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9:50 AM ET, January 15, 2008

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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.
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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
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 …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama calls truce with Clinton
Discussion: The Hill, baldilocks and Cliff Schecter
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Clinton, Obama tone down rhetoric on race
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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.
Discussion: Brave New Films blog
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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 …
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.
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 and Hot Air
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
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.
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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 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 …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Romney to go back on TV today in SC, FL likely soon  —  Mitt Romney will go back on the television airwaves today in South Carolina after a week's absence, a top campaign official confirms.  —  And two other Romney sources say that a return to Florida TV is also imminent.
Discussion: You Decide 08! and Sister Toldjah
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.
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 …
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.
 
 
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Stephen Henderson / Detroit Free Press:
The next president must pay attention to our problems
Discussion: New York Times and The Caucus
SeeDubya / JunkYardBlog:
Hsu Times Two: Democrat/Hillary Donor Accused of Cross-border Money Laundering
Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan
Associated Press:
Burke named executive director of ACLU in Texas
Discussion: Hot Air and NewsBusters.org
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Washington Times hits Post in the staff
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Allies Feel Strain of Afghan War
Discussion: Hot Air
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Conveniently Lost Contracts Of Campaign Contributors
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison
 Earlier Items: 
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
Discussion: TownHall Blog and The Swamp
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Politics and Misogyny  —  With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's win …
Shashank Bengali / Yahoo! News:
Kenyan president lost election, according to U.S. exit poll
Damian Whitworth / Times of London:
Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on
Discussion: Wonkette
New York Times:
In Obama's Pursuit of Latinos, Race Plays Role
San Francisco Chronicle:
Green Party holds presidential debate in San Francisco