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11:00 AM ET, January 24, 2008

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Michael Luo / New York Times:
Romney Leads in Ill Will Among G.O.P. Candidates  —  TAMPA, Fla. — At the end of the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire this month, when the Democrats joined the candidates on stage, Mitt Romney found himself momentarily alone as his counterparts mingled, looking around a bit stiffly for a companion.
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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Let the sunshine in  —  If the other GOP candidates don't stop McCain now, they never will  —  Republican presidential hopeful John McCain bites his tongue as he answers reporters' questions during a campaign stop in Orlando, Florida.  —  GOP hopefuls brace for debate
MiamiHerald.com:
Poll: McCain rising, Giuliani fading  —  Asked whom they'll support in Tuesday's presidential primary, Democrats said Clinton.  Republicans favored McCain and Romney.  —  AIM  —  breinhard@MiamiHerald.com  —  Reinvigorated by early-state victories, John McCain and Mitt Romney are jockeying …
Agence France Presse:
McCain wins Louisiana caucus: preliminary results  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) — Senator John McCain has won the Republican party's caucuses in Louisiana while longshot candidate Ron Paul took second place, the state party said Wednesday, citing preliminary results.
Joy Lin / CBS News:
The Huckabee Puzzle  —  From CBS News' Joy Lin:
Discussion: Say Anything
Washington Post:
Romney, McCain Take Lead in Fla.; Tax Talk Pervades
Discussion: New York Times and The Caucus
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Times poll: McCain, Romney are neck and neck
Discussion: MyDD and The Page
Washington Post:
Some in Party Bristle At Clintons' Attacks  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president Bill Clinton.
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Obama dips, but still has South Carolina lead: poll  —  FLORENCE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big lead over rival Hillary Clinton slipped slightly but is still substantial two days before South Carolina's presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Hill defends Bill on stump
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and CNN
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Times poll finds Clinton holding on to lead
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jay Rockefeller's unintentionally revealing comments  —  (updated below)  —  As the Senate takes up “debate” today over granting the President new warrantless eavesdropping powers and granting immunity to lawbreaking telecoms, the individual who joined forces with Dick Cheney to get this ball rolling …
Discussion: The Seminal and Emptywheel
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA Battle: Stand And Be Counted
Discussion: CNET News.com and CQ Politics
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House conservatives seek earmark vote  —  House conservatives believe they can attract 50 Republican signatures to force a conference vote that would call for an earmark moratorium.  —  Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that he and several other anti-earmark lawmakers agreed …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
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Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:   Business as Usual GOP
Azi Paybarah / New York Observer:
Source at Fund-Raiser: Edwards Calls McCain ‘Crazy’ and Says Hillary Thinks There's More on Rezko  —  Before John Edwards let David Letterman mess up his hair on the Late Show last night, the former Senator was at a private fund-raiser in midtown Manhattan, also attended by Kevin Bacon …
C.J. / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken didn't exactly leave 'em laughing in Northfield  —  Franken apparently had more fun than senior history major Peter Fritz.  —  Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Al Franken didn't exactly leave 'em laughing in Northfield.  —  Earlier this month Franken was at Carleton College …
William Greider / The Nation:
Slick Willie Rides Again  —  The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened.  But we knew that, didn't we?  —  The recent roughing-up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House.  High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath …
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Anti-Bush campaign planned  —  WASHINGTON - A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.  —  Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign …
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
The Law of Unintended Consequences  —  Dubner and Levitt have an article in the NYTimes with three examples of the law of unintended consequences, the Americans with Disabilities Act made it more costly to hire people with disabilities and reduced their employment, ancient Jewish sabbatical law intended …
Discussion: Overlawyered
TVNZ:
Venezuelan troops seize food  —  Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem shortages.  —  The leftist Chavez this week created a state food distributor and loosened …
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
STUDY ON BUSH'S IRAQ DECEPTION AND LIES: FULL OF DECEPTION AND LIES  —  The headline-grabbing report released by two non-profits, Iraq: The War Card—Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War charged that the Bush administration issued “hundreds of false statements” on Iraq.
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
The Truth About Talk Radio  —  It just provides a dial tone.  —  IT WAS ROUGHLY SEVEN months ago that the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill went down to ignominious defeat.  At the time, many pundits blamed or credited talk radio for the bill's demise.  While guest-hosting …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Don Surber
 
 
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Donald J. Boudreaux / Christian Science Monitor:
THE FOOLISHNESS OF ECONOMIC ‘STIMULUS’
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New York Times:
Attacks Imperil U.S.-Backed Militias in Iraq
Discussion: Think Progress and INTEL DUMP
Gabriel Sherman / The New Republic:
The Fifth Columnist  —  How Bill Kristol landed that ‘Times’ gig.
Discussion: Think Progress
Megan McArdle:
Marriage minded  —  Bryan Caplan thinks that the partner …
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Obama said oops on 6 state Senate votes
Discussion: TalkLeft and MSNBC
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
RNC chairman provides numbers, strategy to defeat top Democrats
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