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New York Times:
Obama Pledges 'Aggressive' Iran Diplomacy — Senator Barack Obama said he would "engage in aggressive personal diplomacy" with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek "regime change" if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.
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New York Times:
Interview With Barack Obama — The following is a transcript of an interview by Michael Gordon and Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times with Senator Barack Obama, conducted on Wednesday afternoon at his campaign headquarters in Chicago. Some of the questions have been edited for brevity and clarity, and extraneous material omitted.
International Herald Tribune:
Obama would engage Iran if elected, he says — CHICAGO: If elected president, Senator Barack Obama would meet with Iran's leaders and offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek "regime change" if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Lieberman Calls On Senate To Confirm Mukasey — Joe Lieberman, on the Senate floor just moments ago: — "To reject the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey because he refuses to say what some members want him to say on this question, and he refuses as a matter of sincerely held legal belief …
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Telegraph:
The most influential US conservatives: 1-20 — As the US prepares for what is arguably the most open presidential election since 1928, the last time there was no incumbent president or vice-president on the ballot, the Daily Telegraph's Washington correspondents compile a list of the 100 …
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Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
The war in Iraq has been won — THERE is a reason Iraq has almost disappeared as an election issue. — Here it is: The battle is actually over. Iraq has been won. — I know this will seem to many of you an insane claim. Ridiculous! — After all, haven't you read countless stories that Iraq is a …
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Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
The Real Hill-Bill Problem — WASHINGTON — Americans don't normally take much notice of Argentine elections. But they did notice when Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, was elected to succeed him last Sunday, ensuring not just a co-presidency …
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Friday's Blackout boycott took wing on the Web — Civil rights movement goes digital as it tries to show blacks' spending power — Gwenola Grier learned about Friday's National Blackout boycott through an e-mail forwarded by a friend that called for blacks to spend no money …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'This Will Make Voter Fraud Easier' — Why does Mrs. Clinton want driver's licenses for illegal aliens? — Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked during a debate this week if she supported New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
S.C. Democrats Say No to Colbert — GREENVILLE, S.C. — The momentum of the Colbert presidential campaign hit a cul-de-sac today when the South Carolina Democratic Party decided he wasn't a serious candidate and turned down his application to get on the ballot.
CNN:
Saudi prince: We could've helped prevent 9/11 — (CNN) — Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a "credible" way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday.
Patrick Harker / FIRE:
Victory at University of Delaware — University Dumps Thought Reform Program — Late Thursday, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker released on the school's website a Message to the University of Delaware Community terminating the university's ideological reeducation program …
Free exchange:
Do the poor prefer bad schools? — I MUST respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleague's last post, wherein he writes: … Let us leave aside for now the merit of regulatory agencies. Because preferences are sovereign and, in any case, economists aren't in the business of literary criticism …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hillary Reveals Her Inner Self — It's startling. It's still 1993 in there, the year before her fall. — The story isn't that the Democrats finally took on Hillary Clinton. Nor is it that they were gentlemanly to the point of gingerly and tentative. There was an air of "Please …
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