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3:30 AM ET, January 13, 2008

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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 …
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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.
Chris Christoff / Detroit Free Press:
Romney is top choice for GOP in Tuesday primary, poll shows  —  McCain close second, but much rests on undecided voters  —  Republican primary voters whose greatest concern is the economy could give Bloomfield Hills native Mitt Romney his first major state victory in Tuesday's Michigan presidential primary …
Discussion: MyDD
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
Romney, McCain duel for lead in Michigan GOP primary race
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Huckabee Splits Young Evangelicals and Old Guard
Discussion: protein wisdom and TalkLeft
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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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
“The last house of worship torched in Edmonton was my synagogue”  —  I've been in the wilds away from the Internet all day, but I wanted to draw attention to this - yesterday's interrogation of my old boss Ezra Levant by one of Canada's many “human rights commissions” for publishing the Danish cartoons.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Unions Pouring Resources Into Nevada Caucus Fight  —  With Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama eager to win the Democratic caucuses in Nevada next Saturday, labor unions backing Mr. Obama are in a surprisingly intense, expensive fight with those supporting Mrs. Clinton.
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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.
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 …
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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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.
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.
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.
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
McCaskill to endorse Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill will endorse Barack Obama's presidential bid Sunday, a boost that comes as the Democratic presidential showdown intensifies in Missouri and the raft of other states set to vote on Feb. 5th.  —  McCaskill had intended …
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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Brian Brady / The Independent:
Prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’
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Redstate:
Attention: The Administration just blundered in a catastrophic fashion
Peter Wood / Phi Beta Cons:
Schwarzenegger vs. Spitzer on State Funding for Higher Ed
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Steven Pinker / New York Times:
The Moral Instinct
Discussion: The Mahablog and Vox Popoli
Ben Rosen / The Huffington Post:
Car-Pooling — An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
In Texas, Weighing Life With a Border Fence
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Stephanie Hooper / Nashuatelegraph.com:
Clinton adviser arrested in Nashua
Discussion: BitsBlog and TalkLeft
Joan Z. Shore / The Huffington Post:
They're Driving Us Crazy (or, A Couple More Reasons Why I Love France)
Discussion: Don Surber
Reuters:
Saudi activist released ahead of Bush's visit
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Objects From Iranian Boats Posed No Threat, Navy Says
Washington Post:
U.S. Political Drama Compels — and Baffles
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissent Of The Day  —  A reader writes:
Discussion: Althouse and The RBC
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Newt: Hillary shows courage, integrity
Wayne Washington / The State:
Clinton camp hits Obama | Attacks ‘painful’ for black voters
 

 
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