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Scott Walker Asked to Leave Local Restaurant — Come looking for an article about Scott Walker being booted from a Madison restaurant? Yes, you came to the right place, but at the request of the restaurant owner due to abusive phone calls, the article has been hidden for the time being.
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Firedoglake, Althouse, Crooks and Liars, Da Techguy's Blog, The Lonely Conservative, American Power, The Mahablog and The Jawa Report
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Swopa / Firedoglake:
Late Night: You'll Never Eat Dinner in This Town Again — Sometimes, it's good to leave detached, cerebral meta-analyses of politics aside and just get a taste of public opinion being expressed the old-fashioned way. — Wisconsin blogger Naomi Houser reports tonight (via Howie Klein on Twitter):
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Althouse, American Power and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Badger Blogger:
Conservative Gov attempts to dine out in uber-liberal Madison, WI... and gets tossed for being “a nuisance.” — Yes, you did, in fact, read that right. And the Wisconsin left is bragging it up. … This is how Madison businesses are treating the democratically elected governor of the state of Wisconsin.
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Maggie's Notebook, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The TrogloPundit and POWIP
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Long Bread Lines and Open Revolt in Libya's Capital — TRIPOLI, Libya — A bold effort by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to prove that he was firmly in control of Libya appeared to backfire Saturday as foreign journalists he invited to the capital discovered blocks of the city in open revolt.
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Maggie's Notebook, Outside the Beltway, FrumForum and AMERICAblog News
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New York Times:
Following U.S. Sanctions, U.N. Security Council to Meet on Libya
Following U.S. Sanctions, U.N. Security Council to Meet on Libya
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CNN, CBS News, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine and FrumForum
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Is Barack Obama Secretly Swiss?
Is Barack Obama Secretly Swiss?
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Booman Tribune, No Sheeples Here, The Monkey Cage, ProPublica, Opinion L.A., Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, FrumForum and Pajamas Media
Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
We Choose Consultations — In Libya, Obama strikes (not) again.
We Choose Consultations — In Libya, Obama strikes (not) again.
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Pajamas Media and The Enterprise Blog
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A PARTISAN WAR ON TWO FRONTS.... To pay even passing attention to American politics is to notice that contemporary congressional Republicans are as right-wing as they've ever been. The GOP caucuses in both chambers have embraced a hysterical, borderline-nihilist worldview, which is often terrifying in its scope and severity.
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Ezra Klein, Balloon Juice and Mother Jones
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David Catanese / The Politico:
Perry reluctant to back Walker's plan
Perry reluctant to back Walker's plan
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Teamster Nation, Daily Kos and FrumForum
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
The Real Political Math In Wisconsin … WASHINGTON — The real political math in Wisconsin isn't about the state budget or the collective-bargaining rights of public employees there. It is about which party controls governorships and, with them, the balance of power on the ground in the 2012 elections.
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Reuters and The New Republic
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Protesters at the Wisconsin Capitol disrespectfully have taped signs on and piled junk against the Veterans Memorial. — Meade and I confront them, and we're told we're the first people who've had a problem with it. I try to explain how that attempted defense of the behavior is only going to make it look worse.
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JammieWearingFool, Right Wing News, Pundit & Pundette and Cold Fury
Chicago Tribune:
First blow to Emanuel team — Transition aide quits after ethics violation revealed — A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers and CBS Chicago
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s Abandoned Babies — Republicans need to figure out where they stand on children's welfare. They can't be “pro-life” when the “child” is in the womb but indifferent when it's in the world. Allow me to illustrate just how schizophrenic their position has become through the prism of premature babies.
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Prairie Weather
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights’ — As the Main Street Movement of students, workers, and other middle class Americans erupts across America, many conservatives have invoked the legacy of former president Ronald Reagan to demand …
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Weasel Zippers, Balloon Juice, The Impolitic, JammieWearingFool and Wonk Room
Steyn Online:
STATES OF THE UNIONS — Steyn on America — The Democrat palace guard of America's dying monodailies are doing a grand job in reporting the current stand-off in Wisconsin. A headline in The New York Times sums up the media's bizarre enthusiasm for sacrificing what remains of their reputations in order to protect the cause:
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Power Line
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Egyptian Military Cracks Down on New Protest — CAIRO — Tens of thousands of protesters returned Friday to Tahrir Square, the site of demonstrations that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two weeks ago, to keep up the pressure on Egypt's military-led transitional government.
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Firedoglake, The Jawa Report and Al Jazeera Blogs
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Labor secretary: GOP govs asking workers to give up their rights — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is trying to force workers in his state to give up their rights, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Saturday. — Solis, speaking at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Winter Meeting …
New York Times:
Iran Reports a Major Setback at a Nuclear Power Plant — Iran told atomic inspectors this week that it had run into a serious problem at a newly completed nuclear reactor that was supposed to start feeding electricity into the national grid this month, raising questions about whether the trouble …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and FrumForum
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The “Ventriloquist Journalism” Beat — Kudos to John for staying after Eric Lipton's fast one, which is a classic in the genre of what I call “ventriloquist journalism”—the highly refined technique by which “news” reporters seek out a source to confirm their preconceived story line with a specific quote.
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HazZzMat
David Rogers / The Politico:
Two-week budget measure expected to avert government shutdown — Threats of a government shutdown next week had all but disappeared by late Friday as Democrats reacted favorably to a Republican plan that would keep agencies operating past Mar. 4 while making a first down payment toward a larger budget deal.
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Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, FrumForum, Saint Petersblog and The Huffington Post
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Remy Stern / Gawker:
The Craigslist Congressman and the Crossdressing Prostitute — Chris Lee's resignation from the House on Feb. 9 may be the quickest political downfall in history: It came just three hours after Gawker published a photo of Lee standing in the mirror shirtless, along with a story …
Peter Gorenstein / Yahoo! Finance:
AFL-CIO Chief: Raising Taxes Will Create Jobs — What's the best way to get Americans back to work? — Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.
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Michelle Malkin, Doug Ross and Weasel Zippers
Paul Bedard / US News:
Newt Gingrich: Obama Could Be Impeached Over Gay Marriage Reversal — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who plans within two weeks to announce if he will run for president, said today that if President Obama doesn't change his mind and order his Justice Department to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act …
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Washington Monthly, AMERICAblog Gay, ThinkProgress, Don Surber, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Hullabaloo, Joe. My. God., CNN and Washington Post
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