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6:30 AM ET, February 15, 2011

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers  —  The logic behind president Obama's budget has one extremely sensible feature: it distinguishes between spending that simply adds to consumption, and spending that really does mean investment.  His analogy over the weekend …
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John / Power Line:
“Steep Cuts?”  Even the Left Is Starting to Notice  —  Liberal press outlets are reporting, generally without criticism, the Obama administration's claim that its FY 2012 budget embodies “steep cuts” in federal spending over the coming decade.  Since a picture is worth a thousand words …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE.... Almost immediately after President Obama's budget proposal was released, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a statement condemning it.  As the right-wing senator put it, the White House's budget “would push us over the edge into generational debt.”
Paul Krugman:
The Great Abdication  —  Andrew Leonard is right: the Obama budget isn't going to happen, so in a sense it's irrelevant.  But it still has symbolic meaning.  What is Obama saying here?  —  The important thing, I think, is that he has effectively given up on the idea that the government …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
James Pethokoukis:   Obama budget reveals Obama's core
Alan Silverleib / CNN:
Obama's budget: A play for the center?
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama frames budget as thrifty, but with prudent investments
Discussion: The Politico
The Politico:
Key 2012 early states cool to Palin  —  A new poll of New Hampshire voters is the latest in a string of surveys suggesting that if Sarah Palin chooses to run for president, she'll struggle in the crucial early states.  —  The WMUR Granite State Poll released late Monday afternoon puts Palin close …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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WMUR:
Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll  —  Survey Shows Most Likely Voters Still Undecided  —  DURHAM, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early frontrunner in the New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new poll.  —  The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Romney …
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Romney has big lead in New Hampshire
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
House Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Monday voted to reauthorize and extend through Dec. 8 three ways in which Congress expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism powers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Discussion: FrumForum, TPMMuckraker and The Page
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
House set to pass Patriot Act extension on second try
Discussion: The Politico, The Foundry, CNN and Hit & Run
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Clinton to announce new ‘AfPak’ envoy  —  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, after months of delay and disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job that became vacant …
Lance M. Bacon / Army Times:
‘Punisher’ gets its first battlefield tests  —  XM25 ‘performs flawlessly’ in Afghanistan  —  The XM25 has changed the battlefield with only 55 rounds, and earned a new name among soldiers.  They call it “the Punisher.”  —  Since its first contact Dec. 3, the XM25 has been in nine engagements …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Allison Hantschel / Firedoglake:
Late Night: Possibly We Should Stop Sucking So Much  —  By Brigadier Lance Mans, Deputy Director, NATO Special Operations Coordination Centre [Public domain via Wikimedia Commons  —  Dan, with his finger on something that's been bugging me forever: … The stories immediately post-9/11 …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Popular Arizona sheriff considering a U.S. Senate run  —  Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012.  —  Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti-immigration stances …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Newsweek:
Wanted: A Grand Strategy for America  —  NEWSWEEK's new columnist on Obama's Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes.  —  Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images  —  President Barack Obama in front of the Sphinx during a tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza following his landmark speech to the Muslim World on June 4, 2009.
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
Protests Gather Steam in Tehran  —  Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran Monday, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters who recently toppled their own regimes.
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Olivier Knox / Agence France Presse:
Clinton: Time for Iran to ‘open up,’ follow Egypt
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Pajamas Media
Matt Cutts / The Official Google Blog:
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google's web search results  —  (Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)  —  We've been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content.  One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from users.
Ezra Klein:
The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army  —  American politics is one long argument about what government should or shouldn't be doing, and how it should or shouldn't be doing it.  It's rare that we step back, take in the larger picture and ask what it is doing.
Matthew Duss / The Nation:
Letter From Herzliya, Neocon Woodstock  —  HERLIZYA, ISRAEL— The city of Herzliya sits about ten miles north of Tel Aviv on Israel's breezy central Mediterranean coast.  Often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of Israel,” it's home to high-tech startups, palm tree-lined boulevards …
Discussion: Yglesias
Glenn Beck:
Muslim Brotherhood at CPAC?  —  Has CPAC been ifiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood?  That's what Pam Geller said on Friday afternoon.What did Glenn think?  —  “This is from CPAC, and I want you to know that I am not taking on CPAC at this point.  I am going over the news and I am at the beginning of looking into this.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
What Does Bias Look Like?  —  So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry.  And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things.
Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing … First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Donald Trump: Gay marriage bad, gays in NYC ‘great’  —  Donald Trump may have some New Yorkers doing a double-take, after he expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage while also saying he digs the city's robust gay population.  —  “New York is a place with lots of gays, and I think it's great.
Discussion: The Page
The Note:
Breaking: Sen. John Kerry Heads to Pakistan to Calm Diplomatic Tensions  —  ABC News' Kristina Wong reports:  —  Sen. John Kerry has left for a trip to Pakistan today, according to his spokesperson on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to calm frayed diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
New Civil Rights Commission Suspends Printing Of New Black Panther Report  —  Newly appointed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights closed their investigation of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and suspended publication of hard copies of the report at a meeting last week.
 
 
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Experience Economy  —  Tyler Cowen's e-book, “The Great Stagnation …
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Vanishing Act: ‘Advisers’ Seek Distance From a Report
Reuters:
U.S. charges 7 men in Taliban drug, missile sting
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom
Wall Street Journal:
Ecuador Court Orders Chevron to Pay $8.6 Billion
Discussion: Hot Air, Law Blog and The Daily Caller
Steve Peoples / Roll Call:
Charlie Rangel Files for Re-Election
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Obama Isn't Trying to ‘Weaken America’
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