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8:20 AM ET, January 15, 2008

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton and Obama Call for Truce Over Dr. King Dispute  —  Speaking to black and Hispanic New Yorkers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton tried on Monday to quell a controversy over race in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination by praising the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton booed at MLK rally in New York  —  NEW YORK, N.Y. — Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a smattering of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin Luther King Jr. rally put together by a union organizing predominantly black security workers.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama, putting out the fire  —  Carrie Budoff Brown has some key quotes from an Obama avail this afternoon in Reno, where he tried to put to rest the racially-charged name-calling. … His surrogates and a spokeswoman have, it's worth noting, participated in the recent round of criticism of the Clintons …
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Tries to Stop the ‘Silliness’  —  (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)  —  RENO, Nev. - As he campaigned in northern Nevada on Monday, Senator Barack Obama said he was concerned that a heated discussion of racial issues in the presidential campaign could divide the Democratic Party.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama calls truce with Clinton  —  RENO, Nevada (CNN) — Barack Obama is calling for a truce of sorts with rival Hillary Clinton following days of a heated back-and-forth between both the Democrats' presidential campaigns over Clinton's record on civil rights.
Discussion: The Hill, Cliff Schecter and baldilocks
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap
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New York Times:
In Obama's Pursuit of Latinos, Race Plays Role
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Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:
Obama: It Took Men to Give Women the Vote
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
CNN:
Bill Clinton compiles ‘list’ of Obama attacks
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Judge says MSNBC must include Kucinich  —  A judge in Nevada has just ordered MSNBC to include Rep. Dennis Kucinich in Tuesday's Democratic Party presidential debate in Las Vegas or he will cancel the forum.  —  Senior Clark County District Court Judge Charles Thompson vowed …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Judge To NBC: You Can't Control Your Own Content  —  A solution in search of a problem found a judge in search of some understanding of the concept of private property and free speech.  Both converged in Las Vegas through the efforts of Dennis Kucinich to force his way into the NBC Democratic debate.
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Iraq Defense Minister Sees Need for U.S. Security Help Until 2018  —  FORT MONROE, Va. — The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq's borders from external threat until at least 2018.
Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
TODAY'S GO-TO VILLAINS.  —  Via Steve Clemons, a good short doc on Hollywood's vilification of Arabs.  —  Among the many offensive images and representations in the program, the clip from Back to the Future is particularly ridiculous.  The year was 1985, Muammar Khaddafi was being sold …
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Ross Douthat:
Does Hollywood Hate Arabs?
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Green Party holds presidential debate in San Francisco  —  (01-13) 20:01 PST San Francisco — Withdraw from Iraq immediately.  Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law.  Legalize marijuana.  —  Those were just some of the goals stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in San Francisco.
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Andrea Fuller / The Stanford Daily Online:
Chelsea campaigns at Farm
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Chelsea Clinton steps into California spotlight to rally for mother
Discussion: MyDD
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
A VISIT TO THE INFIRMARY  —  Feeling poorly for some time.  Saw a doctor a few weeks ago, who sent me to a specialist, who booked me into hospital for tests.  —  It's cancer.  —  Major abdominal surgery next week.  If all goes well, the remaining non-cancerous section of me will be home by early-mid February.
The Politico:
Red state Dems see Obama as electable  —  Barack Obama in recent days has sprinted ahead in the endorsement derby against Hillary Rodham Clinton when it comes to a certain breed of Democrat—politicians who have won statewide in places where Republicans dominate presidential politics.
New York Times:
Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy …
Damian Whitworth / Times of London:
Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on  —  Ten years after a young intern nearly brought down a president, the players in the Monica Lewinsky scandal talk to our correspondent  —  On the evening of Saturday January 17, 1998, the internet gossip merchant Matt Drudge posted …
Discussion: Wonkette
 
 
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McCain faces little incoming fire
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