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10:05 AM ET, April 25, 2008

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Richard Cowan / Tales from the Trail:
Top House Democrat denounces Clinton campaign tactics  —  WASHINGTON - “Scurrilous” and “disingenuous” were among the words a top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives used on Thursday to describe Hillary Clinton's campaign tactics in her bid to defeat Barack Obama for their party's presidential nomination.
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Mark Leibovich / The Caucus:
Black Leader in House Denounces Bill Clinton's Remarks  —  The third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and one of the country's most influential African-American leaders sharply criticized former President Bill Clinton this afternoon for what he called Mr. Clinton's “bizarre” …
Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Illinois Senator ahead by 3 points  —  Officials in both camps agree: The race is a toss-up that will remain hotly competitive  —  Sen. Barack Obama holds a narrow lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Indiana, with the outcome of the May 6 primary likely in the hands of a large number …
Elizabeth Drew / The Politico:
Dems' suspense may be unnecessary  —  The torrent of speculation about the end game of the Democratic nomination contest is creating a false sense of suspense - and wasting a lot of time of the multitudes who are anxious to know how this contest is going to turn out.
Discussion: New York Times and Prairie Weather
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Clinton's Hopes May Lie With N.C.  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday emphasized her plans to remove combat troops from Iraq and challenged Sen. Barack Obama to a debate in North Carolina, as she turned her attention to a state that could upend her hopes of a comeback.
Discussion: MSNBC and TPM Election Central
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Refuses to Concede North Carolina, an Obama Stronghold  —  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Sen. Hillary Clinton is widely expected to lose North Carolina's Democratic presidential primary on May 6, but that isn't stopping her campaign from spending millions of dollars on advertising and holding rallies …
Discussion: The Caucus and The Page
Indianapolis Star:
It's time for serious debate
Discussion: Hot Air
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Syria Reactor Story a Diversion; But From What?  —  The US and Israel accused Syria on Thursday of building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help.  There was a lot of innuendo in the press that the reactor was intended for nuclear weapons production.  But AFP notes:
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Paul / Power Line:
OBAMA'S BAD LUCK WITH ADVISERS CONTINUES  —  Gabriel Schoenfeld reports on the latest Obama foreign policy adviser who turns out not to like Israel very much.  Add Joseph Cirincione to the list that includes Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Merrill McPeak, Zbigniew Brzezinski , and his spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright.
Discussion: Commentary and Gateway Pundit
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Obama's Radioactive Potato
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's ‘Distractions’?  —  Real change has never been easy. . . . The status quo in Washington will fight.  They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November.  —  Pennsylvania primary night speech  —  With that, Obama identified …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Self-Inflicted Confusion  —  After Barack Obama's defeat in Pennsylvania, David Axelrod, his campaign manager, brushed it off: “Nothing has changed tonight in the basic physics of this race.”  —  He may well be right — but what a comedown.  A few months ago the Obama campaign was talking about transcendence.
Times of London:
The men in black vanish and Basra comes to life  —  The first Western journalist to enter the city since Operation Charge of the Knights was launched a month ago  —  Young women are daring to wear jeans, soldiers listen to pop music on their mobile phones and bands are performing at wedding parties again.
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Matt Kelley / USA Today:
Report: Iraqi forces lacking
The Politico:
Obama has a punctuation problem  —  Barack Obama's real opponent now is not Hillary Rodham Clinton.  It is a pair of punctuation marks.  —  The first is a question.  The second is an asterisk.  —  Both threaten to hover over Obama if he wins the Democratic nomination without confronting …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Page
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Friday Line: McCain's Best Strategic Moves
PBS:
Jeremiah Wright  —  More than 3,000 news stories have been penned since early April about Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.  But behind the five second loop is a man who has preached three different sermons nearly every Sunday since 1972.  In his interview on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL …
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Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago  —  WASHINGTON - Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.  The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Don Surber
Geoff Garin / Washington Post:
Fair Is Fair  —  What's wrong with this picture?  Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have faced and challenges the next president will face — including terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …
WESH-TV:
Snipes Gets Maximum Sentence: 36 Months  —  OCALA, Fla. — Wesley Snipes was sentenced to 36 months in prison Thursday, the maximum sentence allowed.  —  Watch The Story  —  Snipes was convicted of three misdemeanor charges for not filing his taxes.  —  During the sentencing, Snipes did apologize.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
You Don't Screw With “The Man”  —  In a case that's more instructive …
Discussion: TigerHawk
New York Post:
THE WORST OF TIMES  —  STAFF BRACES FOR LAYOFFS AFTER BUYOUTS FALL SHORT  —  THE New York Times' news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days.  —  The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout proposal, and only another 20 non-union editorial employees have gotten on board.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
 
 
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The View From Gate 14  —  America is in line at the airport.
Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Clinton debt larger than reported
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Iraq War Is Everyone Else's Fault, Feith Explains
New York Times:
Pakistan Asserts It Is Near a Deal With Militants
Joe Carroll / Bloomberg:
Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East, Zeihan Says
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
McCain Offers Tax Policies He Once Opposed
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Whoa, Lisa  —  The last thing I'd ever want is a feminizing of our military.
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Verena Dobnik / Associated Press:
Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter ‘a bigot’
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The Swiftboating Begins
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VA accused of covering up suicides
Steve Benen / Crooks and Liars:
Those ‘experts’ and their ‘fancy degrees’
CNN:
Pelosi says she doesn't want to see a joint ticket
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
The Democrats Have a Nominee
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