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9:20 PM ET, March 31, 2008

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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills  —  Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton's struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.  —  Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Tall Tale of Tuzla  —  HILLARY CLINTON'S BOSNIAN MISADVENTURE SHOULD DISQUALIFY HER FROM THE PRESIDENCY, BUT THE AIRPORT LANDING IS THE LEAST OF IT.  —  The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia …
Selim Algar / New York Post:
FROM BAD TO VERSE FOR HILL  —  AIRPORT'S GIRL POET STUNNED BY SNIPER TALE AS INSULTED FELLOW BOSNIANS RIP ‘LOW BLOW’ LIE  —  SARAJEVO, Bosnia - The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated …
CBN.com:
Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters Punished with a Baby  —  A lot has been made (by both sides) in this Democratic primary race that “words matter”.  Well, The Brody File brings you this:  —  At a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon …
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Rasmussen Reports:
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds Lead Over Clinton, 51% to 43%  —  Longest stretch as front-runner for either candidate since late February  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted March 28-30 finds Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton in national Democratic preferences for the nomination, 51% to 43%.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Dems, Reps Agree: Obama Tougher Opponent for McCain
Discussion: Boston Globe and The Swamp
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Do They Hate Clinton More Than They Care About The Dem Party?  —  Apparently, Josh Marshall got a lot of “feedback” for his post that I discussed here.  His reply to that feedback seems equally nonsensical to me: … (Emphasis supplied.)  This makes no sense to me.
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Associated Press:
Michigan delegate compromise offered  —  Congressman proposes alternate plan for seating state's delegates  —  WASHINGTON - A Michigan congressman proposed an alternate plan Monday for seating the state's delegates at the Democratic National Convention, awarding delegates based partly …
Discussion: MyDD, TalkLeft and Don Surber
Media Matters for America:
Scarborough on Obama's “dainty” bowling performance: “Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man”  —  During the March 31 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance — which Scarborough called …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Interviewing Six Conservative Female Bloggers On Dating  —  One of the great things about my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, is that I get to link a wide variety of articles and see which links draw the most clicks.  While doing that, one of the things that I've found is that any article about dating tends to do really well.
Wayne Barrett / The Huffington Post:
Could the Republicans Pick the Democratic Nominee?  — The Untold Story of How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan  —  Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean came out of hiding last week to announce that there is no reason to rush to resolve the fate of Florida and Michigan.
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
CIA enlists Google's help for spy work  —  US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects  —  Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Fitna Website Hacked by Cyberterrorists!  —  A website devoted to Fitna the movie has been hacked.  I've been sent several e-mails about the website in the past claiming that it was really anti-Fitna, but have seen no evidence of this.  What it appears to do is simply aggregate articles about Geert Wilders and Fitna.
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Sebastiaan Gottlieb / Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
Islamic countries want Dutch to ban Wilders movie
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Obama  —  WASHINGTON — With an eye to the general election and the Pennsylvania primary, some Republicans who oppose President Bush's war policy are endorsing Senator Obama.  —  Senator Obama speaks at a rally on the Old Main Lawn at Penn State University yesterday …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Dilbert Strategy  —  Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy.  To hide their lack of any actual ideas about what to do, managers sometimes make a big show of rearranging the boxes and lines that say who reports to whom.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OOPS  —  Racial healer Lou Dobbs explains how he's sick of “cotton pickin'” black leaders telling him how he can and can't talk about race (he catches himself at the last minute — sorta) ...  Special thanks to TPM Reader AR for the catch.  —  Late Update: Whenever we do posts like this …
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
McCain: Obama Has No Experience in National Security, Warfare  —  ABC News' Bret Hovel Reports: Speaking to reporters as part of his biograhipic tour, Republican Sen. John McCain attacked Democrat Barack Obama for what he called a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the history of national security and warfare in the twentieth century.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Salon
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
STICKIN'  —  There's been a fierce and now apparently fading argument over the last week over whether Hillary Clinton should drop out of the nomination race or, more pointedly, whether she's under some sort of obligation to do so.  Not just in this race but in general I've always taken …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The New Republic
 
 
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Mario Cuomo / The Huffington Post:
How to Avoid a Democratic Disaster
Neville Thurbeck / News of the World:
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers
Discussion: The Corner and Times of London
Robert Schlesinger / The Huffington Post:
“I Shall Not Seek, and I Will Not Accept...”
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Life in A Cocoon  —  A problem for Barack Obama-after living …
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
HOW PAID FAMILY/MEDICAL LEAVE WOULD WORK.
Discussion: The New Republic
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WILLIAM KATZ: “I APPRECIATE THE CHANCE TO EXPLAIN...”
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain ‘Surprised’ by Iraq Developments
Discussion: Firedoglake
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
Barack Obama calls for Cesar Chavez holiday
 Earlier Items: 
Slate:
The Military  —  HOW TO FIX THE U.S. MILITARY.
Associated Press:
Cuba Allows Citizens to Stay in Hotels
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Eschaton
Karen Brooks / Dallas Morning News:
Bush library searches for Web site name
Fhblack / newsobserver.com projects:
C. Clinton: None of your business
Discussion: The Page and CBS News
Ross Douthat:
Lieberman Democrats
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
A Moral Stain of a Punchline
William Kristol / New York Times:
Biography Isn't Enough  —  The McCain campaign's first general …
 

 
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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

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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