If you don’t know who Scaife is, The Corner has some background… In this picture, she is seen talking to none other than Richard Mellon Scaife, the owner of the paper and the man who once said that the death of Vincent Foster was the “Rosetta stone” of the Bill Clinton administration. (He also funded [...]

Yeah, sure, deregulation works great… From Bloomberg: March 25 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost four times the amount already disclosed, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Profits will continue to wane, other analysts said. [...]

It’s not necessarily a promise, but at least it’s sooner than 3 days before the Pennsylvania primary. From CNN: (CNN) — Barack Obama and his wife released their tax returns from 2000 to 2006 on his campaign Web site Tuesday, and the Illinois senator challenged Sen. Hillary Clinton to release hers. Later, Clinton said she [...]

Obama has closed the gap from 13% since last week’s poll, but Hill still has an impressive lead in the Keystone State. From Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama 49% to 39%. That’s little changed from earlier in the month when Clinton led 51% to 38%. [...]

…it’s probably because we’re on the front page of Reddit.com in the #1 position. Good news for the traffic, but bad news for site performance. In fact, I just got off the phone with our hosting service and we’re literally getting about 40 hits a second. Crazy. In any event, I had to upgrade my [...]

The liberal journal The Nation has endorsed Barack Obama, proclaiming him the great hope of the progressive movement. The journal spares few superlatives in their praise, envisioning a golden age for their ideology. But after lauding Obama for his natural leadership (and for having the good sense to be of multi-racial and multi-national origin) they [...]

And two minutes later he does! This is pretty funny. Hillary spokesperson Phil Singer blasted out an email at 11:23 insisting that Obama release his tax returns for back years, Exactly two minutes later, at 11:25, Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor emailed out word that Obama had posted his tax returns for 2000-2006 on his campaign [...]

Public Policy Polling has the numbers, and it looks like Obama has gained considerable ground since last week’s race speech. So while it may not be playing in some corners or the country, in others it’s turning out to be box office gold. Last week the numbers looked like this: Obama: 44% Clinton: 43% Today? [...]

This is absolutely fair… “He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” “You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable [...]

Fair warning, this is from an Obama campaign email, but I thought the difference in contribution amount is striking… In February alone, more than 94% of our donors gave in amounts of $200 or less. Meanwhile, campaign finance reports show that donations of $200 or less make up just 13% of Senator McCain’s total campaign [...]

Encouraging news for Hillary? She’s up by at least 12 points in the latest poll I’ve seen, so she has to be happy with these registration numbers. Still, there’s plenty of time between now and the April 22. From AP: The figures, which showed modest declines in the ranks of Republicans and independents, reflected intense [...]

I shouldn’t link to this image because it is exploitative. But I do so anyway because I have a need to chastise those who created it and are using it for political gain. The image (which I will not reproduce here) is made up of the photographs of the 4,000 American troops lost in Iraq. [...]

The decline in Iraqi violence over the last half year can be partially if not greatly attributed to the Iraqi militia cease-fire. Now the situation is looking precarious. After a crackdown on militia in Basra this week, Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadar is urging civil disobedience beginning with sit-ins, followed by civil revolt, if necessary, and [...]

No sniper fire. No running to cars. Just a pretty laid back trip. Still, the Clinton camp has to be wincing about this… Here’s what she had to say about it today to an editorial board… “Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we [...]

3,232. 3,547. 3,689. Anybody remember these numbers? I don’t, and for that I’m a bit ashamed. But 4,000, well, that one seems to give us pause. For some reason the sight of three zeroes makes us turn our necks long enough to pay attention, ask more questions and continue to find few real answers. So [...]

You ready for this one? Because it’s really good. Okay, here we go… Superdelegates shouldn’t make up their mind because of pledged delegates. They should make up their mind based on how many electoral college votes the states each candidate has won. That coming from the man who wants to be Hillary’s VP, Evan Bayh. [...]

The lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece was disrupted today by human rights protestors. We can only hope to see more peaceful demonstrations against China as the torch travels to Beijing. If the Chinese are going to use the games as an opportunity to present themselves as a global power, the rest of us [...]

Like everyone else, I’m not going to turn down my tax refund that will arrive this May. But that doesn’t mean I think the giveaway is a good idea. Like most economists, former Reagan and Bush I official Bruce Bartlett agrees. Writing in The New York Times, he offers a more prudent plan: We need [...]

From former governor of Tennessee Philip Bredesen comes this intriguing idea for superdelegates like himself: Here’s what our party should do: schedule a superdelegate primary. In early June, after the final primaries, the Democratic National Committee should call together our superdelegates in a public caucus. Of the 795 superdelegates, over 40 percent have not announced [...]

The Washington Post fact-checked the initial story, gave it 4 Pinocchios and called it a “whopper”…which is just a nice way of saying it’s a lie. Now they’ve added an update from a current Clinton speechwriter who was on the trip with her. Here’s the account: Lissa Muscatine, who served as Hilary Clinton’s chief speechwriter [...]