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" Best for staying way, way ahead of CNN: talkingpointsmemo.com Ringmaster Josh Marshall breaks stories weeks before the &amp;quot;MSM&amp;quot; (that&amp;#039;s the mainstream media to the rest of us).  Best issue papers for the Beltway novice: offthebus.net This offbeat offshoot of the Huffington Post earns its K Street cred with an army of citizen journalists covering campaign &amp;#039;08 from the ground up. Best for obsessives: politico.com Politics junkies freebase here all day long, getting their fixes of constantly updated news nuggets and insight; people with lives use it as their all-in-one political multivitamin. Best for feeling like an insider: abcnews.go.com/politics/thenote Reading the comments section of this daily-updated news blog is like having a (legal) wiretap on D.C.&amp;#039;s chattering class. Best for gossip: wonkette.com We&amp;#039;re sure there are more important stories than who&amp;#039;s canoodling with whom at the bar at the Hilton in Columbia. We just can&amp;#039;t think of any right now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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