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Walker says layoff notices coming Friday; Senate Democrats in contempt — By Patrick Marley, Jason Stein and Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Pressure ratcheted up on absent Senate Democrats Thursday, as they were found in contempt by GOP senators and Gov. Scott Walker …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Wisconsin Senate orders Democrats'arrest
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The Atlantic Online, Crooks and Liars, The Lonely Conservative and FrumForum
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Wisconsin Senate Does Not Need a 3/5ths Quorum to Pass Much of the Budget Bill
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Dems to GOP as spending talks open: We've met you halfway
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The Politico
People-Press.org:
Fewer Are Angry at Government, But Discontent Remains High — Republicans, Tea Party Supporters More Mellow — The public remains deeply frustrated with the federal government, but fewer Americans say they are angry at government than did so last fall. Overall, the percentage saying …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin Poll: Support for Budget Cutting, Not for Weakening Collective Bargaining Rights — Most Wisconsin voters oppose efforts to weaken collective bargaining rights for union workers but a plurality are supportive of significant pay cuts for state workers.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rasmussen: Walker Flailing — Rasmussen is out with a new poll that is frankly just devastating for Gov. Walker. Just devastating. We'll have a full write up momentarily. (Update: Here's our write-up.) But the thing that stuck out to me was the age distribution.
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Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOUSE REPUBLICAN RAISES SPECTER OF IMPEACHMENT.... Late last week, disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who knows a little something about the practice, raised the prospect of presidential impeachment. The Republican, perhaps best known for leading the crusade against President Clinton …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Newt Gingrich on 2012: ‘We will look at this very seriously’ — ATLANTA — Newt Gingrich said on Thursday he is “seriously” considering a 2012 presidential run and unveiled a website to explore a potential bid for the White House. — The former House Speaker is the first major Republican candidate to open such an exploratory effort.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gingrich launches website, has no other announcement
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Gingrich affirms presidential intentions
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Judge Roger Vinson issues stay of own ruling — U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled Thursday that implementation of the health law can proceed — but he gave the Obama administration just seven days to file an appeal. — Vinson issued a stay of his own Jan. 31 ruling that declared …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Vinson stays ruling on ObamaCare - but just for seven days
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Patterico's Pontifications and Pajamas Media
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration — More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school's popular “Human Sexuality” class.
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Bryan Polcyn / WITI:
Government e-mails reveal plot to stall budget repair bill — Madison mayor tried to get bill stalled while he signed new contracts — Before protesters stormed the capitol, the mayor of the city of Madison tried to pull a fast one. The governor's budget repair bill was on the fast track …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Conspiracy to stall WI budget-repair bill?
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Big Government and Verum Serum
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Lawyer for Ohio Police Union Tells Republican State Senator: ‘Funny Thing About Cops, They Hold Grudges’ — Ohio's state Senate yesterday passed S.B. 5, which would limit the power of government employee unions. Among those voting for the measure was state Sen. Frank LaRose, a 31-year-old freshman Republican from Akron.
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Josh Kraushaar / Hotline On Call:
Labor Loses Big In Ohio
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iowahawk:
Longhorns 17, Badgers 1 — Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice. Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize.
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The Mahablog, UrbanGrounds, Pundit & Pundette, Power Line, NO QUARTER, Winds of Change.NET and Patterico's Pontifications
Pigeon O'Brien / The Huffington Post:
How the Edwards Affair Ended Up in the Enquirer — Lisa Druck was trouble. You'd run into her at Nell's where we all tended to hang out and she'd be in a panic. Some guy would be running from her, taxiing quickly to another club. She'd storm the bathrooms and you could hear her voice …
host.madison.com:
Sheriff deputies find live ammunition outside Capitol — MORE (2) — Dozens of rounds of live ammunition were found outside the Capitol Thursday morning, law enforcement officials said. — Dane County deputies found 11 rounds near the State street entrance Thursday morning, said UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling.
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JSOnline, Hot Air, Shot in the Dark, The Jawa Report, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit
New York Post:
Gunning for Eliot — Eliot Spitzer's resurrection — from the disgraced gov ernor better known as Cli ent 9 to CNN talk-show host — has the political class buzzing about him running for mayor in 2013. Wilder still, one of his former targets is talking about running against him.
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The Big Picture, JammieWearingFool and New York Magazine
Katie McLaughlin / CNN:
Matt Damon: Not a fan of Obama — Watch the full interview with Matt Damon and the cast of “The Adjustment Bureau” tonight. “Piers Morgan Tonight” airs weeknights on CNN/US at 9 p.m. ET and on CNN International at 1200 GMT/1300 CET/2000 HKT. — (CNN) — When CNN's Piers Morgan asked actor Matt Damon …
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The New Republic
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Anti-Muslim Protestor Throws Crosses At Feet Of Man Praying By White House (VIDEO) — A group of anti-Sharia protestors who planned to counter-protest the planned pro-Sharia rally by the radical provocateur Anjem Choudary in front of the White House on Thursday found themselves without an opponent to debate.
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The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs, Wonkette and Salon
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Tea party leader: John Boehner should go — A national tea party group is in revolt against House Speaker John Boehner and wants to see him defeated in a 2012 primary, arguing that he looks “like a fool” in the debate over spending cuts and makes less sense than actor Charlie Sheen.
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CNN, Swampland, Outside the Beltway and The Note
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Less Drama in White House After Staff Changes — WASHINGTON — When Rahm Emanuel was White House chief of staff, the decision about what President Obama would say in the short address he delivers via radio and the Internet each Saturday changed so often that speechwriters would wait until Friday to write.
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Yglesias and The Nation
Mohammed Abbas / Reuters:
Gaddafi bombs oil areas, faces crimes probe — AL-UQAYLA, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi struck at rebel control of a key Libyan coastal road for a second day Thursday but received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.
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White House.gov Blog, New York Times, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Hot Air, Don Surber, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
Sarah Laskow / American Prospect:
Why Huckabee Won't Run — It would be nice if we could stop paying attention to Mike Huckabee, but the other big news about him is that he is polling well across the South. The former Arkansas governor is popular, and as Paul points out, Huckabee comes across as the likable …
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Yglesias, The Fix and Another Black Conservative
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
To Surly, With Love: Are Teachers Overpaid? — Public school teachers are at the forefront of protests against state budget cuts and restrictions on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, and elsewhere. — Teachers have a lot to lose.
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MarketWatch, Hot Air and Instapundit
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Ohio senator: GOP tries to take down unions, and so did Hitler and Stalin — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took to the Senate floor Thursday to defend labor unions, saying that dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin opposed them. — Brown said that unions have wrongly come under attack …
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Weasel Zippers, SENATUS, Washington Monthly, Cubachi and ThinkProgress
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Blogger From Koch's Law Firm Defends Koch, Doesn't Disclose Ties — Fighting back against public scrutiny, Koch Industries is relying on a small army of conservative bloggers, reporters, and lobbyists. Chief among them is John Hinderaker, a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.”
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Power Line, AlterNet, Weekly Standard and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Brady McCombs / Arizona Daily Star:
Records show agents fired beanbags in fatal border gunfight — Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits before the men returned fire during a confrontation in a remote canyon, killing agent Brian Terry with a single gunshot, records show.
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Don Surber, National Review, Pajamas Media, The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Mexican Prez Prods Obama on Drug War — Obama Claims ‘Shared Responsibility’ for Mexico's Drug War but Offers Few New Steps to Crack Down — Four years after Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched an aggressive campaign against the drug cartels in his country, an estimated 35,000 people …
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FrumForum
Jim Kavanagh / CNN:
Rodney King, 20 years later — Editor's note: Tune in Friday at 8 p.m. ET as CNN looks back at the Rodney King beating and the events that divided Los Angeles and the nation on “CNN Presents: Race and Rage.” — (CNN) — The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end …
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