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11:30 AM ET, April 14, 2008

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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Mask Slips  —  I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.  Still, it didn't take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker — a book that was assigned …
USA Today:
No ‘bitter’ aftertaste?  How Obama gaffe plays  —  JACOBUS, Pa. — Phil Little seems like just the sort of Pennsylvanian voter who might have been offended by Sen. Barack Obama's comments that small-town residents “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”
Discussion: New York Times and Balloon Juice
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama questions Clinton on trade
Discussion: Corrente and Donklephant
Perry Bacon Jr / The Trail:
Sat. Night With Clinton: A Beer, a Slice, and a Charge Against Obama
Discussion: Lonewacko and The Fix
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Obama Invokes Annie Oakley
Discussion: Little Miss Attila
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Iraqis aren't stupid — and they're watching us  —  Last month, Vets for Freedom visited the Twin Cities to talk about their experience in Iraq — and got rewarded by being booted from a local high school.  Michael Honeycutt and I, along with hundreds of people from our community …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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Michael Honeycutt / Minneapolis Star Tribune:   We must not leave the Iraqis vulnerable
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Israel snubs Carter and declines security help  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly, Fox News's Fast-Rising Anchor  —  NEW YORK — It's just after 10:30 Monday morning on “America's Newsroom,” and Megyn Kelly has bounced from riots in Paris to storms in the Midwest, from a truck-and-train collision to a strange interview about the 1969 Manson family murders with the sister of slain actress Sharon Tate.
Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
HARD-CORE MARILYN  —  FBI'S MONROE SEX FLICK SOLD FOR $1.5M  —  Some really like it hot.  —  In the sordid tradition of peddling raunchy video footage of celebrities à la Paris Hilton, a long-buried sex movie of Marilyn Monroe recently hit the market, a top collector told The Post.
Discussion: TMZ.com
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Goes on Offense After Fumble  —  GRANTHAM, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama sharply mocked his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sunday night as he found himself defending his candidacy to white working-class voters for the second time in a month.  —  Sen. Obama accused Sen. Clinton …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe  —  DUBLIN — The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.
Discussion: American Street
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Is John McCain Bob Dole?  —  Or is he Dwight Eisenhower?  (Actually, that may depend on whether Barack Obama is Mike Dukakis or John Kennedy.)  A handicapping.  —  By the time John McCain trundles into the ballroom of the Fairmont hotel in Dallas, he has already had what for most men his age would have been a very full day.
Discussion: The Page
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
MR. AND MS. SPOKEN … When the footage surfaced showing that Hillary Clinton, contrary to what she had been claiming in campaign speeches, had not been obliged to duck and run from sniper fire during her visit to Bosnia in 1996 but, rather, had listened smilingly as a little girl recited a poem about peace …
Rasmussen Reports:
56% Disagree with Obama's Comments on Small Town America  —  Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama's statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
David Mark / The Politico:
The Indiana primary's fretful five  —  In the May 6 Indiana primary, the next critical contest after Pennsylvania votes on April 22, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can point to impressive rosters of endorsements by prominent state and local politicians.
Discussion: TPM Election Central
New York Times:
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending  —  Who said anything about a recession?  Sometime between the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that America lost 80,000 jobs in March, Lee Tachman spent roughly $50,000 last month on a four-day jaunt to Miami for himself and three close friends.
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Full Text of Obama's Speech to the Alliance for American Manufacturing  —  Being here in Pennsylvania with the primary coming up, I know that politics is what's on a lot of people's minds.  But as I look out at this crowd, I also know that being here isn't just about politics for me.  It's personal.
 
 
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Lynnley Browning / New York Times:
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Think Progress
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
Subject: Analysis of Obama's statement compared to Clinton's and Webb's
CNN:
Clinton takes a shot . . . of whiskey
Washington Post:
A Lapsed Principle  —  BARACK OBAMA held out the hope …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Campaign Spot
George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Libertarian Surge?  —  Bob Barr will be dry-eyed if his candidacy …
David Thompson:
Unclean  —  On the subject of bizarre ritualistic hang-ups …
Discussion: Harry's Place
Les Blumenthal / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senator: Probe of rising gasoline prices needed
Lila Shapiro / TPMMuckraker:
All Muck is Local: Sex and Lots and Lots of Videotape
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Co-Payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High Prices
Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Did St. Thomas reject a group, a speaker - or range of ideas?
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Noemie Emery / Weekly Standard:
The Matter With What?  —  The politics of condescension.
Reuters:
Iraq to seek parliamentary approval for long-term U.S. pact
Matthew Yglesias:
Foreign Legions  —  At the beginning of this web video …
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Great Mistake, The “San Francisco Democrat”
Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
Austin political operative a man of his word?
ABCNEWS:
Rev. Wright: Fox's Hannity ‘Stuck on Stupid’