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9:50 AM ET, March 10, 2008

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Grace Rauh / New York Sun:
Lawsuit Eyed by Sharpton Over Florida  —  Seen as Maneuvering To Aid Obama's Campaign  —  Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally.
Discussion: The Caucus and Betsy's Page
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New York Times:
Sniping by Her Aides Hurt Clinton's Image as Manager  —  WASHINGTON — The morning after Senator Barack Obama shook the Clinton campaign by winning five contests in one weekend, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's new campaign manager — Maggie Williams, who had taken over in a shake-up the night before …
Seth Grahame-Smith / The Huffington Post:
The Monster: A Loyal Clinton Soldier Turns in His Badge  —  She has no idea.  —  She has no idea how many times I defended her.  How many right-leaning friends and relatives I battled with.  How many times I played down her shady business deals and penchant for scandals …
Discussion: The Newshoggers and The Corner
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say  —  The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating …
Brad Schiller / Wall Street Journal:
The Inequality Myth  —  Class warfare is once again a campaign theme.  The Democratic candidates are railing against the “tax cuts for the rich,” lamenting the stagnation of middle-class incomes, and decrying the deepening woes of the poor.  In her January response to President Bush's State …
Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk and Hot Air
Chris / TVNewser:
Tucker Canceled; Other Programming Changes Ahead  —  Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson's 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election.  The official announcement, expected tomorrow …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
They Criticized Vista.  And They Should Know.  —  ONE year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”?  —  Microsoft says high prices have been the deterrent.  Last month, the company trimmed prices on retail packages of Vista, trying to entice consumers to overcome their reluctance.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Favored Over Clinton in Mississippi  —  Sen. Barack Obama won the unusually robust Wyoming caucuses Saturday and heads to Mississippi today looking to regain some of the momentum he lost last week when Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victories in the Texas and Ohio primaries.
Discussion: Washington Post
Karl / protein wisdom:
Dems 2008: Howard Dean still crazy after all these years?  —  At Condé Nast's Portfolio, Matt Cooper claims that Howard Dean may have gotten a bad rap for that scream in 2004, but has been a “mess” as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  —  He argues that Dean …
The Politico:
House GOP funk worsens  —  For National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.), every week seems to bring a new set of problems.  On Saturday night, things got even worse.  —  With Democrat Bill Foster's victory in the Illinois 14th District special election …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Confident After Taking Hastert's Seat
Discussion: American Power and Daily Kos
Gary Pettus / Clarion-Ledger:
Mississippi Dems' enthusiasm high  —  Campaign harkens to spirit of '76  —  What did these three things have in common in 1976: gasoline prices, recession fears and the Mississippi Democratic Party?  —  Answer: They all were soaring.  —  And 2008 is beginning to look a little like '76 …
Discussion: The Page
New York Times:
McCain Uses Breathing Room to Focus on Coffers  —  Sewing up the Republican presidential nomination while the Democratic candidates continue to battle each other has given Senator John McCain a valuable commodity: time he can use to unite a fractured Republican Party, ramp up his lackluster fund-raising …
William Kristol / New York Times:
McCain's Daunting Task  —  Buried inside Sunday's papers was a noteworthy election result.  In a special election to replace former Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, first-time Democratic candidate Bill Foster emerged victorious.  George Bush easily carried the district in 2004 …
Discussion: Power Line and TBogg
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Guitar Heros  —  Guitar Heroes … Men crept in darkness to plant a bomb.  They moved in an area where last year I was helping to collect fallen American soldiers from the battlefield.  —  Terrorists.  The ones who murder children in front of their parents.  The ones who take drugs and rape women and boys.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data  —  Terror Fight Blurs  —  Line Over Domain;  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns.
Discussion: The Blotter
pmw.org.il:
Palestinian Authority Daily: Killer of eight young men is Holy Martyr- Shahid  —  Action should cost PA $150 million in US aid  —  Mahmoud Abbas's official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has honored the killer of the eight high school students gunned down this week with the status of Shahid - Holy Islamic Martyr.
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Washington Post:
Uneven Match  —  BACK WHEN his presidential campaign was running …
Discussion: Firedoglake and AMERICAblog
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Upswing in Iraq attacks not a trend-US military
Discussion: Early Warning
Times of London:
Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain
Associated Press:
AP probe finds drugs in drinking water
Discussion: Shakesville
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases
Discussion: TalkLeft
Simon Perry / Daily Mail:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijing's shocking death camp for cats
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
McCain not always chummy with the press
Discussion: marbury and News Hounds
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
A Famous Enigma  —  This is the second in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
AP: Water makes US troops in Iraq sick
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Culture Wars? How 2004.
Associated Press:
As Dems fight, McCain vies for spotlight
Discussion: MyDD
Mona Charen / The Corner:
Hillary as Veep?  —  I was just on the John Batchelor radio program.
Discussion: American Street and Redstate
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, Clinton 45%
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
WAS THERE AN OBAMA-DALEY DEAL ON THE PRESIDENCY?
Discussion: Donklephant
Jonathan Pitts / Baltimore Sun:
Right at home  —  Michelle Malkin may seem like any mild …
Discussion: TBogg and michellemalkin.com
 

 
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