Everyone's heard by now about how different rules are applied to coverage of the Clinton and Obama campaigns by the media.
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/0 12147.php

This morning in the Boston Globe, Scott Helman provides a perfect example of how these rules function in real life...

Article: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl es/2008/03/17/many_voting_for_clinton_to _boost_gop/?page=full

Chart:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl es/2008/03/17/republican_influence

This article claims that Republicans are crossing over to vote for Hillary Clinton to screw over Democrats.

John Kerry has decided not to run for President...

Full story at:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washin gton/articles/2007/01/24/kerry_to_bow_ou t_of_08_presidential_race/

From ESPN:

On Tuesday, President George W. Bush nominated district court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

Roberts has a sports connection in that while he was in private practice, he once represented the NCAA in a Title IX discrimination case.

More after the flip...

Another entry into the "are we really safer now" sweepstakes...

Apparently all those sites that had those weapons we went to war destroy ... all these sites are missing not just the alleged WMD, but all the other things they had before the war, like rocket making supplies ...

"In a report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said that satellite imagery experts had determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles had been removed from 109 sites, up from 90 reported in March.

The sites have been emptied of equipment to varying degrees, with the largest percentage of missing items at 58 missile facilities.

For example, 289 of the 340 pieces of equipment to produce missiles -- or about 85 percent, had been removed, the report said.

Biological sites were the least damaged, according to the analysts at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission."

The New York Times notes, in an article on Priscilla Owen today:

Justice Owen was also criticized at her first confirmation hearing by senators who said she took a year and a half to issue an opinion that involved a young man injured in a truck accident. The man, who was on a respirator, died when the family could not afford nursing care because the appeal delayed the multimillion-dollar verdict. In her response at the time, Justice Owen did not address the delay but told senators, "There are a lot of cases that tug at the heartstrings, but I have to follow the law."

More on the flip...

The Idaho Legislature passed a resolution honoring the makers of the film Napoleon Dynamite.

It may be the funniest piece of legislation I have ever read.

Precious excerpts:

WHEREAS, Napoleon's bicycle and Kip's skateboard promote better air quality and carpooling as alternatives to fuel-dependent methods of transportation;

More after the flip...

The awful, terrible bill that changes Bankruptcy laws for the worse has just passed the Senate 74-25. Not a single Republican voted against it.

See the full roll call vote results:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&sessio n=1&vote=00044

The Republicans are getting even better at this stuff...

I'm sure by now you've all heard the "controversy" over the remark of a UN Official declaring the U.S. "stingy" in the giving of aid for relief efforts around the globe.

This has become a controversy only because the PR noise machine of the White House decided that it will be one.