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12:25 PM ET, January 15, 2008

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Farrakhan Test  —  Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap  —  When Hillary Clinton is good on the Sunday talk shows, she is really, really good.  But when she is bad, she's atrocious.  When she talks about policy, she will dazzle you.  When her own ambitions are on the line, it's time to reach for the sick bag.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Major Clinton supporter calls Obama remark ‘absolutely stupid’  —  (CNN) — As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton's presidential bid called the Illinois senator's remarks attacking …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama  —  A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robert L. Johnson described how frustrating it is to be on the other side of a candidate he compared to Teflon.
Discussion: Donklephant, Salon and The New Republic
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
A Hand the Clintons Aren't Showing  —  It turns out that Toni Morrison's famous line about Bill Clinton as “our first black president” was just a bon mot.  If the Clintons took it as a sign of African Americans' unconditional fealty, they were mistaken.  —  A new Post-ABC News poll shows …
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 …
Reno Gazette-Journal# New Hampshire Newspapers:
Obama says voters don't want bureaucrat
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and MSNBC
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Romney photo-op was with staffer's mom  —  A well-publicized weekend photo-op for Mitt Romney turns out to have been missing a piece of information that might have undermined its credibility: the unemployed single mom at the center of the event was the mother of a Romney staffer.
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan  —  Utica, New York - Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were in a statistical dead heat on the eve of the Republican primary election in Michigan, a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll shows.
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CNN:
Romney tries to break into winner's circle in Michigan
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Giuliani — Still Very Much In It  —  Remember Rudy Giuliani?
Boston Globe:
Romney singing new tune, sweeter to Detroit's ears
Discussion: NY Daily News
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Kucinich court decision and “judicial activism”  —  (updated below)  —  MSNBC is televising a debate tonight between the Democratic presidential candidates in Nevada.  It originally invited Dennis Kucinich to participate because Kucinich met the objective criteria the network created for inclusion.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Mike Huckabee Really Is a Piece of Work  —  From Michigan: … Governor, I didn't have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.  Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?
The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Richard Baker to leave Congress Feb. 7  —  By Bill Walsh  —  WASHINGTON - The dean of Louisiana's congressional delegation, Rep. Richard Baker, has decided to step down from Congress after 22 years to take a job in the private sector representing investors he has spent a career regulating.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Politics and Misogyny  —  With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's win in New Hampshire, gender issues are suddenly in the news.  Where has everybody been?  —  If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it's the dark persistence of misogyny in America.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: A New Low in Approval Starts Bush's Final Year  —  Just two in 10 say they are getting ahead financially  —  Beset by growing economic concerns on top of the long unpopular war in Iraq, President Bush starts the last year of his presidency with the worst approval rating of his career.
Michelle Malkin:
Hey, Linda Greenhouse: Come clean  —  As noted yesterday, unhinged lefties who read the New York Times are ready to lynch Bill Kristol.  But they and the paper's ombudsman have nothing to say-nada-about the clear conflict of interests of liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
More on Linda Greenhouse's Ethical In-Fidell-ity
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 …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Minister Sees Need for U.S. Help in Iraq 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.
 
 
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The Corner:
Fred and Ron  —  A reader urges me to support Fred Thompson:
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
Pelosi pushes gourmet menu
Matthew Yglesias:
A Very Serious Blog Post
Mosheh Oinounou / FOX Embeds:
Giuliani disses Green Bay Packers fan
Discussion: Hot Air
Anne Schroeder Mullins / The Politico:
Lawmakers, staff pan smoke-free Congress
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Reporter's Notebook: Second-Class in Saudi Arabia
Discussion: Think Progress
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Approps seat tests the GOP on spending
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court limits securities fraud lawsuits
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
Kristol Mess (Part II): Claim in New ‘NYT ’ …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Washington Times Names Post Reporter Its Top Editor
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Feb. 5 Primaries to Pose A Super Test of Strategy
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Conveniently Lost Contracts Of Campaign Contributors
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison
The Politico:
Red-state Dems sour on Clinton