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12:10 AM ET, January 14, 2008

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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
BET Founder Slams Obama in South Carolina  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just raised the specter of Barack Obama's past drug use.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NOT BEAN BAG  —  We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities.  One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men.
Gateway Pundit:
It Has Begun... Hillary Takes Credit For Surge She Opposed!!  —  CAUTION: DON'T READ THIS WITH WHILE EATING...  It has begun... Democrats are now taking credit for the surge... A surge they all opposed!  —  Hillary takes credit for the sucess in Iraq on Meet the Press.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton backer appears to raise Obama's drug use  —  (CNN) - BET founder and prominent Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson said Sunday he is ‘insulted’ with the Obama campaign's latest criticisms of Clinton, and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.
Discussion: The Politico
Zzaki / Political Radar:
Clinton Surrogate Makes Veiled Reference to Obama's Drug Use  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Speaking in Columbia, S.C., BET founder Bob Johnson was introducing Clinton and made a veiled swipe at Barack Obama's past drug use.  The last surrogate to talk about Obama and drugs …
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
BET founder Bob Johnson criticizes Obama
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Another Sign Edwards Will Throw Support to Obama
Discussion: protein wisdom and PoliGazette
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Clinton, Obama Clash Over Race Issue
New York Times:   Clinton and Obama Spar Over Remark About Dr. King
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama Slams Clinton's ‘Meet’ Appearance
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: Clinton rewrites history
Discussion: TalkLeft
Phillip Elliott / Associated Press:
Clinton blames Obama camp over remark
CBS News:
CBS Poll: McCain Surges To National Lead  —  On Democratic Side, Clinton Maintains Double-Digit Lead Over Obama  —  (CBS) Surging after his win in the New Hampshire primary, Arizona Sen. John McCain has come from behind to now lead the national Republican race, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters, in Big Shift, Favor McCain Over His Rivals  —  WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of their presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, widely written off just weeks ago …
Discussion: American Power and Cliff Schecter
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
PRESIDENTIAL TRIAL HEATS: WHO'S WEAKEST FOR G.O.P?  —  This weekend, CNN released results of general election trial heats, pitting each of the four leading Republican candidates for President against both of the leading Democrats.  —  The unmistakable message from this national exercise …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Transformed by Iowa and N.H., '08 Kicks Off as a Free-for-All  —  McCain and Obama mix up the race (AP Photo)  —  Iowa and New Hampshire have transformed the 2008 presidential race into a free-for-all, vaulting John McCain past longtime frontrunner Rudy Giuliani in the Republican contest …
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
He May Be Unwelcome, but We'll Survive  —  IN 1972, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was looking for a conservative columnist for his left-leaning Op-Ed page.  —  At a charity dinner, he wound up sitting next to William Safire, the Nixon White House speechwriter …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws  —  (updated below)  —  I've written several times before about the oppressive, dangerous hate speech laws which are common — increasingly so — in both Canada and Europe, whereby the Government is empowered to punish as criminals citizens …
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Robert Bryce / Washington Post:
ARTS & LIVING CITY GUIDE  —  washingtonpost.com > Opinions > Outlook  —  Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit … In a speech last year, former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr. had some advice for American motorists: “The next time you pull into a gas station to fill your car with gas …
Discussion: Redstate
Camilla Tominey / Daily Express:
PLOT TO KILL QUEEN FOILED  —  AL Qaeda terrorists posing as TV crews planned to blow up the Queen by smuggling explosives into last year's Commonwealth summit.  —  Two huge outside broadcast vans belonging to the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation were seized after a tip-off from intelligence agents.
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Who Spun The Hormuz Incident?  (Update - The Full Video)  —  By now, anyone following the changing story of the almost-clash between three US Navy capital ships and five Iranian speedboats in the Gulf has read the Navy Times report that says the mysterious threatening voice on the Pentagon's audio tape …
Tom Hilton / If I Ran the Zoo:
Not-Much Shorter Jonah: “Tom Wolfe Likes It!”  —  Two of the recurring themes at Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism blog are that (I paraphrase) none of the liberal critics of the book have actually read it; and rather than engage its arguments, liberal critics dismiss the credentials of the author.
Discussion: Orcinus and Sadly, No!
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Ross Douthat:
Liberal Fascism And Its Critics
 
 
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