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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, which contained a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) establishing one interrogation standard across the government.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Mcjoan / Daily Kos:FISA Fight: House Blue Dogs enabling the GOP
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama — McCain campaign manager Rick Davis today sent an unmistakable message to Barack Obama over the Illinois Democrat's effort to stoke the obvious age contrast between himself and the 71-year-old McCain: Bring it on.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:U.S. Muslim Inciting Murder of Danish Mohammed Cartoonists …
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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 …
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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.
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost
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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.
The Daily Howler:
UP FROM KNAVERY! You can read the truth about Matthews—but only in readers' comments: — DOWD HEARS A JOKE: Mental illness causes great suffering. Ideally, it shouldn't be joked about. It shouldn't be flippantly “diagnosed” as part of our public discourse.
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Etan Horowitz / The Buzz:
Carville and Matalin talk politics at Builders Show — Fresh from Tuesday's night “Potomac Primary” bi-partisan couple James Carville and Mary Matalin took shots at each other and talked politics in front of thousands of attendees at the International Builders Show.
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