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4:25 AM ET, April 4, 2008

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The Huffington Post:
Air America Host Randi Rhodes Suspended For Calling Hillary A “Big F*cking Whore”  —  Air America host Randi Rhodes called both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton “whores” in a recent appearance, seen below.  Rhodes, who hosts a weekday radio show on Air America, said to the cheering crowd, “What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is!
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Randi Rhodes Suspended After Calling Hillary ‘Big F***ing Whore’  —  WHORE-IBLE INSULTS  —  Unhinged Rhodes Stand-Up Routine Results In Suspension  —  *** RHODES CLAIMS CONTRACT BREACH ***  —  An unhinged tirade by Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes has led to an unprecedented suspension …
Air America / Air America Radio blogs:
STATEMENT OF AIR AMERICA RADIO, FROM CHAIR CHARLIE KIREKER  —  New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco …
Ed Ronco / South Bend Tribune:
Poll: Clinton, Obama neck and neck in Hoosier state  —  Obama is choice for 81 percent of black Democratic primary voters.  —  Sen. Barack Obama has a huge lead among younger voters in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton holds the same lead with voters older than 60, and both candidates …
Discussion: MyDD
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New York Times:
Obama's Support Softens, Poll Shows  —  Senator Barack Obama's support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month — particularly among men and upper-income voters — as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February …
New York Times:
Weak Economy Sours Public's View of Future, New Poll Finds  —  Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll.
Saira Anees / Political Punch:
Obama is Smokin'  —  Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol.  —  This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents, back when you might see him strolling solo.  —  We chatted for a second …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Steady at Obama 49%, Clinton 46%
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Report: Security in Iraq is improving  —  WASHINGTON - A new classified intelligence assessment on Iraq says there has been significant progress in security since the last assessment was delivered in August, a senior military official said.  —  In most ways the new National Intelligence Estimate hews closely …
Discussion: Buck Naked Politics
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Washington Post:
McCain Holds Off on Secret Service Protection  —  Weeks after clinching the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) still has no Secret Service protection and has not requested it, the head of the agency told Congress yesterday.  —  Director Mark Sullivan …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
McCain rejects Secret Service protection
Discussion: Hot Air and The Page
Michael Wines / New York Times:
New Signs of Mugabe Crackdown in Zimbabwe  —  Zimbabwe's government staged separate police raids on Thursday against the main opposition party, foreign journalists and at least one democracy advocate, raising the specter of a broad crackdown aimed at keeping the country's imperiled leaders in power.
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Times of London:
Zimbabwe: the backlash begins as paramilitaries launch raids
Discussion: Harry's Place
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Nature:
Dangerous assumptions  —  Roger Pielke, Jr1, Tom Wigley2 & Christopher Green3  — Roger Pielke Jr is in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488, USA.  — Christopher Green is in the Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2T7, Canada.
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John Tierney / TierneyLab:
Are Carbon Cuts Just a Fantasy?
Discussion: Nature, Climate Progress and Gristmill
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Al Qaeda #2: We'll Attack Iran  —  Recently, Senator John McCain has repeatedly indicated that Iran and al-Qaeda are in cahoots.  The terror group's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would beg to differ.  In a long-promised online Q&A session, Zawahiri says it would be “in the interest” …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Truth, Put Your Boots On
Susan Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Adviser's Colombia Talks  —  Penn Met to Discuss Free-Trade Pact  —  Fought by Senator  —  Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes.
Daily Mail:
British Muslims ‘planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go’  —  A British terror gang plotted to use liquid explosives to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-flight, a court heard today.  —  Eight men planned to smuggle bombs disguised as soft drinks …
Esquire:
EXCLUSIVE: “Torture Memo” Author John Yoo Responds to This Week's Revelations  —  John Yoo, former Justice Department official and author of the “torture memos” used to provide the legal justification for how the U.S. interrogated captured terrorist suspects, defends his actions.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Murtha: Clinton Cannot Win Nomination Without Popular Vote  —  Hillary Clinton simply cannot be the Democratic nominee if she doesn't win the popular vote, Pennsylvania congressman and Clinton-backer John Murtha said Wednesday.  —  “Clinton has to win Pennsylvania,” he argued in an interview.
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton backers: She must win popular vote
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
John Edwards says would not accept VP nomination  —  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago.  —  Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina …
 
 
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
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Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
GOP CHIEF LIKES CLINTON-OBAMA SPAT
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He's Outta There  —  BUCHAREST, Romania — Enough is enough, it seems.
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Clinton Denies Saying Obama ‘Cannot Win’; Aides Dispute Question
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Another KBR Rape Case
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