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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 …
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The Moderate Voice and Little Green Footballs
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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 Reaction, The Jawa Report, 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 …
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EA WorldView and Don Surber


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

Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere
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Connecting.the.Dots, 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 TrogloPundit, The Other McCain, GayPatriot, Sky Dancing and Runnin' Scared
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DNC chairman: Wisconsin governor waging war on public workers
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American Power, Hot Air, Confederate Yankee, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin

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
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Ryan: Any short-term funding bill will have to include spending cuts — The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said Sunday that any spending bills passed next month - even short-term measures - will include spending cuts. — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Congress will likely avoid …
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The Politico

Schumer: GOP puts Congress on course for inevitable shutdown
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CNN


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


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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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

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


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

Administration treads carefully on Libya, Bahrain pro-democracy protest violence — The Obama administration remained careful Sunday on its responses to government crackdowns on pro-democracy demonstrations in Libya and Bahrain. — Some observers have placed the death toll as high as 200 in Libya …
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The Politico

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”, Moe Lane and GayPatriot
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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 and Booman Tribune