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12:25 PM ET, March 11, 2008

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New York Times:
Spitzer Said to Be Weighing Resignation  —  ALBANY — Gov. Eliot Spitzer continued to weigh whether to resign early Tuesday, a day after law enforcement officials said he was a client of a high-end prostitution ring broken up last week by federal authorities.
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry  —  The rendezvous that established Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement with high-priced prostitutes occurred last month in one of Washington's grandest hotels, but the criminal investigation that discovered the tryst began last year in a nondescript …
New York Times:
Mr. Spitzer's ‘Private Matter’  —  New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer could not have been more wrong in his brief public appearance after the world learned that he was suspected of patronizing a prostitution ring.  He did not just betray his family in a private matter.
Wall Street Journal:
Spitzer's Rise and Fall  —  One might call it Shakespearian if there were a shred of nobleness in the story of Eliot Spitzer's fall.  There is none.  Governor Spitzer, who made his career by specializing in not just the prosecution, but the ruin, of other men, is himself almost certainly ruined.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Some Questions About the Spitzer Incident  —  ABC is reporting that Eliot Spitzer came under the attention of the Feds because his bank reported “suspicious money transfers” to the IRS.  The Justice Department brought it to the FBI's Public Corruption Squad, who looked into it and found …
Kelli Arena / CNN:   Sources: Money transfers spurred Spitzer probe
NY Daily News:
Editorials: Hit the road, john...
Discussion: New York Post
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Eliot Spitzer As Alexander Portnoy
Discussion: Time
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
It Wasn't the Sex; Suspicious $$ Transfers Led to Spitzer
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: ALBANY SHOCKER
Discussion: The Campaign Spot and The Caucus
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Early MSNBC Pundits Defend Spitzer, Lash Out at Prudish America
Discussion: QandO, Roger L. Simon and Moonbattery
Orlando Patterson / New York Times:
The Red Phone in Black and White  —  ON first watching Hillary Clinton's recent “It's 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative.  Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease.
Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida  —  WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.
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Jennifer Parker / Rapid Report:
Exclusive: U.S. Military Concludes No Saddam Link to Al Qaeda
Michael O'Hanlon / USA Today:
Reality and the Iraq war  —  Is the progress today the first glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel?  Maybe, maybe not.  But the Democrats shouldn't act as though it's an oncoming train.  —  Most Democrats — in fact, most Americans — believe that the Iraq war has been a huge mistake for this country.
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Matthew Yglesias:
Oh!  —  Michael O'Hanlon, like some mythic monster, has emerged again in a major newspaper to once again offer us the Wise Middle Ground of Endless War as an appealing policy option in Iraq.  Check the Spack for more commentary, but I'll give you this.  O'Hanlon, by way of criticizing …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Targeting bad Democrats  —  (updated below)  —  House Democrats are expected to unveil and possibly vote on their FISA bill this week.  While they may (or may not) end up securing some additional, mild safeguards against eavesdropping abuses as compared to the Rockefeller/Cheney Senate bill …
Discussion: race42008.com and DownWithTyranny!
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
House Steers Its Own Path on Wiretaps
Discussion: TPMMuckraker and Hold Fast
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
At MSNBC, ‘Tucker’ Is Out, and David Gregory Is In
Discussion: Blue Girl, Red State
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
How the Democrats Could Lose  —  By official count, The Post's 10th most e-mailed column of 2007 was published last June under the headline “How the GOP Could Win.”  It said that the Republican Party would promote national security as the salient issue of the campaign, making a silk purse …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Murdoch tells WSJ staffers there's no ‘conservative’ agenda  —  In his first visit to the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau, Rupert Murdoch told staffers Friday that he would put more resources into Washington coverage and take on the New York Times, while reassuring them that he is not a …
Discussion: Romenesko
Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Rep. Abercrombie gets Craiged  —  While reporters were hovering outside a Capitol Hill conclave of the Michigan and Florida delegations last Wednesday night, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) just happened to come by to use the restroom, which he did.  —  But when he emerged …
Discussion: Think Progress
Clarion-Ledger:
Clinton or Obama?  Mississippi's time to decide  —  Despite election fervor, moderate turnout expected  —  A close race between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will draw more voters to the polls today than the last presidential primary, state officials predict.
Peter Y. Hong / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA experts don't buy recession  —  In a contrarian view, the Anderson Forecast focuses on strength in industry and spending.  —  Brushing aside conventional wisdom, UCLA economists say California and the nation will survive the housing slump and job losses without plunging into recession …
Discussion: Calculated Risk
 
 
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BBC:
Pupils ‘to take allegiance oath’
Brian Knowlton / International Herald Tribune:
Bush hopes Cheney's Mideast visit will rein in oil prices
Discussion: Eschaton and Roger L. Simon
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Liberals' McCain Problem
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
PhRMA goes bipartisan
Discussion: The Raw Story
John Nichols / The Nation:
Spitzer Bust Worries Clinton
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Blogs of War
Gerald Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Scanning for a GOP Running Mate
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 Earlier Items: 
Froma Harrop / Real Clear Politics:
The Specter of McCain Democrats
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Disagreeing with Ferraro  —  Between the Spitzer story …
Austin American-Statesman:
Texas presidential caucus winner? Check back in 18 days
Discussion: Firedoglake
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Clinton Supporters Favor Quick Creation of “Dream Ticket”
Jeff Bliss / Bloomberg:
Obama-Clinton Race Creates Security Concerns for Secret Service
Discussion: rubber hose and Unfogged
Little Green Footballs:
A Call on the Clue Phone for Juan Cole
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
John Metcalfe / New York Times:
Disinvited to a Screening, a Critic Ends Up in a Faith-Based Crossfire
Discussion: Pharyngula
Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama Accuses Clinton of Using “Republican Tactics”