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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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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:The Audacity of Rhetoric — It is painful to watch defenders …
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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:
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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.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Long Defeat — Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she's just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign. — First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally …
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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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 …
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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 …
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Allie Shah / Minneapolis Star Tribune:Forest Lake event canceled; too political
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Ari Melber / The Nation:
LIMBAUGH'S LYING VOTERS UNDER INVESTIGATION... “Operation Chaos,” Rush Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries, has been very effective. It doubled Republican turnout in Ohio and Texas, boosting Clinton and prolonging the Democratic race.
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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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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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.
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Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Covering all the bases — The Clinton campaign just sent out an e-mail to volunteer attorneys requesting that they come down to Texas this weekend to observe the county and state conventions, which allocates caucus delegates for the State Convention in June. Here's the letter:
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.)
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