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Moderate Wisconsin Republicans Offer Compromise — With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate …
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Wisconsin Power Play — Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin's new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday — Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: “It's like Cairo has moved to Madison.”
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As Republicans See a Mandate on Budget Cuts, Others See Risk — WASHINGTON — In Congress and in statehouses, Republican lawmakers and governors are claiming a broad mandate from last year's elections as they embark on an aggressive campaign of cutting government spending and taking on public unions.
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Washington Monthly, The Hill and The Page
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Wisconsin Puts Obama Between Competing Desires — WASHINGTON — The battle in Wisconsin over public employee unions has left President Obama facing a tricky balance between showing solidarity with longtime political supporters and projecting a message in favor of deep spending cuts to reduce the debt.
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JustOneMinute, Althouse, Pirate's Cove, Doug Ross and Right Wing News
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12K State Workers Could Be Fired Without Budget Deal, Wisconsin Governor Warns
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Doug Ross, TPMDC, The Huffington Post, GayPatriot, Don Surber, National Review, Cubachi, American Power, Pundit Press and JammieWearingFool
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Protesters in Wisconsin Say They Are Staying Put
Protesters in Wisconsin Say They Are Staying Put
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Runnin' Scared and The Page
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
After Wisconsin, How Do Democrats Argue Against a GOP Government Shutdown?
After Wisconsin, How Do Democrats Argue Against a GOP Government Shutdown?
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The Greenroom
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Libya protests: Col Gaddafi under mounting pressure — Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime is under pressure amid unprecedented protests in the Libyan capital and defections by senior diplomats. — Protesters out on the streets of Tripoli late on Sunday were met by security forces using live ammunition and tear gas.
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Guardian, Outside the Beltway and Libya February 17th
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Libya Unrest Spreads as Protesters Takes Cities, Bases — EU Foreign Ministers Prepare to Possibly to Evacuate Citizens; More Than 200 Killed — Despite a brutal crackdown over the weekend, unrest is growing in Libya as anti-government protesters seized military bases and demonstrations spread …
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Hot Air
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Death Toll Up to At Least 233 — The estimated death toll from four days of protests in cities across Libya has risen to at least 233 according to information from hospital sources in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. From Benghazi, staff at Al Jalaa hospital said they recorded 50 dead on February 20 …
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Guardian, AOL News, Libya February 17th, FP Passport and Harry's Place
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Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
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Aljazeera:
Libya clashes spread to Tripoli
Libya clashes spread to Tripoli
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Reuters, Babalú Blog, Unqualified Offerings and The Daily Dish
Guardian:
Libya on the brink as protests hit Tripoli
Libya on the brink as protests hit Tripoli
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Libya February 17th, Newshoggers.com and Sky Dancing
Aljazeera:
Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
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Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Firedoglake and AMERICAblog News
Aljazeera:
Uprising flares in Libyan city
Uprising flares in Libyan city
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A Chequer-Board of Nights …, JOSHUAPUNDIT and The Raw Story
Ian Black / Guardian:
Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'
Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'
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Maggie's Notebook
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Does Mike Huckabee still want to be president? — IN NEW YORK — Anyone who thinks presidential ambition is an incurable condition hasn't spent much time lately with Mike Huckabee. — The man who came in second in the 2008 GOP primary isn't exactly ruling out another run in 2012.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Huckabee throws a Mitt fit
Huckabee throws a Mitt fit
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Conservatives4Palin and The Page
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Protesting Teachers Could Reap $6 Million from Taxpayers to Attend Rallies — Absent educators may be paid to abandon students and march on the Capitol — [Madison, Wisc...] As Milwaukee Public School teachers left their classrooms to march in Madison Friday, they likely earned …
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Fox Nation, The Foundry, Pundit Press, Michelle Malkin, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The Greenroom
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FIGHT THE SEIU WITH TACTIC THEY USE AGAINST US - THIS WEEK! — Late Update: Follow the civil discussion by Obamites in the “comments” section below — . — http://action.seiu.org/page/s/ solidarityaction — . — That link will take you to an SEIU page where you can sign up as an …
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Mother Jones, Blogging Blue, Plunderbund, Little Green Footballs, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mercury Rising and Hullabaloo
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‘We Stand With You as You Stood With Us’: Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Kamal Abbas of Egypt's Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services — About Kamal Abbas and the Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services: — Kamal Abbas is General Coordinator of the CTUWS …
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ThinkProgress, blue cheddar, Arabist.net and AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A View From The Hard Right — Don Surber: … Instapundit links to this post also decrying the Egyptian revolt, as an opening for Islamist rule. Torture-defender Andy McCarthy is also disturbed by Sheikh Qaradawi's return. (Dish coverage of Qaradawi here, here, and, more skeptically, here.)
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Da Techguy's Blog, National Review, Instapundit and Don Surber
Guardian:
US official in Lahore deaths was CIA spy — • Raymond Davis employed by CIA ‘beyond shadow of doubt’ — • Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men — • Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled — • Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind
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Sic Semper Tyrannis, Pajamas Media, Emptywheel, Reuters, Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
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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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CNN, The Daily Caller, Conservatives4Palin, Washington Post and George's Bottom Line
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Call for Protests Unnerves China — BEIJING—Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a “Jasmine Revolution” in China by protesting in 13 cities—just a day after President Hu Jintao called for tighter Internet controls to help prevent social unrest.
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PoliPundit.com, Dean's World and FrumForum
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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Chinese Security Officials Respond to Call for Protests
Chinese Security Officials Respond to Call for Protests
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