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12:20 PM ET, May 25, 2008

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Hillary Clinton / NY Daily News:
Hillary: Why do I continue to run  —  This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race.  —  I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
On the Road: Clinton's Very Bad Day  —  Friday might have been one of the worst days of Senator Hillary Clinton's political career.  Her campaign, as everyone knows, was already struggling.  But on Friday, she made a reference to Bobby Kennedy's assassination _ a terrible choice of phrase …
Discussion: The Impolitic, Emptywheel and Salon
Mary Flood / Houston Chronicle:
Lawyers cry foul in FLDS seizures  —  Many lawyers for children and parents in a Texas polygamist sect are boiling mad about the growing number of legal errors they claim the state has made in seizing and holding more than 460 children.  —  From the way officials handled an April anonymous phone tip …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Pajamas Media
NEWS.com.au:
Sex swap approved for girl, 12  —  A JUDGE has allowed a 12-year-old Victorian girl to start a taxpayer-funded sex swap, despite objections from the child's father.  —  The girl has begun court-approved hormone treatment in the first step toward a complete gender switch.
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton  —  Black leaders say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton returns as senator, she'll need to heal racial wounds her campaign has inflicted.  —  Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York …
Discussion: Corrente
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Thers / Firedoglake:
Late Night: The Autumn of Wingnuttia  —  George Packer's New Yorker article asking if conservatives have “run out of ideas” caused quite the stir in the Right Blogosphere this past week.  And right bloggers proved Packer wrong: as it turns out, they didn't have any “ideas” to start with.
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Fell  —  UNEQUAL DAMAGE.  —  DUJIANGYAN, China — The earthquake's destruction of Xinjian Primary School was swift and complete.  Hundreds of children were crushed as the floors collapsed in a deluge of falling bricks and concrete.
Neil Asher Silberman / Washington Post:
Real Archaeologists Don't Wear Fedoras  —  After 17 years, Hollywood's most famous archaeologist is back in action.  Now grayer and a bit creakier, Indiana Jones is again hacking his way through thick jungles, careering wildly in car chases and scrambling through dark tunnels to snatch …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Times of London:
MI5 fears jihadis will use mentally ill as suicide bombers  —  Islamic terrorists may be targeting mentally disturbed or disabled people in Britain in a bid to form a new “brigade” of home-grown suicide bombers, security officials fear.  —  MI5 and police say the case of Nicky Reilly …
Associated Press:
Colombia Government Source Says Top Rebel Leader Is Dead  —  BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it has information from various intelligence sources that the legendary leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla army is dead.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Hot Air
The Columbus Dispatch:
Rev. Rod Parsley withdraws McCain endorsement  —  After saying Friday that he would not withdraw his endorsement of Sen. John McCain, pastor Rod Parsley has changed his mind.  —  The pastor of World Harvest Church, in the Canal Winchester area, issued a statement almost identical …
 
 
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Colombia's big news: “Tirofijo” FARC leader ‘dead’ says military
Dotcomabc / Political Punch:
The Fallacy of Clinton's 1968 Analogy
Discussion: The Jed Report
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Michigan: What would have happened?
Discussion: Liberal Values
Kevin Ferris / Press Association:
Protesting the Antiwar Protestors
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Flopping Aces
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AP Interview: Calif. congresswoman says home sale ‘improper’
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Good Luck to ‘War Inc.’
Discussion: AlterNet.org
Neil Sinhababu / Washington Monthly:
A FALSE, FALSE SENSE OF NATIONAL SECURITY SECURITY. …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw
Los Angeles Times:
Key Al Qaeda figure apparently died in U.S. strike in Pakistan