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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Barack Obama, Leftist? — Two foreign newspapers introduce the notion of Barack Obama as a Leftist. The Times of London reports that Republicans intend on painting him as such in the general election, based on his voting record in the Senate and in the Illinios state legislature.
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:Right slams Obama as ‘shady Chicago socialist’
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Steadfast McCain ally sparks veep talk — Even through the McCain campaign's darkest days in 2007, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty remained a steadfast ally to the Arizona senator in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. — As a result, with John McCain as the clear GOP frontrunner …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Pawlenty As Veep? — For over a year, Tim Pawlenty has supported John McCain through thick and a whole lot of thin. The two-term Minnesota governor became one of John McCain's first major endorsers in January 2007, and even at the time speculation began that Pawlenty could make a good running mate for McCain.
Times of London:
Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb — Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Hala Jaber in Beirut and Jon Swain — NOTHING seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian capital …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
The Charisma Mandate — TAKING office in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt confronted a country in crisis. Four in 10 working-age Americans were jobless. Banks were collapsing. There were long lines outside tellers' windows as people rushed to withdraw their savings.
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Ian Traynor / Guardian:
'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star — Geert Wilders, the popular MP whose film on Islam has fuelled the debate on race in Holland, wants an end to mosque building and Muslim immigration. Ian Traynor met him in The Hague
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
It's an Election, Not a Revolution — IT has become common wisdom that the battle for the presidency is all about the economy. Voters are being told that the country's economic health depends on pulling the right lever in the polling booth. — This election is certainly important.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Worst Panderer — Even for those of us who shudder at many of John McCain's positions, there is something refreshing about a man who wins so many votes despite a major political shortcoming: he is abysmal at pandering. — What sets Senator McCain apart isn't so much his physical courage …
Pajamas Media:
“That Root,” “youths,” and why Reuters is a disgrace — In “Portrait of an Age,” G. M. Young's classic overview of early Victorian England, there are a few melancholy pages devoted to the devastating Irish potato famine of the mid 1840s. Young notes in an aside that Sir Robert Peel …
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Allauddin Khan / Associated Press:
80 die in bombing at Afghan dog fight — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores on Sunday, an Afghan governor said. It appeared to be the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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Sean Lengell / Washington Times:
Analysts say FISA will suffice — Many intelligence scholars and analysts outside the government say that today's expiration of certain temporary domestic wiretapping laws will have little effect on national security, despite warnings to the contrary by the White House and Capitol Hill Republican leaders.
Associated Press:
Kosovo Declares Independence From Serbia — PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo declared itself a nation on Sunday, mounting a historic bid to become an “independent and democratic state” backed by the U.S. and key European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Sunday Morning Election News — Here's some early morning news items: — A new Alabama poll shows McCain would sweep the state in November by double digits, and it might happen throughout the deep south. — Alabama has voted for the Republican nominee every year since 1980.
Paul West / Baltimore Sun:
Clinton backers fault campaign — Supporters outline errors as focus turns to big states — It may be hard to recall the shield of inevitability that once surrounded Hillary Clinton, but a December 2007 cover story in a liberal magazine is a reminder. — “Has Hillary Locked It Up?” …
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