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12:45 PM 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 …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Now He's A Godless Commie
Discussion: Macsmind
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.”
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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: Balloon Juice
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 …
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama questions Clinton on trade
Discussion: Corrente, Donklephant and Yahoo! News
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.
Andrea Billups / Washington Times:
McCain keeps his faith out of politics  —  Don't expect any public testimonies of faith from presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who is not demonstrative about his religion but who embraces a Baptist faith that is based on salvation.  —  The religious intentions of Democratic candidate …
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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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George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Libertarian Surge?  —  Bob Barr will be dry-eyed if his candidacy is to John McCain what Ralph Nader's was to Al Gore in 2000.  —  Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend.
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
Barr Set High
Discussion: The Other McCain
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.
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 …
CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL  —  Democratic Candidates Compassion Forum  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  BROWN: Good evening, everybody, to our viewers in the United States and around the world.  Welcome to Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
CBS News:
Kidnapped CBS Journalist Freed In Iraq  —  Freelance Producer Working For 60 Minutes Rescued After 2 Months In Captivity  —  (CBS) A CBS journalist kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Basra two months ago has been freed.  —  Basra security commander Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji told …
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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
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.
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
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
 
 
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Singing McCain's Praises, or Joking?
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Torture Nation  —  In keeping with tristero's advice to keep talking …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Libby Quaid / WTOPnews.com:
McCain: More Conservative Than His Image
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ
CNN:
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Discussion: Firedoglake
CNN:
Clinton takes a shot . . . of whiskey
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
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Co-Payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High Prices
 Earlier Items: 
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
MR. AND MS. SPOKEN … When the footage surfaced showing …
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 Mark / The Politico:
The Indiana primary's fretful five
ABCNEWS:
Rev. Wright: Fox's Hannity ‘Stuck on Stupid’