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Herman Cain wins Tea Party presidential live straw poll at Phoenix summit — Phoenix (CNN) - Which Republican should become the next president? Herman Cain, according to a number of Tea Party activists gathered at a weekend summit in Phoenix. — Cain, a conservative talk show host …
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Tim Pawlenty Supports Government Shutdown: ‘A Dramatic Month’ Is ‘What We Need’ — ThinkProgress filed this report from the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit in Phoenix, AZ. — As the threat of a government shutdown looms over the nation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) …

Roger Ailes to be Indicted — Last week, the NY Times broke the story that Roger Ailes had urged various colleagues to lie to Federal investigators; (David Corn explains the background to this here). — NYT: … Here's what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes …
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FOX NEWS BOSS ROGER AILES TO BE INDICTED??? — Last week it was revealed that legendary FOX News boss Roger Ailes allegedly told underling Judith Regan to lie to federal investigators to protect Rudy Giuliani. — Regan reportedly has a tape of the telephone call in which Ailes urged her to do this.

Live Updates: Police to Clear Protestors from Wisconsin Capitol Building — I'm collecting live coverage of events as police prepare to clear out the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison, WI on the 14th day of protests against Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill.
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Crooks and Liars and naked capitalism
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Althouse and Meade return to the Veterans Memorial and encounter apologetic protesters, the police, and a rudeness expert. — I took this video yesterday — Saturday, February 26th — at the Wisconsin Capitol building. Meade wanted to go back to see if the protesters had followed through …
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Pajamas Media, The Lonely Conservative and The Gateway Pundit

Judicial Watch Obtains Previously Redacted Material from the FBI File of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy — While in Santiago, Kennedy “made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night”; Sought meetings with “communists and others who had left-wing views”
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Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Gawker and Babalú Blog

50-State Union Protest Falls Far Short Of Predicted Turnout — Protests in support of Wisconsin public sector unions were organized by MoveOn.org and labor unions today. — Promoters, such as David Dayen at Firedoglake, were predicting a million-person turnout nationwide.
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Cubachi, NewsBusters.org, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, POWIP, No Sheeples Here, EagleTribune.com …, L.A. NOW, theblogprof, Courier-Journal, FOX 21 Online, Washington Post, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Reuters, Right Wing News, Prairie Weather, Ozarksfirst.com Sports Feed, The Impolitic, American Power, Crooks and Liars and HazZzMat
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Protesters out in force nationwide to oppose Wisconsin's anti-union bill
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The Political Carnival, Washington Monthly, JSOnline, Teamster Nation and The Huffington Post


Regulation Lax as Gas Wells' Tainted Water Hits Rivers — The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century's gold rush — for natural gas. — The gas has always been there, of course …


Arabs Embrace Israeli's YouTube Spoof of Qaddafi — JERUSALEM — A satirical YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the Libya uprising across Middle East. And in an added affront to Colonel Qaddafi, it was created by an Israeli living in Tel Aviv.
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AFL-CIO chief blesses Obama's handling of Wisconsin labor battle — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave his blessing Sunday to President Obama's handling of the labor standoff in Wisconsin. — Amid some criticism on the left that Obama could do more to boost unions in their demonstrations …
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Left presses Obama to take a firmer stand on heated labor battles
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Walker's Over-Reach, Ctd — Dick Morris's latest poll shows Wisonsin voters where the Dish is - in favor of Walker's specific requests of public sector unions, but unwilling to remove most collective bargaining rights. By slipping this collective bargaining provision into the bill …
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Defend Wisconsin and Balloon Juice

Exclusive: Amanpour Interviews Gadhafi's Son — Saif Gadhafi Says Libya Is Not America's ‘Business’ — In an exclusive interview with “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and one of his chief advisers, insisted Libya was calm …
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Crooks and Liars, Guardian, CNN, FrumForum and Libya February 17th

Why Wouldn't the Tea Party Shut It Down? — NO one remembers anything in America, especially in Washington, so the history of the Great Government Shutdown of 1995 is being rewritten with impunity by Republicans flirting with a Great Government Shutdown of 2011.
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AMERICAblog News, The Political Carnival, American Power and Prairie Weather


Libya's Gaddafi clings to Tripoli — With much of the oil-producing regions in opposition hands, Gaddafi's power base shrinks to the capital's periphery. — As more cities fall into the hands of the pro-democracy protesters, Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is hanging on to the capital …
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Sky Dancing, Truthdig and The Agonist
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The Only Chart You Need To See To Understand Why The US Is Screwed — We're still working our way through Kleiner Perkins' partner Mary Meeker's excellent analysis of the financial condition of the United States. — We'll be breaking out some key sections in the next few days.
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Pajamas Media and TigerHawk