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A crowded (but empty) 2012 Republican presidential field
The Iowa caucuses are 364 days away. (But who’s counting?) And yet there is only one candidate – pizza magnate Herman Cain – who has gone so far as to even form an exploratory committee to begin raising money for the Republican primary race.

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44: Madeleine Albright: ‘The Mubarak era is over’
ABC: THIS WEEK Egyptian Vice President: Mubarak will not step down immediately Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman said that President Hosni Mubarak will not give up power immediately, because “with this atmosphere, that means that the other people who have their own agenda will make instabilit…

Palin event canceled due to ‘an onslaught of personal attacks’
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was scheduled to speak at an event for a Colorado nonprofit group May 2, but the event was canceled the day after it was announced due to “an onslaught of personal attacks” against Palin.

At Ground Zero, a Sham Memorial
Michael Burke, New York Daily News
The con job at Ground Zero is not some lame memorabilia company selling fake coins. By focusing on easy targets like the National Collector's Mint, the media have missed the real fakery: the billion-dollar, 8-acre National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. It is no more authentic than those infamous commemorative coins, but a lot more harmful to the memory of those who died there.The fact is that the memorial will include nothing of the 9/11 attacks or the World Trade Center. Remember the steel remnants of the destroyed towers? Visit the “9/11 Memorial…

How Health Reform Became ‘Ford Pinto’ Law
Jonathan Turley, USA Today
Updated |   |  ShareAfter last week's decision striking down the entire federal health care law as unconstitutional, the White House went into a full convulsive rage at Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida. var data = blocks.columnist;if (data != undefined){document.getElementById('columnistmug').innerHTML=data;}By J. Scott Applewhite, APMedical reform: The president signs the health care bill into law in March 2010. EnlargeCloseBy J. Scott Applewhite, APMedical reform: The president signs the health care bill into law in…

Fate of Obama’s Health Law Rests With Kennedy
Ezra Klein, Newsweek
Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in October 2010.As of now, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is the most pivotal health-care policy thinker in America. Following district court Judge Roger Vinson's Jan. 31 ruling that declared President Obama's health-care-reform law unconstitutional, the plan has a solid 2"“2 record in the federal courts: two district judges have ruled for it, and two against. The odds are very good that it will eventually wind up in the Supreme Court. And once it gets there, odds are the bill's fate…