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7:00 AM ET, April 10, 2008

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ABCNEWS:
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’  —  Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects  —  By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE  —  In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House …
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Marc Ambinder:
War Crimes  —  A provocative headline, I know, perhaps needlessly so, but it remains one of those hidden secrets in Washington that a Democratic Justice Department is going to be very interested in figuring out whether there's a case to be made that senior Bush Administration officials were guilty of war crimes.
Reuters:
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush's most senior advisers approved “enhanced interrogation techniques” of top al Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing sources it did not name.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter … and Shakesville
Balkinization:   War Crimes Prosecutions in the U.S.? Dream On
Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:
Obama's Case for Opting Out  —  Sen. Barack Obama recently hinted that he might break a promise and opt out of public financing for the general election because he's already “created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it.”
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Steyn Online:
Hey, why bother with a trial?  —  As revealed here a few weeks ago, the investigative unit of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission recommended to the Commissioners that they not proceed against Maclean's for having the temerity to publish an excerpt from my book.
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Canada NewsWire Group:
Commission Issues Statement on Decision in Maclean's Cases  —  The Ontario Human Rights Commission has decided not to proceed with complaints filed against Maclean's magazine related to its publication of an article “The future belongs to Islam.”  The complainants alleged that the content …
Discussion: Overlawyered
Cathryn Khalil / KLTV-TV:
Athens School ‘Attack’ Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged  —  There are major new developments today in the case of a supposed beating of a student from Athens Middle School.  —  Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District …
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Associated Press:
Texas Teen Hurt After Bringing Anti-Illegal Immigration Sign to School
Discussion: Roger Ailes
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
As Chicago Bids for Games, Obama Ducks Olympics Criticism  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama doesn't seem to want to talk about the Olympics or Senator Clinton's call for a boycott of the opening ceremonies on August 8, 2008.  —  At a town hall in Malvern, Pennsylvania …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Pew on the Middle Class  —  This is a pretty striking trend.  Politically, it's a bit tricky since the salient trend is the dramatic narrowing of the better/worse gap, but the betters still outnumber the worses.  You want to tap into the sentiments of the growing “worse” bloc …
Discussion: Eschaton
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PewResearch.org:   Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life
Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News, Katie Couric Are Likely to Part Ways  —  Barring a Change, Departure Could Follow the Election;  —  A Successor to Larry King?  —  After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the “CBS Evening News” …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Former President Carter to Meet With Hamas Chief  —  Former president Jimmy Carter plans to meet next week in Damascus with Khaled Meshal, the head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in a direct rebuke of the Bush administration's campaign to isolate it.
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Adel Zaanoun / Agence France Presse:
Nine killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Elton John: ‘To hell with them’  —  There's a real crowd at Radio City, complete with scalpers, and lines around the block for Elton John and the Clintons.  —  Toward the back of one line: Frank Luntz, Lanny Davis, and Doug Schoen.  ("I used to be in business with Mark Penn," Schoen joked.)
Southern Political Report:
New InsiderAdvantage Poll  —  Latest InsiderAdvantage Poll Pennsylvania Primary: Clinton 48%, Obama 38%  —  A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton regaining some ground she'd previously lost to Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary race.
Discussion: MyDD and Boston Globe
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Gay press frustrated by Obama approach  —  Mark Segal didn't want to wait.  After weeks of requests to interview Barack Obama, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News concluded the senator's aides may never make him available.  —  So even as the Obama campaign held out the possibility …
Discussion: Shakesville
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
Reverend Eric Lee's Anti-Semitism: A Personal Story [video]  —  On April 4, 2008, at a Los Angeles event commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King, the African-American fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi gave Israeli-American Daphna Ziman its Tom Bradley Award for community service.
New York Times:
Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain's Ear  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.
Discussion: War and Piece
Washington Post:
Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months  —  President Supports Suspending Pullout Of Forces in Iraq  —  President Bush plans to announce today that he will cut Army combat tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months, returning rotations to where they were before last year's troop buildup in an effort …
 
 
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Jeff Bailey / New York Times:
American Cancels 1,000 Flights in New Sign of Trouble
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Heparin Is Now Suspected in 62 Fatalities Across U.S.
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
It Doesn't Quite Compute
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Associated Press:
Five more U.S. soldiers die in Iraq
New York Times:
Iraq's Military Seen as Lagging
Wall Street Journal:
Volcker's Demarche
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Online NewsHour:
Hearings Rekindle Debate on Military Progress in Iraq
White House:
President Bush Attends Medal of Honor Ceremony for Petty Officer …
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Allison Hope Weiner / The Huffington Post:
Pellicano Trial: Ovitz in the Spotlight and in the Clear and Anita Busch in Tears
Young America's Foundation:
Star Parker not welcome at University of St. Thomas
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Implicit Prejudice Revealed: Opposition to a Woman President
Looseheadprop / Firedoglake:
How Did Yoo Manage to Leave Out Youngstown Steel?
Discussion: RADAMISTO
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
McCain's “Goodbye To All That”  —  Ross and Mickey don't approve this message:
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
AP photographer granted Iraqi amnesty
Bill Scher / Today's Ideas & Actions:
Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying ... Alabama?