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8:50 AM ET, May 22, 2008

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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Clinton's Shocking Florida Gambit  —  Hillary Clinton's rhetoric today about counting the results in Florida and Michigan is simply incredible.  Her speech compares discounting the Florida and Michigan primaries to vote suppression and slavery: … It's worth repeating: They supported this “disenfranchisement.”
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Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Desperate to Count Votes, Compares Fla. Primary to Zimbabwe  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  SUNRISE, FLA. — Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Shameless  —  The Clintons know no respect for rules or propriety or restraint in the pursuit of power.  But Clinton's latest speech in Florida should cause even veteran Clinton-hating jaws to drop some more: … How do you respond to a sociopath like this?
Discussion: TIME.com
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement  —  My colleague Ken Vogel reports: … She said “there's a reason why so many have fought so hard and sacrificed so much.  It's because they knew that to be a citizen of this country is to have the right and responsibility to help shape its future.
PaganPower / NO QUARTER:
Is Andrew Sullivan a Sociopathetic Hack?
Discussion: TBogg
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention
Wall Street Journal:
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch  —  IEA Official Says Supplies  —  May Plateau Below Expected Demand  —  The world's premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand.
Discussion: American Street and QandO
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   PEAK OIL WATCH....Why have oil prices doubled, doubled again …
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Many Florida Jews Express Doubts on Obama  —  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — At the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club on Sunday, the fountains were burbling, the man-made lakes were shining, and Shirley Weitz and Ruth Grossman were debating why Jews in this gated neighborhood of airy retirement homes feel …
Washington Post:
House Overrides Veto of Farm Bill  —  The House easily overrode President Bush's veto of a $307 billion farm bill last night in what appeared to be the most significant legislative rebuff of Bush's presidency.  But a legislative glitch is likely to force embarassed Democratic leaders to pass …
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David Stout / New York Times:
House Override of Farm Bill Veto Is Only the 2nd in Bush's Presidency
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:   Clerical error leads to Farm Bill confusion
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates  —  Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest …
Richard Landes / Pajamas Media:
Karsenty Strikes Blow for Freedom in Al-Dura Case [VIDEO]  —  Richard Landes of the Second Draft reviews the evidence that the “Al-Dura Affair” was, as ruled by a French appeals court today, a hoax — and exposes other works of “Pallywood.”  —  The French court of appeals …
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Ron Kampeas / JTA:
What's driving Israel and Syria to talk?  —  The renewal of peace talks between Israel and Syria is a sign of widespread concern about the rising power of Hezbollah and Iran, as well as the diminishing fortunes of the Bush administration in its twilight.  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Who Is John McCain?  —  The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him—and Why Independents Shouldn't  —  It is little remembered today that the political career of John Sidney McCain III, a career now thoroughly laundered in mythology, began with the help of several fortuities.
Gail Robinson / Sheffield Telegraph:
Sex swap driving teacher fury  —  A SEX swap instructor at an all-female driving school was left devastated when the Sheffield husband of one of her pupils threatened to sue her firm - for sending a man to teach his Muslim wife.  —  Emma Sherdley - formerly a married dad of two called Andrew …
Discussion: Riehl World View and The Corner
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Troubling Instincts  —  Barack Obama is ambling rather than sprinting across the primary-season finish line.  It's not just his failure to connect with blue-collar Democrats.  He has added to his problems with ill-informed replies on critical foreign policy questions.
Discussion: Commentary
Victorino Matus / Weekly Standard:
The Case Against Indy  —  Or why he matters less than you think.  —  BEFORE YOU SEND ME IRATE emails, allow me preface this by stating how thoroughly I enjoy the Indiana Jones films, most notably Raiders of the Lost Ark. But at the end of the day, does our beloved archaeologist actually “save the day”?
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
New York Times:
Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed  —  IN his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often invoked by Barack Obama, a policy that turned out to be one of his presidency's — indeed one of the cold war's — most consequential: “Let us never negotiate out of fear.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Madame President Clinton?  Chelesa Clinton That Is  —  ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all.  No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton?  —  “If you asked me …
Discussion: US News
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
FTC Wants to Know What Big Brother Knows About You  —  ‘Behavioral Targeting’ on Web Is Debated  —  How do you find a bride these days?  —  One of the nation's leading online tracking companies knows.  —  Monitoring consumers at roughly 3,000 Web sites, Revenue Science identified brides …
Discussion: EconLog
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Gray Lady fighting dirty against McCain campaign?  Update: NYT Ethics Policy
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Times of London:
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New York Times:
McCain Set to Release Health Data on Friday
Discussion: TIME.com
Wall Street Journal:
The New Big Dig  —  Mitt Romney's presidential run is history …
Discussion: Commentary and Wonk Room
SteveK / TVNewser:
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Discussion: Firedoglake
Michelle Malkin:
You go, girl: Alaska GOP Gov. will sue Bush administration over polar bear listing
Discussion: Reuters, TBogg and On Deadline
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
‘Squawk Box’ Guest Warns of $12-15-a-Gallon Gas
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Rasmussen Reports:
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Marc Ambinder:
On Iran, Parsing Obama, Without Preconditions Or Preconceptions
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain’
Discussion: Don Surber
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