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MATIER AND ROSS — Bill Clinton's tirade stunned some delegates — The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to “chill out” …
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Mead Gruver / Associated Press:
Wyoming governor back Obama — CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, a former Clinton administration appointee, announced Wednesday that he will support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. — Freudenthal said he was impressed by the large …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's war crimes — (updated below) — Yet again, the ACLU has performed the function which Congress and the media are intended to perform but do not. As the result of a FOIA lawsuit the ACLU filed and then prosecuted for several years, numerous documents relating …
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Phillippe Sands / Vanity Fair:
The Green Light — As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn't talk, the Bush administration's highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army's own Field Manual.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:'03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations
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Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News:
Stabenow's husband caught in Troy prostitution sting, police report says — TROY — The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report.
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Detroit Free Press:
Report: Stabenow's husband paid prostitute in sting — Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, told Troy police detectives that he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a Troy hotel in late February, according to a police report obtained Wednesday …
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Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:
Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots — Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.”
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Karl Rove Likes What He Sees — Karl Rove Likes What He Sees … I CAN SEE KARL ROVE standing outside the restaurant, on the phone, yakking, pacing, occasionally peering at me through the etched-glass window and sticking a stubby finger in the air to indicate that he'll just be just one more minute.
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Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Has Yet to Win Over Key Conservatives — On the campaign trail last week, Sen. John McCain declared at least three times that the Republican Party is “united.” — But is it? — Some prominent conservatives say they remain disenchanted with the party's likely nominee.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama takes the lead in Pennsylvania — Barack Obama 45 — Hillary Clinton 43 — Barack Obama has taken the lead in Pennsylvania, a remarkable turnaround after trailing Hillary Clinton by 26 points in a PPP poll in the state just two and a half weeks ago.
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Time:
Obama Keeps Cash Lead Over Clinton — Barack Obama raised more than $30 million in the month of March, a campaign official told TIME on Tuesday. — Though the official would not provide an exact number, he did say, “The number starts with a three and we are still counting. It's in the 30s.”
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Heavy Troop Deployments Are Called Major Risk — Readiness Is Dangerously Low, Army Chief Says — Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put …
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Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Obama Wins Backing of 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of one of his party's top foreign policy figures, Lee Hamilton, who hails from Indiana, home to one of the next crucial primary votes.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Obama's Abortion Extremism — Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr.'s endorsement of Barack Obama last week — “I believe in this guy like I've never believed in a candidate in my life” — recalled another dramatic moment in Democratic politics. In the summer of 1992, as Bill Clinton solidified his control …
Jacqueline Lee / Des Moines Register:
Pizza driver: ‘There was no way out’ — A Des Moines pizza driver who was suspended from his job after he shot an armed robber said today he has been overwhelmed by support from people who cheered what happened. — “But no one had contacted me directly about a job offer,” …
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USA Today:
‘Super delegate’ gathering gets thumbs down — WASHINGTON — Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said Tuesday that he does not support staging a formal gathering of “super delegates” to pick the party's presidential nominee. — The tight nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Washington Post:
Obama Changes Approach to Reach Blue-Collar Voters in Pennsylvania — WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — When Sen. Barack Obama's bus rolls to a stop Wednesday in Philadelphia, he will have spent six days on the road and $3 million in television ads trying to bolster his chances in a state where polls show …
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