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9:35 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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Betsy's Page
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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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Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
25 Killed in Two Weeks; More Significant Number than 4,000  —  American forces have just experienced the most violent two-week period in Iraq since September 2007.  Unfortunately, I'm afraid this fact will be lost in the media coverage over the number 4,000 during the next several days.
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
US Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000
Discussion: Informed Comment and Truthdig
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.
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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
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 Rubin / The Corner:
Turkish ruling party cracks down on free press  —  An e-mail from a Turkish professor: … As a Turkish journalist points out in a private e-mail, for all the talk within the State Department of Prime Minister Erdogan and his Islamist-leaning party as representing democracy …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Taming the Beast  —  We're now in the midst of an epic financial crisis, which ought to be at the center of the election debate.  But it isn't.  —  Now, I don't expect presidential campaigns to have all the answers to our current crisis — even financial experts are scrambling to keep up with events.
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Rising Health Costs Cut Into Wages  —  Recent history has not been kind to working-class Americans, who were down on the economy long before the word recession was uttered.  —  The main reason: spiraling health-care costs have been whacking away at their wages.
Discussion: European Tribune and ParaPundit
MSNBC:
March 23: Maria Bartiromo, Erin Burnett, political roundtable  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again.  But Wall Street and Main Street are still nervous about talk of recession, bankruptcy, bailouts and more.  What now?
Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Has Hit Piece on McCain — Which Resurrects the Old Canards About Ties Between Saddam and Al Qaeda  —  The L.A. Times saves space on its Sunday front page for a hit piece on John McCain.  The main thrust of the piece is to say, in essence, “Nyaah, nyaah, John McCain said that Iraq would be a cakewalk, but it wasn't.”
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Michael Jacobson / Washington Post:
They Trained. They Plotted. Then They Bailed.
Discussion: TownHall Blog
BBC:
Cigarette display ban considered  —  Displaying cigarettes in shops could be banned in England under government plans being considered to cut smoking and discourage children from starting.  —  Ministers are also considering tougher controls on vending machines in pubs and restaurants.
Patterico's Pontifications:
Not from The Onion — Kmiec Endorses . . . Obama  —  Doug Kmiec has endorsed Barack Obama, in one of the most puzzling pieces of writing I have ever read.  Kmiec, who claims to be a Republican, literally does not advance one single reason why Obama would be a better President than John McCain.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The RBC
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The Prophetic Stream, Conspiracy Theory and Paranoia: What's Wrong …
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Newsweek:
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Associated Press:
Associated Press: U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 4,000
Discussion: ParaPundit
New York Times:
Clinton's Schedules Offer Chance to Test Assertions
Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News:
State Democratic Party postpones district conventions
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Veis / The New Republic:
Clarence Thomas Is Not ‘Mr. Constitution’
Jules Crittenden:
Politics = Torture  —  McCain says the Keating Five ordeal …
Discussion: Herald
Jonathan Ellis / Argus Leader:
Poll may gauge Obama fallout
Discussion: MyDD
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Muslim baptized by pope says life in danger
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘This is not a crackpot church’
CNN:
Richardson says he still feels loyal to Clintons
The Day, New London, CT:
We Don't Know This Sen. Joe
Discussion: Firedoglake and toohotfortnr