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7:45 AM ET, February 2, 2011

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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Urges Mubarak Not to Run Again  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama has told the embattled president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, that he should not run for another term in elections in the fall, effectively withdrawing American support for its closest Arab ally, according to American diplomats in Cairo and Washington.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Obama presses Mubarak to move ‘now’  —  President Obama, clearly frustrated by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's intention to retain his hold on power until elections later this year, said Tuesday evening that he has told Mubarak that a transition to representative government “must begin now.”
The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Situation in Egypt  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody.  Over the past few days, the American people have watched the situation unfolding in Egypt.  We've seen enormous demonstrations by the Egyptian people.  We've borne witness to the beginning …
Stellaa / Sarthanapalos:
A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt  —  The past few days I have heard so many stupid things from friends, blogs, pundits, correspondents, politicians, experts, writers that I want to pull my hair.  So, I will not beat around the bush, I will be really blunt and give you a handy list …
Wall Street Journal:
Egypt's Army Calls for End to Protests  —  By MARGARET COKER and CHARLES LEVINSON in Cairo and JONATHAN WEISMAN in Washington  —  Egypt's army called on protesters to return home Wednesday, and Internet connections were restored, as the government moved to restore some normalcy after a wrenching week of protests.
Wall Street Journal:
How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution
Discussion: Guardian and EA WorldView
Aljazeera:
Defiant Mubarak vows to finish term
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama calls for transition in Egypt to begin immediately
CNN:
Obama to Mubarak: Time for change
Discussion: Jihad Watch, Sky Dancing and FrumForum
David Weigel / Weigel:
Barasso, Graham, Introduce “Third Front” Against Health Care Reform  —  Senators John Barasso, R-WY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have introduced The State Health Care Choice Act, written to allow states to opt out of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, expansion of Medicaid programs and …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Wisconsin attorney general: “Health care law is dead”
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Wonk Room
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Tea Party Shadows Health Care Ruling
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Sens Admit: Goal Of Changing Health Care Law Is To Kill It
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senate to hold vote on repeal of health care law
Vancouver Sun:
‘Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb’  —  Al-Qaida members participate in military training in Afghanistan in this file photo.  —  Photograph by: Agence France-Presse Files, National Post, With Files From News Services  —  Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons …
David Eldridge / Washington Times:
Tardy senator draws dressing-down  —  Back home they were often superstars, governors, or state attorneys general, but here in Washington they are now just freshman senators — a lesson Sen. Richard Blumenthal learned on Monday when he got dressed down by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Fix
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:   Health care repeal measure will be offered as an amendment to first Senate bill
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Democrat co-sponsors balanced budget amendment
Discussion: Hot Air
Mike Riggs / The Daily Caller:
Valerie Jarrett to uniformed general: More wine, garçon!  —  In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention.  And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”
John Hudson / Los Angeles Times:
Rachel Maddow and NBC Struggle With Satire  —  WASHINGTON, DC - The Internet's finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night.  In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama's Egypt policies.
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
MSNBC's Maddow Reports Internet Spoof Story as Fact
Al Gore / Al's Journal:
An Answer for Bill  —  Last week on his show Bill O'Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me.  I appreciate the question.  As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question …
Dana Milbank / PostPartisan:
Day one of my Sarah Palin moratorium  —  I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium, defeating the evil plans of ABC News's Rick Klein.  Only 27 days to go...  Mr Milbank,  —  in addition, how about a PERMANENT moratorium on your fawning over every little/ignorant/weak/leftist DIMocRAT extremist?
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
President Obama snubs Issa on first major document deadline  —  TheDC Exclusive - The Obama administration snubbed top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa on his first major document deadline as new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sending a short letter promising …
Mike Stark / StarkReports.com:
Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever?  —  Remember the videos at the bottom of this post?  —  The New York Times passed on the story (if there ever was one; Page 6 of the New York Post isn't known as the beginning and end of truth), but evidently Boehner hasn't been successful in making the story go away.
Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away  —  The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.  —  An airliner explodes in a fireball as it hits the south tower of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001
The Huffington Post:
Michigan Family Says Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Program Cost Them Their Home … The following story is produced in partnership with The Dylan Ratigan Show's week long “No Way To Live” series on the financial crisis and its impact on ordinary Americans, and in collaboration with Meetup.com …
Discussion: naked capitalism
Washington Post:
Mental health specialist recommended WikiLeaks suspect not be deployed to Iraq  —  A mental health specialist recommended that the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks not be deployed to Iraq, but his immediate commanders sent him anyway …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
American Thinker:
The Story of the Egyptian Revolution  —  A friend of mine in academia forwarded this email to me from an Egyptian student whose good sense he vouches for.  He tells a story very different than that most of you are seeing on television or reading in your papers.
Pew Hispanic Center:
Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010  —  As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according to new estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
Ezra Klein:
An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate  —  In 1991, economist Mark Pauly was the lead author of a Health Affairs paper attempting to persuade President George H.W. Bush and his administration to adopt a universal health-care proposal that would keep the government from eventually taking over the sector.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Former Sen. Kennedy staffer convicted of stealing from Senate  —  Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) former office manager was convicted on Tuesday of stealing more than $75,000 from the Senate.  —  Ngozi Pole was found guilty on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times' Answer To The Daily  —  Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the launch of News Corp's iPad newspaper The Daily, but huddled away in a downtown loft in New York City's meatpacking district a team from betaworks and the New York Times …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Huntsman for President!  (In 2016)  —  Over at Democracy in America, Jon Fasman is trying to figure out why Jon Huntsman might be considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination this year: … Actually, I'd say the obvious answer is exactly the opposite.
 
 
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Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
Jordan's king fires Cabinet amid protests
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Natasha Mozgovaya / Haaretz:
Focus U.S.A.  —  J Street remains an outcast in the pro-Israel lobby
Gary Richards / Mercury News:
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Discussion: Seeing the Forest
New York Times:
Report Foresees Quick Gulf of Mexico Recovery
Discussion: FrumForum
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Huckabee: Palestinians Should Be Resettled In ‘Muslim’ Territory
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The Politico:
John Ensign running, despite ethics investigation
Discussion: Washington Post and Politics Daily
The Politico:
Obama, Bingaman to talk energy
Discussion: CNN
Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
It's Always the Urban Pot That Boils Over
Dana Bash / CNN:
Not many House Republicans rejecting health benefits on principle
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Baroness Ashton in political correctness row over word ‘Christian’
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Sen. Webb raises $12K in final quarter of 2010