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6:15 PM ET, February 21, 2009

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Washington Post:
Obama to Unveil an Ambitious Budget Plan  —  President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill  —  WASHINGTON — After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week of cutting the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, administration officials said.
Discussion: TIME.com and Riehl World View
Jamison Foser / Media Matters:
Nice job on the Stimulus, Madame Secretary.  But shouldn't you be changing some diapers?  —  US News & World Report's Washington Whispers page currently features a poll asking readers who they would prefer to run a daycare center for their kids: First Lady Michelle Obama, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Alan Keyes stokes Obama birth certificate controversy  —  The controversy over the validity of Barack Obama's birth certificate is back on a burner with firebrand conservative Alan Keyes making serious new charges.  —  In a video (see below) released Friday Keyes, who lost to Obama …
Michelle Malkin:
Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows  —  Seattle on Monday.  Denver on Tuesday.  Mesa AZ on Wednesday.  Overland Park, Kansas today.  What a week, huh?  We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli's call for a …
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Brendan / The Conservative Revolution:
How to Organize Your Own “Tea Party” Protest
Discussion: Riehl World View and Moe Lane
David Hogberg / Investor's Business Daily:
Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
Fox News:
U.S. Officials Outraged at U.N. Over Hamas Letter to Obama  —  Sen. John Kerry will not be visiting Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal during his trip to Syria Saturday and U.S. officials in Jerusalem are furious at the United Nations Relief and Works agency for its handling of the letter.  —  FOXNews.com
Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Elude Some Bush Ex-Officials  —  The jobless rate is hanging high — for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush.  Finding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected.  —  “This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting …
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Gideon Levy / ‘Antiwar’ film Waltz with Bashir is nothing but charade  —  Everyone now has his fingers crossed for Ari Folman and all the creative artists behind “Waltz with Bashir” to win the Oscar on Sunday.  A first Israeli Oscar?  Why not?  —  However, it must also be noted that the film …
Discussion: Commentary
Teddy Davis / The Note:
Palin Ribbed by Montana Guv for Being No Show  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer ribbed Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin Friday for announcing at the last minute that she will not be attending a Sunday discussion of energy policy that the two governors …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Gov. Rendell skeptical about stimulus potential  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) backed the $787 billion stimulus but said Saturday that he isn't sure whether it will actually fix the economy.  —  Rendell, at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's hope: ‘Because of what we did’  —  “Because of what we did,” President Barack Obama says today, things will get better.  He says so, repeatedly.  —  So this is as good a time as any to ask if the president's good speechwriting is getting in the way of good policy.
Discussion: The Politico
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:   In Address, Obama Highlights Tax Reductions
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama backs Bush on terror prisoners  —  The Justice Department told a federal court Friday that it shouldn't consider legal challenges filed by prisoners being held in Afghanistan by the U.S. military — another example of the Obama administration hewing to one of President Bush's war-on-terror stances.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Politico
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Recession's Hidden Virtues
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Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan and the U.S.
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Discussion: The Swamp and The Big Picture
Orange County Register:
Islamic radicalization is on the rise