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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Where Wright Goes Wrong  —  We all have our crosses to bear.  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has become Barack Obama's.  —  I'm sorry, but I've had it with Wright.  I would never try to diminish the service he performed as pastor of his Chicago megachurch, and it's obvious that he's a man of great charisma and faith.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Gingrich: Wright May Be Deliberately Trying to Hurt Obama  —  ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: In a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and The Page
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A THOMAS EAGLETON MOMENT?
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break  —  WASHINGTON — As angry truckers encircled the Capitol in a horn-blaring caravan and consumers across the country agonized over $60 fill-ups, the issue of high fuel prices flared on the campaign trail on Monday, sharply dividing the two Democratic candidates.
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The Politico:
New Clinton supporter is a potent symbol  —  North Carolina Governor Mike Easley's scheduled endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton today offers her a potent symbolic and electoral boost in the biggest state left to vote.  —  Easley is a meaningful ally in the culture war she's waging …
Nitya / Political Radar:
Clinton Makes Rocky Balboa Look like a Pansy?  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley Tuesday morning in Raleigh, NC.  After touring a bio-manufacturing training center, Gov. Easley …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home”  —  When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.  —  Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HOOK, LINE & SINKER  —  It seems the AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him during the 2008 presidential campaign.  As noted earlier, what the McCain campaign is pushing for here is a standard …
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
The New, New Math  —  Despite the recent show of strength by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the odds against her winning the Democratic presidential nomination are as imposing as ever — and probably worse.  —  There was a time when one of the stronger arguments in favor of nominating …
Discussion: Donklephant
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Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Clinton accepts debate invite
Discussion: The Confluence
Indianapolis Star:
Live at 3 p.m. today at IndyStar.com: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Discussion: NO QUARTER and The Page
Elana Schor / Guardian:
Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over vice-president  —  The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.  —  The exception claimed by Cheney's counsel came in response to requests …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
If You Change Your Sex, Are You Still Married?  —  The NYT has a story about a married couple who became New Jersey's first same-sex marriage when, 25 years after their wedding, Donald, the husband, became Denise.  They stayed together: ""We're one of the few of our friends who are still in our original marriage," Denise Brunner said."
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Tina Kelley / New York Times:
Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change
Discussion: Feministe
Scott Goldberg / KARE-TV:
Police looking for meth lab, find fish tank  —  Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it.  —  And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon …
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Heads for Superdelegate Edge  —  Candidate Benefits  —  From Calculations  —  Of Elected Officials  —  Despite his loss in Pennsylvania and other campaign bumps, Barack Obama is heavily favored to win what will be the final and decisive contest for the Democratic presidential nomination …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Oliver Willis
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
U.S. Was ‘Clueless’ on Counterinsurgency  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Wolfowitz, in his first public remarks on the Iraq war in years, said the American government was “pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency” in the first year of the war.  —  The former deputy secretary of defense said yesterday …
Discussion: abu muqawama and FP Passport
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
How Obama and McCain Keep Sister Souljah-ing the Wrong People  —  It was a pickle only John McCain could have gotten himself into.  —  What should have been a mostly uneventful weekend for McCain, two weeks before the increasingly ugly Democratic campaign culminates in a Carolina showdown …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Sheldon Rampton / Center for Media and Democracy:
Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law  —  The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's exposé by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal.  It violates, for starters, specific restrictions that Congress has been placing in its annual appropriation bills every year since 1951.
 
 
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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Bush takes Congress to task
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Jonathan Kay / National Post:
The Canadian Islamic Congress tries for a ceasefire …
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The DNC IED  —  Several people have forwarded me a link …
James Fallows:
The bright side #3: Reinforcements in the frog wars
Manhattan Institute:
The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement …
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Washington Post:
4 U.S. Troops In Baghdad Are Killed by Rocket Fire
New York Post:
SHARPTON RAPS OBAMA
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Political Theories Abound in North Carolina, but Don't Ask John Edwards for His
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Chinese Students in U.S. Fight Unwelcome Images of Home
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Trust McCain More than Either Democratic Candidate on Key Issues
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton supporter invited Wright
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and GINA COBB
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Son's Own Orbit
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
In a 6-to-3 Vote, Justices Uphold a Voter ID Law
DeWayne Wickham / USA Today:
Democrats need dream ticket, but selling it won't be easy
Discussion: Shakesville
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN'S TEMPER?
The Hill:
Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks
 

 
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Ellen Clegg / What Works:
After The Minnesota Star Tribune decided last summer not to endorse anyone for president, 15 former opinion staffers posted their own endorsement online

 
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