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7:30 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Satyam / Think Progress:
Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban  —  Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, containing a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that establishes one interrogation standard, requiring the intelligence community to abide …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Passes Interrogation Ban  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.  —  Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill …
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesdy to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.
Discussion: Don Surber and Truthdig
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Defeats FISA Extension
Discussion: Wake up America
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost  —  For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival.  She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
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Jim Tankersley / Baltimore Sun:
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign manager backs Obama  —  David Wilhelm, who managed Bill Clinton's winning 1992 presidential campaign and went on to be the youngest Democratic National Committee chairman in history, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this afternoon.
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper and Kate Snow Report: In McAllen, Texas this morning Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she wasn't giving up on her race for the White House.  —  Speaking about her work in South Texas as an organizer …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up  —  On a conference call this morning, Obama advisers sounded as confident a note as they ever have, arguing that yesterday's victories have left them with an all but insurmountable lead in delegates.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An Obama spin win
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Plouffe: She can't catch us
ABCNEWS:
Edwards Weighs Clinton Endorsement  —  Former Candidate Torn Between Clinton and Obama in Democratic Race  —  As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting …
CNN:
Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon  —  (CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.  —  The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a …
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Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity  —  Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back.  Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Was there a Housing Bubble?  —  The conventional wisdom is that there was a housing bubble which has now popped.  The data, however, tell a different story.  Remember, that the evidence for the bubble was that real house prices had increased tremendously since around 1997 leading to prices …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama ‘Takes It Down a Notch’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After touring a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy that he said is on the “brink of a recession.”  —  The senator told GM workers to bear with him as he gave a more policy oriented speech.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Slog
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Who's Singularly Lacking In Specifics?
Matt Browner Hamlin / Hold Fast:
Another WSJ Editorial Farce  —  Today's Wall Street Journal includes an editorial attacking Senate Democrats like Barack Obama and Chris Dodd for their work to stop retroactive immunity and pass legislation that includes congressional and judicial oversight of domestic surveillance.
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
A Master Terrorist Is Killed  —  According to multiple press accounts, Iran's and Hezbollah's master terrorist, Imad Mugniyah, is dead.  He was reportedly killed by a car bomb in Damascus last night.  Hezbollah is claiming that he was killed by the Israelis.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Jewish Rep. Cohen Battles Antisemitism and Racism In Re-Election  —  If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee …
Speaker Pelosi / The Gavel:
On the House Vote on FISA  —  All Members of Congress fully understand and support our responsibility to protect the American people and the need for the President, the Congress, and policymakers to have the best possible intelligence to fight terrorism.  —  On Friday, a surveillance law insisted upon …
Discussion: Eschaton and Daily Kos
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators  —  The U.S. economy is faltering.  Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsened.  Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention …
Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
50 means 50, and far from over  —  I'd like to take my friend Markos at his word, that Obama is running a 50-state strategy.  As a fellow 50-state propagandist, I would expect that he shares the opinion that it applies not just to a presidential campaign, but also to the presidential nomination.
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias:
The McCain Shift  —  After a generally conservative career …
Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
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Associated Press:
Clinton scrambles to contest Wisconsin
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Obama tidal wave
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Huckabee questions McCain's ability to ‘energize’ base
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA: Getting Priorities Straight
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IMAGINE.  —  I think Matt is right to say that Obama's great advantage …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Blaming the weather  —  “Bad weather would be adverse for a lot …
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
BLOGGER LOSES DAY JOB WITH CNN OVER BLOGGING
Discussion: Political Machine
CNN:
Limbaugh: I'm McCain's ‘most valuable asset’
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Why Is Clinton's Back Against Wall? Nobody Prepared
Discussion: Wonkette, Donklephant and The Field
 

 
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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