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11:30 AM ET, March 15, 2008

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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Obama Denounces Statements of His Pastor as ‘Inflammatory’  —  In the handful of years Senator Barack Obama has spent in the national spotlight, his stance toward his pastor has gone from glowing praise to growing distance to — as of Friday — strong criticism.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Wright leaves Obama campaign  —  Spokesman Tommy Vietor emails:  —  “Rev. Wright is no longer serving on the African American Religious Leadership Committee.”  —  That cuts Wright's only formal tie to Obama, and answers what was sure to be a question in Obama's interviews tonight …
Alex Johnson / MSNBC:
Controversial minister leaves Obama campaign
J. Bennett Guess / ucc.org:
Chicago's Trinity UCC is ‘great gift to wider church family’
Discussion: Booker Rising and UCCtruths
Dennis Sanders / The Moderate Voice:
Notes From a Black Pastor
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama issues statement repudiating Wright, may appear on Hannity …
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Call girl laments use of exotic photos  —  NEW YORK - The lawyer for the call girl linked to the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer lashed out at the media on Friday for thrusting the 22-year-old woman into the “public glare” without her consent and publishing revealing photos.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Saddam's Dangerous Friends  —  What a Pentagon review of 600,000 Iraqi documents tells us.  —  This ought to be big news.  Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein actively supported an influential terrorist group headed by the man who is now al Qaeda's second-in-command …
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Rukmini Callimachi / Associated Press:
Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?  —  DAKAR, Senegal - The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.  —  Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations …
Anthony J. Diaz / Washington Post:
Hard-Won Progress In Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Since I arrived here last August, I have been struck by four things: the financial commitment we have made to reconstruction; the precipitous decline in violence; the inklings of representative government; and the small yet significant progress …
Discussion: The BIDINOTTO BLOG and Hot Air
David Jackson / Chicago Tribune:
Obama says Rezko played a bigger fundraising role  —  This corner lot at Hyde Park Boulevard and Greenwood Avenue in Chicago, formerly owned by Antoin “Tony” Rezko's wife, Rita, is next door to the home (right) of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.  (Tribune photo by Milbert O. Brown / March 6, 2008)
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:   Hsu's Legal Process Continues As Rezko's Heats Up
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
Violence in Tibet as Monks Clash With the Police  —  Chinese security forces in Lhasa, Tibet, took cover during a fifth day of protests.  The banner overhead reads, “Strengthen public safety management, safeguard political stability.”  Beijing is facing the most serious demonstrations in Tibet since the 1980s.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
House Votes to Reject Immunity for Phone Companies Involved in Wiretaps  —  WASHINGTON — After its first secret session in a quarter-century, the House on Friday rejected retroactive immunity for the phone companies that took part in the National Security Agency's program of eavesdropping without warrants …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Obey lays down the law on procedural votes  —  House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) said Friday he canceled meetings with a New Orleans delegation because a Louisiana lawmaker had defied party leadership on a procedural vote the night before.  —  And he's warning others …
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty and Redstate
Ben / Think Progress:
AP Says McCain Is A ‘Man Of The People’ For Taking Train Despite Noting He Rode First Class  —  Earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) hosted a “thank you” Sunday cookout for over 40 reporters from a wide variety of news outlets at his vacation home in Arizona.
 
 
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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Pressure and the Prophet  —  The economy is a rising issue …
Discussion: The Corner and USS Neverdock
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Smearing Obama  —  He's a Muslim.  He was sworn into office on the Koran.
Discussion: The RBC
Talal Al-Khatib / Political Radar:
Pelosi's Delegate Stance Boosts Obama
Discussion: The Jed Report and The Page
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
What Obama Saw in Wright's Church
Matthew Yglesias:
Omnihanlon  —  I hadn't realized that Michael O'Hanlon also does local news.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Cheney Five Years Ago: ‘We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators’
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Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of ‘Doktor’ Verboten
James Carville / Financial Times:
Halt the political hara-kiri
 

 
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