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9:40 AM ET, April 1, 2008

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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Clinton's convention strategy in doubt  —  If the fight over whether to count the results in Florida and Michigan makes it to the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton will not have enough pledged votes on the 169-member Credentials Committee to deliver a majority decision in her favor …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
What Is This Thing Called The Credentials Committee?
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Talking Points Memo
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Obama Is Moving to Down-to-Earth Oratory  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Speech is his finely polished sword, a transcendent weapon.  Seen and heard on a thousand YouTube postings, Senator Barack Obama's speeches have made a happening of that hoariest of campaign forms, the stump speech.
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Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Slipping on Trust  —  Blunders About Past Weaken Credibility; Move to Shift Focus  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. — In the weeks before the Pennsylvania primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton not only lags Sen. Barack Obama in the race for delegates, she also is losing ground in her effort to convince voters that she is trustworthy.
Los Angeles Times:
Obama, McCain bicker on Iraq  —  And in Pennsylvania, Clinton says Obama's supporters are trying to silence those who haven't yet voted.  —  ALLENTOWNPA. — , — In one of their sharpest exchanges of the presidential campaign, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama clashed …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Clinton's Real Choice  —  Chill out.  —  More specifically: “We're going to win this election, if we just chill out and let everybody have their say.”  —  Thus, Bill Clinton's advice to Democrats who are gnashing their collective teeth over whether the extended struggle between Hillary Clinton …
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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 …
Malcolm Nance / SWJ Blog:
The Basrah Gambit - Defining Moment for Iraq or the Jaysh al-Mahdi?  —  Engaging the Mahdi Militia in Basrah and labeling them as equal to Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a deadly gamble that may leave Iran the winner.  —  On 19 March, 2008 CNN's Iraq war correspondent, Kyra Phillips gave a live interview …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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David Usborne / The Independent:
USA 2008: The Great Depression  —  Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US.  In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive - a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis  —  Disadvantaged Americans queue for aid in New York
Alice Walker / Guardian:
Obama is our Mandela  —  Only one candidate offers the radical departure for the 21st century the US needs, for its own sake and the rest of the world's  —  I have come home from a long stay in Mexico to find - because of the presidential campaign, and especially because of the Obama-Clinton race …
Fox News:
Report: Bob Barr Weighing Presidential Run  —  Former Republican Georgia Rep. Bob Barr is considering a run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, according to FITNews.  —  Barr, who joined the Libertarian Party after leaving Congress in 2003, is looking to attract conservatives …
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Kevin Rollins / Free For All:
Is Taxation Voluntary?
Discussion: Betsy's Page and The American Mind
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
In Gaza, Hamas's Insults to Jews Complicate Peace  —  GAZA — In the Katib Wilayat mosque one recent Friday, the imam was discussing the wiliness of the Jew.  —  “Jews are a people who cannot be trusted,” Imam Yousif al-Zahar of Hamas told the faithful.  “They have been traitors to all agreements — go back to history.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and A Blog For All
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Heroic marine throws himself on grenade  —  A Royal Marine could receive the highest award for gallantry after he saved the lives of his comrades by throwing himself onto an exploding grenade in Afghanistan, it has been reported.  —  Lance Corporal Matt Croucher amazingly survived …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Poll: You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time  —  A new survey I commissioned demonstrates how McCain's malarkey about supporting enforcement has succeeded in duping a significant number of voters.  The poll (complete results are here) found that only 34 percent of people who voted …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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 …
 
 
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Michael J. Totten:
The Liberation of Karmah, Part II
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Ralph R. Reiland / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Obama's indoctrination  —  The Department of Justice reports …
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Mugabe told not to declare his victory
Discussion: Hot Air and normblog
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook
Discussion: FP Passport
CNN:
Pelosi calls on Bush to boycott Olympic opening ceremonies
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jon Henke / Megan McArdle:
Where does he go to get his years back?  —  Mistakes happen …
Dr. Maya Angelou / blog.hillaryclinton.com:
Celebrating Women: A Note from Dr. Maya Angelou
Elise Castelli / FederalTimes.com:
Subpoenas issued for IBM, employees over EPA probe
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Jeffrey Rosen / The New Republic:
Legal Bondage
Discussion: The Corner and Free For All
John R. Lott, Jr / Fox News:
The ‘Recession’ Is a Media Myth
Sewell Chan / City Room:
Council Votes 30-20 for Traffic Fees
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
Neville Thurbeck / News of the World:
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
CIA enlists Google's help for spy work
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain ‘Surprised’ by Iraq Developments
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
Barack Obama calls for Cesar Chavez holiday
 

 
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DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

 
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