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10:50 AM 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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Cliff Schecter
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 …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama
Discussion: Salon
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?
Discussion: KGO-TV, Dr. Sanity and Hot Air
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Feb. 5 Primaries to Pose A Super Test of Strategy  —  After the trench warfare of Iowa and New Hampshire and the upcoming skirmishes in a handful of states, a very different battle awaits the presidential candidates on Feb. 5: the biggest and most challenging single day in a recent campaign for a party nomination.
Discussion: The Caucus, TIME and The Politico
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Giuliani — Still Very Much In It  —  Remember Rudy Giuliani?
Discussion: American Power
Louise Roug / Los Angeles Times:
Giuliani isn't swaying them in Florida
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.
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 …
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.
Deacon / Power Line:
LINDA GREENHOUSE BLOWS SMOKE AT HER PAPER'S OMBUDSMAN  —  Earlier today, Scott linked to comments from Clark Hoyt, “public editor” of the New York Times, about his paper's addition of Bill Kristol as a columnist.  Hoyt concluded that, because Kristol said the Attorney General had an obligation …
Discussion: Big Lizards
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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
More on Linda Greenhouse's Ethical In-Fidell-ity
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
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.
Discussion: Think Progress and Liberal Values
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.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal and Althouse
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Citi Posts $9.83 Billion Loss; Will Cut Jobs  —  Citigroup announced a steep cut in its stock dividend and another big investment by foreign investors on Tuesday after taking more write-downs related to subprime securities and posting a $9.83 billion loss for the fourth quarter.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
The Politico:
Red-state Dems sour on Clinton  —  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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
 
 
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Approps seat tests the GOP on spending
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court limits securities fraud lawsuits
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Motown Mitt  —  In Michigan, Romney is campaigning …
Michelle Malkin:
The forgotten jihadists in Georgia
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
Kristol Mess (Part II): Claim in New ‘NYT ’ …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Washington Times Names Post Reporter Its Top Editor
Discussion: Horses Mouth and The Politico
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?
Washington Post:
Voters' Optimism Drops As Economic Fears Rise
 Earlier Items: 
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Conveniently Lost Contracts Of Campaign Contributors
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison
Media Matters for America:
Savage on Media Matters: “They're the brownshirts of our time”
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
In California, it's Clinton and McCain
Damian Whitworth / Times of London:
Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on
Discussion: Wonkette
Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
TODAY'S GO-TO VILLAINS.
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
A VISIT TO THE INFIRMARY