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New York Times:
Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage — Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a …
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Dick Polman / Philly.com:
The '08 race and the future of the court — The 2008 presidential campaign is not just about the war in Iraq, or gas prices, or health care, or flag pins. It's also about the future direction of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the challenge of balancing national security concerns with fealty to the nation's democratic principles.
Michael D. Shear / The Trail:
Obama, McCain Respond to Guantanamo Bay Ruling — The presidential candidates reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision today to grant terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay access to the federal courts. — Republican John McCain told reporters in Boston that he had not yet read the opinion …
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Bill Mears / CNN:Justices: Gitmo detainees can challenge detention in U.S. courts
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John Scalzi / Whatever:
Fox News Would Like To Take a Moment To Remind You That the Obamas Are As Black As Satan's Festering, Baby-Eating Soul — Back in the day - you know, when presidential candidates were respectably white - news organizations called potential First Ladies “wives.”
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
Global Economic Gloom - China and India Notable Exceptions — Some Positive Signs for U.S. Image — Overview — Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the image of the United States abroad remains far less positive than it was before the war and at the beginning of the century.
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Daniel Nasaw / Guardian:US elections: International community rooting for Obama, survey says
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Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
LOAN SLEAZE SPREADS — 2 SENATORS GOT ‘EXEC PAL’ DEALS — Two influential US senators got “VIP” loans from a leading subprime mortgage lender that saved them tens of thousands of dollars, it was reported last night. — The Democratic pols, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota …
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Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
McCain should know better — Context and decency elude the GOP presidential nominee — SPECIAL COMMENT — Tonight, a Special Comment on Sen. John McCain's conclusion that it's “not too important” when American forces come home from Iraq. — Thoughts, offered more in sorrow, than in anger.
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The Politico:
Obama moves quickly to reshape DNC — Barack Obama's move to merge key elements of the Democratic National Committee into his own campaign's Chicago headquarters appears aimed at the goal of a centralized and united Democratic Party. — The shift of the DNC's political and field organizing operations …
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TownHall Blog
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Kanjorski caught in another ‘gotcha’ moment — U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski is getting a first-hand lesson in the hazards of the digital age. — For the second time in a month, a clip on the wildly popular video-posting Web site, YouTube, is earning him election-year attention he'd probably rather avoid.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bad Cow Disease — “Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken / She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it's labeled chicken.” — That little ditty famously summarized the message of “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's 1906 exposé of conditions in America's meat-packing industry.
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The Confluence
Washington Post:
Town Hall: McCain's Comfort Zone — Campaign Banks On Meetings to Give Best Forum for Republican — Microphone in hand and surrounded on all sides by friendly inquisitors, Republican Sen. John McCain called on a man in the back row of New York's Federal Hall on Thursday night and waited …
Teddy Davis / ABCNEWS:
Gun Control Group Braces for Court Loss — 'We've Lost the Battle on What the 2nd Amendment Means,' Brady Campaign Head Says — The nation's leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised …
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Below The Beltway
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama, Liberalism and the Challenge of Reform — Is Barack Obama really a force for change, or is he just a traditional Democrat with a patina of postpartisan rhetoric? — That question is surprisingly hard to answer. When you listen to his best speeches, you see a person who really could herald a new political era.
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Obama Campaign Dispatching Thousands — Moving to harness the grass-roots energy that helped win the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will deploy 3,600 volunteers in 17 states this weekend, each committed to six consecutive weeks of full-time political work.
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Earmark Spending Makes a Comeback — More than a year after Congress pledged to curb pork barrel funding known as earmarks, lawmakers are gearing up for another spending binge, directing billions toward organizations and companies in their home districts. — Earmark spending …
Atrios / Eschaton:
That's Mavericky — McCain lies to Fox about who is going to attend his town hall. Funny.
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Is Right, Words Matter — “Don't tell me words don't matter!” Sen. Barack Obama thundered at a Wisconsin Democratic Party dinner in February. He should have remembered that at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference last week.
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