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10:05 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban — Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, which contained a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) establishing one interrogation standard across the government.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Eschaton, Comments from Left Field, DownWithTyranny!, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, AMERICAblog, Slog and Hold Fast

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 …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, michellemalkin.com, The Carpetbagger Report, Flopping Aces, Political Machine, The Heretik, Crunchy Con and AMERICAblog

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: MSNBC, JammieWearingFool and Don Surber

Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Defeats FISA Extension

Discussion: Wake up America

Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Bush plays hardball on FISA legislation

Discussion: White House, ACLU, The Crypt's Blogs, Stop The ACLU, Wake up America, The Strata-Sphere and michellemalkin.com

Talal Al-Khatib / Political Radar:

McCain Adviser Won't Fight Obama — ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator's presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.

Discussion: The Newshoggers and PoliPundit.com

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

Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:

Who's Singularly Lacking In Specifics? — I see John McCain is attacking Barack Obama for lacking specifics, the same theme Hillary Clinton has been pounding. Well, it's certainly true that Obama can't match Hillary Clinton's grasp of policy detail. Clinton is a true policy wonk.

Discussion: Political Radar, The Moderate Voice, The RBC and The Carpetbagger Report

NPR:
Listen Now — · Sen. John McCain swept the so-called …

Discussion: The Swamp and Truthdig

Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:
Republicans honing in on Barack Obama

Discussion: The Politico

The Huffington Post:
John McCain Goes After Barack Obama

Discussion: Political Radar and Don Surber

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama

Discussion: TownHall Blog and Spin Cycle

Paul Kiel / Muckraker:

Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House — As expected, things are finally moving forward in the House today to bring contempt resolutions against White House officials for ignoring Congressional subpoenas as part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation.

Discussion: The Hill, MoJoBlog, Think Progress, The Politico and Daily Kos

Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: House Blue Dogs enabling the GOP

Discussion: Firedoglake, DownWithTyranny!, Suburban Guerrilla, The Raw Story, ShopFloor.org and Hullabaloo

Speaker Pelosi / The Gavel:
On the House Vote on FISA

Discussion: Eschaton and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: The Reaction, Pharyngula and Neptunus Lex

Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
U.S. Muslim Inciting Murder of Danish Mohammed Cartoonists …

Discussion: Jihad Watch

Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity

Discussion: Associated Press, The Lede, Telegraph, The Jawa Report, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog, Captain's Quarters, BLACKFIVE, A Blog For All, Hot Air, Dr. Sanity, Little Green Footballs, Gateway Pundit, Outside The Beltway, Publius Pundit, snapped shot and Wake up America

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 …

Discussion: Eunomia, Donklephant, Matthew Yglesias, Spin Cycle and Tennessee Guerilla Women

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: The Politico, Liberal Values and Comments from Left Field

Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost

Discussion: Neptunus Lex, The Huffington Post, wtopnews.com, Balloon Juice, Blue Crab Boulevard, Betsy's Page, The New Republic, MSNBC and Talking Points Memo

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 — Based on polling conducted February 10-12, 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain locked in a statistical tie among Democrats nationally for the Democratic presidential nomination. — In Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted …

Discussion: Liberal Values, Comments from Left Field, Political Machine and The Daily Dish

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, Commercial Appeal, Redstate, QandO and Instapundit.com

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: Ross Douthat, Washington Monthly, The Newshoggers, Megan McArdle, The Glittering Eye and Paul Krugman

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 …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money and Pandagon

Bob Dow / The Daily Record:

Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up — LEGENDARY Nessie hunter Robert Rines is giving up his search for the monster after 37 years. — The 85-year-old American will make one last trip in a bid to find the elusive beast. — After almost four decades of fruitless expeditions …

Discussion: The Corner, Moonbattery and The Sundries Shack

Ann Althouse / Althouse:

“Listen, I'll never forget you. You were the only guys who would listen to me for a couple of months. Do you think I'd ever forget you?" — John McCain, on the phone with the bloggers, responding to a blogger thanking him for continuing doing phone calls with bloggers.

Discussion: The American Conservative …