The blogosphere can cough up a lot of interesting controversies. This week’s revolved around a Dunkin Donuts’ online ad featuring Rachel Ray in a scarf similar to the Arab keffiyeh which has come to symbolize Palestinian militantism. The company pulled the spot after conservative commentators, most notably Michelle Malkin, harshly criticized Ray’s clothing choice, claiming [...]

Why? Jessica Yellin speculates…

Ahh, the free press isn’t so free after all, eh?
Regardless of what the national mood is, the press needs to act like the press. That’s why they’re there. I realize that it might be hard for network execs to face the scrutiny of being called traitors for reporting what they know, but [...]

T. Boone Pickens is a guy who has one of those names that sounds made up, but his fortune is very real. Now he’s diversifying his portfolio with green energy tech.
Here’s more from Contrarian Profits:
Crude oil soared as high as US$135 a barrel last week – more than double the price of a year ago. [...]

The numbers are starting to get a lot closer when you look at the different sources…
NY Times:
Obama – Pledged (1,656), Super (319.5), Total (1,975.5)
Clinton – Pledged (1,502), Super (274), Total (1,776)
50.5 for Obama to win, 250 for Clinton to win
CNN:
Obama – Pledged (1661), Super (317), Total (1,978)
Clinton – Pledged (1499), Super (281), Total (1,780)
48 for [...]

From Reuters:
If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while Republican President George W. Bush has been in office. Those that don’t pass muster will be overturned, he said.
“I would call my [...]

The full 15 minute interview. I’m watching it now, and I’ll post thoughts when I’m done.
Part 1:

Part 2 (after Dan Bartlett):

I don’t know about you, but this seems like the same Scott McClellan I saw for years behind that podium.
So apparently, two things set him off. First, when he found out that that Rove and [...]

Obviously many of us are hoping Obama will pick someone we know as his #2. Some of our #2’s include Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Joe Biden and even Hillary Clinton. However, there are many unsung heroes who could have run for president but didn’t. Admittedly, I’d be relatively pleased with an Obama-Daschle ticket. In recent [...]

Here’s what he said…
“And the party will have to decide whether they believe the caucuses — where you get about one delegate for 2000 votes — are more important than the primaries where you get one for 12,000.”
What to make of this?
Well, as soon as they started losing caucus state after caucus state, those contests [...]

That’s been the consistent message out of the White House loyalists, and none were more revealing than Ari Fleischer’s appearance on CNN this evening with a panel of reporters.
He basically suggested that McClellan had not really written many of the strongly worded accusations, and even talked of a phone conversation he had with him earlier [...]

That’s what one Dem congressman wants…
Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book on the Bush Administration’s deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War.
“The [...]

Thomas Friedman thinks the federal government should mandate $4.00 a gallon gas. Why? Because now that we’ve pretty much reached that price point, people are finally changing their habits, driving less and buying smaller cars. Friedman wants to make sure we don’t go back to our gas-guzzling ways.
For many years raising gas taxes to spur [...]

Tighter and tighter the numbers go. Where they’ll stop, nobody knows.

The details…
Obama’s lead has been as high as 16 points within the last two weeks, but Clinton has fared better in recent days, though she still trailed Obama by five to eight points in the three-day Gallup Poll Daily tracking averages reported over the last [...]

So, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a book accusing the Bush Administration of numerous misdeeds including relying on propaganda in the lead up to the Iraq invasion. I have no doubt that Bush and his team utilized propaganda techniques in the “selling” of the Iraq War. After all, this administration has [...]

I guess when a politician is this radioactive, you don’t want to stand close to him for too long.
From NY Times:
The senator and Mr. Bush avoided any meaningful public appearance together, planning just the briefest of photo opportunities at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in the evening. Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush emerged from opposite [...]

The last nail in Hillary’s coffin?
From TPM:
In what could potentially be a blow to Hillary’s electoral hopes, such as they are right now, the Democratic National Committee’s lawyers have declared that the Rules and Bylaws committee lacks the legal authority to seat the full Florida and Michigan delegations.
The DNC’s lawyers sent a memo late yesterday [...]

Now it’s turning into a he said/he said scenario, and Rove is clever enough to know that he can muddy the waters enough simply by throwing a few big rocks into this pond…like when he says McClellan sounds like a left-wing blogger.
From Hannity and Colmes last night…

Folks, how out of the loop does Rove really [...]

“You have to ask yourself, who is the stronger candidate? And based on every analysis, of every bit of research and every poll that has been taken and every state that a Democrat has to win, I am the stronger candidate against John McCain in the fall.”
- Hillary Clinton, lying to a crowd in Billings, [...]

Feeling the pinch at the pump? Starting to rethink your extracurricular driving activities?
You’re not alone…
Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less — that’s 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT’s Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it “the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history.” Records have been [...]

After the administration threw Scott McClellan under the bus in the Plame affair, you knew this had to be coming. But most revealing is his inside info about the Iraq war.
Politico details some of his assertions:
• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was [...]