The Hill reports:

The Senate on Wednesday voted down a repeal of President Obama’s healthcare law in a 47-51 party-line vote.

The vote came two weeks to the day the Republican House voted 245-189 to repeal the law, and just days after a federal judge ruled Obama’s signature legislative achievement is unconstitutional.

Many Democrats in the past year have accused their Republican opponents of not caring about rape victims.

Just last night I had encouraged an Egyptian friend, Raouf, living in the United States, who wanted to go back home to witness his country’s historic events. “I need to see this,” he told me excitedly. Now with fighting in the streets today I’m not so sure.

Politico reports on the varied responses from the GOP presidential field to the protests in Egypt.

Mitt Romney has taken a strongly pro-democracy line: 

Scrambling for a simple standard to measure events in Egypt and across the Arab world, the blogosphere and the airwaves have been full of references to 1979. That point of reference is probably more apt than imagined, for much more happened that year than just the Iranian revolution.

The Senate will likely vote today on a bill to repeal ObamaCare. The vote will come in the wake of Monday's ruling by United States District Court Judge Roger Vinson, in favor of 26 states, that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. It will also come in the wake of a recently released poll by McLaughlin and Associates of 1,000 likely voters, which asked,

Yesterday, pro-life activist Lila Rose released a video that showed the manager of Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey advising a man, posing as a sex trafficker, on how he should go about evading the law in order to get abortions and STD-testing for his 14-year-old prostitutes/sex slaves.

Tough Without a Gun
The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
By Stefan Kanfer
Knopf, 304pp., $26.95

Physically, he was an unlikely star in any era. Balding, short, afflicted with a lisp and a lined face from drink, Humphrey DeForrest Bogart (1899-1957) has nevertheless proved to be the most enduring of Old Hollywood stars.

The political future of Nebraska Democratic senator Ben Nelson, who's up for reelection in 2012, looks like it's on the line. Here's Democratic polling firm PPP on what Nelson is facing in the 2012 election:

Aiming for that master's degree in cinematic studies? How about a thesis on the politics of Clint Eastwood? (No doubt it's already been done.) But if you're trying to find a straight path from Dirty Harry to Letters From Iwo Jima, good luck. In last weekend's Wall Street Journal, Michael Judge interviews the Oscar-winning actor-director.

The Washington Post reports: 

CAIRO - The Egyptian army called Wednesday for an end to the massive demonstrations that have shaken President Hosni Mubarak's grip on power, and the mood turned ominous as the anti-government crowds were confronted by angry Mubarak supporters.