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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
SPITZER TO RESIGN IN THE HOUR, SOURCES SAY — Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign and will begin notifying top state officials of his decision just after 9 a.m., The Post has learned. — Word began circulating of his decision in state political circles just minutes ago …
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Spitzer Aides Say Governor Will Resign This Morning — Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, will resign today, some of his staff members said they have been told. Mr. Spitzer is scheduled to speak today at 11:30 a.m. at his Manhattan office, a top aide said.
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Eric Konigsberg / New York Times:
The Public Ordeal of a Private Person — Silda Wall Spitzer gave up a high-powered career as a corporate lawyer to raise three daughters and support her husband as he sought elective office, yet has always had deep reservations about his political career. Time and again, she has found herself …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Spitzer's Media Enablers — The fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer holds many lessons, and the press will surely be examining them in coming months. But don't expect the press corps to delve into the biggest lesson of all — its own role as his enabler. — Journalists have spent the past …
New York Times:Spitzer Wrestles Over Response, Paralyzing Albany
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Michelle Malkin:The Spitzer resignation countdown clock; Update: Spitzer t-shirt-mania!
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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:Foes of Sex Trade Are Stung by the Fall of an Ally
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
A Ferraro flashback — “If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race,” she said. — Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis. — Here's the full context:
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Maybe Geraldine Ferraro decided stature and goodwill are overrated
Ann Sanner / Associated Press:Ferraro's Remarks About Obama Decried
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: SAY IT AIN'T SO — We just got an email from a longtime and prized reader, TPM Reader JS.
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Time on Her Side: Obama Maintains Lead, but Clinton Might Have the Edge — Intense Democratic Primary Voting Takes a Break as Intense Contest Continues — The Clinton campaign plans to use the coming six-week gap in primary voting to aggressively push its case that Sen. Barack Obama …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Wins in Mississippi — Senator Barack Obama won Mississippi's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, building his delegate lead over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the final contest before the nominating fight heads to Pennsylvania for a six-week showdown.
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David Mamet / Village Voice:
Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ — John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” — My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The Village Voice.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Re-vote picture clouds — For a moment, it looked like party leaders were marching toward a Florida revote. But Obama's campaign signaled today that the mechanics would be an obstacle, and Florida's congressional delegation just took a hard line against a re-vote in a joint statement:
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David Plouffe / HillaryClinton.com:Clinton Campaign Calls for Michigan and Florida Voices to Be Heard
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BBC Fabricates Home Demolition Report — On Friday, March 7, 2008, the BBC's World News with Jonathan Charles (seen in the U.S. on PBS stations as part of BBC America) aired footage purporting to show the demolition and burning of a house that belongs to the family of Ala Abu Dheim …
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Caucus win gives Obama more Texas delegates than Clinton — (CNN) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has won the Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state than his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the state's primary, according to CNN estimates.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Signs of life from House Democratic leaders — Fully recognizing it may not last any longer than a couple of weeks, it's actually necessary to give some credit where it's due — to the House Democratic leadership. Nobody expected that they would ever allow the Protect America Act to expire, yet they did.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions — NASHVILLE — President Bush delivered a rousing defense of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday, mixing faith and foreign policy as he told a group of Christian broadcasters that his policies in the region were predicated on the beliefs …
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Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Fallon didn't get it — The departing head of Central Command was wrong about the surge. — To see why Tuesday's “retirement” of Navy Adm. William “Fox” Fallon as head of U.S. Central Command is good news, all you have to do is look at the Esquire profile that brought about his downfall.
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Andrew G. Biggs / Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Tax Hike — Until recently, Sen. Barack Obama took a responsible position on Social Security, noting the urgency of reform and saying all options should be on the table. — But having cornered himself among Democratic activists whose attitudes toward Social Security reform range …
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