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11:45 PM ET, April 1, 2008

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Matt / Think Progress:
CNN catches McCain making contradictory statements about Sadr.  —  In an interview with CNN earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that he has long understood the influence of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr: … But in a report on The Situation Room today …
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Obama casts race between him, McCain  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Sen. Barack Obama is talking about the elephant in the room — Republican rival John McCain — and all but ignoring the Democrat who stands between him and his party's presidential nomination.  —  Even though Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Teachers Launch Radio Ads For Clinton in Pa.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates  —  In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election.
Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange:
The Singles Map  —  This is the new and improved version the singles map published yesterday in the Boston Globe.  —  A Singles Map of the United States  —  Which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) - and what that means for the country  —  By Richard Florida
Ali / Think Progress:
Student calls McCain out for political motivations of school appearance.  —  Today Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stopped at his alma mater, Episcopal High School in Virginia, to lecture on the importance of teaching and the honor code.  McCain's toughest question came from student Katelyn Halldorson …
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Hotline On Call:
“I Hope Attendance Here Was Not Compulsory”
Discussion: Wonkette
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
No Iraq Intelligence Update For You!  —  For weeks, analysts within the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community have been toiling to complete an assessment of the situation in Iraq.  This morning, it finally went to the Hill: the Senate and House intelligence committees, and the leadership in both chambers …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
The March 2003 Yoo Memo Emerges! (not an April Fool's Joke): The Torture Memo to Top All Torture Memos  —  Subhead: The Big Kahuna: The Torture Memo that Makes the August 2002 Memo Look Like Objective and Thoughtful Legal Analysis  —  On Friday, March 13, 2003, Jay Bybee left his office …
Neil Midgley / Telegraph:
Flying penguins found by BBC programme  —  The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.  —  Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton pleads for time  —  Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams put out a memo in which she casts the cause of keeping the campaign alive as an issue in and of itself, a kind of voting rights issue.  —  She lists the states yet to vote: … I tend to agree with Steve Benen on this …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Turmoil in Race Tests Democrats' Low-Key Chief  —  WASHINGTON — The turmoil in the Democratic presidential race has presented a sharp test of Howard Dean's low-profile approach to leading the Democratic National Committee, bringing calls from many Democrats for him to take a more aggressive role …
Steve Doughty / Daily Mail:
Church leader calls for building of mosques to be banned because of risk 'Britain will become an ‘Islamic state’  —  A senior Church of England member called yesterday for the building of mosques to be banned.  —  Alison Ruoff said more construction would lead to Islamic no go areas dominated …
Fafnir / Fafblog:
everything depends on the getaway  —  “Screw this dump!” says Giblets.  “This universe is old and fat and smells like smelling and Giblets is busting out!”  —  “Should we go over the wall or take the tunnel?” says me.  I been diggin a tunnel.  —  “Nuts to the tunnel!” says Giblets.
FactCheck.org:
Obama's Oil Spill  —  Obama says he doesn't take money from oil companies.  We say that's a little too slick.  —  In a new ad, Obama says, “I don't take money from oil companies.”  —  Technically, that's true, since a law that has been on the books for more than a century prohibits corporations …
 
 
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Ariel Alexovich / The Caucus:
Pa. Jewish Leaders Praise Obama in Letter
Discussion: Fox News
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Primary shenanigans could backfire
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Dems seek Texas seat held by elder Bush
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Obama-Webb 2008  —  I've mentioned in passing several times …
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
Blumenthal Claims Inside Knowledge that McCain Flirted with Leaving GOP
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Does Obama Understand Defeat?
Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Murdoch's Daughter Hosts Obama Fund-Raiser
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Telling Local Media In Future Voting States That Obama Wants Race To End
Discussion: TalkLeft
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
The Hillary-Bosnia Mystery, Cont'd
CNN:
Chertoff: Laws to be waived for border fence
Discussion: The Impolitic
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 49%, Clinton 45%
Discussion: Pollster.com
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton backer: Obama will win
Michelle Malkin:
Lights out at MichelleMalkin.com Update (noon): Flipped the switch
Dani Rodrik / Dani Rodrik's weblog:
American political economics in one picture
The Politico:
Pentagon balked on gay partner travel