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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
Obama Unplugged — Lost without a Teleprompter. — USUALLY WHEN BARACK OBAMA gives a major speech, the overdone hosannas from the liberal commentariat follow as surely as night follows day. The American Prospect's Ezra Klein wrote of Obama's post-Iowa victory speech, “I've been blessed to hear many great orations.
CNN:
Voting begins in battle for the Potomac — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama heads into Tuesday's so-called Potomac primaries looking to sustain the momentum he mustered in his sweep of five Democratic contests last weekend. — The demographics in Virginia, Maryland and the District …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms — The Senate today — led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus — will vote to legalize warrantless spying …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FISA Fiasco Live on CSPAN2 — Senate is debating retroactive telecom immunity on CSPAN2, and the Republicans are proving that it's impossible to defend their opposition without lying your ass off. — Glenn Greenwald: … Pat Leahy's ridiculous assertion yesterday that he would join Dodd in the …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
John McCain's Top 24 Potential Picks For Vice-President — Predicting whom a particular candidate will take as Vice-President is always difficult because so many factors play into it. Do both candidates get along? Is the presidential nominee looking to carry a particular state, region …
David Brooks / New York Times:
When Reality Bites — There's a big difference between the Republican and Democratic campaigns: The Republicans have split on policy grounds; the Democrats haven't. There's been a Republican divide between center and right, yet no Democratic divide between center and left.
New York Times:
Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans — The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem. — As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime, credit histories are falling behind on their payments for home loans …
MSNBC:
‘Clean Team’ interrogated 9/11 suspects — Agency tried non-coercive techniques to protect case against six detainees — The Bush administration announced yesterday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
8 Questions the Potomac Primary Could Answer — 1) Will a Sweep by Obama Make Him the Front-Runner? — Victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District would give Barack Obama a narrow but undisputed lead among pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Go with the tough guy — The new ‘axis of evil’ doesn't fear the U.S. McCain could change that. — Some conservatives are having conniptions over the rise of John McCain as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Personally, I am less interested in what Rush Limbaugh …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Palestinians Ask U.S. To Intervene in Suits Over Terrorist Attacks — The State Department is considering supporting the Palestinian Authority in its quest to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments won by American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel …
Michael J. Totten:
The Final Mission, Part III — ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ - The United States plans to hand Anbar Province over to the Iraqis next month if nothing catastrophic erupts between now and then. The Marines will stick around a while longer, though, and complete their crucial last mission - training the Iraqi Police to replace them.
MattTX / Texans For Obama:
There is No Such Thing as the Texas Primary Part II: Delegate Projections — Previously we examined delegate allocation and the caucus process in Texas. The short version is that: — Texas has 193 pledged delegates, as well as 35 unpledged delegates — The Statewide Primary vote …
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants — PHOENIX — The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer clients. — While it is too early to know for certain …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
For Clinton, Ohio and Texas Emerge as Key States to Win — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors …
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CNN:
Sources: Gore won't endorse — (CNN) - He's the most prominent Democrat yet to take a side in the presidential election, but two sources close to Al Gore tell us not to expect the former vice president to endorse either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama any time during the primary season.
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