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11:15 AM ET, April 25, 2008

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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 …
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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” …
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.
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
Indianapolis Star:
It's time for serious debate
Discussion: Hot Air
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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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
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Friday Line: McCain's Best Strategic Moves
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
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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 …
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.
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 …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
McCain changes his tune on taxes  —  Reversal includes new support for Bush cuts  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers a speech in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday.  —  McCain slams Bush  —  April 24: John McCain slammed the White House's response to Katrina while on a visit to New Orleans.
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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
Discussion: Macsmind and American Street
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
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Iraq War Is Everyone Else's Fault, Feith Explains  —  Mistakes were made.  But not by him.  —  Doug Feith, the No. 3 man at the Pentagon before, during and after the invasion of Iraq, has come in for his share of blame for the failures there — in large part because he led the Pentagon policy shop …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The Wright Stuff: ABC provides the context  —  Barack Obama needs another eruption of the Wright Stuff like he needs another video of him making fun of embittered Bible-thumping bigots, but at least the former appears inevitable.  ABC News responds to Jeremiah Wright's allegation that his words …
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Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton  —  In a blink of an eye, the media has jumped ship from the Obama campaign and become a crucial Clinton ally, pressing just the message — that Obama is a likely loser in the general election — that Hillary and her allies have been promoting for the past six weeks.
Dan / Riehl World View:
You Don't Screw With “The Man”  —  In a case that's more instructive in government power and control than most anything a liberal, or civil libertarian might opine upon, Wesley Snipes received the maximum sentence, 36 months in prison for not paying his taxes.
Discussion: TigerHawk
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WESH-TV:   Snipes Gets Maximum Sentence: 36 Months
 
 
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Howard Kurtz / The Trail:
Fox & Friends  —  After repeatedly trying to book Barack Obama …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
U.S. Jews Create New Lobby to Temper Israel Policy
Eric Adams / Popular Science:
Delta Rolls Out Fancy Seats for Plebeians
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Althouse
Brian Todd / CNN:
Pollsters: Don't make too much of racial divide
Discussion: Commentary
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The View From Gate 14  —  America is in line at the airport.
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Clinton debt larger than reported
Joe Carroll / Bloomberg:
Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East, Zeihan Says
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Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago
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Verena Dobnik / Associated Press:
Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter ‘a bigot’
Reed Hundt / TPMCafe:
The Swiftboating Begins
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
McCain Faults Bush Response to Gulf Storm
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VA accused of covering up suicides
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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