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Obama's Libya speech: Full text as prepared for delivery — Here is the prepared text for President Obama's address on Libya Monday night: — Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya - what we've done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby — President Obama's unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, not-shrinking-from-the-use-of- force speech. — I knew pretty early on during tonight's speech that President Obama had rejoined—or joined—the historical American foreign policy mainstream.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Hot Air, American Power, The Other McCain and The Reality-Based Community


Modest Support for Libya Airstrikes, No Clear Goal Seen — Little Public Interest in Libyan Mission — After several days of airstrikes on Libya by the United States and its allies, the public has mixed reactions to the military operation. Nearly half of Americans (47%) …
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Jay Bookman, Washington Post, TPMDC and CNN


Obama Cites Limits of U.S. Role in Libya — WASHINGTON — President Obama defended the American-led military assault in Libya on Monday, saying it was in the national interest of the United States to stop a potential massacre that would have “stained the conscience of the world.”
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The Caucus, Marbury, Prairie Weather and Guardian


FACT CHECK: How Obama's Libya claims fit the facts — WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama's statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
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Washington Post, RedState and msnbc.com


Why Libya? Because We Could and Our Interests and Values Demanded It
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The Brody File, Washington Post, AMERICAblog News and The Atlantic Online

U.S. Plan to End Libya War: Hope The Generals Quit
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Obama's Libya speech: Libya is no Iraq
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative

Obama Libya Speech: U.S. ‘Interests and Values’ at Risk
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The Politico, The Note, Political Punch and The Democratic Daily

Trump fails to produce birth certificate — Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate — but a quick check reveals it's actually not an official document. — The paper that Trump released says “Jamaica Hospital” …
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Exclusive to Newsmax: Donald Trump's Birth Certificate — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Donald Trump, who has been making television appearances calling for President Barack Obama …

Trump's birther play — I asked longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone, who is working on the unofficial “Draft Trump” effort, rather than the attempts at an official campaign, why Trump would embrace discredited theories about Obama's birth. — Stone emails with five reasons:
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Swampland, Outside the Beltway and The Atlantic Online

Birther Donald Trump: I'm ‘Really Concerned’ That ‘Obama Was Not Born In This Country’
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Media Matters for America, News Hounds, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Examiner

Trump is now ‘really concerned’ about Obama's birthplace
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Sky Dancing, The Atlantic Online, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS, TPMDC, Salon, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and Little Green Footballs


Republicans Prepare To Reject Final White House Budget Offer — It's been almost a week since House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White House last sat down to hammer out a budget agreement, and the schedule's still blank. Accusations of bad faith are now flying from both sides.
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American Spectator, Oliver Willis, The Politico, The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Swampland, Outside the Beltway and Mother Jones
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It's beginning to look a lot like a shutdown — (Alex Brandon - AP) Brian Beutler has a nice story running down the state of play on the budget negotiations. The takeaway is that Republicans aren't just insisting that Democrats cut as deep as the GOP wants, but that they also cut in the way the GOP wants.
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TPMDC

Reid urges GOP to ditch Tea Party
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The Politico, Cubachi, CNN, TPMDC, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, The TrogloPundit, The Other McCain, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit

Black Activist Confronts Bill Ayers With Facts — Truth to power! Well done, young lady.
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UrbanGrounds, Betsy's Page, FREEDOM EDEN and Nice Deb


EU to ban cars from cities by 2050 — Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years. — The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” …
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Weasel Zippers, Watts Up With That?, The Lonely Conservative and Babalú Blog

Iranian Video Says Mahdi is ‘Near’ — New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi—or Islamic messiah—is about to appear. — CBN News has obtained a never-before-seen video produced by the Iranian regime …
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Chicago Boyz

In an email to The Daily Caller on Monday morning, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff alleged that conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart is not telling the truth about discussions they had regarding HuffPo's removal of his blog from its front page. — HuffPo removed Breitbart's blog …
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STRANAHAN dot COM and Patterico's Pontifications


Two Christians killed, churches burned: extremists respond to Florida Koran burning — In Hyderabad and Lahore, a mob of Islamic fundamentalists targeted the Christian places of worship. Desecrated several copies of the Bible. Anti-American slogans and demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan.
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Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch

Before Libya, White House Must Negotiate With ABC — President Obama had a message for the American people Monday night, an explanation of the government's intentions in Libya, one that he believed was important enough to request air time from the broadcast networks as well as the cable news networks.
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Pundit Press, Salon, Weasel Zippers and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »


Obama Featured On Chicago Anti-Abortion Billboards Targeting Black South Siders … An anti-abortion group behind a controversial New York billboard targeting African Americans is now taking its message to the South Side of Chicago, in a billboard targeting supporters of President Obama.
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Susan Campbell and Feministing

Obama on Libya: Look, Just Trust Me On This — I'll have more in tomorrow's Morning Jolt, but I feel tonight a lot like the night of Obama's speech announcing the Afghanistan surge to West Point. On paper, I agree with a lot of what Obama is saying. But he's stringing together a lot …
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RedState

Durbin flubs Muslim-discrimination hearings — The number two Senate Democrat, Richard Durbin, has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to highlight claims of anti-Muslim discrimination, but his primary Muslim witness has publicly excused a U.S. imam for revealing an FBI investigation to a Muslim suspected-terrorist.
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and The Investigative Project …