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7:05 PM ET, February 13, 2011

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MAYBE MCCAIN FIGURED OUT WHO'S ON THE ‘RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY’.... I really have retired my ongoing count of John McCain's Sunday show appearances.  I'm sure folks have gotten the point — Sunday show bookers continue to be obsessed with McCain, and they shouldn't be.
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
John McCain: Putin and Hu Should Watch Out  —  Ariz. Republican Calls Egyptian Revolution “Repudiation of al Qaeda,” Says Protests Will Not Be Confined to Middle East  —  (CBS) Arizona Sen. John McCain predicted on Sunday that the recent governmental overthrow in Egypt …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and HotAirPundit
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Reid calls on Republicans to completely rule out shutting down the government  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Sunday to completely rule out shutting down the government over disagreements on spending.
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
AP Source: Obama to seek changes in Pell Grants  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's budget plan would cut $100 billion from Pell Grants and other higher education programs over a decade through belt-tightening and use the savings to keep the maximum college financial aid award at $5,550, an administration official said.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama's budget to call for slashing oil tax breaks, boosting clean energy  —  President Obama is expected to call on Congress Monday to eliminate billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks, while setting aside money for his top clean-energy policy priorities.
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama budget falls far short of debt commission savings plan
Discussion: The Politico
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Frank Gaffney Braves Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration To Warn CPAC About Grover Norquist  —  CPAC is the year's preeminent conservative conference, bringing together the right and the far-right, but one very prominent neo-conservative voice had vowed to boycott the event this year because …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Booman Tribune
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Byron Tau / The Politico:
Right fractures over Islam
Discussion: Little Green Footballs and Salon
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Video: ACU's Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
No Argument: Thomas Keeps 5-Year Silence  —  WASHINGTON — The anniversary will probably be observed in silence.  —  A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it will have been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument.
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Noah Feldman / New York Times:   Sometimes, Justice Can Play Politics
David Segal / New York Times:
The Dirty Little Secrets of Search  —  PRETEND for a moment that you are Google's search engine.  —  Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter.  What will be the very first result?  —  There are, of course, a lot of possibilities.  Macy's comes to mind.  Maybe a specialty chain, like J. Crew or the Gap.
Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Egypt's Military Dissolves Parliament and Calls for Vote  —  CAIRO — The Egyptian military consolidated its control Sunday over what it has called a democratic transition from three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule, dissolving the country's feeble parliament …
Discussion: The Lede, Hot Air and Althouse
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Bcook / Fox Nation:
Palin Crushes Time Magazine Over their ‘Lies’  —  Sarah Palin's recent email to Time Magazine Congressional Correspondent Jay Newton-Small started off congenial enough.  The mood soon shifted dramatically when Gov. Palin attacked the magazine over the “total lies” that had been published about her.
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
Boehner on birthers: 'It's not my job to tell the American people what to think'  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that while he believes President Obama is an American citizen and a Christian, Americans have a right to think otherwise if they so choose.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Boehner, Like Cantor, Refuses To Repudiate Birther Conspiracy Theories
Joshua Miller / ABCNEWS:
Gingrich Calls for Worldwide Democracy Promotion  —  Warns Against Muslim Brotherhood Rise in Egypt  —  Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, criticized the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Egypt, warned against the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood …
Discussion: HotAirPundit
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ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Revolution in Egypt
The Huffington Post:
Bill O'Reilly Dismisses Beck's Egypt Theory: ‘No Evidence’ (VIDEO) … During the weekly “At Your Beck And Call” segment on his Friday show, Bill O'Reilly dismissed Glenn Beck's theory about the Egyptian revolution—namely, that it marks the beginning of an alliance between Communists …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
What Egypt Can Teach America  —  It's a new day in the Arab world — and, let's hope, in American relations to the Arab world.  —  The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades.
Daily Mail:
Don't put wire on your windows - it might hurt burglars!  Villagers outraged after police order them not to protect garden sheds  —  Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Egypt May Have Just Won The Future.
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