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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What Choice Was There?  —  The Washington Post reports this morning that Hillary Clinton has reached the earth-shaking conclusion that she has to embrace her husband in her campaign to win the presidency in 2008.  Apparently, this strategy created controversy in her campaign despite …
Discussion: Doug Ross
John Sasso / Boston Globe:
Why Clinton will prevail  —  SOME RAINDROPS have started to fall on Senator Hillary Clinton's parade to the Democratic presidential nomination.  In the early primary races of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, rival Barack Obama has pulled even or ahead and the longstanding Clinton badge …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Why Inexperience Matters  —  The AP takes a look at the political development of Barack Obama, and it's hard not to look at it as an apprenticeship.  His position changes don't count as flip-flops in the same sense that a teenager's infatuation with radical politics changes with some maturity.
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Christopher Wills / Associated Press:
Obama's views have changed with time  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday.  They could argue about whether the death penalty is ever appropriate.  Whether it makes sense to ban handguns.
Discussion: The Ruckus
Jacob Heilbrunn / Washington Monthly:
Why Rudy Giuliani loves Norman Podhoretz  —  When Norman Mailer died in November, it was hard not to feel a twinge of melancholy and nostalgia for the vanished world of the New York Family of intellectuals.  In the past decade, many of its most colorful members have passed away …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics  —  $1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces  —  CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give …
Media Matters for America:
“Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  For much of the past week, MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson have been in high dudgeon over former Sen. Bob Kerrey's recent reference to Barack Obama's middle name.  —  Kerrey said during an event announcing his endorsement of Hillary Clinton that …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and TalkLeft
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Tucker: John Edwards Can't Be President, His House Is Too Big
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Huckabee: Gitmo is too nice  —  Remember this one from Romney during an early GOP debate? … Download (50) |  Play (73) Download (117) |  Play (24)  —  Mike Huckabee, that Christian leader who doesn't see crosses, only bookshelves told CBS News that (h/t Charles):
Discussion: The Ruckus and Daily Kos
Cagle Cartoons / The Moderate Voice:
Guest Voice: Huckabee's Smart Strategy Is No Accident  —  This is a Guest Voice column by Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan's oldest son, who is also a popular radio talk show host.  Guest Voice columns do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice or its writers.  —  Smart Strategy is No Accident
Ross Douthat:
The “Myth” of Welfare Queens  —  In one of his slew of Republicans-are-racist posts earlier in the year, Paul Krugman wrote, sarcastically: … Of course, there couldn't be a third option - like, say, that Reagan was indulging in his typical fondness for using vivid Reader's Digest-style anecdotes …
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alicublog:
Quotomatic Selector say: And the middle school kids were giving …
Discussion: The Corner
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Eggnog Factor  —  Often, I will describe the success or failure of a candidate in terms of the “beer factor” — whether voters would want to have a beer and a conversation with a contender or not.  This measure transcends partisanship.  I'd rather have a beer and a chat with Bill Clinton …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Poetic Political Commentary: “If” For 2008 Presidential Candidates  —  Here's a special original 2008 presidential campaign poetic commentary by TMV's favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet.  —  If Kipling's poem, “If,” were addressed to 2008 presidential candidates, it might go something like this...
Discussion: The Ruckus
Rory O'Connor / Media is a Plural:
Time to Cover Up?  —  Is Time magazine's “full” and “complete” transcript of its “Person of the Year” interview with Vladimir Putin a fraudulent cover up?  It appears so.  A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Time:   Putin Q&A: Full Transcript
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Where's The McCain Beef?  —  We're here at the Media Watch, Day 2 of The New York Times Held Hostage.  Despite the Drudge Report announcement earlier this week that the Gray Lady would release an investigative report that Senator John McCain had traded favors for lobbyist cash, the report still has not hit their website.
Porkbusters:
an open letter to president bush: end the era of earmarks  —  Porkbusters is proud to be a signatory to the open letter to President Bush below.  If your organization or publication would like to be listed as supporting this effort, please email bear -at- truthlaidbear -dot- com.  —  Mr. President:
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Henry Sokolski / Weekly Standard:
Policy Implosion  —  Bush backs Moscow's fueling of Bushehr.  —  PERHAPS THE ONLY THING more disappointing than Moscow's shipment this week of lightly enriched uranium to fuel the power reactor at Bushehr in Iran was President Bush's endorsement of it.  “If the Russians are willing to do that …
Discussion: Power Line
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Uranium Traces Found on N. Korean Tubes
Swaraaj Chauhan / The Moderate Voice:
Understanding US Election Issues & Presidential Candidates  —  People living outside America find it difficult to get a clear picture of the issues and candidates in the US presidential election 2008 as a majority of the US media and the blogs seem to have become rather emotive (and partisan? …
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Hillary Clinton / BBC:
Election issues guide
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