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3:40 PM ET, March 16, 2008

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Bradley Brooks / Associated Press:
McCain makes unannounced trip to Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president who has linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq, was in Baghdad on Sunday for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials, a U.S. government official said.
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Five Years  —  FIVE years on, it seems positively surreal.  —  On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Sweetness & Light:
Pastor Wright Erased From Obama's Website  —  Just like in the bad old days of the Stalinist Soviet Union, an inconvenient personage has been airbrushed from the Barack Obama campaign's website.  —  Before, via Google's cache: … And the current page: … Now is that keeping the faith?
Doug B. / Sentencing Law and Policy:
Why the #$@! is AG Mukasey speaking out against execution for 9/11 plotters and suggesting US justice is sadist?  —  I have never quite figured out what's going on with the Justice Department under the leadership of AG Michael Mukasey, but this new piece from ABCNews has me really scratching my head.
Discussion: Centerpoint Review
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ABCNEWS:
AG Opinion: No Execution for 9/11 Plotters
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:   Mukasey Personally Opposes Death Penalty for al-Qaeda Detainees
The Politico:
Obama, Clinton brace for three-month deadlock  —  The Democratic race has entered its World War I phase, a bloody fight between two adversaries making only the most incremental of gains.  And there is no reason to think either side will emerge from the trenches anytime soon.
Discussion: Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
The Wit & Wisdom of Barack Obama  —  Some of it may sound familiar.  —  There's still room for whimsy at the New Yorker magazine, I don't care what you've heard.  Just the other day two of the New Yorker's bloggers (now there's a phrase to send Harold Ross spinning) were chewing over the widely noted eloquence of Barack Obama.
Chicago Tribune:
Obama prepares for full assault on Clinton  —  Contender to take aim at Clinton's ethics  —  PLAINFIELD, Ind. - Sen. Barack Obama is trying to air his dirty laundry — even some items that might appear just a little wrinkled — as he prepares a full assault on Sen. Hillary Clinton over ethics and transparency.
Discussion: The Swamp and Ben Smith's Blogs
New York Times:
The Intelligence Cover-Up  —  For more than two years now, Congress, the news media, current and former national security officials, think tanks and academic institutions have been engaged in a profound debate over how to modernize the law governing electronic spying to keep pace with technology.
Ali / Think Progress:
Perino: men know more about war ‘by osmosis.’  —  Perino: men know more about war ‘by osmosis.’  —  On Fox News Sunday today, White House press secretary Dana Perino was named the “Power Player of the Week.”  She explained to host Chris Wallace that, in addition to the pressure to look good …
Discussion: Polimom Says
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Offense Taken  —  First of all, I unequivocally dissociate myself from remarks by my second cousin to the effect that my worthy opponent is a “prize bitch.”  My cousin is a dog breeder and thought she was being complimentary.  She did not appreciate that such phraseology could give offense …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Associated Press:
Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern on YouTube Clip: Homosexuality Bigger Threat Than Terrorism  —  OKLAHOMA CITY — A YouTube audio clip of a state lawmaker's screed against homosexuality, which she called a bigger threat than terrorism, has outraged gay activists and brought death threats rolling in.
Bob Fertik / Democrats.com:
Iraq Fax-in  —  March 19 marks the 5th Anniversary of Bush's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq - yet there is no end in sight.  —  The costs so far are staggering: 4,000 young Americans killed, tens of thousands maimed... 1 million Iraqis killed, millions maimed …
Discussion: The Newshoggers and The Impolitic
Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Barak, Church and State  —  Call me a cynic, but here's my guess about how Senator Obama came to join Pastor Wright's church — and stay for 20 years.  Obama, as we all know, was brought up by his free-spirit, actively atheistic mom, and her two Muslim husbands.
Discussion: American Spectator
 
 
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
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Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Rescue Me: A Fed Bailout Crosses a Line
Kevin Hayden / American Street:
Sad Anniversary
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Obama's pastor disaster
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
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New York Times:
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The Clinton Rules and The Obama Rules
Richard Russo / Washington Post:
A Novel Take on an Ending  —  Back when I was teaching fiction writing …
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Four Five Years In
Spiegel Online:
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraq Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
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