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Gail Sheehy / PARADE Magazine:
‘A Wrong Must Be Righted’  —  An interview with Benazir Bhutto  —  Editor's note: We are all saddened by the murder this morning of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto.  The assassination adds more danger and confusion to the already chaotic situation in the region.
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Plan B for Pakistan  —  The US had placed its hopes for Pakistan in Benazir Bhutto.  Now it must prevent her death from becoming a victory for al-Qaida  —  The closing scene of Benazir Bhutto's life had a shocking aura of inevitability.  The identity of the motorbike-riding assassin …
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Saeed Shah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Attendee at Bhutto rally: ‘There was pandemonium’  —  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — It was on the drive out of the downtown park that the assassin fired the fatal bullets at Benazir Bhutto.  —  The election rally had been long and lackluster, but on viewing the crowd gathered at the gates of Liaquat Bagh park …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Benazir Bhutto  —  A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent …
New York Times:
Salvaging U.S. Diplomacy Amid Division
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
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Michael Luo / New York Times:
McCain Campaigns in Iowa, Energized by New Hampshire  —  URBANDALE, Iowa — Senator John McCain kicked off his first full day of campaigning in Iowa here on Thursday, hoping to translate his ascendancy in recent polls in New Hampshire into some momentum in a state where he has struggled and expended little money.
Bloomberg:
Obama's Character, Clinton's Experience Split Early-Vote States
Discussion: TBogg and Donklephant
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Iowa Saturated by Political Ads  —  DES MOINES — One week before Iowa kicks off the presidential nomination contest, the campaigns are spending three times as much money flooding the airwaves and the Internet as candidates did in 2004, hoping to sway the huge number of undecided voters after months of on-the-ground appeals.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Adviser: Bhutto Assassination Reminds Us That Hillary Made Wrong Call On Iraq War  —  Okay, the battling among Dems over how the Bhutto assassination will affect the Dem primary is officially underway.  Today after Barack Obama's closing argument speech in Iowa, Obama adviser David …
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a UNuch can't  —  This is a waste of a perfectly good ficticious super hero. … The UN has to resort to fiction to bolster its image because a book about the UN doing any good would by definition have to be a work of fiction.
Discussion: TBogg and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Deborah Brewster / MSNBC:
U.N. joining forces with Spider-Man
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trouble With Trade  —  While the United States has long imported oil and other raw materials from the third world, we used to import manufactured goods mainly from other rich countries like Canada, European nations and Japan.  —  But recently we crossed an important watershed …
Bob Cesca / Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog!:
YODA IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON  —  Michelle Malkin reminds us of the reason for the season.  She also reminds us what it's like to have that acidic pukey taste in our mouths:  —  Nothing says “baby Jesus is the reason for the season” like a pagan tree decorated with Yoda and Pikachu ornaments.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Lee Harris / TCS Daily:
Revisiting the Stupid Party  —  The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill bequeathed to modern conservatism a lasting inferiority complex when he dismissed the conservatives of his day as “the stupid party."  No one likes to be called stupid, as we can all agree …
globegazette.com:
Immigrant-rights groups critical of upcoming radio event  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Immigrant-rights groups are criticizing the organizers of an upcoming radio event that will promote a crackdown on illegal immigration.  —  The groups accuse the Federation for American Immigration Reform of endorsing bigotry and racism.
Brad / Sadly, No!:
It's like the blind leading the really, really blind  —  Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser is discussin' Liberal Fascism with Jonah hisself: … SIGH:  —  1.)  When someone who complains about people throwing the term “fascists” around too freely then turns around and writes an entire book explicitly comparing …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Pakistan and the Candidates  —  Mike Huckabee, in his Foreign Affairs article once suggested that we might have to invade nuclear Islamist Pakistan.  On the death of Ms. Bhutto, his Carteresque gut reaction is now to apologize-but for what?  —  Barack Obama likewise once thought …
 
 
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