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Brian Lockhart / Stamford Advocate:
FBI probe: Lieberman campaign to blame for crashing own Web site — A federal investigation has concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site the day before Connecticut's heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not guilty — One of the stranger episodes of the Lieberman-Lamont primary in 2006 was the Lieberman campaign's charge that supporters of his rival (whose web guy, Tim Tagaris, is above) “attacked” Lieberman's website. — Anyway, the FBI has finally gotten to the bottom of it, in case you were wondering.
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CNN:
Blitzer: Iraqis playing U.S. taxpayers for ‘suckers’? — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Just before and immediately after the U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq, Bush administration officials optimistically predicted that Iraqi oil exports would soon finance the reconstruction of the country. That didn't happen.
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Washington Post:Frustrated Senators See No Exit Signs
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Washington Post:Iraq Report Redux
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Robert Scheer / The Huffington Post:Everything His President Wants to Hear
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Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
Report: Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria — NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
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Patrick / FishBowlDC:
NYT Mag On Matthews: The Excerpts — Earlier: Forthcoming? NYT Mag Piece on Matthews. — Earlier: Leibovich Dishes On Matthews — Earlier: NYT Mag On Matthews: NBC Forced Chris To Apologize. — We've got an advanced copy of Mark Leibovich's piece on Chris Matthews, entitled “Chris Matthews, Seriously.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:Chris Matthews, Seriously. (O.K., Not That Seriously.)
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Zzaki / Political Punch:
Obama Prepares Argument to Discard Public-Financing Principle — Despite his previous pledge to enter into the public financing system should he be the Democratic presidential nominee,* Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has recently been reluctant to re-commit to entering the system.
The Politico:
Clinton leadership a study in missteps — Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country. She had better hope they don't study her recent campaign too closely for the answer. — Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months.
Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Director breaks wall of silence at state's Muslim public school — Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion. — Evidence suggests, however …
David Perlmutt / Charlotte Observer:
Michelle Obama visits Harrisburg — HARRISBURG —This was Michelle Obama's “mom time” in her husband's campaign for president. — She'd come Tuesday to meet with 50 working women who filled a room at a Harrisburg preschool, anxious to talk to Barack Obama's wife. — But they'd have to wait.
Wall Street Journal:
The New Liberal Taboo — What a spectacle. It is now respectable for Democrats to assert, even to welcome, military defeat (see here). But if a Presidential campaign functionary so much as hints at support for free trade, he's banished to policy exile. — That's the meaning …
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The Other McCain, Booman Tribune, Commentary, Washington Post, The Foundry and Daimnation!
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Two Cheers for Newsroom Buyouts — THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE BAD NEWS COMING OUT OF NEWSROOMS. — Advertising revenue at newspapers has fallen off a cliff and may tumble all the way to the bottom of the Marianas Trench if the promised recession arrives. Average circulation is down, too …
Lanny J. Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Minister Problem — I have tried to get over my unease surrounding Barack Obama's response to the sermons and writings of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. But the unanswered questions remain. — I am a strong supporter …
Kathy / five feet of fury.:
Richard Warman suing conservative bloggers — including me — Richard “The Boy Named Sue” Warman has finally filed his statement of claim. — Canada's busiest litigant, serial “human rights” complainant and — the guy Mark Steyn has called “Canada's most sensitive man” …
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CNN:
Report criticizes immigration chief for Halloween party — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A report criticizes a top immigration official for attempting to conceal her role in a controversial Halloween costume party. — Julie Myers, then-acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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Marc Ambinder:
More Cowbells? More White People! — Overzealous event coordinators? A rare, unforced error committed by the Obama campaign's site advance teams. — From an article in the Tartan, the daily newspaper Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democratic Soft Money Group Ramps Up — The Fund for America, a political organization aligned with several major players in Democratic politics, has raised better than $11 million — largely from wealthy individuals — since its inception last November and doled out nearly half that sum …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
The Gospel, According to Luke — Pittsburgh's Young Mayor Wants City to Line Up Behind Clinton — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, participates in the Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day Parade with, from left, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato …
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