BOSTON — Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp.
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American Prospect, National Review and SWJ Blog
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Obama budget plan shows interest owed on national debt quadrupling in next decade — Interest payments on the national debt will quadruple in the next decade and every man, woman and child in the United States will be paying more than $2,500 a year to cover for the nation's past profligacy …
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Prairie Weather, Instapundit and The Politico
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‘Prepare to Invade Israel,’ Hezbollah Leader Tells Followers — Beirut (AP) - Hezbollah's leader told his Shiite guerrilla group Wednesday to be prepared to invade northern Israel, a day after Israel's defense minister warned that the quiet along the tense border could erupt into violence.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
The Thugs Come Out in Wisconsin — Many of the letters from Wisconsin today have to do with violence: threats against Governor Walker and members of his administration, the increases in their security details, their worries about their spouses and children, and so on.
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Moe Lane and GayPatriot
epa.gov:
2011 Draft U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report — DRAFT INVENTORY OF U.S. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND SINKS: 1990-2009 — Per a pending announcement in the Federal Register (FR), the draft 1990-2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory is now available for public comment.
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The Atlantic Online and New York Times
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Borrowing to Pay Interest on a Debt Isn't Creating Debt?: Today's Q's for O's WH - 2/16/2011 — Note: Today was the first press briefing by new White House press secretary Jay Carney. — TAPPER: Jay, welcome. — JAY CARNEY: Thank you. — TAPPER: If I borrow money from you — to pay — to pay off the interest for -
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Hot Air, The Other McCain and JammieWearingFool
Investor's Business Daily:
The Tyrants Lunge — Foreign Policy: Amid President Obama's vow to enact “smart diplomacy” and to raise U.S. stature overseas, it's never been more dangerous to be an American abroad. From Tehran to Havana, tyrants are taking U.S. hostages. — One after another, our nation's enemies …
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Power Line
Zogby:
Percentage Who Say Obama Response Was Correct Exceeds Totals Of Those Who Wanted More Support for Mubarak or Protestors — UTICA, NY - U.S. likely voters are more likely to say the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was positive rather than negative for the U.S. …
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RealClearWorld, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Let's Be Clear — I've said this before, and I will say it again. Unless your proposal includes a substantial increase in taxes and a substantial amount of cuts to the military budget as well as ending the farm subsidies and giveaways to big oil and big energy and big business …
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Left Coast Rebel, Right Wing News, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway and Newshoggers.com