Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Eschaton, The Gate, Comments from Left Field, AMERICAblog, Slog, Firedoglake, Democrats.senate.gov and Hold Fast
RELATED:
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 …
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 …
Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: House Blue Dogs enabling the GOP — CQ is reporting ( link here) that the House Republicans will try to derail the effort to pass a 21 day extension of the existing surveillance law and force a vote on the Senate bill: … The Blue Dogs that have endorsed the Senate passed bill wrote to Pelosi last week.
Discussion:
Firedoglake, The Raw Story, DownWithTyranny!, Hullabaloo, Suburban Guerrilla and ShopFloor.org
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Wiretap Votes
Obama's Wiretap Votes
Discussion:
The Newshoggers, The Strata-Sphere, The Carpetbagger Report, The Heretik, American Power and The Jawa Report
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Bush plays hardball on FISA legislation
Bush plays hardball on FISA legislation
Discussion:
White House, Stop The ACLU, ACLU, The Crypt's Blogs, Wake up America, michellemalkin.com and American Street
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.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Balloon Juice, Blue Crab Boulevard, MSNBC, The New Republic, Betsy's Page, Talking Points Memo, The Field and Hot Air
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Politico, Liberal Values, Comments from Left Field, Political Punch and TIME
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 …
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, michellemalkin.com, Hot Air, Washington Monthly and The Carpetbagger Report
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
RELATED:
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama
Discussion:
TownHall Blog
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, The Newshoggers, Ross Douthat, Megan McArdle, The Glittering Eye and Paul Krugman
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Senate votes to ban waterboarding — WASHINGTON - Congress on Wednesday moved 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.
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 …
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Iraqi Lawmakers Pass 3 Crucial Laws — BAGHDAD — Using old-fashioned behind-the-scenes politicking, Iraq's Parliamentary leaders pushed through three divisive laws that had been delayed for months by bitter maneuvering between factions and, recently, threats to dissolve the legislative body.
Discussion:
The Long War Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The Strata-Sphere, Hot Air and Commentary
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Power Line, Jerusalem Post, Pajamas Media, The Belmont Club, Lone Star Times, BLACKFIVE and Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
NPR:
Listen Now — · Sen. John McCain swept the so-called Potomac Primary Tuesday night, winning Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. — It's a striking contrast to last summer, when McCain's presidential campaign was on life support. He had no money, and staffers were leaving in droves.
Steven Kreytak / Austin American-Statesman:
Court strikes down Texas ban on sex toys — Federal appeals court says law violates right to privacy. — A federal appeals court has struck down a seldom-enforced Texas law making it a crime to promote or sell sex toys. — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case originally filed …
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.
Discussion:
Middle Earth Journal, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft and Tennessee Guerilla Women