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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Clinton's Shocking Florida Gambit — Hillary Clinton's rhetoric today about counting the results in Florida and Michigan is simply incredible. Her speech compares discounting the Florida and Michigan primaries to vote suppression and slavery: … It's worth repeating: They supported this “disenfranchisement.”
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Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Desperate to Count Votes, Compares Fla. Primary to Zimbabwe — From CBS News' Fernando Suarez: — SUNRISE, FLA. — Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Shameless — The Clintons know no respect for rules or propriety or restraint in the pursuit of power. But Clinton's latest speech in Florida should cause even veteran Clinton-hating jaws to drop some more: … How do you respond to a sociopath like this?
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Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement — My colleague Ken Vogel reports: … She said “there's a reason why so many have fought so hard and sacrificed so much. It's because they knew that to be a citizen of this country is to have the right and responsibility to help shape its future.
Wall Street Journal:
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch — IEA Official Says Supplies — May Plateau Below Expected Demand — The world's premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
PEAK OIL WATCH....Why have oil prices doubled, doubled again, and then nearly doubled yet again over the past six years? Hedge fund speculation? A “risk premium” due to the Iraq war? Or genuine supply restrictions caused by the declining output of old oil fields?
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Many Florida Jews Express Doubts on Obama — BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — At the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club on Sunday, the fountains were burbling, the man-made lakes were shining, and Shirley Weitz and Ruth Grossman were debating why Jews in this gated neighborhood of airy retirement homes feel …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates — Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest …
Washington Post:
House Overrides Veto of Farm Bill — The House easily overrode President Bush's veto of a $307 billion farm bill last night in what appeared to be the most significant legislative rebuff of Bush's presidency. But a legislative glitch is likely to force embarassed Democratic leaders to pass …
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David Stout / New York Times:
House Override of Farm Bill Veto Is Only the 2nd in Bush's Presidency
House Override of Farm Bill Veto Is Only the 2nd in Bush's Presidency
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Richard Landes / Pajamas Media:
Karsenty Strikes Blow for Freedom in Al-Dura Case [VIDEO] — Richard Landes of the Second Draft reviews the evidence that the “Al-Dura Affair” was, as ruled by a French appeals court today, a hoax — and exposes other works of “Pallywood.” — The French court of appeals …
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Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Who Is John McCain? — The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him—and Why Independents Shouldn't — It is little remembered today that the political career of John Sidney McCain III, a career now thoroughly laundered in mythology, began with the help of several fortuities.
Gail Robinson / Sheffield Telegraph:
Sex swap driving teacher fury — A SEX swap instructor at an all-female driving school was left devastated when the Sheffield husband of one of her pupils threatened to sue her firm - for sending a man to teach his Muslim wife. — Emma Sherdley - formerly a married dad of two called Andrew …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Troubling Instincts — Barack Obama is ambling rather than sprinting across the primary-season finish line. It's not just his failure to connect with blue-collar Democrats. He has added to his problems with ill-informed replies on critical foreign policy questions.
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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Madame President Clinton? Chelesa Clinton That Is — ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all. No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton? — “If you asked me …
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Victorino Matus / Weekly Standard:
The Case Against Indy — Or why he matters less than you think. — BEFORE YOU SEND ME IRATE emails, allow me preface this by stating how thoroughly I enjoy the Indiana Jones films, most notably Raiders of the Lost Ark. But at the end of the day, does our beloved archaeologist actually “save the day”?
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New York Times:
Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed — IN his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often invoked by Barack Obama, a policy that turned out to be one of his presidency's — indeed one of the cold war's — most consequential: “Let us never negotiate out of fear.
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