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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy — ABC News' David Wright, Andy Fies, and Sunlen Miller Report: Sen. Barack Obama told ABC News Monday there is nothing in Sen. Hillary Clinton's record that would give him any cause for concern about her in terms of racial politics.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton booed at MLK rally in New York — NEW YORK, N.Y. — Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a smattering of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin Luther King Jr. rally put together by a union organizing predominantly black security workers.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama, putting out the fire — Carrie Budoff Brown has some key quotes from an Obama avail this afternoon in Reno, where he tried to put to rest the racially-charged name-calling. … His surrogates and a spokeswoman have, it's worth noting, participated in the recent round of criticism of the Clintons …
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Tries to Stop the ‘Silliness’ — (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) — RENO, Nev. - As he campaigned in northern Nevada on Monday, Senator Barack Obama said he was concerned that a heated discussion of racial issues in the presidential campaign could divide the Democratic Party.
Matt Bai / The Caucus:
The Clintons and History — WASHINGTON — There's an old joke people here in the capital like to tell about Charles E. Schumer, the New York senator, and over the years I'm sure it's been used to describe other politicians, as well: The most dangerous place to stand in Washington …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton and Obama Call for Truce Over Dr. King Dispute — Speaking to black and Hispanic New Yorkers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton tried on Monday to quell a controversy over race in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination by praising the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Judge To NBC: You Can't Control Your Own Content — A solution in search of a problem found a judge in search of some understanding of the concept of private property and free speech. Both converged in Las Vegas through the efforts of Dennis Kucinich to force his way into the NBC Democratic debate.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Green Party holds presidential debate in San Francisco — (01-13) 20:01 PST San Francisco — Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. — Those were just some of the goals stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in San Francisco.
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:Chelsea Clinton steps into California spotlight to rally for mother
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Tim B. / Tim Blair:
A VISIT TO THE INFIRMARY — Feeling poorly for some time. Saw a doctor a few weeks ago, who sent me to a specialist, who booked me into hospital for tests. — It's cancer. — Major abdominal surgery next week. If all goes well, the remaining non-cancerous section of me will be home by early-mid February.
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Bothersome Intel on Iran — In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration's recent National Intelligence Estimate. That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Case Against Hillary Clinton — WHY ON EARTH WOULD WE CHOOSE TO PUT THE CLINTON FAMILY DRAMA AT THE CENTER OF OUR POLITICS AGAIN. — Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory.
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Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
TODAY'S GO-TO VILLAINS. — Via Steve Clemons, a good short doc on Hollywood's vilification of Arabs. — Among the many offensive images and representations in the program, the clip from Back to the Future is particularly ridiculous. The year was 1985, Muammar Khaddafi was being sold …
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Spengler / Asia Times:
Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code — Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Iraq Defense Minister Sees Need for U.S. Security Help Until 2018 — FORT MONROE, Va. — The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq's borders from external threat until at least 2018.
Kos / Daily Kos:
IL-03: 5,000 for Pera — Let me lay out the brutal reality for you guys: — Few people in DC care what we think. — Yeah, yeah, big shock, what with one Democratic capitulation after another last year. That was pretty much the tip-off. — But the bottom line is that we can't buy them off with lobbyists.
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Damian Whitworth / Times of London:
Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on — Ten years after a young intern nearly brought down a president, the players in the Monica Lewinsky scandal talk to our correspondent — On the evening of Saturday January 17, 1998, the internet gossip merchant Matt Drudge posted …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain faces little incoming fire — KALAMAZOO, Mich. — His opponents aren't going after him. There isn't a single third-party group hammering him in broadcast TV or radio ads. Even anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, a longtime adversary, is taking it easy on John McCain this time around.
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