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11:15 PM ET, January 12, 2008

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The State:
John McCain clearly the best in GOP primary  —  FOR SOUTH CAROLINA, and to some extent for the nation, the choice among Republican candidates for president has come down to two men.  —  First Rudy Giuliani, then Mitt Romney looked at political realities and fled the Palmetto State, deciding their priorities lay elsewhere.
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Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
Women vs. Oprah  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The absence of Oprah Winfrey from the frantic four last days of the New Hampshire primary campaign after her heavy schedule in Iowa backing Sen. Barack Obama may be traced to heavy, unaccustomed post-Iowa abuse of the popular entertainment superstar by women.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Romney leads McCain in Michigan poll  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who badly needs to win Tuesday's Michgian primary, has an eight-point lead over Sen. John McCain of Arizona in a McClatchy-MSNBC poll of Michigan voters to be released Sunday.  —  Romney had a narrower lead …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Joe Won't Be The Veep Pick For McCain
Discussion: PSoTD and PoliGazette
George W. Bush / Newsweek:
Sorry, Barack, You've lost Iraq.  —  Bush's efforts to negotiate a long-term U.S-Iraq pact may remove troops as an '08 election issue for Obama, Clinton.  —  Camp Arifjan in the desert kingdom of Kuwait, America's depot to the Iraq war, feels about as far away as you can get from South Carolina …
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Little Green Footballs:
Outrage of the Week: Canadian Publisher Persecuted for Mindcrime  —  An excellent opening statement by Ezra Levant, at his Canadian Human Rights Commission “hearing” for publishing the Danish cartoons of blasphemy.  This hearing is an outrage, and Levant is brilliant here.
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Ezra Levant:
Kangaroo court  —  I have just returned home from my session at the kangaroo court, called the Alberta human rights commission.  Here is my opening statement that I delivered at the interrogation.  I will post more details about the interrogation soon.
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
“The last house of worship torched in Edmonton was my synagogue”
New York Times:
Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles  —  Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army.  —  This particular 7-Eleven sits in the shadow …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AN APOLOGY TO FRED THOMPSON  —  I am a latecomer to the gentlemen of Red State Update, not to be confused with the gentlemen of Red State.  In the video below, Jackie extracts an apology to Fred Thompson from Dunlap.  The video is suggestive of the kind of hard feelings the intraparty race …
Discussion: Knowledge is Power
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:   Unions Pouring Resources Into Nevada Caucus Fight
Brendan Montague / Times of London:
Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study  —  A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.  —  Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal.
Telegraph:
Organs to be taken without consent  —  Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent.  —  Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the Prime Minister says that such a facility would save thousands of lives and that he hopes such a system can start this year.
New York Times:
Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Distorting Her Words  —  RENO, Nev. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday accused Senator Barack Obama's campaign of distorting remarks she made to suggest that she had cast aspersions on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wayne Washington / The State:
Clinton camp hits Obama |  Attacks ‘painful’ for black voters  —  Many in state offended by criticism of Obama, remarks about King  —  Sharp criticism of Barack Obama and other comments about Martin Luther King Jr. — all from people associated with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
MINORITY REPORTS  —  After New Hampshire, a hint of racial politics.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Young Evangelicals Embrace Huckabee as Old Guard Balks  —  WASHINGTON — Much of the national leadership of the Christian conservative movement has turned a cold shoulder to the Republican presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee, wary of his populist approach to economic issues and his criticism …
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Ben Nelson To Endorse Obama  —  Now this is a predictable development as Ben Nelson is the king of bipartisanship, voting with Republicans more than any other Democrat: … Again, the national implications for me are not positive for Obama, they are negative.
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Jake Thompson / Omaha World-Herald:
Nelson's support shows broad Obama appeal
Discussion: Don Surber and Daily Kos
 
 
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