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2:50 PM ET, March 11, 2008

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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis  —  Allies Praise Spitzer, But Knives Come Out; 'He's Proven Me Correct'  —  It's Schadenfreude time on Wall Street.  —  Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor who made his name taking on the titans of finance, apologized yesterday …
iowahawk:
Amid Charges of Spitzer Tryst, Embattled Prostitute “Kristen” Expected to Resign  —  New York - At a hastily scheduled morning press conference at the headquarters of New York's exclusive Emperors Club prostitution ring, high priced call girl “Kristen” announced that she would temporarily step aside …
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
Scott Horton / Harper's:
The Spitzer Sex Sting: A Few More Questions
CNN:   Spitzer successor would be state's first black governor
ABCNEWS:   Spitzer in ‘Transition Talks’; Had Planned to Quit Last Night
Matt / Think Progress:
Searching For Media Hypocrisy, Doocy Falsely Claims Vitter …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
The Devil Is In The Investigative Details In Spitzer Case
New York Times:
Mr. Spitzer's ‘Private Matter’
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Assessing the Spitzer Fallout
Discussion: Hot Air
Patrick LaForge / City Room:
The Late-Night Comics Take on Spitzer
Discussion: New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
Pressure Grows for Spitzer to Resign
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
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.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Memo: “No Support For Claim That Clinton Has Passed ‘Commander-In-Chief Test’”  —  Signaling a sustained and more aggressive counterattack against Hillary's “commander-in-chief test” assault, the Obama campaign has a new memo out from foreign policy adviser Greg Craig that goes …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Former Clinton Loyalist: Don't Believe Hillary's Claims  —  Greg Craig, the former Clinton White House counsel who is now supporting Barack Obama, has just sent out a letter sharply attacking Hillary Clinton's claims to experience in foreign policy.  “Senator Clinton has cited a handful …
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Obama Foreign Policy Memo
Discussion: The New Republic
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 …
Discussion: democracyarsenal.org
Paul Kiel / TPMMuckraker:
House Surveillance Bill Contains Provision to Aid Telecom Suits  —  As The New York Times reports this morning, the House leadership's draft proposal for a surveillance bill contains a provision that would reject giving retroactive immunity to the telecoms.  Instead, it would give …
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Tim Starks / CQ Politics:
House Carves a New Path on FISA
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Targeting bad Democrats
Discussion: race42008.com
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama adviser says Clinton must ‘repudiate’ backer's comments  —  (CNN) — A senior adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign called on Hillary Clinton to “repudiate” a comment by one of her top fundraisers that Barack Obama would not be a major presidential contender if he were not black.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Sinbad Unloads on Hillary Clinton  —  Finally, the Barack Obama campaign has found a big gun to help shoot down Hillary Rodham Clinton's self-proclaimed foreign policy experience.  And he may be the wackiest gun of all: Sinbad, the actor, who has come out from under a rock to defend Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials.
Discussion: CBS News, Trailhead and Slog
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
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Murdoch: 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 “conservative” pushing an agenda in the news pages.
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 …
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 …
Sharon Roffe-Ofir / Ynetnews:
Man shoots sister then congratulated by family  —  Police arrest 24-year-old man from Naura, an Israeli-Arab town in northern Israel, who shot his 19-year old sister to preserve 'family's honor.' Family members arrived to congratulate shooter  —  Familial endorsement for murder.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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The Politico:
Obama backer revives Clinton sex scandals
St. Petersburg Times:
Florida's vote-by-mail plan gains few fans
Michelle Malkin:
Jessica Alba embraces identity politics, yearns for “my baby to be brown”
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John Derbyshire / The Corner:
Oldest Profession  —  Prostitution, like drug trafficking …
Michelle Cottle / The New Republic:
Stand By Your Woman?
Discussion: Ross Douthat
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More Than Half of Americans Never Read Political Blogs
Kos / Daily Kos:
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
At MSNBC, ‘Tucker’ Is Out, and David Gregory Is In
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Brian Knowlton / International Herald Tribune:
Bush hopes Cheney's Mideast visit will rein in oil prices
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Clinton Supporters Favor Quick Creation of “Dream Ticket”
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