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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Why are the letters ‘NIG’ on the child's pajamas?” — Asks a commenter — “Tom” — on my post about the new Hillary Clinton commercial, the one that shows several children sleeping and then Clinton taking a national security phone call in the middle of the night.
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Pregnant Pause — It was, in this reporter's opinion, the most interesting moment in today's Clinton campaign phoner with reporters. Responding to the release of HRC's new TX TV ad, which asserts in no subtle terms that only she has the experience to deal with a major world crisis, and …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Amateur Hour — Slate's John Dickerson asks an obvious question …
Amateur Hour — Slate's John Dickerson asks an obvious question …
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Tough Call — WILL CLINTON OR OBAMA PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN?
Tough Call — WILL CLINTON OR OBAMA PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN?
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
On the Press Bus, Some Questions Over Favoritism — On the bus ferrying a group of reporters to an appearance by Senator Barack Obama at Ohio State University on Wednesday, Lee Cowan, the NBC reporter assigned to the campaign, was asked the media question of the week: Had journalists …
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll - Democrats Locked in Tight Races: Clinton Closes on Obama in Texas; Pair Deadlocked in Ohio — Republican John McCain retains wide leads in Ohio and Texas in advance of Tuesday's primaries — UTICA, New York - Democrat Hillary Clinton stemmed her losses …
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Matt Browner Hamlin / Hold Fast:
Potential Deal Could Assure Retroactive Immunity — This is from last night's Congress Daily PM dispatch by Chris Strohm and Christian Bourge: … This is not a good sign. If Title I and Title II of the Senate-passed Intelligence Committee bill are voted on separately in the House …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Guns, anarchy text found in room with ricin — LV police say terrorism not motive despite discovery — The Las Vegas hotel suite where vials of ricin were found Thursday also contained guns and literature about anarchy with information on the deadly toxin, police said Friday.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A LETTER TO 60 MINUTES — I'm a latecomer to the controversy over the 60 Minutes story on the supposed machinations of Karl Rove to take down former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. CBS has posted the story here. — On its face, the segment is a remarkably thin piece of work …
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
Bailing Out Barack — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporters of Sen. Barack Obama concede that Sen. Hillary Clinton's aggressiveness rescued him from a serious blunder in last Tuesday's presidential debate at Cleveland, when he hesitated at rejecting a lavish endorsement of him by black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Robert / Jihad Watch:
Dutch public broadcaster gives up idea of “violent Bible” film to counter Wilders' violent Qur'an film — This is rich: Dutch public broadcaster KRO was planning a film on the violent passages of the Bible, which get trotted out on a routine basis, as if they prove something about the violent passages …
Terry Teachout / Wall Street Journal:
Five Myths, Direct From Pyongyang — What Not to Think About the Philharmonic Concert — Now that the New York Philharmonic has paid its long-awaited visit to North Korea, the floodtide of justificatory gush has begun. Lorin Maazel, the orchestra's music director, intoned that …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008 — What he fought for. — Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement.
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Associated Press:
U.S. Military Arrests Man in Training Iraq Women for Bombing Missions — BAGHDAD — The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up …
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Rick / PoliTex:
Clinton camp tries to change expectations — This photo was taken by our own David Kent. Apparently, someone in the posh Tower condos in downtown Fort Worth is not a fan of Obama. — Continuing on that theme, this memo just came in from the Hillary Clinton campaign: — To: Interested Parties