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7:45 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Satyam / Think Progress:
Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban  —  Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, containing a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that establishes one interrogation standard, requiring the intelligence community to abide …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Passes Interrogation Ban  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.  —  Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill …
Speaker Pelosi / The Gavel:
On the House Vote on FISA  —  All Members of Congress fully understand and support our responsibility to protect the American people and the need for the President, the Congress, and policymakers to have the best possible intelligence to fight terrorism.  —  On Friday, a surveillance law insisted upon …
Discussion: Eschaton, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog
Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: House Blue Dogs enabling the GOP  —  CQ is reporting ( link here) that the House Republicans will try to derail the effort to pass a 21 day extension of the existing surveillance law and force a vote on the Senate bill: … The Blue Dogs that have endorsed the Senate passed bill wrote to Pelosi last week.
Matt Browner Hamlin / Hold Fast:
Another WSJ Editorial Farce
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Defeats FISA Extension
Discussion: Wake up America
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost  —  For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival.  She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
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Jim Tankersley / Baltimore Sun:
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign manager backs Obama  —  David Wilhelm, who managed Bill Clinton's winning 1992 presidential campaign and went on to be the youngest Democratic National Committee chairman in history, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this afternoon.
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper and Kate Snow Report: In McAllen, Texas this morning Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she wasn't giving up on her race for the White House.  —  Speaking about her work in South Texas as an organizer …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama ‘Takes It Down a Notch’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After touring a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy that he said is on the “brink of a recession.”  —  The senator told GM workers to bear with him as he gave a more policy oriented speech.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Who's Singularly Lacking In Specifics?
The Huffington Post:
John McCain Goes After Barack Obama
Discussion: Political Radar
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama
Discussion: TownHall Blog
ABCNEWS:
Edwards Weighs Clinton Endorsement  —  Former Candidate Torn Between Clinton and Obama in Democratic Race  —  As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting …
CNN:
Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon  —  (CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.  —  The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a …
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Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity  —  Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back.  Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Was there a Housing Bubble?  —  The conventional wisdom is that there was a housing bubble which has now popped.  The data, however, tell a different story.  Remember, that the evidence for the bubble was that real house prices had increased tremendously since around 1997 leading to prices …
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Senate votes to ban waterboarding  —  WASHINGTON - Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Truthdig
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Jewish Rep. Cohen Battles Antisemitism and Racism In Re-Election  —  If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee …
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
A Master Terrorist Is Killed  —  According to multiple press accounts, Iran's and Hezbollah's master terrorist, Imad Mugniyah, is dead.  He was reportedly killed by a car bomb in Damascus last night.  Hezbollah is claiming that he was killed by the Israelis.
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Steven Kreytak / Austin American-Statesman:
Court strikes down Texas ban on sex toys  —  Federal appeals court says law violates right to privacy.  —  A federal appeals court has struck down a seldom-enforced Texas law making it a crime to promote or sell sex toys.  —  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case originally filed …
Associated Press:
Craig admonished over men's room incident  —  Senator acted improperly in trying to withdraw plea, Ethics Committee says  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men's room sex sting last year.
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias:
Unreal  —  Spencer Ackerman offered a gentle critique …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Listen, I'll never forget you. …
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
Chris Matthews in for Tony Snow
Discussion: Wonkette
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking …
Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Dem's “Dream Ticket” : Why It Won't Happen
Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
50 means 50, and far from over  —  I'd like to take my friend Markos …
Associated Press:
Clinton scrambles to contest Wisconsin
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Obama tidal wave
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
MSNBC Spokesperson: Shuster Will Not Be Fired And Will Return To Network
Discussion: TVNewser, Wonkette and Media Blog
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An Obama spin win
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IMAGINE.  —  I think Matt is right to say that Obama's great advantage …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
Limbaugh: I'm McCain's ‘most valuable asset’
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Why Is Clinton's Back Against Wall? Nobody Prepared
Discussion: Wonkette, Donklephant and The Field