Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, February 14, 2011 Obama Budget Proposal: Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class & Students President Barack Obama, less than two months after signing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans into law, is proposing a budget to congress that attacks programs that assist the working poor, help the needy heat their homes, expand access to graduate-level education and undermine that type of community-based organizations that gave the president his start in Chicago. Obama's new budget puts forward a plan to achieve $1.1 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade. Those reductions -- averaging just over $100 billion each year -- are achieved mainly by squeezing social programs. ENTERTAINMENT The Arcade Fire: Grammy SHOCKER POLITICS So Much For Civility As Heckling, Attacks Dominate CPAC POLITICS Doctors Work To Help Giffords' Brain Rewire Itself WORLD Egypt Labor Unrest Grows After Uprising TECHNOLOGY Groupon Users Furious About This Week's Deal BLOG POSTS Stacie Krajchir:Valentine's Day Gifts That Say "I Think I Love You" If you've been on the verge of sharing those three special little words, but can't seem to muster up the courage, these less than subtle gift ideas should trigger your inner cupid and help you cross over. Tracy McMillan:Why You're Not Married If you're having sex outside committed relationships, you will have to stop. Why? Because past a certain age, casual sex is like recreational heroin -- it doesn't stay recreational for long. Jeff Jarvis:Gutenberg of Arabia There's a silly debate over the credit social tools should receive in the revolutions in the Middle East. This same alleged debate goes on to this day over Gutenberg, too. Jillian York:The Media and the Algeria Internet Rumors Well, here we go again... the mainstream media yesterday jumped on rumors that Algeria had shut down the Internet, with seemingly no effort to check facts with people on the ground. Joe Vogel:Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Falls Short of Predecessors, Hype Obviously, there is a place for "self-empowerment" songs. But someone with Gaga's ambition (she has a quote from the German poet, Rilke, on her arm) and talent is capable of far more.

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