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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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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
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, Mediaite, Modeled Behavior, Da Techguy's Blog, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones, GayPatriot, Taylor Marsh and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Monica Davey / New York Times:
For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Was Long Coming
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
Gov. Tim Pawlenty / Big Government:
I Stand with Scott Walker
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 …
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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
New York Times:
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 …
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
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.
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Pundit Press, 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
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The Jawa Report and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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
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.
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Booman Tribune, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
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.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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.
Vivian Salama / Bloomberg:
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
Lexington Green / Chicago Boyz:
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 …
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
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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