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4:10 PM ET, March 24, 2008

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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure  —  Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another metric Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM  —  I don't know where it was.  It think it may have been a reader blog at TPMCafe.  Wherever it was it was a post that ran down something like ten different ways of counting the popular vote, all to the end of showing that Barack's popular vote lead wasn't nearly so great and may not exist at all.
Corey Williams / Associated Press:
Detroit mayor charged with perjury  —  DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.
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Spencer Ackerman / American Prospect:
The Obama Doctrine  —  Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades.  But will voters buy it?  —  When Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama met in California for the Jan. 31 debate …
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Matthew Yglesias:
The Obama Doctrine  —  Everybody knows that Barack Obama was against invading Iraq in 2002-2003 whereas Hillary Clinton was for it.  But what does that mean today and what does it mean for the future?  Obama says “I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mind-set that got us …
Discussion: toohotfortnr and Whiskey Fire
Satyam / Think Progress:
O'Hanlon Gripes About His Waning Influence: I Now Get ‘Less Than One’ Interview Request Per Day  —  Earlier this month, the National Security Network reported on Brookings analyst Michael O'Hanlon's disproportionate representation in major papers' op-ed pages.
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Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
25 Killed in Two Weeks; More Significant Number than 4,000
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The War Endures, but Where's the Media?
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Clinton ‘Misspoke’ About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says  —  The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.  —  She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Back to a Tie  —  McCain continues to hold slight edge in preferences for the fall  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The Democratic nomination battle — having undergone significant shifts last week during the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy — is now back to a virtual …
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Democrats' Obama Dilemma
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Thoughts on Wright  —  I've just read Dayo Olopade's fascinating piece, “Far Wright,” on Barack Obama's far-left preacher, Jeremiah Wright.  It's an insightful piece, and it evoked memories of the two black churches I sometimes attended when I lived in Georgetown.  But I'm no expert and Dayo is.
Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
O'Reilly Attends Easter Services At Church Lead by Ex-Nazi  —  The Huffington Post has learned that Bill O'Reilly — who claims to love America — spent Sunday at a “church” run by a former Hitler Youth named Joseph Alois Ratzinger.  Ratzinger has gone to elaborate ends to hide this connection …
Jane Macartney / Times of London:
Death reports as Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns  —  Hundreds of monks, nuns and local Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China to demand the return of the Dalai Lama have been turned back by paramilitary police who opened fire to disperse the crowd.
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Vox Popoli
Bruce Bartlett / New York Times:
Stop Those Checks  —  WITH unusual speed and cooperation last month, George W. Bush and Democrats in Congress agreed to a tax rebate set to be paid out beginning in May.  Families will get checks for $300 to $1200 or more, and it is assumed that they will all rush out to spend this money immediately …
Eric Alterman / New Yorker:
OUT OF PRINT  —  The death and life of the American newspaper. … The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years.  Benjamin Harris's spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down.
The Politico:
GOP state parties are in dire straits  —  At a time when the GOP presidential nominee will need more assistance than ever, a number of state Republican parties are struggling through troubled times, suffering from internal strife, poor fundraising, onerous debt, scandal or voting trends …
 
 
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New York Times:
U.S. Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000
Brad Brooks / Associated Press:
Detainee Operations: Maj. Gen. Stone, March 23
Discussion: The Corner
Steven Emerson / Articles by the Investigative Project …:
CAIR Exposed: Part 1
Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Kevorkian to launch his bid for seat in Congress
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Nevada Presidential Election
Associated Press:
Fred Thompson looks to go back to acting
John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Democrats' Super Disaster
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
In Fallujah, Peace Through Brute Strength
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A Mosaic: 4,000 Americans Dead
Kenneth Lovett / New York Post:
PATERSON'S INN TROUBLE
New York Times:
Spitzer Pushed Staff's Effort to Smear Bruno
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
The Democrats' anti-momentum  —  Forget buyer's remorse …
USA Today:
Telecom lobbyists tied to McCain
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Clinton: Protect reputable home lenders
William Kristol / New York Times:
Let's Not, and Say We Did  —  I shuddered only once …
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ its revenue is from ads

 
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