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Castro resigns as president, state-run paper reports — HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Fidel Castro announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander-in-chief of Cuba's military on Tuesday, according to a letter published in the state-run newspaper, Granma.
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Anita Snow / Associated Press:
Fidel Castro Resigns As Cuba's President — HAVANA (AP) - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday. — The end of Castro's rule - the longest in the world …
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba's President — MEXICO CITY — Fidel Castro stepped down Tuesday morning as the president of Cuba after a long illness, ending one of the longest tenures as one of the most all-powerful communist heads of state in the world, according to Granma, the official publication of the Cuban Communist Party.
Michelle Malkin:
Castro to resign; “This is not my farewell to you;"Update: US to maintain trade embargo — Update 11:03am. Cuban exiles in Miami react... “'I hope this is the beginning of the end of the system, but we have to wait,' said 35-year-old chemist Omar Fernandez, who left Cuba for the U.S. six years ago.”
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Ben Smith / The Politico:Castro comments — Obama's comment on Castro's resignation …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Clinton targets pledged delegates — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination. — This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday.
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philly.com:
John Baer: How Pa. extension benefited Clinton — HERE'S A LITTLE political banana peel. — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary. — This despite the possibility the primary proves critical …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE OBAMA BUBBLE....Paul Krugman this morning: … Right on cue, here's David Brooks tonight: … A “backlash” from a conservative like Brooks is hardly a surprise. Still, I think Krugman is right: bubbles always burst, and Obama has been riding a major league bubble for months now.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
When the Magic Fades — At first it seemed like a few random cases of lassitude among Mary Chapin Carpenter devotees in Berkeley, Cambridge and Chapel Hill. But then psychotherapists began to realize patients across the country were complaining of the same distress.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Feels Like The First Time — Does a hostility about one's own country provide a good basis for a campaign? John Podhoretz notes the very strange assertion from Michelle Obama as she campaigned for her husband in Wisconsin. It comes as a piece with her exhortation at UCLA two weeks ago …
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Michelle Malkin:
What Michelle Obama said — Here's the video via Hot Air of The Soul-Fixer's wife admitting that she hasn't had a real moment of pride in her country for the duration of her adult life: — I believe it was Michael Kinsley who quipped that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
MSNBC:
U.S. strikes in Pakistan — without notice — Unilateral attack on al-Qaeda commander called a model for operations — In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed …
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Will / Attytood:
A landmark day for bloggers — and the future of journalism — The George Polk Awards are kind of like the Golden Globes of American journalism . Not as well known as those Oscars of the news business, the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Awards are nevertheless probably a close second in terms of prestige …
Damozel / The Moderate Voice:
Has Obama Been Sufficiently Vetted to Survive the GOP Machine? — Larry C. Johnson of No Quarter has been arguing for quite some time that Obama is insufficiently vetted to withstand attacks from the right. In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, he discusses the basis of his concerns.
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Associated Press:
Top court rejects ACLU domestic spying lawsuit — Supreme Court decision doesn't explain reason for turning down appeal — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected a challenge Tuesday to the Bush administration's domestic spying program. — The justices' decision, issued without comment …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Why I'm voting for Obama in the Wisconsin primary. — I said I was going to write this post, so I'd better do it. As I said, I want to do an archaeology of the archive and trace my response to Barack Obama as I did to John Kerry in an old 2004 post called “How Kerry lost me.”
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Texas Will Be The Test — The Obama blogs are now confident that Texas is Obama's to lose: … This comes on the heels of SUSA's Texas poll that has Obama within 5 of Clinton in Texas. — This is a terrific development. A real test now for Obama's ability to win the POPULAR VOTE in big contested states.
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