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NY Daily News:
Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years — The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. — In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife …
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The Politico:
Race uproar offers test for Obama — Democrats who worry that Barack Obama is untested can put their concerns to rest. — The inflammatory rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has confronted Obama with the most severe test of his presidential campaign and, quite likely, of his public career.
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Press Association:
On Defensive, Obama Plans Talk on Race — Faced with what his advisers acknowledged was a major test to his candidacy, Senator Barack Obama sought on Monday to contain the damage from incendiary comments made by his pastor and prepared to address the issue of race more directly than at any other moment of his presidential campaign.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Testing Of Obama — Today will be a crucial day. It will be a day when we will discover if America's racial environment - and the emotions and feelings and anger and fears that it entails - can allow for a black man - with all that entails - to become president.
Byron York / The Corner:
All The News That's Fit... Greetings from the train to Philadelphia, where Barack Obama will give his big speech this morning. In advance of the speech, the Jeremiah Wright story finally got big-time coverage in the Washington Post, with a front-page story headlined “Congregation Defends Obama's Ex-Pastor.”
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Florida Democrats Won't Vote Again, Official Says — WASHINGTON — The Florida Democratic Party chairwoman on Monday officially buried the possibility of redoing the state's disputed January presidential primary, saying there was no practical or affordable way to conduct a new election.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Florida gives up on re-vote
Florida gives up on re-vote
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Stamford Advocate:
Lieberman explains support for McCain
Lieberman explains support for McCain
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Court decision on gun-control is personal for 2 women — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Shelly Parker wants to know why she cannot keep a handgun in her house. As a single woman she has been threatened by neighborhood drug dealers in a city where violent crime rates are on the rise.
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Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
Gun-Rights Showdown — Today, the Supreme Court will hear …
Gun-Rights Showdown — Today, the Supreme Court will hear …
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Betsy's Page
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Plunge Averted, Markets Look Ahead Uneasily — With the Dow Jones industrial average up slightly more than 21 points by the end of trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, it may have looked like a calm day on Wall Street. — But under the surface, the scene was far from serene.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Street on Welfare — Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy. — The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients.
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Gwen Ifill / The Page:
U.S. SENATOR, — Washington, D.C. — GWEN IFILL: Senator Obama, welcome. — SEN. OBAMA: Thank you. — MS. IFILL: The president said today we are in challenging times. You said yourself that we are teetering on the edge of a potential crisis. When you watch what the Fed …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? — I DIDN'T. … An “anniversary” of a “war” is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any such formal observance involves the assumption that a) this is, in fact …
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Stuck in the Iraq Loop — We have achieved some security in Iraq. But we have not built a sustainable security architecture. … There is a paradox in the current situation in Iraq. We are told that the surge has worked brilliantly and violence is way down.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama camp: HRC is taking the low road — Is it possible to win the Democratic nomination in such a way as to make winning not worth it? — The Barack Obama campaign thinks so. It thinks Hillary Clinton's campaign is willing to take any road to the White House, including the low road.
Ace / minx.cc:
WRIGHT: ISRAEL A “DIRTY WORD;” JOKES THAT BLACKS GET ALL QUIET AT MENTION OF ISRAEL — Scared to speak, he says. — Why? Would that be anti-semitism that many left-indoctrinated blacks are reluctant to to express out loud? — Well, Obama's 20 year political ally and spiritual mentor encourages …
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Jan Crawford / Legalities:
Dirty Words — Holy @$#%! Here's a surprise: The Supreme Court is going to hear some bad language. — The justices announced today they're going to take up the issue of profanity on network television—and whether it's OK for President Bush to use the “S-word” when he's talking about Hezbollah …
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New York Times:
Bombing Kills 43 in Shiite Holy City in Iraq — BAGHDAD — A bombing on Monday evening killed 43 people near the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, penetrating one of the most secure perimeters in Iraq. Iraqi police officers at the scene and several witnesses …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’ — The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel's 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air. — The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister …