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Tea Party Descends on Madison Protests — Wisconsin Tea Party Activists Are Now Weighing In on the Ongoing State Worker Protests and Exploring Measures to Recall the Missing Democratic Senators — Wisconsin tea party activists are now weighing in on the ongoing state worker protests …
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The Gateway Pundit, Sky Dancing, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The “Badger 14” and GayPatriot
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Everyone Should Have Seen This Coming — Consider the following from this profile of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (all emphasis mine): … As the excerpt, and the highlighted material makes clear, Walker has been an open book as a politician. He has never tried to disguise his stance …
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POWIP


Photo gallery: What Big Labor protesters are teaching kids (language warning); Update …
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The Gateway Pundit, BLACKFIVE, Pajamas Media and Pundit & Pundette

Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4
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Washington Monthly, Mediaite, Modeled Behavior, Da Techguy's Blog, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones, GayPatriot, Taylor Marsh and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Was Long Coming
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Crooks and Liars, Prairie Weather, Sky Dancing, New York Magazine, JSOnline and Runnin' Scared

Libya protests: 140 ‘massacred’ as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush dissent — Women and children leapt from bridges to their deaths as they tried to escape a ruthless crackdown by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. — Snipers shot protesters, artillery and helicopter gunships …
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Libya unrest: Scores killed in Benghazi ‘massacre’ — Details have emerged of huge casualty figures in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where troops have launched a brutal crackdown on protesters. — More than 200 people are known to have died, doctors say, with 900 injured.
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Outside the Beltway and Libya February 17th


Libyan Forces Again Fire on Residents at Funerals — By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ANTHONY SHADID and MONA EL-NAGGAR — CAIRO — Libyan security forces opened fire again Sunday on residents of Benghazi as they attended a funeral procession for the dozens of protesters killed there the day before …


Gaddafi: What now for Libya's dictator, and where does Britain stand?
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Firedoglake, Reuters and Libya February 17th


Wisconsin Protesters Breitbarted Over Bogus Teachers' Excuses — Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses for teachers protesting in Madison.
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At the Wisconsin protest, doctors offer to write excuse notes for teachers who called in sick.
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Pundit Press, Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit

Video: Doctors handing out fake medical excuses at WI union protest
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The Jawa Report and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


Facebook remark wasn't racist, Hagan says — A Broadview Heights woman is accusing state Rep. Robert F. Hagan of using a term that some believe has a racist connotation on a social networking site. — Hagan, D-60th, of Youngstown, used the term “buckwheat” in a Facebook posting Saturday.
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Moe Lane


The G.O.P.'s Post-Tucson Traumatic Stress Disorder — SIX weeks after that horrific day in Tucson, America has half-forgotten its violent debate over the power of violent speech to incite violence. It's Gabrielle Giffords's own power of speech that rightly concerns us now.
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Booman Tribune, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars


Extremist cleric to lead White House protest calling for Muslims to ‘rise up and establish Islamic state in America’ — A hardline Muslim cleric who sparked anger across the U.S. with his anti-American comments in a television interview this month is to hold a protest outside the White House.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch


Florida threatens to shred 2012 calendar — A deepening standoff between national Republicans and top party leaders in Florida has the potential to blow up the 2012 presidential primary calendar — and do lasting damage to the GOP in the nation's largest swing state.

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri Tells Egyptians to Establish Islamic State — Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Egyptians to revive Islamic rule and criticized Hosni Mubarak as a “modern-day pharaoh” in remarks that came before the former Egyptian president was toppled.
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The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch

Getting to a Wisconsin Senate Quorum — Wisconsin Senate rules require a 3/5 quorum in the Senate. There are currently 19 Republican senators, and 14 Democrat senators. — The GOP needs one more to get to 20. — The Democrat senators have apparently said they will stay away for weeks if necessary.
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The Other McCain and A Chequer-Board of Nights …

Nevada Seeks to Cut Funds for Treating Gambling Addiction — Gordie Greco was hooked on gambling almost from the first time he shot dice at age 16. And for 35 years, gambling was his life: he worked in the industry and made his own bets on sports and horses.
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FrumForum