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2:35 PM ET, April 14, 2008

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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Mask Slips  —  I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.  Still, it didn't take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker — a book that was assigned …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Now He's A Godless Commie  —  Bill Kristol, trained in the same politics as Hillary Clinton, now argues that Obama's remarks in a fundraiser q and a are the “real Obama” - and that his voluminous writing and speaking about the sincerity of his own religious faith, and of others, are presumably “masks.”
Discussion: protein wisdom
Rasmussen Reports:
56% Disagree with Obama's Comments on Small Town America  —  Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama's statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Louisiana Senate
Discussion: MyDD and TPM Election Central
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly, Fox News's Fast-Rising Anchor  —  NEW YORK — It's just after 10:30 Monday morning on “America's Newsroom,” and Megyn Kelly has bounced from riots in Paris to storms in the Midwest, from a truck-and-train collision to a strange interview about the 1969 Manson family murders with the sister of slain actress Sharon Tate.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Pre-teen Sex and the Senator  —  Last night, during the “Compassion Forum,” Barack Obama, talking about his daughters, said: “if, at the age of 12 or 13, they made what I would consider to be a mistake, in having sex or unprotected sex, and ended up getting pregnant.”
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Shakesville
Andrea Billups / Washington Times:
McCain keeps his faith out of politics
Discussion: The Caucus
Martin Kady II / The Crypt's Blogs:
FEC nominee drops out amid continued stalemate  —  The top Democratic nominee for the Federal Election Commission has withdrawn his name from consideration, deepening the nomination meltdown that has effectively shut down the commission during a critical election year.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bush prepares global warming initiative
Discussion: The Corner and Dot Earth
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
BUSH: ‘TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES’
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
USA Today:
No ‘bitter’ aftertaste?  How Obama gaffe plays  —  JACOBUS, Pa. — Phil Little seems like just the sort of Pennsylvanian voter who might have been offended by Sen. Barack Obama's comments that small-town residents “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”
Discussion: New York Times and Balloon Juice
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Numbers Holding Strong  —  Maintains a 10-point lead over Clinton for Democratic nomination  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama, who has come under attack by his presidential rivals for describing small-town voters as “bitter,” seems to be weathering the storm to this point as far as voters are concerned.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Swamp
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Goes on Offense After Fumble  —  GRANTHAM, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama sharply mocked his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sunday night as he found himself defending his candidacy to white working-class voters for the second time in a month.  —  Sen. Obama accused Sen. Clinton …
Melinda Henneberger / Slate:
For Better or for Worse  —  WHY THE CLINTONS WILL STAY MARRIED, WIN OR LOSE.  —  When Bill and Hillary Clinton's friends say they are exactly the same in public and private—well, except for the F-bombs—they tend to mean it literally: “I don't think I've ever heard them talk about anything but politics …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
CLINTON KEEPS SPOTLIGHT ON OBAMA
Discussion: Political Insider
Ken Layne / Wonkette:
Yes We Can: Wonkette Goes Solo  —  So, anything happening in the media news today?  Wait, WHAT?  Yes it's true: Wonkette is bravely leaving the Gawker Media nest, along with Gawker's music and travel sites.  Why on Earth is a beloved publication such as Wonkette taking this plunge …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Breaking: Gawker Media selling Wonkette blog; spinning off three sites
Discussion: FishBowlDC
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Israel snubs Carter and declines security help  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
New York Times:
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending  —  Who said anything about a recession?  Sometime between the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that America lost 80,000 jobs in March, Lee Tachman spent roughly $50,000 last month on a four-day jaunt to Miami for himself and three close friends.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
YOU BITTER?  —  I've gotten asked by a lot of readers what I make of this whole “bitter” controversy.  So a few thoughts.  —  In cases such as this I think it is always crucial to distinguish in our own minds between what we find offensive and what we've been conditioned to believe that others will find offensive.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Political Machine
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Full Text of Obama's Speech to the Alliance for American Manufacturing  —  Being here in Pennsylvania with the primary coming up, I know that politics is what's on a lot of people's minds.  But as I look out at this crowd, I also know that being here isn't just about politics for me.  It's personal.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Iraqis aren't stupid — and they're watching us  —  Last month, Vets for Freedom visited the Twin Cities to talk about their experience in Iraq — and got rewarded by being booted from a local high school.  Michael Honeycutt and I, along with hundreds of people from our community …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe  —  DUBLIN — The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.
Discussion: American Street
 
 
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Nick Langewis / PageOneQ:
Right wing video warns: Gays are plotting to invade City Hall
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IRS eases pressure on Big U.S. companies, study says
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McCain Attacks The Press, Who Then Offer Him His 'Favorite Treats …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Today in 1999  —  was the last time John Kerry ever successfully sponsored legislation:
Discussion: Hot Air
Drudge Report:
MCCAIN: ‘HILLARY CAN STILL PULL IT OFF’; SENATOR PREFERS CLINTON CONTEST
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Amy Alkon / Pajamas Media:
Are Privileged Western Women Being Crushed into Silence?
Rachel Kapochunas / CQ Politics:
Departure of Popular GOP Incumbent Puts Mississippi House Seat in Play
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
McCain: More conservative than his image
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shakesville
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Still a primary  —  Clinton whacks Obama at a forum …
Discussion: The New Republic
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Singing McCain's Praises, or Joking?
Washington Post:
A Lapsed Principle  —  BARACK OBAMA held out the hope …
George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Libertarian Surge?  —  Bob Barr will be dry-eyed if his candidacy …
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
MR. AND MS. SPOKEN … When the footage surfaced showing …
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Is John McCain Bob Dole?
Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
HARDCORE MARILYN  —  FBI'S MONROE SEX FLICK SOLD FOR $1.5M
Discussion: TMZ.com