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Human Events:
HUMAN EVENTS Endorses Fred Thompson — The 2008 presidential election is the most unusual and most important in many years. It's been more than five decades since such a race didn't feature an incumbent President or Vice President. Since World War II, America has not had a presidential election …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Scarborough: ‘Pathetic Lapdog Freddie Boy, Hatchet Man for McCain’
Scarborough: ‘Pathetic Lapdog Freddie Boy, Hatchet Man for McCain’
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Elizabeth Benjamin / New York Daily News Blogs:
NY Conservative Party To Endorse Thompson, Not Un-Conservative Rudy
NY Conservative Party To Endorse Thompson, Not Un-Conservative Rudy
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Racial tensions roil Democratic race — A series of comments from Senator Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
LAS VEGAS STOP: Clinton pitch hits home — Democratic hopeful goes door to door — People in the Las Vegas neighborhood saw all the cameras and trucks and buses and police on the streets Thursday, and they began to trickle out of their houses to find out what was going on.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Let's have some fun in Michigan — In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, seriously embarrassing the state's Democrats.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE AD MS. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE — The American Jewish Congress submitted this understated advertisement about the status of women in Israel to Ms. Magazine. Underneath the attractive photographs of Israel's foreign minister (Tzipi Livni), Supreme Court president (Dorit Beinish) …
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Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Ms. Magazine refuses to publish ad about Israel's most powerful women
Ms. Magazine refuses to publish ad about Israel's most powerful women
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CNN:
Top Giuliani staffers to go without pay — MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) — CNN has learned that top staff members of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign were asked to work without pay for the month of January, and perhaps longer, so that campaign resources could be focused on the Florida Republican presidential primary.
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Lawrence O'Donnell / The Huffington Post:
John Edwards is a loser. He has won exactly two elections in his life and lost 31. Only one of his wins and all of his losses were in presidential primaries and caucuses. He remains perfectly positioned to continue to lose with a Kucinich-like consistency. Nothing but egomania keeps Edwards in the race now.
Agence France Presse:
Judge nixes hearing on destroyed CIA tapes — WASHINGTON (AFP) — A federal judge Thursday rejected a request by war-on-terror detainees in Guantanamo who sought a hearing on the destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogations of terror suspects, a court source said.
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Alex Koppelman / Salon:
“We're all fascists now” — Jonah Goldberg is not a popular man among liberals. The son of Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent who played a pivotal role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he already had that as a strike against him when he began his career as a conservative political commentator in the late 1990s.
Reuters:
Snow falls on Baghdad for first time in memory — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Snow fell on Baghdad on Friday for the first time in memory, and delighted residents declared it an omen of peace. — “It is the first time we've seen snow in Baghdad,” said 60-year-old Hassan Zahar. “We've seen sleet before, but never snow.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
In 1996, Paul Wasn't Issuing Denials — Reason Magazine has long associated themselves with the Ron Paul campaign, if not officially endorsing him. Their Hit & Run blog has served as the heart of rational Paul apologetics, and in their skilled hands, that has proven essential to his campaign.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
More On Choosing A Vice-President: Seek Reinforcement, Not Balance — Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is set to endorse Barack Obama today. Such an endorsement is bound to create buzz around Napolitano as a possible Vice-President for Barack Obama if he wins the nomination.
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Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Edwards and Organ Transplants — Campaigning in the primaries, former Sen. John Edwards is leveraging the tragic story of Nataline Sarkisyan — the 17-year-old California woman who recently died awaiting a liver transplant — to press his political attack on insurance companies and argue for European-style, single-payer health care.
Matt / Think Progress:
Ricks: Baghdad Only Seems ‘Peaceful’ Because 2006 Was ‘Pure Hell’ — Discussing the one-year anniversary of President Bush's call for the “surge” on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, Washington Post Pentagon reporter Thomas Ricks said that, “judged on the terms …
Wall Street Journal:
Wiretap Politics — Senator Chris Dodd's Presidential campaign died with a whimper in Iowa. But he still seems to be dictating national security policy to fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill, and unless the Bush Administration is willing to fight, perhaps to the next President too.
Yeas & Nays:
MoveOn.org peels editor off of satirical Onion paper — Lapsing into parody? — Lots of people on the right think that the liberal group MoveOn.org is a joke. Well, now they'll have a bit more ammo in their argument. — The powerful liberal activist group has wooed Peter Koechley away …
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Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Bush: US should have bombed Auschwitz — JERUSALEM - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.
Erica Jong / The Huffington Post:
Who's Tired of Pink? — I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism. I am so tired of pink men telling women (of all colors) what to do with their wombs—which connect with their brains—in case you forgot. I am so tired of pink men telling us we should stay in Iraq for generations.