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BBC:
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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The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway and Libya February 17th
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Nick Meo / Telegraph:
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 …
New York Times:
Libyan Forces Again Fire on Residents at Funerals
Libyan Forces Again Fire on Residents at Funerals
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Don Surber and EA WorldView
The Independent:
Gaddafi: What now for Libya's dictator, and where does Britain stand?
Gaddafi: What now for Libya's dictator, and where does Britain stand?
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Firedoglake, Reuters and Libya February 17th
Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere
Pejman Yousefzadeh / A Chequer-Board of Nights …:
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 and The Other McCain
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Michelle Malkin:
Photo gallery: What Big Labor protesters are teaching kids (language warning); Update …
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
Charles Lane / PostPartisan:
Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4
Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4
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Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, Modeled Behavior, Da Techguy's Blog, Mother Jones, GayPatriot, Taylor Marsh and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Gov. Tim Pawlenty / Big Government:
I Stand with Scott Walker
Monica Davey / New York Times:
For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Was Long Coming
For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Was Long Coming
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Politics Daily, Crooks and Liars, Prairie Weather, Sky Dancing, New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared and JSOnline
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
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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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
At the Wisconsin protest, doctors offer to write excuse notes for teachers who called in sick.
At the Wisconsin protest, doctors offer to write excuse notes for teachers who called in sick.
Discussion:
protein wisdom, Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Doctors handing out fake medical excuses at WI union protest
Video: Doctors handing out fake medical excuses at WI union protest
Discussion:
The Jawa Report, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
DNC chairman: Wisconsin governor waging war on public workers — RICHMOND, Va. — Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine laid into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) Saturday night, telling a crowd of Democratic activists that what's happening in that state amounts to a declaration of war on public workers.
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Confederate Yankee and Weasel Zippers
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ABCNEWS:
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 …
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, Sky Dancing, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The “Badger 14”, Moe Lane, GayPatriot and The Other McCain
Denise Dick / Vindicator:
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
Daily Mail:
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.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Angella Johnson / Daily Mail:
I was a mob sex attack victim in Tahrir Square... just like Lara Logan — I was especially horrified to read of CBS journalist Lara Logan's sex ordeal as she reported on Egyptians celebrating the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak - because I too was a victim.
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Patterico's Pontifications
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Stars and Sewers — Rarely have we seen such epic clashes between …
Stars and Sewers — Rarely have we seen such epic clashes between …
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Prairie Weather
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Rumsfeld blasts Obama's world image — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disputes the notion that President Barack Obama has made America more popular around the globe than it was under his former boss, President George W. Bush. — Asked on CNN's “State of the Union” …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly
Frank Rich / New York Times:
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.
Discussion:
Prairie Weather, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
New York Times:
Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security — WASHINGTON — For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer, for eye-popping technology that he said could catch terrorists. Now, federal officials want nothing …
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Marginal Revolution and Balloon Juice