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6:05 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Wiretap Votes  —  Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington.  So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the Lilliputian attempts to tie down our war fighters.  —  “We lost every single battle we had on this bill …
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Matt Browner Hamlin / Hold Fast:
Another WSJ Editorial Farce
Scott Horton / Harper's:   Treating the Constitution as a Doormat
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 …
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.
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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 …
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:
Plouffe: She can't catch us
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Commercial Appeal:   Race-baiting in the 9th
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
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Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Dem's “Dream Ticket” : Why It Won't Happen  —  With the two Democratic candidates nearly tied in the number of delegates they've amassed, and the prospect of months more of ferocious competition, party leaders yearn for them to settle the struggle by joining together in a “dream ticket” of Clinton-Obama or even Obama-Clinton.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Obama tidal wave  —  Most everybody saw the Obama win in Virginia coming.  —  But thirty points?  —  Here's the making of a landslide:  —  Obama put together the same black-white coalition that made L. Douglas Wilder the nation's first black governor almost 20 years ago.
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.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
BLOGGER LOSES DAY JOB WITH CNN OVER BLOGGING  —  Let's file this one under unreal.  —  Chez Pazienza, a producer at CNN assigned to American Morning, was unceremoniously fired from his job today — without severance — over the content of his popular and edgy blog, Deus Ex Malcontent (warning: adult language).
Discussion: Political Machine
 
 
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Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House
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White House:
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Feb. 12 Speech
Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
50 means 50, and far from over  —  I'd like to take my friend Markos …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama
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Associated Press:
Clinton scrambles to contest Wisconsin
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
MSNBC Spokesperson: Shuster Will Not Be Fired And Will Return To Network
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The Democratic Race Moving Forward
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IMAGINE.  —  I think Matt is right to say that Obama's great advantage …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
McCain Blogger Call
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gallup: McCain wins more Democrats than Obama wins Republicans?
Pam / Pam's House Blend:
Inside the Clinton campaign travails
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Bush plays hardball on FISA legislation
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Why Is Clinton's Back Against Wall? Nobody Prepared
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews: Obama Speech Caused ‘Thrill Going Up My Leg’
 

 
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