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1:25 AM ET, January 15, 2008

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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy  —  ABC News' David Wright, Andy Fies, and Sunlen Miller Report: Sen. Barack Obama told ABC News Monday there is nothing in Sen. Hillary Clinton's record that would give him any cause for concern about her in terms of racial politics.
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Matt Bai / The Caucus:
The Clintons and History  —  WASHINGTON — There's an old joke people here in the capital like to tell about Charles E. Schumer, the New York senator, and over the years I'm sure it's been used to describe other politicians, as well: The most dangerous place to stand in Washington …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Case Against Hillary Clinton  —  WHY ON EARTH WOULD WE CHOOSE TO PUT THE CLINTON FAMILY DRAMA AT THE CENTER OF OUR POLITICS AGAIN.  —  Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory.
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 …
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.
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.
CNN:
Bill Clinton compiles ‘list’ of Obama attacks  —  (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign came out swinging Monday against the latest complaints from her rival, with former President Clinton announcing he has “a list of 80 attacks on Hillary” by Senator Barack Obama's campaign.
David Espo / Associated Press:
Clinton, Obama step back from race flap
Discussion: Stumper and MSNBC
Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:
Obama: It Took Men to Give Women the Vote
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
Earl Ofari Hutchinson / The Huffington Post:
Obama Needs a History Lesson about Hillary and King
Discussion: PoliGazette and Too Sense
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.
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Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Judge says MSNBC must include Kucinich
Discussion: Eschaton
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Breaking News: Kucinich sues NBC over Nevada debate
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, MyDD and TVNewser
Anjeanette Damon / Inside Nevada Politics:
New Poll: Democratic race in Nevada a dead heat  —  A new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows a neck-and-neck three-way race among Democrats for Saturday's caucus.  On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. John McCain has taken his first lead in Nevada of the election season, and Mitt Romney …
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Phoenix Woman / Firedoglake:
The Polls You Won't Hear Much About
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Bothersome Intel on Iran  —  In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration's recent National Intelligence Estimate.  That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration …
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Carl Cameron / Cameron's Corner:
Fred Thompson Tied for Second Launches a New Ad in S.C.  —  Fred Thompson's lagging campaign finds solace in the latest Rassmussen poll in South Carolina which shows he is TIED with Huckabee and Romney for SECOND.  —  His campaign launched a new ad in South Carolina on the heels of the good news.
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Peter Robinson / The Corner:
Fred Thompson: Liftoff?
Discussion: Power Line and Fred File
Spengler / Asia Times:
Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code  —  Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression.  Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts …
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.
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.
Discussion: Open Left, RADAMISTO and Greatscat!
Kos / Daily Kos:
IL-03: 5,000 for Pera  —  Let me lay out the brutal reality for you guys:  —  Few people in DC care what we think.  —  Yeah, yeah, big shock, what with one Democratic capitulation after another last year.  That was pretty much the tip-off.  —  But the bottom line is that we can't buy them off with lobbyists.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Raise Your Hand If You're Sick of the Presidentials
Thomas de Zengotita / The Huffington Post:
A Defining Moment for The Clintons: The Lawsuit Against Nevada's Culinary Workers Union  —  As this link shows, the Clinton campaign is supporting, if not actually inciting, a Nevada State Teachers Association lawsuit against the Culinary Workers Union.  The reason?
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
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