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12:20 PM 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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Andante Higgins / CBS News:
McCain Cheered - and Jeered - in Michigan
Discussion: Macsmind
Chris Christoff / Detroit Free Press:
Romney is top choice for GOP in Tuesday primary, poll shows
Discussion: MyDD
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
Romney, McCain duel for lead in Michigan GOP primary race
Caitlin Flanagan / New York Times:
Sex and the Teenage Girl  —  THE movie “Juno” is a fairy tale about a pregnant teenager who decides to have her baby, place it for adoption and then get on with her life.  For the most part, the tone of the movie is comedic and jolly, but there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her condition …
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Deplorable Campaigning  —  Mike Huckabee: “Many of us who have been Republicans out of conviction . . . the social conservatives,” he told reporters, “were welcomed in the party as long as we sort of kept our place, but Lord help us if we ever stood forward and said we would actually like to lead the party.”
Discussion: Likelihood of Success
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Washington Post:
Huckabee: Evangelical Christians Now Have a Chance to Lead GOP  —  Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee touted his candidacy Saturday as a chance for evangelical Christians to lead the Republican Party rather than just support its candidates.  —  “I don't presume that you automatically support …
Discussion: The Caucus
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
The Media Does It Again  —  Today, the NY Times has the first part of a special series - War Torn:Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles.  It appears that the troops are coming home and becoming murderers. … And we're presented with a litany of tragedy.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A CASE STUDY IN RESISTANCE  —  In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville famously concludes with a warning of the kind of despotism to which democratic are especially susceptible.  Tocqueville warns that the passion for equality will give rise to a certain kind of degradation in which citizens …
Discussion: The Corner, Salon and Ezra Levant
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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 …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Durbin warns Bill Clinton  —  Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking party leader in the Senate, says President Bill Clinton's comments about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) are getting “too personal” and called on the former president to refrain from attacking Obama's integrity.
Ross Douthat:
Liberal Fascism And Its Critics  —  Here is some free advice for liberals who don't care much for Jonah Goldberg or his (bestselling) new volume: Either confine yourself to dismissive snark, of the sort perfected by my colleague Matt, or buckle down and actually read the damn thing.
Discussion: Liberal Fascism and TPMCafe blogs
Jonah Goldberg / Washington Post:
Cloudy Fortunes for Conservatism  —  Well, this wasn't the plan.  —  As pretty much everyone has noticed, the Republican race hasn't exactly followed any of the scripts laid out for it.  Mitt Romney has been hacked apart like the Black Knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Christina Lamb / Times of London:
Scotland Yard believes Al-Qaeda assassinated Benazir Bhutto  —  BRITISH officials have revealed that evidence amassed by Scotland Yard detectives points towards Al-Qaeda militants being responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.  —  Five experts in video evidence and forensic science …
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
So We Thought.  But Then Again . . .  HARRY S TRUMAN once said he wanted to talk to a one-armed economist, “so that the guy could never make a statement and then say: ‘on the other hand.’ ” Yet economic knowledge continues to progress in unexpected ways.  Here are a few of the things we learned in the last 12 months:
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.
Selwyn Duke / American Thinker:
The Race for the American Mind  —  Last year's scamnesty bill had widespread support among the powers-that-be, with the president, the Democrat majority and mainstream media all singing its praises.  Yet it went down to defeat, slain by a new-media coalition of talk radio and blogosphere warriors.
Discussion: Cold Fury
Washington Post:
Iraq Passes Bill on Baathists  —  Plan Would Ease Limits on Former Hussein Followers  —  The Iraqi parliament passed a bill Saturday intended to make it easier for former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to return to government jobs and collect their pensions, a significant achievement …
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Capitalism is the real ‘agent of change’
Discussion: Cold Fury and Bookworm Room
Associated Press:
Intelligence Chief Couches Reference to Waterboarding as ‘Torture’
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Lorrie Moore / New York Times:
Last Year's Role Model
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
The Church Doctrines of Pope Ron Paul
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Army Seeks “Professional Celebrity Rock Music Band”
Discussion: toohotfortnr and Boing Boing
Post / Washington Post:
‘Huckabee’ Plan Forgot Something: Attribution
Bloomberg:
Citigroup May Turn to Alwaleed, China for Cash to Offset Losses
CNN:
Adult, fetus found in shallow grave may be missing Marine
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White House:
President Bush Visits Military Personnel and Coalition Forces
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Newsweek
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
White House Secrecy Starts to Give
Discussion: Firedoglake
Brian Brady / The Independent:
Prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’
Discussion: TalkLeft
Todd Beeton / MyDD:
Barack Obama Townhall In Las Vegas
Ben Rosen / The Huffington Post:
Car-Pooling — An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Discussion: UNCoRRELATED and GINA COBB
Telegraph:
Organs to be taken without consent
stephenbainbridge.com:
Red State Update Apologizes to Fred Thompson
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Distorting Her Words
 

 
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