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New York Times:
Aides Say They Expect Spitzer to Resign — Top aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday morning that they expect the governor to resign his office, although the timing of the resignation remains uncertain. — Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson and his staff have begun laying the groundwork …
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry — The rendezvous that established Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement with high-priced prostitutes occurred last month in one of Washington's grandest hotels, but the criminal investigation that discovered the tryst began last year in a nondescript …
Scott Horton / Harper's:
The Spitzer Sex Sting: A Few More Questions — It looks like the Bush Justice Department just bagged themselves another Democratic Governor. Here's the New York Times on the story: … On the other hand, ABC News this evening offers a starkly different account of how the investigation got launched.
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Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis — Allies Praise Spitzer, But Knives Come Out; 'He's Proven Me Correct' — It's Schadenfreude time on Wall Street. — Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor who made his name taking on the titans of finance, apologized yesterday …
CNN:
Spitzer successor would be state's first black governor — (CNN) — If New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigns, Lt. Gov. David Paterson stands to become the first African-American governor of the state and the fourth in U.S. history. — Paterson, 53, is legally blind, and although documentation is scarce …
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Mr. Spitzer's ‘Private Matter’
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Orlando Patterson / New York Times:
The Red Phone in Black and White — ON first watching Hillary Clinton's recent “It's 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease.
Byron York / The Corner:
Former Clinton Loyalist: Don't Believe Hillary's Claims — Greg Craig, the former Clinton White House counsel who is now supporting Barack Obama, has just sent out a letter sharply attacking Hillary Clinton's claims to experience in foreign policy. “Senator Clinton has cited a handful …
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Michael O'Hanlon / USA Today:
Reality and the Iraq war — Is the progress today the first glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel? Maybe, maybe not. But the Democrats shouldn't act as though it's an oncoming train. — Most Democrats — in fact, most Americans — believe that the Iraq war has been a huge mistake for this country.
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Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida — WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Disagreeing with Ferraro — Between the Spitzer story, Geraldine Ferraro's own pioneering status, and the dog-bites-man character of offense-and-apology stories these days, her reported comment that Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white didn't get all that much attention today.
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Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Rep. Abercrombie gets Craiged — While reporters were hovering outside a Capitol Hill conclave of the Michigan and Florida delegations last Wednesday night, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) just happened to come by to use the restroom, which he did. — But when he emerged …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Murdoch: There's no ‘conservative’ agenda — In his first visit to the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau, Rupert Murdoch told staffers Friday that he would put more resources into Washington coverage and take on the New York Times, while reassuring them that he is not a “conservative” pushing an agenda in the news pages.
Peter Y. Hong / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA experts don't buy recession — In a contrarian view, the Anderson Forecast focuses on strength in industry and spending. — Brushing aside conventional wisdom, UCLA economists say California and the nation will survive the housing slump and job losses without plunging into recession …
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Paul Kiel / TPMMuckraker:
House Surveillance Bill Contains Provision to Aid Telecom Suits — As The New York Times reports this morning, the House leadership's draft proposal for a surveillance bill contains a provision that would reject giving retroactive immunity to the telecoms. Instead, it would give …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
How the Democrats Could Lose — By official count, The Post's 10th most e-mailed column of 2007 was published last June under the headline “How the GOP Could Win.” It said that the Republican Party would promote national security as the salient issue of the campaign, making a silk purse …
Sharon Roffe-Ofir / Ynetnews:
Man shoots sister then congratulated by family — Police arrest 24-year-old man from Naura, an Israeli-Arab town in northern Israel, who shot his 19-year old sister to preserve 'family's honor.' Family members arrived to congratulate shooter — Familial endorsement for murder.