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Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide — Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
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The Kill Team — How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon — By — Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan …
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This Just In, Hot Air, The Raw Story, Reuters, Runnin' Scared, The Wire and Suburban Guerrilla
Mike Allen / The Politico:
In 7:30 p.m. address, Obama to say Libya strikes averted catastrophe …
In 7:30 p.m. address, Obama to say Libya strikes averted catastrophe …
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Washington Post and Wonkette
Wall Street Journal:
Fiscal Showdown Looms in Capitol — The White House and Democratic lawmakers, with less than two weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, are assembling a proposal for roughly $20 billion in additional spending cuts that could soon be offered to Republicans, according to people close to the budget talks.
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msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, Wonkette, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, The Lonely Conservative, Swampland and The Politico
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Bachmann poses dilemma for Boehner, GOP majority — If Capitol Hill is really one big high school, the “It” girl of the moment is Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). — A recent Gallup poll of Republicans found Bachmann had the second-highest positive intensity rating of any of the potential 2012 candidates in the GOP field.
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msnbc.com and Pirate's Cove
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Democrats Will Offer Additional $20 Billion in Budget Cuts — I feel like US fiscal policy is trapped on some kind of treadmill. Democrats offer some level of budget cuts for the current fiscal year, Republicans reject anything less than what they've proposed, and then they put together …
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Washington Post, Suburban Guerrilla, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Eschaton
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOW NOT TO NEGOTIATE, 101.... In just 11 days, if policymakers …
HOW NOT TO NEGOTIATE, 101.... In just 11 days, if policymakers …
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Paul Krugman and The Raw Story
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight
Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight
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Betsy's Page
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Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father — Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father. — Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves …
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Paging SEK... Just a guy Obama knew from the neighborhood.
Paging SEK... Just a guy Obama knew from the neighborhood.
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WorldNetDaily
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Libyan Rebel Gains Could Be Fleeting, U.S. Military Says — TRIPOLI, Libya — As rebel forces backed by allied warplanes pushed toward one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most crucial bastions of support, the American military warned on Monday that their rapid gains could quickly be reversed without continued coalition air support.
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Questions and Observations, Taylor Marsh, Guardian, Shakesville, The Page and Bloomberg
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Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
WHO ARE THE REBELS? — Three of the world's great armies …
WHO ARE THE REBELS? — Three of the world's great armies …
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American Power and Newshoggers.com
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... That disgraced former House Speaker sure does say strange things. … Yeah, just think about it. Unless we all become conservative Christians, the next thing you know, prominent leaders might start cheating on multiple wives. — Oh wait. — Everything about Gingrich's little tirade is bizarre.
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Abe Levy / MySanAntonio.com:
Gingrich calls for return to religious roots
Gingrich calls for return to religious roots
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The Moderate Voice and The Page
Scottpowers / Orlando Sentinel:
How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White House — I was kidnapped. — That was news to me. — My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. — That was news to me too.
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The Politico and Political Punch, more at Mediagazer »
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Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Biden Team Apologizes For Using Storage Closet As Holding Room For Reporter
Biden Team Apologizes For Using Storage Closet As Holding Room For Reporter
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NY Daily News, Talking Points Memo, Fausta's Blog and The Gateway Pundit
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When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real? — WASHINGTON — In just two years, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus went from a school deemed in need of improvement to a place that the District of Columbia Public Schools called one of its “shining stars.”
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A Strange Man Is Following You — Shouting about mind-control assassins, the 9/11 conspiracy, and the Bilderberg Group, radio host Alex Jones has cornered the bipartisan paranoia market. — A shadowy group of elites—mainly international bankers but also George W. Bush, Barack Obama …
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Washington Monthly and The Wire
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
American Thought Police — Recently William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, decided to weigh in on his state's political turmoil. He started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council …
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AlterNet, NewsBusters.org, Prairie Weather, Climate Progress and Daily Kos
Salena Zito / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Can't Ignore Wisconsin Recall Battle — For weeks, the national media focused on union protests in Wisconsin. — Aging hippies trashed the state Capitol. Union members were bused in from across the country in color-coded T-shirts. Democrat state senators hid in an Illinois motel.
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Althouse
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Haley Barbour, slavery and the Civil War — Haley Barbour, the Mississippi governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential aspirant, has recently made a series of missteps involving race and the Civil Rights Movement. He seemed unclear about basic historical points.
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Yglesias, The Atlantic Online and Outside the Beltway
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Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: The newspaper's a year older; and we are still being blamed — This past Thursday was an anniversary. The “Union” part of the Union Leader begn its 149th year of continuous daily publication. It was a weekly even earlier. — > Jim Grady: RGGI benefits all Granite Staters (13)
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Page
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Closed (Circuit) — As you know, TPM has been on the ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement front for many years now. That was the root issue behind the US Attorney firings scandal — prosecutors who weren't willing to whip up phony ‘vote fraud’ indictments to game elections.
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Pajamas Media
New York Times:
N.Y. Budget Deal Cuts Aid to Schools and Health Care — Culminating weeks of secretive negotiations and intense political jockeying, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and leaders of the Legislature on Sunday announced a $132.5 billion budget agreement that would cut spending, impose no major new taxes …
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The Lonely Conservative, City Room, Zandar Versus The Stupid and The Reality-Based Community
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Govs face budget blowback — It was supposed to be one of the clearest messages of the 2010 elections: Voters were finally fed up with government spending. — It felt like the usual rules had changed, and that Americans were worried enough about the size of government to support a new era of belt-tightening.
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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011 — After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, Timothy, Patrick and Elizabeth, and thousands of friends and admirers. He is also survived by his work and ideas.
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Suburban Guerrilla, The Agonist and Newshoggers.com
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Japan nuclear plant data error was ‘unacceptable’ — The BBC's Mark Worthington says many people in Japan are becoming increasingly concerned about what is going to happen in the future — The Japanese government has attacked the operator of a crippled nuclear plant for “unacceptable” mistakes.
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Guardian, Shakesville and New York Times