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9:50 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.
Balkinization:   War Crimes Prosecutions in the U.S.? Dream On
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” …
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.)
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Sir Elton and Democratic Friends
Discussion: City Room
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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.
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and National Post
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Canada NewsWire Group:
Commission Issues Statement on Decision in Maclean's Cases
Discussion: Overlawyered
PewResearch.org:
Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life  —  Executive Summary  —  This report on the attitudes and lives of the American middle class combines results of a new Pew Research Center national public opinion survey with the center's analysis of relevant economic and demographic trend data from the Census Bureau.
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Matthew Yglesias:
Pew on the Middle Class
Discussion: Eschaton
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.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Powell Praises Obama, Fears Afghanistan Growing ‘More Difficult’ Than Iraq  —  General Says Next President Will Face Long Struggle, Troop Strain in Two-Front Battle  —  Retired Gen. Colin Powell insists he hasn't yet decided who he'll back in the 2008 presidential election.
Discussion: The Swamp, Spin Cycle and The Page
Roger Simon / The Politico:
McCain not yet golden in California  —  Here are four things you need to know about John McCain and California:  —  1. If McCain wins California in November, he almost certainly will become the next president of the United States.  —  The Democratic nominee would find it extremely difficult …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Pelosi's Bad Faith  —  The Democratic Party's protectionist make-over was completed yesterday, when Nancy Pelosi decided to kill the Colombia free trade agreement.  Her objections had nothing to do with the evidence and everything to do with politics, but this was an act of particular bad faith.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Betsy's Page
Dr. Barbara L. Carvalho / Marist Poll:
ü Democrats' “Dream Ticket” is a nightmare against McCain/Rice in New York ü NYS voters take a wait and see approach to new governor  —  Contact: Dr. Lee M. Miringoff  —  This WNBC/Marist Poll of New York State reports:  —  Presidential Campaign 2008
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.
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.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Sports World in Foul Territory  —  Having made a living for almost 50 years covering politics, I've never been under any illusions about where it stands in the larger scheme of things.  Politics has its fans, but it holds nothing like the fascination that millions of Americans have with sports.
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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That Awful Economy  —  A Hill staffer sends this along:
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Five more U.S. soldiers die in Iraq
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