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12K State Workers Could Be Fired Without Budget Deal, Wisconsin Governor Warns — Saturday: Protesters gather down State Street in Madison, Wis., after a rally outside the Wisconsin State Capitol. A few dozen police officers stood between supporters of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on the muddy east lawn …
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Don Surber, Cubachi, Booman Tribune, National Review, Pundit Press and JammieWearingFool
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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, The Other McCain, Crooks and Liars, Prairie Weather, The TrogloPundit, GayPatriot, Sky Dancing and Runnin' Scared

Walker: ‘We are willing to take this as long as it takes’ — Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin told Fox News Sunday this morning that he will consider “every option” as he attempts to bring Democratic state senators back to the capitol to vote on his budget plan. “We are willing to take this as long as it takes,” he said.
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Power Line

DNC chairman: Wisconsin governor waging war on public workers
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Confederate Yankee and American Power


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, Guardian, The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway, Libya February 17th and Truthdig
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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, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Little Green Footballs

Libya defiant as hundreds of protesters feared dead — • Witnesses describe ‘massacres’ as Libyan troops shoot unarmed demonstrators in Benghazi — • Tension eases in Bahrain but unrest continues in Iran, Yemen, Morocco, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria
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The Hill and Pajamas Media


Libyan forces fight Benghazi protesters, 100 dead — (Reuters) - At least 20 protesters were killed overnight in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a rights watchdog said on Sunday, after witnesses said security forces fired heavy weapons at civilians from a fortified compound.
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Obsidian Wings, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, The Independent, Arabist.net and BBC


Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again
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Associated Press and AMERICAblog News

Protesters Die as Crackdown in Libya Intensifies
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CNN, Sky Dancing, EA WorldView and Don Surber


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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Taylor Marsh and Prairie Weather

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
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The Politico

Schumer: GOP puts Congress on course for inevitable shutdown
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CNN

Topics — Salsumba: so who from Columbia was going to walk into Bagdada and “just arrest” Sadaam? Maybe you? You sir/ma'am are an illiformed nitwit. — SSGT Maschek< you are outstanding! These Columbia BD's are so smart they are stupid.......

Labor Unions and Me — Ezra Klein's weekend question: “Almost forgot! Have you or anyone close to you belonged to a union? How did that change your impressions of organized labor in general?” — I'm generally speaking an out-of-touch pointy headed elite, but as it happens throughout my life my father has been a union member.
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L'Hôte


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


BREAKING: Andrew Breitbart Contracts “Walker Pneumonia” In Madison, Wisconsin! — While on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, Andrew Breitbart contracted a horrible case of Walker Pneumonia! He was diagnosed by a street “doctor” who was apparently handing out fraudulent Dr.'s excuses to union protesters.
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The Right Sphere and Big Journalism


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

Video: Watch State Rep. Gordon Hintz's speech on Assembly floor Friday night — Whether there had been one camera, a dozen or had he been in a room with just his fellow lawmakers, Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, believes his reaction would have been the same.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland