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11:45 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Satyam / Think Progress:
Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban  —  Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, which contained a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) establishing one interrogation standard across the government.
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Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesdy to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Defeats FISA Extension
Talal Al-Khatib / Political Radar:
McCain Adviser Won't Fight Obama  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator's presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama ‘Takes It Down a Notch’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After touring a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy that he said is on the “brink of a recession.”  —  The senator told GM workers to bear with him as he gave a more policy oriented speech.
Discussion: Commentary, Ben Smith's Blogs and Slog
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Who's Singularly Lacking In Specifics?
NPR:
Listen Now  —  · Sen. John McCain swept the so-called …
Discussion: The Swamp and Truthdig
Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House  —  As expected, things are finally moving forward in the House today to bring contempt resolutions against White House officials for ignoring Congressional subpoenas as part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama  —  McCain campaign manager Rick Davis today sent an unmistakable message to Barack Obama over the Illinois Democrat's effort to stoke the obvious age contrast between himself and the 71-year-old McCain: Bring it on.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Spin Cycle
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Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:
Republicans honing in on Barack Obama
Discussion: The Politico
The Huffington Post:
John McCain Goes After Barack Obama
Discussion: Political Radar and Don Surber
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Jewish Rep. Cohen Battles Antisemitism and Racism In Re-Election  —  If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Identity Politics Fun Continues For The Democrats
Discussion: Redstate and A Blog For All
Steven Kreytak / Austin American-Statesman:
Court strikes down Texas ban on sex toys  —  Federal appeals court says law violates right to privacy.  —  A federal appeals court has struck down a seldom-enforced Texas law making it a crime to promote or sell sex toys.  —  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case originally filed …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on polling conducted February 10-12, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain locked in a statistical tie among Democrats nationally for the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  In Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted …
ABCNEWS:
Edwards Weighs Clinton Endorsement  —  Former Candidate Torn Between Clinton and Obama in Democratic Race  —  As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting …
CNN:
Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon  —  (CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.  —  The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
U.S. Muslim Inciting Murder of Danish Mohammed Cartoonists …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Was there a Housing Bubble?  —  The conventional wisdom is that there was a housing bubble which has now popped.  The data, however, tell a different story.  Remember, that the evidence for the bubble was that real house prices had increased tremendously since around 1997 leading to prices …
Jim Tankersley / Baltimore Sun:
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign manager backs Obama  —  David Wilhelm, who managed Bill Clinton's winning 1992 presidential campaign and went on to be the youngest Democratic National Committee chairman in history, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this afternoon.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Listen, I'll never forget you.  You were the only guys who would listen to me for a couple of months.  Do you think I'd ever forget you?"  —  John McCain, on the phone with the bloggers, responding to a blogger thanking him for continuing doing phone calls with bloggers.
The Daily Howler:
UP FROM KNAVERY!  You can read the truth about Matthews—but only in readers' comments:  —  DOWD HEARS A JOKE: Mental illness causes great suffering.  Ideally, it shouldn't be joked about.  It shouldn't be flippantly “diagnosed” as part of our public discourse.
Etan Horowitz / The Buzz:
Carville and Matalin talk politics at Builders Show  —  Fresh from Tuesday's night “Potomac Primary” bi-partisan couple James Carville and Mary Matalin took shots at each other and talked politics in front of thousands of attendees at the International Builders Show.
Discussion: Political Punch
 
 
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Spin Cycle:
Clinton tries to spark Wisconsin campaign
Discussion: MyDD
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
CLINTON TO FIGHT FOR EVERY DELEGATE
Discussion: MyDD and Left in the West
David Benzion / Lone Star Times:
LST identifies Obama's Che Moonbat
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
James Carney / Time:
Rush Limbaugh Talks to TIME
Bob Dow / The Daily Record:
Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up
Discussion: The Corner and Moonbattery
Matthew Yglesias:
Unreal  —  Spencer Ackerman offered a gentle critique …
Associated Press:
Craig admonished over men's room incident
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
Chris Matthews in for Tony Snow
Discussion: Wonkette
 Earlier Items: 
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking …
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Dem's “Dream Ticket” : Why It Won't Happen
Associated Press:
Clinton scrambles to contest Wisconsin
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Obama tidal wave
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An Obama spin win
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IMAGINE.  —  I think Matt is right to say that Obama's great advantage …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
A Master Terrorist Is Killed
 

 
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