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10:20 AM ET, January 16, 2008

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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Potentially troubling news for Clinton in Michigan ‘win’  —  (CNN) — Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan tonight, despite her primary “win” there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her grasp on the African-American vote.
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Associated Press:
Bill Clinton paints Obama as ‘establishment’ candidate  —  SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Bill Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama and support his wife in Saturday's hotly contested presidential caucuses …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hillary's Flat Tire In Michigan
Discussion: Kiko's House
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Blacklash?  —  So far, in Michigan, the African-American vote …
Discussion: Salon
CNN:
Exit polling: Democrats pick McCain over Romney  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Despite urging from some activists like Markos Moulitsas that Michigan Democrats vote for Mitt Romney over John McCain, CNN exit polling indicates the Arizona Republican won the liberal vote.
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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
McCain's Michigan Letdown
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Mitt Won, Authenticity Lost
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and RADAMISTO
Hindrocket / Power Line:
MITT ROMNEY, RONALD REAGAN, AND THE ELECTION OF 2008
Discussion: Althouse
CNN:
Analysis: Gold boosts Romney as S.C. heats up
Discussion: Blogs of War
Sean Hackbarth / Fred File:
Bill Lacy on the Results of the Michigan Primary
Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas  —  The following is a transcript of the Democratic debate in Las Vegas, as provided by the Federal News Service.  —  DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE PARTICIPANTS:  —  FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC) SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL)  —  MODERATORS:
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New York Times:
Obama and Clinton Seek a Softer Tone  —  LAS VEGAS — A Democratic presidential debate unfolded with an exchange of pleasantries and acts of contrition among rivals on Tuesday as Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama promised to dispel a rancorous feud over race and gender …
David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun:
Timing may sink lawsuit aimed at Strip voting
Discussion: politburo diktat 2.0
Matthew Yglesias / Washington Monthly:
The Unbearable Inanity of Tim Russert  —  On May 27, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson appeared on Meet the Press hoping, no doubt, to get a question about Iraq policy.  Richardson was advocating the complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces, an important policy distinction …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Gristmill
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WORST.  MODERATORS.  EVER.  —  It's almost impossible for me to convey the damage Tim Russert and Brian Williams are doing to the republic this evening.  So far, the questioning has gone something like: “Hillary, are you a racist?"  “Barack, are you a scary black man who will continually remind us that we are racists?”
Michael Abramowitz / On The Plane:
Dowd, Sick Instead of Skewering, Gets Help from White House Doc  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Having made a living for years skewering President Bush, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is almost certainly not one of the White House's favorite columnists.  —  She refers to the president dismissively …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Faith, Freedom and Bling in the Middle East
Discussion: Yourish.com and Whiskey Fire
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
CNN's John King responds  —  Over the weekend, I wrote about an adulating interview which CNN's John King conducted with John McCain while riding on the storied Straight Talk Express bus.  The interview was broadcast on “Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer.  In that post, I printed all of the …
James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraqi Spending to Rebuild Has Slowed, Report Says  —  Highly promising figures that the administration cited to demonstrate economic progress in Iraq last fall, when Congress was considering whether to continue financing the war, cannot be substantiated by official Iraqi budget records …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Washington Post:
Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes  —  Lawyer Says Top Official Had Implicit Approval  —  In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Death of the Bush Doctrine  —  THE Bush Doctrine - born on Sept. 20, 2001, when President Bush bluntly warned the sponsors of violent jihad: “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists” - is dead.  Its demise was announced by Condoleezza Rice last Friday.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Janet Albrechtsen / The Australian:
Too many rights make a wrong  —  CANADA: It was one of those rare, particularly sunny days in Vancouver in September when, addressing an audience at the University of British Columbia, I suggested that multiculturalism and its partner in crime, moral relativism, were leading to the demise of Western values.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
High-Profile Officer Nagl to Leave Army, Join Think Tank  —  One of the Army's most prominent younger officers, whose writings have influenced the conduct of the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, said he has decided to leave the service to study strategic issues full time at a new Washington think tank.
Steven E. Landsburg / New York Times:
What to Expect When You're Free Trading  —  IN the days before Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in Michigan, Mitt Romney and John McCain battled over what the government owes to workers who lose their jobs because of the foreign competition unleashed by free trade.
Discussion: TigerHawk
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Restricts Securities Lawsuits  —  WASHINGTON — Ruling in its most important securities fraud case in years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday placed a towering obstacle in the path of shareholders looking for someone to sue when a stock purchase turns sour.
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Jonathan Adler / The Corner:
re: “You have to be able to manage and run the bureaucracy”
The Hill:
Bush earmarks plan roils Dems, fractures GOP
Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Instapundit.com
David Brooks / Campaign Stops:
Republicans Brawl, Democrats Yawn
Discussion: TIME and Samizdata.net
Christopher Chester / Associated Press:
Female suicide bomber kills 8 in Iraq
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