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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 …
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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 …
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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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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New York Times and Taylor Marsh
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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Firedoglake, Wall Street Journal, Taegan Goddard's …, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and Political Punch
Fox News:
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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Fox Nation and protein wisdom
Times of India:
‘To my Dear Obama, our son’, says Gaddafi, defending attack on rebels — CAIRO: Calling Barack Obama as “our son”, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sent a message to the US President defending his decision to attack the rebels fighting to overthrow him. — Gaddafi (68) also wrote a letter …
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Atlas Shrugs, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Guardian and Fausta's Blog
David Wood / The Huffington Post:
Anti-American Extremists Among Libyan Rebels U.S. Has Vowed To Protect
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Defying U.N., Gadhafi's forces attack Benghazi
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This Just In and The Jawa Report
Guardian:
Allied forces launch missiles into Libya
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The Daily Dish, AmSpecBlog, Global Voices in English, Prairie Weather and Telegraph
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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Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice and Mediaite
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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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The Politico, CNN and sisu
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
American Official Warns That Qaddafi May Lash Out With New Terrorist Attacks — The United States is bracing for possible Libyan-backed terrorist attacks, President Obama's top counterterrorism official said on Friday. — The official, John O. Brennan, said that the military attacks …
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Crooks and Liars and Salon
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Warren Christopher, 1925-2011 — Let me break into the sequence …
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The Talking Dog and Gawker
Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:
Warren Christopher, Ex-Secretary of State, Dies at 85
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Outside the Beltway, Althouse, Mediaite and Guardian
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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Prairie Weather, Paul Krugman, No More Mister Nice Blog, DealBook and The Baseline Scenario
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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The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story
Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
DOJ to white male bullying victims: Tough luck — The viral video sensation showing a bullying incident at an Australian school has brought the issue of bullying back into the spotlight. Here in the United States, the Obama administration has made school bullying a federal issue.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report, The Volokh Conspiracy and Instapundit
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