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9:30 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
Sewell Chan / City Room:
Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station  —  The New York City police issued a statement at 7:33 a.m. describing the source of the explosion as an “improvised explosive device” and putting the time of the blast at 3:43 a.m. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was scheduled to give a briefing at the scene at 8:45 a.m., but is running late.
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Gateway Pundit:
Military Office Bombed!... NY Times Square Shut Down  —  Police are investigating an explosion that went off this morning at Times Square in New York City.  —  3 or 4 people were seen running away from the blast.  —  New York's Times Square is closed early Thursday March 6, 2008 …
CNN:
‘Bang’ halts Times Square subways
Discussion: The Corner
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 …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Obama and Clinton Lead McCain; Change vs. Experience Is the Roadmap
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
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.
Thomas P.M. Barnett / Esquire:
The Man Between War and Peace  —  As head of U. S. Central Command, Admiral William “Fox” Fallon is in charge of American military strategy for the most troubled parts of the world.  Now, as the White House has been escalating the war of words with Iran, and seeming ever more determined …
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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?”
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
ONLY GORE CAN STOP A MELTDOWN  —  IF AL GORE can pull himself away from saving the planet long enough, he might want to consider rescuing the Demo cratic Party from the clutches of utter self-destruction.  —  Campaigning against an unpopular war in Iraq, a sputtering economy and a disappearing dollar …
Discussion: The Corner and Don Surber
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Politico
Times of London:
They must go for Hillary Clinton  —  Forget all the razzmatazz over Obama.  The Democrats have only one option for president  —  Anatole Kaletsky  —  After Tuesday's Ohio and Texas primaries, Barack Obama remains the firm favourite to win the Democratic nomination.
Discussion: Washington Wire
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
Ullrich Fichtner / Spiegel Online:
The American GI from Berlin  —  Berlin-born Jeffrey Jamaleldine wanted to do something about terrorism in the world and so he joined the US Army to fight in Iraq.  Now he's back in Bavaria, his face nearly destroyed by a bullet — but he's still convinced that it is his calling to fight for peace.
Discussion: Hot Air and Weekly Standard
 
 
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Associated Press:
Big industries try to block limits on pollution
Discussion: Think Progress and AMERICAblog
Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
Attys: Iraq Rape Case Belongs in Court
Discussion: Firedoglake
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 …
Washington Post:
As Ohio Goes, So Goes The Nation. Sometimes.
Discussion: Below The Beltway
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
America's First anti-Jihadist Comic Book Hero
Discussion: Fausta's blog and LIBERTAS
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
 Earlier Items: 
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Arizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and Unfogged
Cscs / TPMCafe:
Obama and Clinton Supporters Must Drop Out of the Race
Discussion: I Am TRex
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
HILLARY, ‘MOST SECRETIVE POLITICIAN IN AMERICA’?
Los Angeles Times:
Senate GOP plans to unveil tough new immigration bills
Jerusalem Post:
Ashkelon man builds homemade missile
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
LOOKING FOR FRANKEN  —  We noted after the death of the late …
ABCNEWS:
Rezko In Debt $50 Million; How Did He Afford Obama Lot?
Media Matters for America:
Olbermann to Matthews: “[E]specially you” …
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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