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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, National Review, Cubachi, Booman Tribune, Pundit Press and JammieWearingFool
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Everyone Should Have Seen This Coming
Everyone Should Have Seen This Coming
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POWIP, Crooks and Liars, The Other McCain, The TrogloPundit, Prairie Weather, GayPatriot, New York Times and JSOnline
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
DNC chairman: Wisconsin governor waging war on public workers
DNC chairman: Wisconsin governor waging war on public workers
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Confederate Yankee, American Power and Michelle Malkin
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 Daily Dish, The Reaction, Guardian, The Jawa Report, Outside the Beltway, Libya February 17th and Truthdig
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Ian Black / Guardian:
Libya defiant as protests spread to Tripoli amid rising death toll — Reports of clashes in Libyan capital, with protesters said to be preparing to march on Gaddafi's compound — Libya is defying international condemnation of a bloody crackdown that saw troops and mercenaries shooting unarmed demonstrators …
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The Hill, Harry's Place, Pajamas Media and The Gateway Pundit
Nick Meo / Telegraph:
Libya protests: 140 ‘massacred’ as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush dissent
Libya protests: 140 ‘massacred’ as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush dissent
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Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, Maggie's Notebook, The Moderate Voice and JOSHUAPUNDIT
New York Times:
Protesters Die as Uprising in Libya Spreads to the Capital
Protesters Die as Uprising in Libya Spreads to the Capital
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The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, Sky Dancing, EA WorldView and Don Surber
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Arab and Middle East protests - live
Arab and Middle East protests - live
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Guardian, The Daily Dish and Truthdig
Aljazeera:
Libya unrest death toll ‘tops 200’
Libya unrest death toll ‘tops 200’
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DownWithTyranny! and Chicago Boyz, more at Techmeme »
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again
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Associated Press and AMERICAblog News
Irish_Grinder / New York Post:
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.......
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Dana Pico / Common Sense Political Thought:
The students at Columbia University have an absolute right to express their opinions . . . . . . and so do I: some of them are worth less than the remnants of dinner I flushed down the toilet this morning. From the … More at the link. — Columbia University is a private school …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
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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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Schumer: Republicans ‘clamoring’ for government shutdown
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Schumer: GOP puts Congress on course for inevitable shutdown
Schumer: GOP puts Congress on course for inevitable shutdown
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The Greenroom and CNN
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ryan: Any short-term funding bill will have to include spending cuts
Ryan: Any short-term funding bill will have to include spending cuts
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The Politico
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 and JOSHUAPUNDIT
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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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Taylor Marsh and Prairie Weather
E.S. Browning / Wall Street Journal:
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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Balloon Juice, Vox Popoli and FrumForum
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Yuppie Revolution In Egypt Is Over, The Islamist Revolution Has Begun — When it came to overthrowing Hosni Mubarek, the western media thrust itself into the situation and portrayed the uprising as a western-style demand for freedom. — The television screens were filled with stories …
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Power Line, Israel Matzav and PoliPundit.com
Anchorage Daily News:
Former aide rips Palin in leaked book manuscript — UNPUBLISHED: Former governor broke election law, Bailey alleges. — A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin's closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign …
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Washington Post and George's Bottom Line
Myglesias / Yglesias:
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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American Power and L'Hôte
thenorthwestern.com:
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
Jim Vertuno / The Huffington Post:
Texas Poised To Pass Bill Allowing Guns On Campus … AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms. — More than half the members of the Texas House …
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Little Green Footballs
Kjtorrance / Weekly Standard:
A Historic Flood of Red Ink — Obama's mind-boggling budget — After proposing his third straight budget calling for more than $1 trillion in deficit spending—no other president has ever proposed even half that much (although, in his last year, President George W. Bush did end up spending that much) …
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Conservatives4Palin
New York Times:
This Just In ... President Obama is not a foreigner. He is not secretly a Muslim. Those are the facts, but they do not seem to matter in many quadrants of the Republican Party. — During a recent focus group conducted by the Republican pollster Frank Luntz, about half of a group …
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JustOneMinute and National Review