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3:55 PM ET, January 12, 2008

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New York Times:
Clintons Move to Tamp Down Criticism From Blacks About Recent Comments  —  WASHINGTON — The Clinton campaign moved Friday to try to quell a potentially damaging reaction to recent comments by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton that have drawn criticism from African-Americans …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Edwards Will Face a Moment of Truth After South Carolina Primary  —  John Edwards is the forgotten man in the race for the Democratic nomination, but he's not an inconsequential candidate.  —  Edwards, the angry populist of Iowa who may become a Southern-fried Democrat as the South Carolina primary unfolds …
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
MINORITY REPORTS  —  After New Hampshire, a hint of racial politics. … The brief interregnum between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary may be remembered as a time when it appeared that the magical qualities ascribed to Barack Obama included an ability to suspend all the ordinary rules of politics.
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Obama Giving Clinton a Race in Her Backyard  —  With Senator Barack Obama vowing to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her home turf, the Democratic presidential primary in New York on Feb. 5 is shaping up as the state's most competitive since 1992, when Bill Clinton took up a rival's mantra …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Newt: Hillary shows courage, integrity  —  Newt Gingrich's on-again, off-again adulation of Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be back on.  —  The leader of the 1994 Republican revolution — who as House speaker in the mid 1990s clashed fiercely with then-first lady Clinton and her husband …
Wayne Washington / The State:   Clinton camp hits Obama | Attacks ‘painful’ for black voters
Washington Post:
U.S. Political Drama Compels — and Baffles
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraq to reinstate Saddam party followers  —  BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of U.S.-backed legislation it has adopted.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
De-Baathification Reform Law Passes In Iraqi Parliament  —  Note: I'm leaving this post on top for the morning; newer posts are below.  —  Those who claim that the surge strategy in Iraq has paid no dividends because it hasn't met Congressional benchmarks may wish to skip to the next post.
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Drop in violence levels only first step in Iraq
Discussion: QandO
Navy Times:
‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say  —  The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”
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In From the Cold:
What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz, Revisited
Discussion: Macsmind
Steve Friess / New York Times:
Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Workers' Union Vote in Nevada Caucus  —  LAS VEGAS — Nevada's state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the state's huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in Nevada.
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Ben Nelson To Endorse Obama  —  Now this is a predictable development as Ben Nelson is the king of bipartisanship, voting with Republicans more than any other Democrat: … Again, the national implications for me are not positive for Obama, they are negative.
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CNN:
SC's Republican governor praises Obama candidacy
Discussion: All Spin Zone and American Street
Rudyg / Stumper:
Blumenthal On the Boil  —  Sidney Blumenthal plays hardball.  A longtime confidante and adviser to the Clintons, he has zealously defended them through any number of scandal investigations.  Along the way, Blumenthal has shown an affinity for the sharp counterattack.
Paul Vitello / New York Times:
A Combative Thompson Sways Voters  —  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — John and Ann Berenberk dutifully watched the umpteenth Republican presidential debate on television on Thursday night and had an epiphany.  It was about the candidate they had previously referred to as the tall, silent one.  Fred D. Thompson.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Joe Won't Be The Veep Pick For McCain  —  Unlike in the 2004 campaign, when a still-angry McCain allowed rumors of a second-slot deal with John Kerry to percolate just a little before denying them, the McCain campaign wants to scotch rumors of a similar deal with Senator Joe Lieberman.
George W. Bush / Newsweek:
Sorry, Barack, You've lost Iraq.  —  Bush's efforts to negotiate a long-term U.S-Iraq pact may remove troops as an '08 election issue for Obama, Clinton.  —  Camp Arifjan in the desert kingdom of Kuwait, America's depot to the Iraq war, feels about as far away as you can get from South Carolina …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Vanderleun / AMERICAN DIGEST:
Cutting Through the Katrina Krapola  —  “You've got a mouth full of gimme, a hand full of much obliged."  — Bessie Smith, Gulf Coast Blues  —  I don't know about you but I have had it with the legions of hustlers, grifters, drunks, junkies, pathics and drooling layabouts that keep waddling …
David Hardy / Of Arms and the Law:
Government files amicus — on DC's side!  —  Quick read: Gov't says, yes, it's an individual right.  BUT we join with DC in asking Court to reverse the DC Circuit, because it applied strict scrutiny to the DC law.  It should only have applied an intermediate standard.
Discussion: Redstate, Daily Pundit, Hot Air and SayUncle
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Released Detainees' Lawsuit  —  The D.C. Court of Appeals today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit for damages filed by four Britons who had been detained at Guantanamo.  Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal Al-Harith had sued Donald Rumsfeld …
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James Vicini / Reuters:
U.S. appeals court dismisses Guantanamo torture suit
 
 
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WZZM-TV:
New Poll: McCain leads Romney by 7% in Michigan
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AP Rewrites Rathergate History
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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Discussion: TalkLeft
Mark Magnier / Los Angeles Times:
Trail of risky investments in China
Las Vegas Sun:
Voting on the Strip a no-no, suit says
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Francis Wilkinson / New York Times:
Fighting to Lose  —  Nyack, N.Y.  —  IF parts of Hillary …
Meghan Daum / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary's gotta have it  —  In courting the voters, maybe she should play by ‘The Rules.’
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. attorney's office accused of anthrax case leaks
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House passes resolution to honor Gore's efforts
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Caroline B. Glick / Townhall.com:
George in Jihadland  —  US President George W. Bush arrived …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Bush and Congress Seen Pushing for Stimulus
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Baghdad Embassy Is Called A Fire Risk
CNN:
China blogger beaten to death
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

 
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