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2:00 PM ET, April 5, 2008

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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Looks like last call for Hillary  —  And it looks like it's gonna be another sleepless night ... “  —  That's Crystal Gayle from the opening of her hit song, “Talking In Your Sleep,” No. 1 on the Billboard Country charts in 1978.  No, hang on a minute, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton's new campaign theme.
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Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
What Did Bill Clinton Do To Get $15M From Ron Burkle?  —  The campaign press statement accompanying the release on Friday of Hillary Clinton's 2000 - 2007 tax returns includes some useful summary data for the media: Bill and Hillary Clinton's total income over the past 8 years, $109 million …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE CLINTONS' FAVORITE CHARITY (CORRECTION APPENDED)  —  Yesterday the news was full of accounts of the Clintons' 2000-2006 tax returns.  At the top of the stories reporting the Clintons' total income of $109 million over the past eight years — as in the “deep background” …
Discussion: Hot Air, The Caucus and JustOneMinute
Deep Background / MSNBC:   Clintons' wealth skyrockets by 5,700 percent
Boston Globe:
Golden years for the Clintons
Deborah Sontag / New York Times:
Ohio Hospital Contests a Story Clinton Tells  —  Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
The Democratic veep prospects: A guide  —  Four years ago today, The New York Times reported that an adviser to John Kerry had completed interviews with four contenders for the vice presidential nomination.  —  Today, both Democratic campaigns are laughing off the notion of choosing a running mate …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
White Guys Are Back  —  It was probably inevitable.  The historic contest between a woman and an African-American for the presidential nomination is now all about white men.  —  Not that the white male voters asked for this.  They've been uncommitted, supporting Hillary in one contest and Barack in the next.
San Francisco Chronicle:
SNOOP DOGG BLASTS OBAMA  —  Hip-hop star Snoop Dogg has launched a scathing attack on U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, accusing him of gleaning support from the Ku Klux Klan.  —  The rapper, real name Calvin Broadus Jr., insists the Democratic candidate has received funding from the KKK.
Bloomberg:
Passport Official to Leave Post  —  A State Department official in charge of passport services is stepping down two weeks after the agency said files of the three presidential candidates had been improperly accessed.  A department spokesman said Ann Barrett, the deputy assistant secretary …
Discussion: Blue Girl, Red State
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Washington Times:
Passport official quits amid probes
Discussion: A Blog For All
Carol Nader / The Age:
Call to switch onus on racist offences  —  A STUDY of racial discrimination laws in several Western countries has prompted a call for the Government to toughen Australia's 33-year-old laws.  —  Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma wants the burden of proof in cases of racial discrimination …
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
The Witchpointer-General
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Mike Hall / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Walls close in on Phelpses  —  Judge orders liens on church building, law office  —  A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office.  —  If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett …
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Phil Gramm: McCain's Terrorist In Pinstripes  —  There is a ticking time bomb in the John McCain campaign and the sooner that Barack Obama can turn his full attention to exploiting it the bigger and consequential the explosion should be for this phony maverick.
Damian Kulash Jr / New York Times:
Beware the New New Thing  —  RECENTLY, the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust task force invited me to be the lead witness for its hearing on “net neutrality.”  I've collaborated with the Future of Music Coalition, and my band, OK Go, has been among the first to find real success on the Internet …
Rick Maze / Army Times:
Lawmaker apologizes for comment on Iraq guard  —  A North Carolina congressman has apologized for calling a contract employee in Baghdad a “two-bit security guard.”  —  Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., used that term when talking about a visit to Iraq where he was denied access to a gymnasium.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Wizbang
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Ukraine and Genocide  —  I find this controversy absolutely fascinating (which is why I will probably write a column about it).  The Ukrainians want to call the organized murder of Ukrainians “genocide.”  The Russians don't.  One of the things I find particularly interesting …
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Steve Gutterman / Associated Press:
Russia: 1930s Famine Was Not Genocide
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
 
 
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Charlotte Gill / Daily Mail:
British Muslims in airliner terror plot 'talked of taking families …
Ashley Fantz / CNN:
Sex abuse, violence alleged at teen jails across U.S.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The Trail  —  Clinton Aide Admits ‘Error in Judgment’
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Obsidian Wings
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
80,000 Jobs Lost; Democrats Urge Aid Package
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
SPECIAL FORCES FIGHT IN SADR CITY
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Glenn Beck / CNN:
Be thankful for big oil
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama by 5 Points Over Clinton
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Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Chokes Up Recounting Death of MLK
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Suzanne Langlois / The Huffington Post:
The Baghdad Lottery: “He Can't Win, If We Don't Play”
Discussion: Bang the Drum
ABCNEWS:
Silicon Insider: Should Drudge and Huffington Get Pulitzers?
Discussion: TBogg, Roger Ailes and Romenesko
John Marshall / Associated Press:
Woman Sentenced in Death of Mother-To-Be
Discussion: TalkLeft and On Deadline
Jane Macartney / Times of London:
Exclusive: Chinese police kill eight after opening fire on monks …
Alex Dowdalls / Daily Mail:
Muslim is spared a speeding ban so he can drive between his two wives