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10:50 PM ET, March 5, 2011

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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's prescription for ‘Obamacare’: Repeal it  —  BARTLETT, N.H.—Mitt Romney repeatedly called for the repeal of “Obamacare” in a Saturday night speech to New Hampshire Republicans, even as the former Massachusetts governor admitted his own state's health care program “wasn't perfect.”
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John Distaso / UnionLeader.com:
John DiStaso's Primary Status: Romney gets two major endorsements on eve of return to NH  —  FRIDAY UPDATE: BURTON, BRADLEY FOR MITT.  When Mitt Romney returns to New Hampshire on Saturday to make his first public appearance since prior to the 2010 midterm election, he will have two key Republicans …
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
A whole new Romney for 2012 presidential run
Mike Allen / The Politico:   Romney calls for ‘a new president’
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Romney to criticize ‘Obama Misery Index’ in address to GOP in early primary state
Discussion: CNN
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin gets snippy when O'Reilly tries to press her on aid cutbacks to Alaska's poor  —  It's hard to say why it happened, but all of a sudden Bill O'Reilly decided last night to stop tossing Sarah Palin the usual softball questions and Hannity Jobs she's become accustomed to during her tenure at Fox News.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Sexual Sadist Denise Barnes Strips Bradley Manning Naked Over Sarcastic Quip  —  Bradley Manning's attorney, David Coombs, writes about the true reason Bradley Manning is being stripped each night and forced to report naked each morning in the same way prisoners were tortured at Abu Graib:
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Robert Fisk / The Independent:
Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt  —  Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week's “day of rage” by what is now called the “Hunayn Revolution”.
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Republicans in solid shape to take control of Senate next year  —  An early spate of Democratic Senate retirements has put Republicans in solid shape to retake the majority in the upper chamber next year.  —  The first edition of The Hill's 2012 race ratings puts five Democratic-held seats in the toss-up column.
Discussion: Don Surber
Brian M. Carney / Wall Street Journal:
Why America Will Stay on Top  —  Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi.  —  London  —  In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history …
Garrett Tenney / Fox News:
Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite  —  A photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a CI1 meteorite is similar in size and overall structure to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox, an organism found here on planet Earth, a NASA scientist said.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012  —  If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism.  This is because it indicates they do not understand …
Chicago Sun Times:
Todd Stroger applies for unemployment benefits  —  Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.  —  But newly minted Board President Toni Preckwinkle's administration officially “protested” the claim with the state's unemployment agency.
aina.org:
Nearly 4000 Muslims Attack Christian Homes in Egypt, Torch Church  —  (AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wisconsin Tea Party Members Plan “It's Time to Take Out the Trash Day” at WI Capitol (Video)  —  Wisconsin tea party members are planning a “It's Time to Take out the Trash Day” at the Wisconsin State Capitol to clean up after the smelly slobs who defaced the capitol building during their two weeks of protesting and sleepovers.
 
 
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Tea Partiers Clean-Up Mess Left By Union Protesters in Wisconsin
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Obama Would Veto Spending Bill De-Funding Planned Parenthood
Brett Coughlin / The Politico:
Sources: Democrats giving up on Donald Berwick
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Maher: Charlie Sheen's Childish, Needlessly Defensive, Nonsensical Behavior Like Sarah Palin on Coke
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Sherrod Brown apologizes for Hitler comment
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