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12:15 AM ET, March 1, 2009

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CNN:
Limbaugh calls on conservatives to take back nation  —  (CNN) — Rush Limbaugh brought a cheering crowd to its feet several times Saturday in Washington as he called on fellow conservatives to take back the country in the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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David Mark / The Politico:
Rush rouses CPAC faithful  —  Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh reiterated his hope Saturday that the new Democratic administration will fail, rousing conservative activists to fight the “bastardization of the Constitution that the Obama plans are.”  —  When it came to Iraq, Democrats …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
RushLimbaugh.com:
Rush's First Televised Address to the Nation: Conservative Political …
Discussion: Don Surber
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Kathleen Sebelius: HHS secretary  —  Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas, has accepted President Barack Obama's nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services, White House sources are reporting this evening.  —  Obama plans to announce the selection on Monday, according to the Associated Press, citing a source.
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Washington Post:
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Accepts Nomination to HHS Secretary
Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum
CNN:   Officials: Sebelius to be Obama's pick for HHS
Ed Henry / CNN:
White House: Sebelius is pick for HHS secretary
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:   Sebelius Accepts HHS Post
Associated Press:
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius tapped to lead HHS
Discussion: Nashville Scene
The Politico:
Sebelius to fill HHS
Discussion: The Raw Story
Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Obama Is Said to Pick Kansas Governor for Health Post
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Rick Santelli's Planted Rant ?  —  I was interviewed by several journalists last week about Rick Santelli's Rant — my exact quote was it had a “Faux” feel to it.  (I haven't seen it in print yet)  —  What was so odd about this was that Santelli is usually on the ball; we usually agree more often than we disagree.
Fox News:
Paul Harvey, News Commentator and Talk-Show Pioneer, Dies at 90  —  Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, FOX News has confirmed.  He was 90.
Discussion: RedState
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See-Dubya / Michelle Malkin:   RIP Paul Harvey
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Paul Harvey: ‘The rest of the story’ ends
Marjorie Connelly / New York Times:
Ailing G.O.P. Risks Losing a Generation  —  Republicans have their work cut out for them.  —  Americans identifying themselves as Democrats outnumber those who say they are Republicans by 10 percentage points, the largest gap in party identification in 24 years.
Scott Gutierrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Beating caught on police video  —  Tape shows officer kicking, striking teenager  —  A video showing a King County Sheriff's deputy pummeling a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell was released Friday over the strenuous objections of the officer's attorney.  —  The case goes beyond police misconduct …
Robert Travis Scott / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Gov. Bobby Jindal fights back against those questioning points in his speech  —  BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal fought back Friday against reports by national media outlets and Democratic-leaning Web sites that he was inaccurate or untruthful Tuesday night in the Republican Party response …
David Mark / The Politico:
Romney wins CPAC straw poll  —  In one of the opening skirmishes in the long - and almost certainly bloody - GOP battle for the 2012 nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the annual Conservative Political Action Convention straw poll Saturday.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Romney wins conservative straw poll
Discussion: Below The Beltway and QandO
MSNBC:
Report: Obama helicopter security breached  —  Pa. company says blueprints for Marine One found at Iran IP address  —  A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday.
Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:
The New and Improved “Us vs. Them” Narrative  —  I haven't so far posted any of these weekly YouTube reports by the President that roll out each Saturday morning because, well, they're sort of ubiquitous already on the Internets and I figure folks come here for stuff you won't ordinarily read or see elsewhere.
Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
Barack Obama surrounding himself with spivs and chancers  —  GOOD thing for Barack Obama that he isn't George Bush.  He'd have been slaughtered for starting so badly that he's picking a Cabinet of tax cheats.  —  But a month since he was sworn in as President, Obama has lost not a fleck off his golden tongue.
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Trouble With State Government  —  I was talking to a libertarian-minded fellow at the Kaufman Foundation conference I was attending on Friday, and he asked me something like why does all this big government stuff have to be done at the federal level?  Couldn't we leave it all up to the states?
Discussion: Unfogged and Eschaton
Jon Chait / Washington Post:
Obama's Intelligence Blunder  —  Most of President Obama's “missteps” to date have been Washington peccadilloes of the “let's find something to complain about” sort.  But Obama has made one major mistake that has attracted little public attention: his appointment of Charles Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
 
 
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