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4:30 PM ET, March 27, 2008

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Frank James / Baltimore Sun:
Expert: Current Iraq fighting not good guys vs bad  —  The battles raging in southern Iraq's Basra are more than a central Iraqi government trying to assert control over the militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.  Instead, it's more complicated, more like a mini civil war between competing Shiite groups vying for power.
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Al Pessin / Voice of America:
Pentagon Calls Iraq Fighting Good Sign, Analysts Not Convinced
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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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democratic Groups Most at Risk of Deserting  —  Independents, conservatives likeliest to vote for McCain  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Democrats are at most risk of losing the support of independents, conservative Democrats, and, among Hillary Clinton supporters, less well-educated Democrats …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Now at 48% to Clinton 44%
Discussion: The Jed Report
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Fraud in Texas?  “It looks like there was data entry error.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hillary vows: We're going all the way to the convention; Update: Hillary questions the legitimacy of Obama's nomination  —  Good lord.  Even I find her ruthlessness here creepy, and I'm pulling for her.  I'm giving you the second clip mostly for the smug look on her face after she delivers her bone-chilling …
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Enforcement First?  Not!  —  Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, sponsor of the bipartisan immigration-enforcement bill known as the Save Act (H.R.4088), said this week that Sen. McCain was calling Republican House members in an attempt to block discharge petition that would force a vote on the bill on the House floor.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Eric Lichtblau / Slate:
The Education of a 9/11 Reporter  —  THE INSIDE DRAMA BEHIND THE TIMES' WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING STORY. … For 13 long months, we'd held off on publicizing one of the Bush administration's biggest secrets.  Finally, one afternoon in December 2005, as my editors and I waited anxiously …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard Blog:
Jim McDermott: “We Don't Mind Being Used” by Saddam Hussein  —  Last night came the news that Saddam Hussein's regime paid for a high-profile trip taken by three congressional Democrats to Baghdad in the fall of 2002.  The visit, by Democratic Representatives David Bonior, Jim Thompson …
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.
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.
Ben / Think Progress:
Krauthammer: McCain Has ‘Hidden Agenda’ To ‘Kill The United Nations’  —  Yesterday in an foreign policy address in Los Angeles, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for the United States to create and lead a “League of Democracies” in order to “harness the vast influence of the more than one hundred …
Michelle Malkin:
Fitna has arrived  —  Readers are sending the Liveleak English version of Geert Wilders' Fitna, which has just been posted.  (Be patient, may be a little slow to load.)  It's 15 minutes with scenes of jihad interlaced with quotes from the Koran.  —  The film ends not with any blasphemous image …
Gene Lyons / NWAnews.com:
Wright's anger is part of the problem  —  As recently as 2000, Democrats were outraged that, due to the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush vs. Gore, not all of Florida's presidential votes counted.  In 2008, advanced thinkers supporting Sen. Barack Obama have persuaded themselves that fairness dictates that none of them should count.
Discussion: BuzzMachine
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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Amanda / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: McCain's Foreign Affairs Speech Plagiarizes 1996 Address …
Discussion: Wonk Room and TPMCafe
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Olbermann Counting Up...Happy At Last
Robert Schwaneberg / New Jersey Online:
NJ Senate candidate Andy Unanue fell from grace at family's company
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Obama: No fan of retirement saving
Time:
Putting McCain to the Ethics Test
Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Spin Cycle and MSNBC
Mike Allen / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama talks cap-gains rate with CNBC
 Earlier Items: 
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
WHAT ‘OVERSAMPLE’ MEANS  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
Jody Rosen / New York Times:
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
Hugh Bronstein / Reuters:
Colombia seizes uranium from leftist guerrillas
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bob Barr thinking ‘very serious’ …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis
 

 
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