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What's at Stake in Wisconsin's Budget Battle — Who's in charge of our political system—voters or unions? — This week President Obama was roundly criticized, even by many of his allies, for submitting a federal budget that actually increases our already crushing deficit.
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FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's Governor — Somewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder at Wisconsin's governor. They are on the same page regarding government unions. — Except that Scott Walker — Republican cheapskate, his visage Hitlerized …
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Weasel Zippers, Maggie's Notebook and Althouse
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For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Over State Finances Was Long in the Making — MADISON, Wis. — Just last fall, people here were waving campaign signs. But the blocks around the State Capitol have been filled for the past week with protesters brandishing signs with a different message …
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Runnin' Scared
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Badger State Battle: Unions vs. Tea Party in Wisconsin; Runaway Dems could be AWOL “for weeks;” recall campaigns launched; nine anti-Walker protesters arrested; fake doctors' notes for fake sick teachers (VIDEO) — It's Battle of the Protest Bands in Madison today, with thousands …
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MacIver Institute, New York Times, The Other McCain, GayPatriot, ABCNEWS, The Page, Doug Ross, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and AmSpecBlog
David S Morgan / CBS News:
Lawmaker: Gov's plan has torn Wisconsin apart
Lawmaker: Gov's plan has torn Wisconsin apart
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The Daily Caller
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Wisconsin Leads Way as Workers Fight State Cuts
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L'Hôte, Leiter Reports, Daily Kos, New York Times, The Daily Dish and msnbc.com
Rachel Maddow / PolitiFact:
Rachel Maddow says Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year
Rachel Maddow says Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year
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Z on TV, Outside the Beltway, PostPartisan, NewsBusters.org blogs, Firedoglake, RedState, TPMDC, ThinkProgress, The Week Magazine and JSOnline
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Watershed Moment for Public-Sector Unions
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Assembly's abrupt adjournment caps chaotic day in Capitol
Assembly's abrupt adjournment caps chaotic day in Capitol
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American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Pajamas Media, Hot Air and WTMJ
Rick Ungar / The Policy Page:
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions
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Big Journalism, Blogging Blue, The Impolitic, Balloon Juice, TBogg, Hit & Run, L'Hôte, Mother Jones and ThinkProgress
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House Votes to Cut $60 Billion, Setting Up Clash — WASHINGTON — The House voted early Saturday to slash more than $60 billion from the federal budget over the next seven months, showing how powerfully the grass-roots, antispending fervor of the November elections is driving …
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Firedoglake, The Politico, The Democratic Daily, Washington Monthly, Wake up America and Truthdig
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House approves dramatic cuts in federal spending in 235-189 vote
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Politics Daily, Right Wing News, New York Times, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, FrumForum and Federal Eye
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Delirious Joy in Bahrain — BAHRAIN — There's delirious joy in the center of Bahrain right now. People power has prevailed, at least temporarily, over a regime that repeatedly used deadly force to try to crush a democracy movement. Pro-democracy protesters have retaken the Pearl Roundabout …
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The Daily Dish, The Reaction, msnbc.com, Newshoggers.com, Hit & Run, Firedoglake and Opinion L.A.
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Rep. David Wu's staff confronted him over concerns about his mental health — WASHINGTON — Three days before the Nov. 2 election, U.S. Rep. David Wu's most loyal and senior staffers were so alarmed by his erratic behavior that they demanded he enter a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
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Outside the Beltway, Fox Nation, Associated Press and JammieWearingFool
John Merline / AOL News:
Opinion: What Does Government Do? … Pop quiz. What's the biggest single job the federal government undertakes? — National defense? Nope. — Homeland security? Wrong. — Transportation? Not even close. — Law enforcement? No way. — Education? Getting colder. — Foreign aid?
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Hot Air, Verum Serum, Outside the Beltway and CARPE DIEM
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Bloggers For Peace Flotilla Arrived In Madison...SITUATION TENSE...UPDATE: Thousands of Walker's Supporters Are Here! — This is an update from Jim. He's on the ground and in the thick of things. He will be phoning in updates throughout the day. — (Pygalgia)
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Washington Times, Weasel Zippers, JSOnline, Da Techguy's Blog, Instapundit and Atlas Shrugs
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Union Brothers and Sisters: Seize Opportunity to Show True Solidarity — The union-led school closures and demonstrations in Madison have left most ordinary Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. Months ago, I penned a message to my fellow union brothers and sisters when I found myself …
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Washington Times, Hot Air, Cubachi, Bloomberg, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
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House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of IPCC — Just before 2 a.m. on February 19, the war on climate science showed its grip on the U.S. House of Representatives as it voted to eliminate U.S. funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Republican majority …
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Watts Up With That?, The Reality-Based Community, Right Wing News and Pirate's Cove
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The ‘Union Hires Non-Union Picketers’ Story of the Day — Unions hiring non-union labor to walk picket lines certainly isn't a rarity, but this story from Michigan has some bonus irony: The business a local carpenter's union hired homeless people to picket is a company that is a partner …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
MICH. UNION HIRING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO PICKET
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Libya protests: 84 killed in growing unrest, says HRW — Former UK envoy to Libya: “The most exciting question is what happens in Tripoli” (Footage from Libyan TV and amateur sources) — The number of people killed in three days of protests in Libya has risen to 84, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch.
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The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway, Suburban Guerrilla and Libya February 17th
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Under Assault — I'm just starting to get a real bunker mentality- Planned Parenthood is apparently the new Acorn. We'll do a fundraiser for them sometime soon. — As to Sullivan's “Of course cuts hurt people” bulls**t, a couple thoughts: — 1.) Who is this ED Kain and what did he do with the old one?
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The Daily Dish, Corrente and Newshoggers.com
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U.S.-TALIBAN TALKS — On August 22, 1998, Mullah Omar, the emir of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, made a cold call to the State Department. The United States had just lobbed cruise missiles at Al Qaeda camps in his nation. Omar got a mid-level diplomat on the line and spoke calmly.
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National Review, Daniel W. Drezner and Prairie Weather