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10:15 AM ET, March 24, 2008

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Washington Post:
Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles  —  After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President's Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.  —  As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party's presumptive presidential nominee.  He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes …
Robin Toner / International Herald Tribune:
Obama's promise of a new majority, and the question it prompts
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
Associated Press:
U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000  —  Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad  —  An unidentified man walks among the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, March 14, 2008.  —  Grim milestone  —  March 24: A grim milestone is reached …
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Guardian:
US military hits 4,000 Iraq death toll
Discussion: The Agonist
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
US Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000
Discussion: Informed Comment and Truthdig
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid  —  JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to people involved in the negotiations.
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Clinton calls for panel on housing woes  —  PHILADELPHIA - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton called on President Bush on Monday to appoint “an emergency working group on foreclosures” to recommend new ways to confront the nation's housing finance troubles.  —  The New York senator said the panel …
Discussion: The Corner and Blog entry
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Better Wise Old Men of Washington, Please
Discussion: If I Ran the Zoo
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Why Hillary Must Come Clean About Bill  —  I'LL BE ON MID STREAM RADIO FROM 1-1:30 P.M. EDT TODAY DISCUSSING THIS POST.  DETAILS HERE.  —  Few things are certain in this season of political upheaval on such a seismic scale, but here is one that is: Should Hillary Clinton win the nomination …
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
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Fester / The Newshoggers:
Clinton, odds and 2012  —  My good buddy Kyle at Comments from Left Field is raising and smashing a line of argument about Hillary Clinton's motives for continuing in the Democratic primary despite having a minimal chance of actually achieiving her goals.  And this line of speculation …
William Kristol / New York Times:
Let's Not, and Say We Did  —  I shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama's speech last Tuesday.  —  It wasn't when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask?  Why not join another church?”
Discussion: Prometheus 6 and TBogg
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pw pub:
Obama Nation (Interlude)...  Cross posted from Pull On Superman's Cape.  —  In these next few months there will be troubled waters.  —  There are many, many things to say.  Some are very difficult to say.  Perhaps it is a good time to have a national conversation.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure  —  Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another metric Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
Gateway Pundit:
EASTER MASS ATTACK!!  Protesters Scream & Spray Fake Blood at Churchgoers  —  NOT JUST ANTIWAR...  Leftist Protesters Attack Catholic Worshippers at Easter Mass in Chicago  —  The Progressives squirted fake blood around on the Catholics attending Easter Mass this morning!!
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Michael Jacobson / Washington Post:
They Trained.  They Plotted.  Then They Bailed.  —  On Dec. 10, 2001, after completing his al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sajid Badat returned home to Britain.  Badat, a 22-year-old Muslim born in Gloucester, had an associate, a gangly man named Richard Reid …
Discussion: Hot Air and TownHall Blog
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Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Has Hit Piece on McCain …
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Plan for superdelegate ‘mini-convention’ seeks to end Democrats' internal warfare  —  Democrats, looking for a way out, are pondering a new idea: an unprecedented “mini-convention” to bring their punishing presidential season to an early close.  —  The proposal surfaced during another week …
Discussion: Donklephant
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Democrats' Obama Dilemma  —  Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically.  By elevating the question of race in America, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate …
Discussion: The Page
Deacon / Power Line:
SORRY, I THOUGHT HE MEANT IT  —  In one of the most vacuous statements I've ever read, Douglas Kmiec has endorsed Barack Obama for president.  Kmiec is a Republican who served in the Justice Department under President Reagan and the first President Bush.  Until recently, Kmiec was co-chair …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The War Endures, but Where's the Media?
USA Today:
Telecom lobbyists tied to McCain
Discussion: MSNBC, New York Times and legitgov
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
In Pa., Obama focuses on popular vote totals
Kdawson / Slashdot:
Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Rising Health Costs Cut Into Wages
Michael Rubin / The Corner:
Turkish ruling party cracks down on free press
Discussion: PoliGazette
Richard Landes / Augean Stables:
The Prophetic Stream, Conspiracy Theory and Paranoia: What's Wrong …
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 Earlier Items: 
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MSNBC:
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BBC:
Cigarette display ban considered
Greg Veis / The New Republic:
Clarence Thomas Is Not ‘Mr. Constitution’
Jules Crittenden:
Politics = Torture  —  McCain says the Keating Five ordeal …
Discussion: Herald
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘This is not a crackpot church’