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1:30 PM ET, February 2, 2011

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New York Times:
Clashes Erupt in Cairo Between Mubarak's Allies and Foes  —  CAIRO — President Obama's calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators for and against President Hosni Mubarak, some on horses and camels, fought running battles in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square.
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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.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
B.E., Before Egypt.  A.E., After Egypt.  —  I'm meeting a retired Israeli general at a Tel Aviv hotel.  As I take my seat, he begins the conversation with: “Well, everything we thought for the last 30 years is no longer relevant.”  —  That pretty much sums up the disorienting sense of shock …
James Hohmann / The Politico:
GOP 2012-ers cold on Egypt strategy  —  Unlike top congressional Republicans, the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls isn't quite ready to express support for President Barack Obama's cautious approach to the crisis in Egypt.  —  In fact, many of them aren't ready to say anything at all.
CNN:
Click to watch video  —  [Update 4:59 p.m. Cairo, 9:59 a.m. ET] CNN iReporter Marianamin is an American living in a suburb an hour north of Cairo.  She says her friends and neighbors “don't know who they want in, but they just know they want Mubarak out. ...  Their thinking is he had 30 years to make changes.
Spengler / Asia Times:
Food and failed Arab states
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton plays key role in dance with Hosni Mubarak
Discussion: Wonkette and Reuters
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Wisconsin attorney general: “Health care law is dead”  —  Okay, so here's the next frontier in the war over the Affordable Care Act: Republican state officials around the country who are hostile to the law may now seize on Judge Vinson's decision yesterday to threaten to stop implementing it — right now.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Reagan's Solicitor General Charles Fried: 'I Am Quite Sure …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Guardian and AOL News
Publius / TheFourthBranch.com:
The alternatives to the health care law
Discussion: The Impolitic and Balloon Juice
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Neocons Split with Israel Over Egypt  —  Well, this is interesting.  The neoconservative (or liberal interventionist) wing of American Jewish political thought (not that all neocons are Jewish, God forbid anyone should think that!) is cheering on the revolution in Egypt …
Discussion: New York Times and Harry's Place
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Neocons vs. Israel
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
The View From Tahrir  —  Today President Mubarak seems to have decided to crack down on the democracy movement, using not police or army troops but rather mobs of hoodlums and thugs.  I've been spending hours on Tahrir today, and it is absurd to think of this as simply “clashes” between two rival groups.
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Jane Dutton / Aljazeera:
Clashes break out in Tahrir Square
Mike Stark / StarkReports.com:
Will Boehner's be the shortest Speakership ever?  —  [UPDATE] In the comments, Boy Culture's Matthew Rettenmund leaves a link to photos of the National Enquirer story.  Can't quite make out the text, but it's a two-page spread.  —  Remember the videos at the bottom of this post?
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and The Impolitic
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Senate moves closer to deal repealing 1099 provision in healthcare law  —  The Senate this week seems closer than ever to approving a repeal of the widely opposed 1099 language in last year's healthcare law, with Democrats and Republicans prepared to support nearly identical repeal language.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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The Note:
Senate Poised To Vote On Health Care Repeal
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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 …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Maddow Blames Beck and Other Conservatives for Her Getting Duped by Satirical Website  —  As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday got duped by a satirical website quoting from their spoof article about Sarah Palin advocating an attack on Egypt as if it was a serious commentary.
Moira Welsh / Toronto Star:
Superior Court rules Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing was unfair  —  A Mississauga businesswoman whose home was ordered seized to pay an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal award to a former employee can keep her house — for now.  —  The Superior Court struck down the “fatally flawed” …
Dave Mosher / Wired Science:
Satellite Shows Winter Megastorm Painting U.S. White  —  A NASA photograph of the Midwest megastorm gives profound visual truth to what it means for a snowstorm to blanket the United States.  —  The image was captured from space Jan. 31 by the GOES 13 satellite, which regularly photographs …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
The Kochs fight back  —  RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Faced with an avalanche of bad publicity after years of funding conservative causes in relative anonymity, the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, Charles and David, are fighting back.  —  They've hired a team of p.r. pros with experience working …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Can Jay Carney hack it as top flack?  —  The e-mail, coming from the Executive Office of the President and addressed to me, had a catchy subject line: “You are a hack.”  —  This was tough - but accurate.  I read on.  —  The body of the message began with the phrase “shamelessly misrepresented …
Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
Nelson says individual mandate ‘must change’  —  Speaking to more than 150 insurance brokers, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the individual mandate “the biggest sticking point” in the health reform law.  —  “It's time to change the mandate,” Nelson told members of the National Association …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and National Review
Elana Schor / New York Times:
Enviro Groups' Public Health Pivot in Support of EPA Regs Hitting Red States Too  —  The first signs of a shift came even before Election Day 2010, arriving as letters (pdf) and dramatic ads (pdf).  But as the 112th Congress gets to work, environmental groups are stepping up their transition toward …
Discussion: TPMDC, Weigel and The New Republic
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lawmakers press Supreme Court for verdict on healthcare law  —  Democratic and Republican lawmakers believe the Supreme Court will ultimately decide the fate of President Obama's healthcare law, and some of them are already exerting pressure on the justices.
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Obama's antique vision of technological progress  —  Barack Obama, like all American politicians, likes to portray himself as future-oriented and open to technological progress.  Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Anderson Cooper And CNN Crew Attacked By Pro-Mubarak Mob In Egypt  —  CNN's Anderson Cooper has been attacked while reporting for the network in Egypt.  The anchor, who's been reporting nearly nonstop since the weekend, described the attack to viewers this morning shortly after a Twitter report …
Discussion: FrumForum and Fox Nation
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
All The Daily Details  —  This morning we got all the details on Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, leaked by Rupert himself.  Now, the app is ready for download.  $40 will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents:  —  • Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment …
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Paul: Should the Tea Party compromise?  —  Washington (CNN) - During his first speech on the Senate floor, Tea Party champion Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, brought up what may be a dirty word for some of his constituents: compromise.  —  “Many ask will the Tea Party compromise?
Discussion: The Page
 
 
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