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Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators — The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned …
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New York Times:
Qaddafi Strikes Back as Rebels Close In on Libyan Capital — BENGHAZI, Libya — Thousands of mercenary and irregular forces struck back at a tightening circle of rebellions around the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, trying to fend off an uprising against the 40-year rule of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi …
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CNN, Foreign Policy, Don Surber, Bloomberg, Mish's Global Economic …, Ben Smith's Blog, Pajamas Media, FP Passport, AOL News, FrumForum and The Daily Caller
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
Official: U.S. military options for Libya being planned
Official: U.S. military options for Libya being planned
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Patterico's Pontifications and The Greenroom
The Independent:
Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death
Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death
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Firedoglake, Guardian, Aljazeera, Al Jazeera Blogs, Shanghaiist, The Field on the Narcosphere and Libya February 17th
CNN:
Report: Libyan capital deserted; opposition seizes major city
Report: Libyan capital deserted; opposition seizes major city
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CANNONFIRE, This Just In, Parker Spitzer and Little Green Footballs
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Records Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie — It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation …
Michelle Malkin:
Video: Rhode Island union supporter to cameraman - “I'll f**k you in the ass, you faggot” — The hits keep on coming. Here's another fine specimen of Big Labor civility: — At AFSCME's “solidarity” rally in Providence, Rhode Island on Tuesday, a cameraman was accosted by a fuming pro-union protester.
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Lobbyists: White House sends meetings off-site to hide them — Caught between their boss's anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama's aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds - and several of the lobbyists involved …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Texas Resident Arrested on Charge of Attempted Use of Weapon of Mass Destruction … WASHINGTON - Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of Lubbock, Texas, was arrested late yesterday by FBI agents in Texas on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon …
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National Review, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers, NO QUARTER, USA Today, Oliver Willis, The Foundry, Emptywheel, The Gateway Pundit, msnbc.com, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
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kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — February 2011 — In the wake of the health reform repeal vote in the U.S. House and the ongoing legal challenges over the individual mandate, nearly half the country either believes that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
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Ezra Klein, Washington Monthly, Pulling It Together …, Taegan Goddard's …, Swampland and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Jordan Rau / Kaiser Health News:
Many Americans Incorrectly Believe Health Law Has Been Repealed
Many Americans Incorrectly Believe Health Law Has Been Repealed
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Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online
Mother Jones:
Nebraska Resurrects “Justifiable Homicide” Abortion Bill — A state legislator pushes a bill that's even more sweeping than the South Dakota proposal that sparked a national controversy. — Post Comment — Just when abortion rights supporters thought they had beaten a controversial bill …
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Yglesias, Mother Jones, Pharyngula, Sky Dancing, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, Indecision Forever, Iowa Independent and FrumForum
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Lynda Waddington / Iowa Independent:
Iowa bills open door for use of deadly force to protect the unborn
Iowa bills open door for use of deadly force to protect the unborn
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Shakesville and Joe. My. God.
tax.com:
Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who ‘Contributes’ to Public Workers' Pensions? — When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees' fight over collective bargaining.
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Newshoggers.com
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
The Most Disturbing Personality on Cable Television — In the past few weeks Glenn Beck has spoken about the coming caliphate that he believes is about to envelope most of the world. He then dilated on the anti-Christ with a man who says he has “new prophetic understanding into the end times.”
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Right Turn, Little Green Footballs and FrumForum
Matt Bai / New York Times:
How Chris Christie Did His Homework — Like a stand-up comedian working out-of-the-way clubs, Chris Christie travels the townships and boroughs of New Jersey, places like Hackettstown and Raritan and Scotch Plains, sharpening his riffs about the state's public employees …
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Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12, The Atlantic Online, Politics, The Page and Felix Salmon
Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Fears Tripoli May Deploy Gas As Chaos Mounts — WASHINGTON—The government of Col. Moammar Gadhafi hasn't destroyed significant stockpiles of mustard gas and other chemical-weapons agents, raising fears in Washington about what could happen to them—and whether they may be used—as Libya slides further into chaos.
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Maggie's Notebook, The Lonely Conservative, Outside the Beltway, Babalú Blog and Sweetness & Light
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JSOnline:
Madison police chief troubled by Walker's comments on protesters — By Sharif Durhams of the Journal Sentinel — Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said Thursday that he found comments by Gov. Scott Walker made about protesters at the state Capitol during a prank phone call “very unsettling and troubling.”
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The Plum Line, Wonkette, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, TPMDC and The Maddow Blog
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Rasmussen Reports:
67% Disapprove of Legislators Fleeing Wisconsin to Avoid Vote — Half of America's voters favor public sector unions for government workers, but they strongly oppose the tactic by Wisconsin state senators to flee their state to prevent a vote that would limit the rights of such unions.
Reid Wilson / NationalJournal.com:
McCain's Shift Makes Him Senate's Most Conservative — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., along with seven of his colleagues, voted most often on the conservative side. — The politician who once best exemplified the idea of a “maverick” independent has shifted so far to the right that he is now tied …
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ThinkProgress, Salon, The Caucus, Indecision Forever, Hot Air, The Atlantic Online and New York Magazine
Teddy Schleifer / The Daily Princetonian:
Daniels '71: Into the spotlight — After Mitch Daniels '71 was arrested, indicted and convicted on charges of drug use as an undergraduate in May 1970, he said that he thought his aspiring political career was doomed. “Any goal I might have had for competing for public office were shot,” …
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Politics Daily, Cincinnati.com, USA Today, Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico and CNN
Ezra Klein:
Andy Stern: ‘It may not end beautifully in Wisconsin.’ — Last year, Andy Stern retired as the president of SEIU, the service employees union that he'd built into a 2.2 million member heavyweight. During his tenure, Stern was known — and sometimes reviled — for his efforts to reform organized labor …
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Left Coast Rebel and Wonkette
Douglas Feiden / NY Daily News:
UFT spends millions on dinners, parties, parking, coffee as thousands of teachers face layoffs — As nearly 5,000 city teachers face the ax, their union shells out millions of dollars on feasting, boozing and partying, the Daily News has learned. — Free-spending United Federation …
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The Lonely Conservative, JammieWearingFool and POWIP
Michael Monk / Firedoglake:
Will Obama Find Those Shoes? — In the “flashback quote of the day” at Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, he highlights words from candidate Barack Obama, made in a 2007 speech (and referenced in Slate). That quote is as follows (spoken word differs slightly from the prepared text quoted by others …
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Why the Evil Koch Bros. Must be Stopped: They Support Drug Legalization, Gay Marriage, Reduced Defense Spending. — If you're interested in complicating dumb media narratives and blowing the minds of some of your leftard friends, here's a spirited posting at Reddit by someone with the handle epistemicfail:
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Outside the Beltway, Power Line, GayPatriot and Balloon Juice
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
Issa sends first subpoena to Obama administration — House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) has issued his first subpoenas to the Obama administration, seeking depositions from two Department of Homeland Security employees about their handling of freedom of information requests.
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Pajamas Media