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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Huckabee Surges, Edwards Fades — The latest still photo from the slow motion, inter-party electoral horse race known as Iowa is in — and it looks like John Edwards is losing steam on the Democratic side while Mike Huckabee is charging at the GOP frontrunners.
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University of Iowa News Services:
UI Hawkeye Poll: Huckabee gaining; Clinton and Obama battling for top spot — Mitt Romney continues to hold a strong lead in Iowa among candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination. But Mike Huckabee's Iowa numbers — buoyed, perhaps, by growing support among Evangelical Christians …
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:Polls don't reflect Obama's star power
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:Foreign Policy Grown-Up
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Bluto / The Dread Pundit Bluto:
Full Text of Email Reveals Greenwald Mischaracterizations — Welcome, fellow minions of the lgf New World Odor — Glenn Greenwald, as he had promised in his post at Salon, has forwarded the email he says he received from Colonel Steven A. Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for General Petraeus.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Abject stupidity defined — (updated below - Update II) — If there is a place with more abject stupidity swirling around than the right-wing blogosphere, I'd like to know where it is. Truly, consider what has to be going on inside their brains for this to happen:
Jules Crittenden:
UPDATE MCMLXVIII — The plot has thickened in Boylangate, where Greenwald at last check is up to UPDATE VII and in an advanced tizzy. As well he should be. Because it would appear the sockpuppet, a bestselling author in addition to being a highly accomplished and widely respected constitutional lawyer …
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo says he's leaving Congress — Even if he loses his long-shot bid for the White House, Rep. Tom Tancredo will be leaving the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of 2008. — Tancredo, 61 , waited until after the Colorado Rockies' last out of the World Series on Sunday night …
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Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:
Sarkozy storms out of "60 minutes" interview — PARIS: "No, no. This is stupid," President Nicolas Sarkozy snorted, abruptly unplugging his microphone and calling his press secretary an "imbecile" for setting up an interview with American television network CBS on a busy day.
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her — Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you. If you want it. — Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds …
Daily Mail:
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS — Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year. — And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" …
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Club for Growth:
Ron Paul's Record on Economic Issues … Ron Paul: The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good — Taxes … Ron Paul's record on taxes is excellent, epitomized by his rallying cry for phasing out the IRS[1]. A strong believer in the economic benefits of tax cuts, he declared in a 2006 article …
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Rick Jacobs / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood — We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs. It's a visually stunning space, straight lines …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Looming Catastrophe as Campaign Opportunity — If Obama is hoping for an issue to gain traction with vis a vis Hillary, he's really muffed it picking Social Security. In itself the idea of removing or significantly restructuring the 'cap' on payroll taxes is a good one, at least one with a lot to recommend it.
The Politico:
Giuliani to fight for New Hampshire win — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani, whose presidential campaign strategy originally downplayed New Hampshire, is now making a major bid to win the Granite State primary. — The new push includes spending four days in the state this week …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Psssst — I received this email from Slate this morning: … Well, since I don't think Melinda Henneberger can possibly know anything about the inner workings of the candidates' marriages and I don't think their most intimate relationship would tell me anything particularly relevant …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Obama campaign spokesman blasts gays at Gospel concert; white preacher and Obama say nothing — UPDATE: Per the NYT, the anti-gay activist turned the entire final half hour of the concert into an anti-gay harangue: … Surprise, surprise, surprise. Obama's anti-gay religious right activist used …
Studs Terkel / New York Times:
The Wiretap This Time — EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States. They also agreed to "immunize" American telephone companies …
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