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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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The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway and Libya February 17th
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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 …


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 …
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Don Surber and EA WorldView


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

Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere
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New York Magazine and CNN

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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Crooks and Liars, POWIP, Prairie Weather, The Other McCain, Sky Dancing and New York Times
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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, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, Modeled Behavior, Da Techguy's Blog, Mother Jones, GayPatriot, Taylor Marsh and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG


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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protein wisdom, Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit

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

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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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” …
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Washington Monthly


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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Stars and Sewers — Rarely have we seen such epic clashes between …
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Prairie Weather


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


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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The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch


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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Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and Crooks and Liars

Lugar opposes House budget bill — A senior Senate Republican on Sunday rejected the spending bill approved by House Republicans on Saturday. — Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said the size of the $61 billion in cuts proposed by the House is “reasonable,” but he wouldn't support the bill as it stands.
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Outside the Beltway


Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short — The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't a pretty sight. — The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases. — The median household headed …
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Vox Popoli and FrumForum

Schumer: GOP puts Congress on course for inevitable shutdown — A top Senate Democrat warned Sunday that Congress is on course for an inevitable government shutdown. — Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats won't accept the steep spending cuts proposed by House Republicans through September.
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CNN