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9:00 PM ET, March 25, 2008

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PittsburghLIVE.com:
Clinton: Wright ‘would not have been my pastor’  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made.
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Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Democratic Party Official: Clinton Pursuing ‘The Tonya Harding Option’  —  l just spoke with a Democratic Party official, who asked for anonymity so as to speak candidly, who said we in the media are all missing the point of this Democratic fight.  —  The delegate math is difficult for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the official said.
Discussion: Hot Air, Corrente and AMERICAblog
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Poll: Obama Ahead 21 Points In North Carolina Primary  —  A new Public Policy Polling (D) survey of North Carolina shows that Barack Obama has jumped into an enormous lead over Hillary Clinton, after having been in a dead heat during the worst of the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
Dan Kennedy / Guardian Unlimited:
Clinton under fire
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
A note on today's poll
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Clinton Attacks On Wright
Larry Kudlow / The Corner:
Hillary's Delusion Is Mac's Gain
Discussion: If I Ran the Zoo
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Long Defeat  —  Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet …
Charles Babington / Associated Press:   Clinton says she erred on Bosnia story
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton: Wright ‘Would Not Have Been My Pastor’
Discussion: Shakesville and Oliver Willis
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Obama Releases 2000-2006 Tax Returns  —  Barack Obama today released his 2000-2006 tax returns:  — 2006 Return  — 2005 Return  — 2004 Return  — 2003 Return  — 2002 Return  — 2001 Return  — 2000 Return  —  Here is a summary of the figures:
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Byron York / The Corner:
Michelle and Barack: The Tax Returns
Discussion: Rachel Lucas
Sam Dagher / Christian Science Monitor:
ACROSS IRAQ, BATTLES ERUPT WITH MAHDI ARMY  —  Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army fought US, Iraqi forces in Baghdad and Basra on Tuesday. … The Mahdi Army's seven-month-long cease-fire appears to have come undone.  —  Rockets fired from the capital's Shiite district of Sadr City slammed …
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Agence France Presse:
Sadr militia battle troops in four Iraqi cities
Discussion: KIKO'S HOUSE
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Ending The Nomination Campaign  —  A consensus seems to be forming that Hillary Clinton has only a very slim chance to win the nomination.  Recent articles in The New York Times and The Politico are examples of this.  Further, the consensus is not only that Clinton has a very small chance …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily and MoJoBlog
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Matthew Yglesias:
Ending the War  —  Chris Bowers sketches out a plausible …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE TIPPING POINT
RushLimbaugh.com:
If Rush Gets Indicted for Operation Chaos, Indict Obama, Clinton, Too  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: On Friday we made Operation Chaos merchandise available at the EIB Store at RushLimbaugh.com.  You have two days to be among the first to order either a T-shirt or a cap or bumper sticker …
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Robert Gordon / The New Republic:
Criminal Intent  —  The presidential candidates need to stop ignoring America's crime problem—and start considering innovative solutions.  —  Here's a funny thing about this presidential campaign season: Two crime dramas—"The Wire" and “Law & Order”—have gotten more attention than actual crime.
Discussion: The RBC
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Matthew Yglesias:   True Crime  —  Robert Gordon has a nice piece in TNR making …
Anthony Cormier / tbo.com:
1 Of 2 93-Year-Olds Charged In Manatee County Sex Sting  —  MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.  —  In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to take him to trial in April.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Associated Press:
Chelsea Clinton Startled by Monica Query  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort Tuesday when asked whether her mother's credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.  —  “Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the …
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THAT'S NOT WRIGHT  —  You can always tell when a scandal story has peaked and is ebbing, almost down to the minute: when your political opponents start to raise it explicitly against you.  That was the minute I knew Bill Clinton was going to weather the Monica story — the moment when Republicans first started hitting him over it.
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
HARRY REID: “IT WILL BE DONE.”  —  The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Molly Ball has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the record seeming to imply that high-level, uncommitted Democrats are ready to tell Hillary to quit the race: … Cryptic.  But as I wrote yesterday, the tide is truly changing …
Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
A Big Win for Judicial Supremacy, a Big Loss for Government Language Lawyers and Another Example of Real Change  —  Parents “do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.”  —  So wrote a California judge in a case that has ominous potential for the estimated …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Michael Evans / Times of London:
Britain is world's 7th most stable and prosperous nation  —  The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation's achievements and standards.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
LET'S TURN OUT TO SUPPORT THE VETS  —  Scott noted this morning that the principal of Forest Lake High School canceled the scheduled appearance this morning by Forest Lake alum Pete Hegseth and his fellow Vets For Freedom.  The cancellation was prompted by an unspecified number of complaints from …
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Why Anti-Cassandras Get the Media Attention  —  Paul Krugman today bemoans the fact that on the housing crisis and especially on Iraq the people who get the most media attention are those who got it wrong. … (Brad DeLong, Dean Baker and others have made similar complaints.)
tampabay.com:
Rev. Wright appearance canceled  —  Rev. Earl B. Mason Sr. addresses the press from the sanctuary of Bible-Based Fellowship Church of Temple Terrace.  [John Pendygraft, Times]  —  TEMPLE TERRACE — Appearances this week by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. at the Bible-Based Fellowship Church …
 
 
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Kathie Durbin / Columbian:
Cantwell supporting Clinton — for now
The Nation:
Progressives for Obama  —  All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama.
Discussion: Donklephant
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
BILL: ISSUES NOT ‘YA-YA-YA-ING’
Discussion: The Caucus and The Page
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Covering all the bases  —  The Clinton campaign just sent …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Fox Refuses To Pay FCC Indecency Fine
Washington Post:
Cheney on the Iraq War — and Nixon's Pardon
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Nancy Reagan to endorse McCain in Calif.
Think Progress / Wonk Room:
McCain's Record Of Denying Assistance To Homeowners
Michael J. Totten:
The Dungeon of Fallujah — Upgraded
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
In Response To Hitch On Obama
Discussion: Commentary
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
The Audacity of Rhetoric  —  It is painful to watch defenders …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Conservatives' Hate-Based Campaign Against Obama
 

 
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