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8:45 AM ET, March 6, 2008

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Marc Ambinder:
DNC Lays Out Choice For Florida And Michigan: Rules, Re-Vote  —  Howard Dean will not bend the party rules to grandfather in the disputed delegates from Michigan and Florida, the Democratic party chairman said in a statement today.  —  Instead, he put the state parties on notice …
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New York Times:
Clinton Success Alters Delegate Race's Dynamic
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Do-Over in Michigan and Florida?
Washington Post:
Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself  —  For the bruised and bitter staff around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tuesday's death-defying victories in the Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas proved sweet indeed.  They savored their wins yesterday, plotted their next steps and indulged in a moment of optimism.
Alexander Panetta / Canadian Press:
‘NAFTAgate’ began with remark from Harper's chief of staff  —  OTTAWA — If the Prime Minister is seeking the first link in the chain of events that has rocked the U.S. presidential race, he need look no further than his chief of staff, Ian Brodie, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Campbell Clark / Globe and Mail:
PM's top aide set off storm with Obama NAFTA leak  —  Source of initial tip revealed after Harper vows to investigate ‘unacceptable’ act  —  OTTAWA — The leak of a confidential diplomatic discussion that rocked the U.S. presidential campaign began with an offhand remark to journalists …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TANGLED FRIGGIN' WEB
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Washington Post:
Both Obama And Clinton Hold Edge Over McCain  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) kicks off his general-election campaign trailing both potential Democratic nominees in hypothetical matchups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Sewell Chan / City Room:
Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station  —  New York City police officers and firefighters cordoned off much of Times Square after a small explosion — possibly set off by a human-made device — damaged the front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station on the traffic island bounded by 43rd …
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CNN:
‘Bang’ halts Times Square subways
Discussion: The Corner
Charlotte Allen / Washington Post:
Charlotte Allen on Outlook Article, Reaction  —  Author, “We Scream, We Swoon.  How Dumb Can We Get?”  —  On Sunday, The Washington Post's Outlook section published a piece by Charlotte Allen under the headline “ We Scream, We Swoon.  How Dumb Can We Get?”
Bloomberg:
Clinton's Primary Wins Halt Movement of Superdelegates to Obama  —  Hillary Clinton scored more than just three presidential primary victories this week.  She also helped freeze a movement of top Democrats set to call on her to concede to rival Barack Obama.
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Alive!  —  Tuesday's exciting presidential primaries were about momentum, delegates and second looks.  —  In the Republican contest, these factors gave victory to the Lazarus candidate.  John McCain's campaign nearly collapsed eight months ago in a mass of debt and missteps.
Discussion: TigerHawk
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Moving Forward: Obama Needs To Win Pennsylvania
Discussion: THE LIBERAL JOURNAL
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
HILLARY, ‘MOST SECRETIVE POLITICIAN IN AMERICA’?  —  From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan and Domenico Montanaro  —  The Obama campaign is stepping up the rhetoric.  Campaign Manager David Plouffe went so far as to call Hillary Clinton the “most secretive politician in America today.”
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Hot Air
Jerusalem Post:
Ashkelon man builds homemade missile  —  Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.  —  Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile …
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
America's First anti-Jihadist Comic Book Hero  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Darius LaMonica, the co-author of the Matamoros — the first comic book focusing on the U.S. military's fight against radical Islamists.  —  FP: Darius LaMonica, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Discussion: Fausta's blog and LIBERTAS
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
An exercise in discrimination at Harvard … What can a 19-year-old guy in jogging shorts do at Harvard that a rich Saudi sheik who sponsors terrorism can't?  —  Get banned from the building.  —  Six times a week, Harvard kicks all the guys out of the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush May Fire CentCom Chief Adm. Fallon, Replace With Commander More ‘Pliable’ To War With Iran  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon “one of the best strategic thinkers in uniform today.”  Fallon opposed the “surge” in Iraq and has consistently battled …
Washington Post:
As Ohio Goes, So Goes The Nation.  Sometimes.  —  It has become part of political mythology that a candidate cannot win the presidency without carrying Ohio.  (John F. Kennedy pulled off this feat in 1960, winning the general election even though he lost Ohio by 273,000 votes.)
Discussion: Below The Beltway
 
 
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
ONLY GORE CAN STOP A MELTDOWN
Discussion: The Corner and Don Surber
Connie Fournier / noapologies.ca:
The Battle for the Blogosphere  —  Over the past few years …
Michelle Cottle / The New Republic:
Media weenies  —  Echoing buzz that's been flying around town …
Times of London:
They must go for Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Washington Wire
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Nato warns over cyber warfare threat
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
The Sanjaya Effect? (And a Few Other Stray March 4 Thoughts)
Discussion: alicublog and Commentary
HillaryClinton.com:
Hillary's Election Day Remarks in Columbus, OH
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Arizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and Unfogged
 Earlier Items: 
Cscs / TPMCafe:
Obama and Clinton Supporters Must Drop Out of the Race
Discussion: I Am TRex
Michelle Malkin:
Congress to Chertie: We need more incompetents of color!
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Wall Street Journal:
Campaign-Finance Breakdown
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Hot Air
Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Rubbernecking (or Holy Crap, I Kind of Agree with MoDo for the Second …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Netroots Shift  —  You can sense a change in the left-liberal blogosphere.
ABCNEWS:
Rezko In Debt $50 Million; How Did He Afford Obama Lot?
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Hot Air
Media Matters for America:
Olbermann to Matthews: “[E]specially you” …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
WHAT DO TEXAS DEMS AND WASH. ST. REPUBLICANS HAVE IN COMMON?
 

 
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Om Malik / On my Om:
AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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