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9:10 AM ET, May 21, 2008

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CNN:
Another split decision in Democratic race  —  (CNN) — Despite Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in Kentucky, Barack Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination.  —  Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates …
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Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Clinton Fades Even in a Victory  —  While Senator Barack Obama gingerly commended his rival's “perseverance,” the shrinking candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton all but vanished from the television set on Tuesday, sidelined by bigger news.  —  Even her victory speech in Kentucky …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Sees Many Reasons to Stay In  —  Rebuffing associates who have suggested that she end her candidacy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has made it clear to her camp in recent days that she will stay in the race until June because she believes she can still be the nominee — and …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Problems for the Obama Juggernaut?
Washington Post:
Clinton Wins Her Faithful in Ky., But Obama Gains Whites in Ore.
Discussion: Hot Air and PoliGazette
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Money shocker!  Hillary Clinton's campaign debt soars to $31 million  —  No wonder Sen. Hillary Clinton was so late filing her required campaign financial reports Tuesday night.  Her political team didn't want the shocking news in it to overshadow her lopsided thumping of Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky.
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
AWESOME NEW CLINTONIAN BULLS**T- BREAKING FAST  —  Lisa Caputo, one of the Clinton hacks on MSNBC tonight, just claimed (fraudulently) that Hillary had the popular vote but was behind in the delegate math, and that this felt like “Al Gore in 2000 when it had to go to the Supreme Court.”
Ed OKeefe / Political Punch:
Obama Takes In More Than $31 Million in April
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
We've Been Had  —  This was Obama's rally in Oregon over the weekend, which saw 75,000 people gather on the waterfront, on a sunny summer day, to hear the great one speak.  Or did they?  The headline in the New York Times was “Obama Draws Huge Crowd in Oregon.”  So they must have been there to see Obama, right?
Discussion: Pitchfork
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Robert Knight / NewsBusters.org:
Free Concert by Popular Band Preceded Obama's Big Rally  —  From CNN to the New York Times, the media hyped Barack Obama's Portland, Oregon rally on Sunday, some comparing him to a rock star.  —  Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare …
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Obama's Decemberists  —  Turns out that Obama's opening act …
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Chuck Hagel Takes On McCain, Repeatedly Praises Obama  —  Chuck Hagel is quickly becoming Barack Obama's answer to Joe Lieberman.  —  The Republican Senator from Nebraska was a political thorn in McCain's side on Tuesday night, repeatedly lavishing praise on the presumptive Democratic candidate …
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
More than just financing Bush Wars...  The Chinese are apparently taking a supervisory role in overseeing their investment. … Ms. Manning are you forgetting who the President and Vice-President are?  Sadly, it's par for the course.  —  This occurred during the period …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Former Detainee Describes ‘Water Treatment’
Discussion: Think Progress
Gizmodo:
Flying RC Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech  —  We had to double check that this wasn't a story about Second Life, but rather is an actual event in actual meatspace occurring this past weekend in Moscow.  As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces …
Joseph Lieberman / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats and Our Enemies  —  How did the Democratic Party get here?  How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?
Discussion: Commentary and The New Republic
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Matthew Yglesias:
Zellification  —  I speculated maybe a week or two ago …
Discussion: The New Republic
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Last Debate  —  “What do you want?  Please, Sweetie, would you just tell me what you want?”  —  “Don't Sweetie me, Twiggy.  You know what I want.”  —  “Besides that, Hillary.  Seriously, you don't want your delusion to put John McCain in the White House.  Or maybe you do.  You have no shot.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Ginn / DBKP:
UK PC Criminal: 15-Yr-Old Youth Who Called Scientology a Cult  —  If there's any doubt that the enforcement of political correctness in the U.K. is turning ordinary citizens into criminals, a 15-yr-old youth was issued a criminal summons after he had written on a sign that Scientology was a cult.
Discussion: The Impolitic, Gawker and Boing Boing
Sam Graham-Felsen / Barack Obama:
Senator Obama's Remarks from Des Moines, Iowa  —  Senator Obama delivered these remarks (as prepared) from Des Moines, Iowa...  If you're inspired — if you're ready to build this movement and change America — make a donation today.  We can change the world.
Carl / Israel Matzav:
Al-Dura case overturned on appeal  —  Israel Radio's Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli has just reported that the French Court of Appeals has overturned the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty and has determined that Karsenty did not libel France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin …
 
 
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
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New York Times:
Operation in Sadr City Is an Iraqi Success, So Far
Financial Times:
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Daniel A. Bell / New York Times:
China's Class Divide
Discussion: Economist's View
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For better or worse, a bad ruling
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Is MSNBC a Political Liability to NBC?
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Yglesias:
McCainiacs for Clinton  —  Well, as predicted Obama won Oregon …
Discussion: Eunomia
IBDeditorials.com:
Bashers Beware  —  The Presidency: It takes little courage …
Discussion: Power Line and Sadly, No!
New York Times:
Report Details Dissent on Guantánamo Tactics
Discussion: the talking dog
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Should Obama Have Played In Kentucky?
Noah Pollak / Commentary:
McCain Is Losing the Iran Debate
Discussion: Political Byline
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Life's Work  —  I'm very sorry that Senator Kennedy is facing …
Sara Reistad-Long / New York Times:
Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain
Discussion: normblog and Althouse