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11:00 AM ET, January 15, 2008

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Farrakhan Test  —  Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap  —  When Hillary Clinton is good on the Sunday talk shows, she is really, really good.  But when she is bad, she's atrocious.  When she talks about policy, she will dazzle you.  When her own ambitions are on the line, it's time to reach for the sick bag.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Major Clinton supporter calls Obama remark ‘absolutely stupid’  —  (CNN) — As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton's presidential bid called the Illinois senator's remarks attacking …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Cliff Schecter
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
A Hand the Clintons Aren't Showing  —  It turns out that Toni Morrison's famous line about Bill Clinton as “our first black president” was just a bon mot.  If the Clintons took it as a sign of African Americans' unconditional fealty, they were mistaken.  —  A new Post-ABC News poll shows …
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 …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama
Discussion: The New Republic and Salon
CNN:
Romney tries to break into winner's circle in Michigan  —  (CNN) — GOP presidential front-runners, locked in a tight race, pledged to help turn around Michigan's struggling economy in a last-minute effort to win over voters on the eve of the state's primary.
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Boston Globe:
Romney singing new tune, sweeter to Detroit's ears
Discussion: NY Daily News
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Kucinich court decision and “judicial activism”  —  (updated below)  —  MSNBC is televising a debate tonight between the Democratic presidential candidates in Nevada.  It originally invited Dennis Kucinich to participate because Kucinich met the objective criteria the network created for inclusion.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Romney photo-op was with staffer's mom  —  A well-publicized weekend photo-op for Mitt Romney turns out to have been missing a piece of information that might have undermined its credibility: the unemployed single mom at the center of the event was the mother of a Romney staffer.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and Hot Air
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Mike Huckabee Really Is a Piece of Work  —  From Michigan: … Governor, I didn't have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.  Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?
Discussion: KGO-TV, Dr. Sanity and Hot Air
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Minister Sees Need for U.S. Help in Iraq 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.
New York Times:
Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Politics and Misogyny  —  With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's win in New Hampshire, gender issues are suddenly in the news.  Where has everybody been?  —  If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it's the dark persistence of misogyny in America.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Feb. 5 Primaries to Pose A Super Test of Strategy  —  After the trench warfare of Iowa and New Hampshire and the upcoming skirmishes in a handful of states, a very different battle awaits the presidential candidates on Feb. 5: the biggest and most challenging single day in a recent campaign for a party nomination.
Discussion: The Swamp, TIME and The Politico
Deacon / Power Line:
LINDA GREENHOUSE BLOWS SMOKE AT HER PAPER'S OMBUDSMAN  —  Earlier today, Scott linked to comments from Clark Hoyt, “public editor” of the New York Times, about his paper's addition of Bill Kristol as a columnist.  Hoyt concluded that, because Kristol said the Attorney General had an obligation …
Discussion: Big Lizards
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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
More on Linda Greenhouse's Ethical In-Fidell-ity
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: A New Low in Approval Starts Bush's Final Year  —  Just two in 10 say they are getting ahead financially  —  Beset by growing economic concerns on top of the long unpopular war in Iraq, President Bush starts the last year of his presidency with the worst approval rating of his career.
Discussion: Think Progress and Liberal Values
The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Richard Baker to leave Congress Feb. 7  —  By Bill Walsh  —  WASHINGTON - The dean of Louisiana's congressional delegation, Rep. Richard Baker, has decided to step down from Congress after 22 years to take a job in the private sector representing investors he has spent a career regulating.
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
 
 
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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Whole Prices Soared Last Year
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Approps seat tests the GOP on spending
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court limits securities fraud lawsuits
Michelle Malkin:
The forgotten jihadists in Georgia
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
Kristol Mess (Part II): Claim in New ‘NYT ’ …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Citi Posts $9.83 Billion Loss; Will Cut Jobs
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Washington Times Names Post Reporter Its Top Editor
Discussion: The Politico and Horses Mouth
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?
 Earlier Items: 
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
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Discussion: American Power
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Conveniently Lost Contracts Of Campaign Contributors
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison
The Politico:
Red-state Dems sour on Clinton
Media Matters for America:
Savage on Media Matters: “They're the brownshirts of our time”
Damian Whitworth / Times of London:
Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on
Discussion: Wonkette
Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
TODAY'S GO-TO VILLAINS.
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