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U.S. Launches Cruise Missiles Against Qaddafi's Air Defenses — The U.S. Navy fires the first U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles against Libyan leader's Muammar al-Qaddafi's air defenses Saturday. — The Pentagon says 112 missiles have been launched from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean, hitting 20 Libyan targets.
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New York Times:
Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton — WASHINGTON — In a Paris hotel room on Tuesday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister …
Laura Kasinof / New York Times:
U.S. Missiles Strike Libyan Air Defense Targets — PARIS — American and European forces began a broad campaign of strikes against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Saturday, unleashing warplanes and missiles in the first round of the largest international military intervention …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
A feminist milestone: Our male President has been pulled into war by 3 women. — It's the opposite of the Code Pink idea that women bring the peace. How long have I heard this feminist plaint: If only women had the power, we would have peace, not phallocratic war. — But no:
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CNN:
French jets streak over Benghazi — Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — French fighter jets soared over Libya on Saturday to counter Moammar Gadhafi's military forces who were intent on destroying the opposition as they pushed into the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. — “Our air force will oppose …
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ABCNEWS:
U.S. Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Hit Targets in Libya — Pentagon: 112 Missiles Fired at More Than 20 Targets Inside Libya — More than 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck over 20 targets inside Libya today in the opening phase of an international military operation the Pentagon said was aimed …
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msnbc.com:
Allied forces fire missiles on Libya — Below: — BENGHAZI, Libya — A coalition of American and European forces launched a military campaign Saturday to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power, bombing Libyan targets by air and sea in the first phase of the largest international military effort since the Iraq war.
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Times of India:
‘To my Dear Obama, our son’, says Gaddafi, defending attack on rebels
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Rex Murphy / National Post:
When crisis strikes the world, Obama falls silent
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Sense of Events
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
American Official Warns That Qaddafi May Lash Out With New Terrorist Attacks
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Crooks and Liars and Salon
Washington Post:
France sends warplanes against Libya after Gaddafi's forces enter Benghazi
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Defying U.N., Gadhafi's forces attack Benghazi
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The Jawa Report
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin: I could have brought change in '08 — Republicans would have been more successful in the 2008 presidential elections if she was at the top of the ticket, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested Saturday. — Speaking at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi, Palin was asked …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin rips Obama's energy policy, handling of Middle East — During her first foreign trip in 2011, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) slammed President Obama's green energy policy as a “social engineering” project that hurts the U.S. economy. — She also accused Obama of “dithering” …
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Guardian:
Japan bans some food sales — Discovery comes after Japan banned sales of some food from the area of the Fukushima power plant and engineers battled to cool a overheated reactor — The Japanese government has reported that trace amounts of radioactive iodine have been detected in tap water …
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Mercury Rising and Truthdig
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Matthew Rothschild / The Progressive Magazine Feed:
Wisconsin Teacher in Apparent Suicide, “Distraught” Over Walker's Cuts — Jeri-Lynn Betts, an early childhood teacher in the Watertown, Wisconsin, school district, died on March 8 of an apparent suicide. — A colleague says she was “very distraught” over Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on public sector workers and public education.
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The Gateway Pundit, MAL Contends and Suburban Guerrilla
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
An Advocate Who Scares Republicans — The piñata sat alone at the witness table, facing the members of the House subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit. — The Wednesday morning hearing was titled “Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”
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Paul Krugman, No More Mister Nice Blog, Prairie Weather, DealBook and The Baseline Scenario
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Warren Christopher, 1925-2011 — Let me break into the sequence of guest voices here to express sadness at news that Warren Christopher has just died, at age 85. — He is best known as the first Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration, and his public image was of a very careful, even colorless person.
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The Talking Dog and Gawker
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Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:
Warren Christopher, Ex-Secretary of State, Dies at 85
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Outside the Beltway, CNN, Althouse, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Guardian
David Wood / The Huffington Post:
Anti-American Extremists Among Libyan Rebels U.S. Has Vowed To Protect … WASHINGTON — In 2007, when American combat casualties were spiking in the bloodbath of the Iraq War, an 18-year-old laborer traveled from his home in eastern Libya through Egypt and Syria to join an al Qaeda terrorist cell in Iraq.
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Politics and Hullabaloo
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
U.S., Coalition Attack Libya Air-Defense Systems With ‘Operation Odyssey’ — U.S. and coalition vessels and aircrafts attacked Libya's air defense systems in the opening phase of “Odyssey Dawn” the international operation to establish a no-fly zone, military officials said today.
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