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3:20 PM ET, March 27, 2008

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USA Today:
Obama: Beware 'you're on your own' society  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. — Presidential candidate Barack Obama, largely ignoring his Democratic rival for now, ridiculed likely Republican nominee John McCain on Wednesday for offering “not one single idea” to help hard-pressed homeowners facing foreclosure.
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New York Post:
IT'S THE BLOOMY-'BAMA SHOW  —  Mayor Bloomberg made a surprise announcement last night that he will introduce Barack Obama when the Illinois senator makes a campaign speech today at Cooper Union.  —  The mayor's office took the highly unusual step of releasing information about the event late last night.
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Obama Warms to Wrapping Up Contest  —  ABOARD THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN PLANE - Senator Barack Obama this evening called Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's proposal of resolving the Democratic nomination contest in June “a good one” - although Mr. Obama seemed to be endorsing a June wrap …
Jules Crittenden:
Sadr Tidings  —  The good news is, Iraqi forces are heavily engaged with the Mahdi Army with U.S. troops in a supporting role, all over the place.  The weird part is, al-Maliki has supposedly taken a lead role in directing operations against his erstwhile bedfellow al-Sadr.
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Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia  —  Another tragedy as the Shia majority turn on each other  —  A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.  —  Heavy fighting engulfed Iraq's …
Al Pessin / Voice of America:
Pentagon Calls Iraq Fighting Good Sign, Analysts Not Convinced
New York Post:
AND THERE HE HO'S AGAIN  —  ‘WICKED’ SPITZER LINKED TO BUSTY BUSTED MADAM'S BIZ  —  Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.  —  The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: MYTH BUSTER  —  From Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** Myth buster: Pollster Peter Hart calls the NBC/WSJ poll a “myth buster” survey; it really breaks down a lot of the myths we've been hearing over the last week like: (1) that the Wright controversy was the beginning …
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David Freddoso / The Corner:
McCain and Tupac Shakur
Emilie Lounsberry / Philly.com:
No death for Mumia Abu-Jamal — at least for now  —  A federal appeals court today refused to reinstate the death sentence of world-famous death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, but left intact his murder conviction in the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
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C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Supplier Under Scrutiny on Aging Arms for Afghans  —  Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.  —  But to arm the Afghan forces …
Joe Klein / Time:
Silly Season  —  Unlike Barack Obama, Bill Clinton does not believe in “the fierce urgency of now.”  The former President has an exquisitely languid sense of how political time unfurls.  He understands that those moments the political community, especially the media, considers urgent usually aren't.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hillary vows: We're going all the way to the convention; Update …
New York Times:
Obama on ‘Renewing the American Economy’  —  Following is the transcript of Barack Obama's economic speech at Cooper Union in New York, as provided by CQ Transcriptions Inc.  —  Thank you so much for being here.  —  Let me begin by thanking Dr. Drucker and Cooper Union for hosting us here today.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and The RBC
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John Shiffman / Philly.com:
PR governor, four Philadelphians charged  —  Puerto Rico's governor and four Philadelphians, including prominent fund-raiser Robert M. Feldman, were charged this morning in San Juan with federal campaign-finance related crimes.  —  The investigation of Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila …
Marc Ambinder:
Obama: Bloomberg Is “Extraordinary”  —  Here's the first paragraph from Barack Obama's speech this a.m. in New York: … The First Read gang is all a-buzz at the Obama-Needs-A-Jew-On-The-Ticket- Angle, but I think the best way to look at an Obama-Bloomberg ticket is by noticing their complimentary traits.
Discussion: WCBS-TV and Connecting.the.Dots
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis  —  Little by little, millions of Americans surrendered equity in their homes in recent years.  Lulled by good times, they borrowed — sometimes heavily — against the roofs over their heads.  —  Now the bill is coming due.
Center for a New American Security:
The Case for Conditional Engagement in Iraq Author(s):  —  Series:  —  CNAS Policy Briefs  —  Synopsis:  —  “Five years into the war in Iraq with no end in sight, a new strategy is needed.  The current strategy of unconditional support to Iraq's central government has not produced nearly enough political progress.
Michael Barone / US News:
Polls Show Obama Damaged by Reverend Wright  —  Has Barack Obama been hurt by his association, now revealed to most American voters, with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?  Has the pope been hurt by his association, among people who don't like Catholics, with the Roman Catholic Church?
 
 
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
WHAT ‘OVERSAMPLE’ MEANS  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Eric Lichtblau / Slate:
The Education of a 9/11 Reporter  —  THE INSIDE DRAMA BEHIND …
Martin E. Marty / Observer:
Prophet and Pastor  —  To his former professor, congregant …
Ben / Think Progress:
Krauthammer: McCain Has ‘Hidden Agenda’ To ‘Kill The United Nations’
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Fraud in Texas?  “It looks like there was data entry error.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard Blog:
Jim McDermott: “We Don't Mind Being Used” by Saddam Hussein
Jody Rosen / New York Times:
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Isabel Teotonio / Toronto Star:
Alleged Toronto terror plot detailed in court
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Colombia seizes uranium from leftist guerrillas
James Shea / BlueRidgeNow.com:
Shuler: McCain blocked immigration bill
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Come west, young man
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bob Barr thinking ‘very serious’ …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Clinton backers warn Pelosi on superdelegate rift
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Public Believes Americans Have Right to Own Guns
Washington Post:
Further Debunking the ‘War Zone’ Myth
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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