Editorials
The Scandal of the Dollar - New York Sun
Farm Bill Feeds Greed - Los Angeles Times
Wiretaps and Blue Dogs - Wall Street Journal
Democrats in Stalemate - Washington Post

Political News & Analysis
Obama Highlights War's Costs - Chicago Tribune
McCain Moves Toward Public Financing - The Politico
Obama Camp Says Clinton Misrepresented Her NAFTA Support - NYT
Ranks of Democrats in State Surge - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Story Behind The Story: The Clinton Myth

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How to Pay for the Dem Convention: Survivor, the Nomination
Clarice Feldman
Dear Mayor Hickenlooper: I read that your efforts to raise funds for the 2008 Democratic National Convention are falling far short of your needs, that you will need to raise $40.6 million by June 16. More

Those Sophisticated Europeans
Sidney Raphael
One of the favorite debating points of those who expressed amazement at the American public's critical reaction to Eliot Spitzer was to compare American attitudes to attitudes of Europeans More

Remember the Liberators
John B. Dwyer
Yesterday, the nation marked the fifth anniversary of our presenc in Iraq. It is past time to remember the liberators. More

New Pakistani Government Set to Negotiate With Terrorists
March 22, 2008
It will be hard to spin this news as anything except a disaster for American policy: More

There'll be a hot time in the old town
March 22, 2008
The Democratic Party continues to lurch toward a tragic denouement in Denver for its nomination process. A group called "Recreate 68" promises mischief. More

Obama's very discreet denunciation
March 22, 2008
Bizzy Blog clues us in on Obama's two step on Hamas. More

8 Questions That Will Shape the Dem Race - Dan Balz, Washington Post
Haunting Obama's Dreams - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Rev. Wright is Voice of Doom for Dems - Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News
When Barry Became Barack - Wolffe, Ramirez & Bartholet, Newsweek
So Much for the 'Post-Racial' Candidate - Mark Steyn, OC Register
The Real Value of Obama's Speech - David Broder, Washington Post
Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
The War as Scapegoat - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Mitt's Moment - at Last? - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
McCain Offers Soothing Tones in Trip Abroad - Michael Cooper, NY Times
Behind the 'Modern' China - Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Tibet Uprising is Dilemma for China - Richard Halloran, RealClearPolitics
The Dalai Lama's Moment of Truth - Follath & Wagner, Der Spiegel
A Ticking Clock on North Korea - David Ignatius, San Diego Union-Tribune
Why Radical Islam Just Won't Die - Paul Berman, New York Times
Bargain Basement Judiciary - George Will, Washington Post
Divides Obama Doesn't Bridge - Froma Harrop, RealClearPolitics
Democrats: Delegates: Obama +131 | Popular Vote: Obama +710,942

Editorials
Easter - Washington Post
Wall Street's Crisis - The Economist
Hopeful Milestone in a Troubled War - The Australian
The Army's Manpower Squeeze - Los Angeles Times

Political News & Analysis
Obama Talk Fuels Easter Sermons - New York Times
Obama Finishes Oregon Swing - The Oregonian
In Parts of Pa., Racial Divide Colors Election - Washington Post
Obama Adviser Steps Up Clinton Criticism - New York Times

Clinton Vows To Push On - Mark Halperin, Time
Clinton & Obama Need to Cool It or Lose It - Bob Beckel, RealClearPolitics
A Conversation on Race? Obama Can't Be Serious - Jonah Goldberg, LAT
McCain: Life Shaped Judgment on Use of Force - David Jackson, USA Today
McCain's Decade-Long Attack on the Individual - Matt Welch, NY Times
Clinton Insults Voters in Attack on Wright - Mary Mitchell, Chicago ST
How the Obamas Managed To Scrape By - Byron York, NRO
Clinton's Divide-and-Conquer Strategy - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Her List of Lies - Dick Morris, The Hill
Hold the Hysteria on the Economy - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
Bear's Rescue Shows Capitalism's Limits - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Anatomy of the Surge - Peter Feaver, Commentary
What Does Bush Mean By "Victory in Iraq"? - Fred Kaplan, Slate
The Last of the Tibetans - Ian Buruma, Los Angeles Times
England Invites Those Who Loathe Her - Tony Blankley, Washington Times
Hijabs at a Harvard Gym - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Islam and Free Speech - Rep. Peter Hoekstra, Wall Street Journal
RCP Blog: Battling Insanity | Daily 08 / Politics Nation: Whack-a-Knee

Lasting Harm Feared in Democrats' Battle - Brian Mooney, Boston Globe
Didn't Dems Want a Tough Candidate? - David Greenberg, New Republic
McCain Could Score w/Payroll Tax Cut - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Case of the GOP Blues - Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine
A Speech Obama Could Have Given - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
Hillary's Making It Up As She Goes Along - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Her Last Hope: Florida & Michigan - Lawrence Lindsey, Wall Street Journal
Obama Faces an Uphill Battle in the Fall - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
GOP Looks to 'McCain Democrats' - David Paul Kuhn, The Politico
Predicting the Democratic Race - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
In Pennsylvania, Reason for Optimism - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Boys Are Falling Behind in School - Richard Whitmire, Philadelphia Inquirer
Wall Street Should Have Known Better - Robert Reich, American Prospect
The Liberal-Conservative Charity Gap - George Will, Washington Post
NATO: Equal Alliance, Unequal Roles - Robert Kaplan, New York Times
Taking Stock of the War on Terror - Mark Danner, Salon
The Return of Hollywood's Paranoid Style - Ross Douthat, The Atlantic
RCP Blog: CA, CT Polls: Obama Rules / Politics Nation: Fouling Out?

• Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning (updated) - Randall Hoven

• The Clinton Campaign's Opportunity - Lee Cary

• Barack Obama Would Let Shoaib Choudhury Die - Richard L. Benkin

• Cultural Affirmative Action - Selwyn Duke

• The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism - Bruce Walker

• Anger, Forgiveness, and Obama - Christopher Chantrill

• Obama's Messiah Shtick - Bookworm

• How the Leftist Churches Set a Time Bomb for the Democrats - James Lewis

• The Right of Return and the Forgotten Refugees - Peggy Shapiro

The Disgrace of Liberalism
J.R. Dunn
2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine. More

NBC's Equivalence Even Less Moral than Obama's
Marc Sheppard
Second only to blaming America's "history of social injustice," false moral equivalence has become a favorite rhetorical device of the Left. More

Obama's National Public Education Plans
Lee Cary
While Clinton's and Obama's health care plans attract attention, Obama's plan for public education largely goes unnoticed. More

More chaos on the Democrat left
March 27, 2008
The American left continues to form a circular firing squad, and now a divisive personal fight has broken out in the labor union on which Democrats have pinned so many hopes More

Another superdelegate indicted
March 27, 2008
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Congressman William Jefferson and now the Governor of Puerto Rico. More

Colombia captures Uranium from FARC
March 27, 2008
A 66 pound stash of uranium belonging to the narco-terrorist group FARC has been captured by the Colombian military. More

Obama's Rezko deal: the view from above
March 27, 2008
Thanks to the release of Barack Obama's income tax records, we are finally able to get some necessary perspective on the big favor Tony Rezko did for the Obamas More

Poll: 73% believe Americans have gun ownership right
March 27, 2008
When it comes to the Constitution and guns, even those who do not own a firearm come down on the side of a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment: More

US Steps up Drone Attacks in Pakistan
March 27, 2008
Predator drones have attacked several targets within Pakistan recently and the military has stepped up the number of Predator missions: More

Follow the money in academia
March 27, 2008
Following a lengthy Freedom of Information quest, NRO's Stanley Kurtz lists foreign countries' contributions to U.S. college and universities. More

WaPo: Hillary was wrong to believe us
March 27, 2008
In a funny aside to Hill's Bosnia fantasy, the Washington Post says Clinton shouldn't have relied on one of its articles about travel by First Ladies because the information was factually incorrect More

Who is the Iraqi Army Fighting in Basra?
March 27, 2008
The Iraqi government continued its crackdown on extremists in Basra as the Iraqi Army is proving itself to be if not extremely competent, at least eager for battle: More

Three Blind Mice
March 27, 2008
If we can't accuse them of being unpatriotic, can we at least accuse some Democrats of being monumentally dense? More

Poll Shows Obama Unhurt by Wright Flap
March 27, 2008
A new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll shows that Barack Obama has escaped serious damage as a result of his association with racist preacher Jeremiah Wright. More

Christian televangelism in the Middle East
March 27, 2008
A fervent Christian critic of Islam points out the folly of the dead legalism of portions of sharia and then contrasts it with the spiritual appeal of Christianity on satellite TV. He is having an effect. More

Why Pat Buchanan or Anyone Else Has No Business Telling Black People "Be Grateful"

by Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon - 12:38 PM

Can Al Gore Save the Democratic Party?

by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report - 11:44 AM

Bush: Iraq's Resurging Violence "a Very Positive Moment"

by Satyam Khanna, Think Progress - 10:13 AM

Obama to Wall Street: Regulation Is Coming

by Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet - 9:38 AM

How Many Innocent People Are Really Behind Bars?

by The Innocence Project, The Innocence Blog - 7:23 AM

Hillary's Bosnia Lie a Big Hit on YouTube

by Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post - 7:05 AM

Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans 'Prisoners of War'

Penny Coleman, AlterNet

War on Iraq: There are at least 60,000 of them, but they're not on the DoD's list of soldiers missing in action.


America Defeated: How Terrorists Turned a Superpower's Strengths Against Itself

Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com

War on Iraq: America's enemies have used an evangelical, redemptive regime, hell-bent on remaking a fallen world, to lay the seeds of their success.


A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years of This?

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

Election 2008: It's not just George Bush's war that McCain wants to continue; it's George Bush's approach.

Norman Solomon:

NPR: National Pentagon Radio?
When even public radio parrots the military's official line on the war in Iraq, what hope is there for unbiased, quality reporting?


Robert Scheer:

Would God Ever Damn America?
Many religious leaders prophesy divine retribution for America's bad behavior. I wonder what we would be punished for.


Sean Gonsalves:

There's Nothing Wrong with Rev. Wright
The manufactured controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright ignores the tradition of 'prophetic preaching' in African-American churches.

Fair Labor Standards Under Attack

Eric Schlosser, The Nation

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage reached its peak in 1968. Today's cheap labor comes at an enormous cost to society.


Amid Bad Publicity, Drug Company Uses Progressive Union to Peddle Its Products

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat

Health and Wellness: Why is the IAEP, a division of the SEIU, using union letterhead to endorse Lipitor and push drug sales pitches on its members?


What Made Obama's Speech Great

George Lakoff, Open Left

Election 2008: The true power of the speech is that it does what it says. It not only talks about empathy, it creates it.


Bush's Open-Records Order a Sham

Liliana Segura, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: A recent report shows that the Bush administration has failed to deliver on its promise to cut the FOIA backlog. This is no accident.

The group blog of The American Prospect
Wright or left?
Posted at 11:07 a.m.


A respectable liberal blog
Does John McCain hate war?
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Dean Baker's economic commentary
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McCain on the Red Phone
Harold Meyerson
March 27, 2008 | web only
Was McCain's recent conflation of al-Qaeda and Iran a neoconservative delusion or a habit of mind that lumps together all of America's enemies? Either way, it's frightening.



Moral Hazard
Robert B. Reich
March 26, 2008 | web only
The Bush administration rejected the idea that homeowners caught in the sub-prime loan mess deserved government bailout -- but it endorsed the Fed's bailout of Wall Street. Trouble is, it's the latter group that should have known better.



The Obama Doctrine
Spencer Ackerman
March 24, 2008
Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?

McCain on the Red Phone
Harold Meyerson
March 27, 2008 | web only
Was McCain's recent conflation of al-Qaeda and Iran a neoconservative delusion or a habit of mind that lumps together all of America's enemies? Either way, it's frightening.



Moral Hazard
Robert B. Reich
March 26, 2008 | web only
The Bush administration rejected the idea that homeowners caught in the sub-prime loan mess deserved government bailout -- but it endorsed the Fed's bailout of Wall Street. Trouble is, it's the latter group that should have known better.



The Obama Doctrine
Spencer Ackerman
March 24, 2008
Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?

When Barack Voted No
Dana Goldstein
March 27, 2008 | web only
There is a new attack on Obama's (very good) reproductive choice record. But this time it's coming from the right.



The FundamentaList
Sarah Posner
March 26, 2008 | web only
This week in the religious right: The inflammatory pastor double-standard, the Republican "other-izing" strategy, and this year's anti-gay marriage movement.



Conservatives' Hate-Based Campaign Against Obama
Paul Waldman
March 25, 2008 | web only
The right-wing smear campaign against Barack Obama has already begun. Conservatives intend, as they have so many times before, to appeal to Americans' ugliest prejudices and most craven fears.

Populism Rising
Robert Borosage
March 26, 2008
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be neophyte class warriors, but their populism is more than just rhetorical -- and must be, if the Democrats are to win the election and govern successfully.

Populism speaks to a new majority that Democrats are forging to win elections. It finds an audience across the country, one that will only grow as the economy grows worse.

The 100 Year Lie - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy - Arianna Huffington, Huff Post
McCain's Foreign Policy Tested Over Time - David Brooks, New York Times
After Bush: America and the World - Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist
Getting Mrs. Clinton - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Clinton's 'Win At Any Cost' Dilemma - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Obama's Affirmative Action Test - Seth Colter Walls, Newsweek
How the GOP Lost the West - Ryan Sager, New York Post
GOP State Parties Outraise Dems - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
The Candidates Tackle Mortgage Crisis - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Bidding Starts at $30 Billion - Philip Klein, The American Spectator
A Liberal Israel Lobby? - Gershom Gorenberg, Prospect Magazine
NATO Expansion Should Continue - Donald Rumsfeld, Wall Street Journal
Medvedev Should Expect West's Respect - and Resolve - Philip Stevens, FT
Two Cheers for Free Trade - Chris Farrell, Businessweek
The Real Problem With NAFTA - John Judis, The New Republic
Wal-Mart To the Rescue - Colby Cosh, National Post

Editorials
Bush the Multilateralist - Wall Street Journal
Medicare's Financial Woes - New York Times
Careful, Mr. McDermott - Seattle Times
Mugabe's Last Stand - The Guardian

Political News & Analysis
Donations from Subprime Industry Become Liability - Wall Street Journal
McCain, Romney Reunite at Utah Fundraiser - Deseret Morning News
Clinton Lays Out Health Care Premium Cap - New York Times
Obama Pushes Tougher Oversight - Wall Street Journal

Hillary's Making It Up As She Goes Along
- Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Is Al Gore the Answer for Democrats?
- Joe Klein, Time
Obama Faces an Uphill Battle in the Fall
- Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
In Pennsylvania, Reason for Optimism
- David Ignatius, Washington Post

Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
James Lewis
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. More

Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools
Bruce Walker
Free education, the provision for the opportunity for universal literacy, is a blessing to any society. But state control of all education, public and private, is not. More

When Others Pray for Your Conversion
Selwyn Duke
What should our reaction be when others pray for our conversion? More

Obama Gets Boost; Clinton Urged to Quit | Devlin Barrett | Associated Press in Houston Chronicle -- posted 3/28/2008 16:57 EST

Hillary's Team Crosses the Line | Joe Conason | Salon.com -- posted 3/28/2008 16:22 EST

Bush Totally Out of It On Iraq | Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive -- posted 3/28/2008 16:20 EST

Rice calls Obama's landmark speech on race in America 'important' | Elana Schor | The Guardian Unlimited -- posted 3/28/2008 16:16 EST

2008's New Political Framework - James Ceaser, Claremont Review of Books
Dems' Huge Wasted Opportunity - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
McCain, Obama Missed a Generation - Michael Barone, US News & WR
Who'll Stop the Pain? - John Heilemann, New York Magazine
Richardson Is Still Judas to Me - James Carville, Washington Post
Clintons Lost Their Magic - Mark Steyn, OC Register
How to Avoid a Democratic Disaster - Mario Cuomo, Boston Globe
Whoever Wins Will Be a Capable President - Conrad Black, National Post
Portman Wanted for VP - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Dems Fortunate When McCain Talks Economics - Gail Collins, NY Times
How McCain Should Talk About the Economy - Dick Armey, RCP
Through Iraq, A Path to the Presidency - Daalder & Gordon, Boston Globe
What's Good for Taiwan - John Bolton, Los Angeles Times
We Must Learn More About Our Enemies - Greg Sheridan, Australian
How Switzerland Became the Envy of Europe - John Fund, The American
Euro-Army is a Fantasy, We Need America - Martin Kettle, Guardian
The Great American Identity Crisis - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Videos: New McCain Ad | Obama on 'The View' | Rendell on 'Charlie Rose'
Dem Tracking Polls: Gallup: Obama +7, Rasmussen: Obama +6

New Plan Would Give Fed Wide-Ranging Power - Edmund Andrews, NYT
Not Yet Time for a Bail-Out of Banks - Editorial, Financial Times
Keeping U.S. Financial Markets Competitve - Paul Maidment, Forbes
Move Over Big Oil, Here Comes Big Mining - Mary Kissel, WSJ
Despite the Hype, the Market Isn't Better - Michael Kahn, Barron's
Where's the Bottom in Housing? - John Mauldin, Frontline Thoughts
Competition Best Medicine for Health Care Ailments - Editorial, IBD
Dems Health Care Plans Miss the Point - Regina Herzlinger, Wash Post
McCain: Staying the Course on the Economy - Daniel Gross, Slate
Knee Jerks for Reform Are Overdue - Joe Nocera, New York Times
Wall Street Might Make Hot Air Look Like Change - S. Antilla, Bloomberg
Do Accounting Tools Lead to Executive Mistakes? - Knowledge@Wharton

McCain's Gauntlet Speech
Lee Cary
John McCain has thrown down the gauntlet to both election opponents and those overseas. More

Scary McCain
Judith Klinghoffer
With McCain you get the real thing while with Obama you may get an audacity of rhetoric based on nothing but political expediency and imagined racial grievances. More

Another Unconservative Moment from John McCain
Jeffrey Schmidt
John McCain's unconservativism was on display this past Wednesday in Los Angeles. Perhaps not in all ways, but in one telling way. More

Clinton Vows To Stay Until Denver - Bacon & Kornblut, Washington Post
Senior Dems Mull Al Gore's Nomination - Tim Shipman, Sunday Telegraph
The World According to John McCain - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
Four Stumps in the Water for Obama - Charles Lipson, RealClearPolitics
Clinton Mud Sticks To Her - Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times
Hillary Should Take The Huckabee Route - Isaac Chotiner, New Republic
Remind Me -- Who's Losing In Basra? - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Get to Know Hamas and al-Sadr - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Why We Should Root For Starbucks - Jonathan Last, Philadelphia Inquirer
Sunday TV: MTP: Beinart & Brooks | FNS | FTN: Richardson | This Week

• Clinton & Obama Need to Cool It or Lose It - Bob Beckel, RealClearPolitics
• Clinton Vows To Push On - Mark Halperin, Time
• Hillary's Five Percent Chance - David Brooks, New York Times
• Predicting the Democratic Race - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics

Superdelegates another Dysfunctional Liberal Fix
J.R. Dunn
The most striking thing about the Democrat's superdelegate fiasco is how typical it is of liberalism. More

Samantha Power: A Comeback after 'Monstergate'?
Peggy Shapiro
Samantha Power just can't help herself when she starts talking. An odd malady for one who seeks a high position among the nation's diplomats. More

Today Is Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Day
Lee Cary
On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. In describing the proposed legislation he annouced the goal of removing ALL U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008." More

New Backing for Obama As Party Seeks Unity - Jackie Calmes, WSJ
Bill and Hil Are the Next American Idles - Stanley Crouch, NY Daily News
Obama's Indoctrination - Ralph Reiland, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Clinton Firewall - David Sirota, In These Times
Is History on Hillary's Side? - Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles Times
Obama Meets Match in Mayor Running on 'Hope' - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
The Obama/Clinton Twins - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
GOP Has Already Started the Patriotism Games - Kirsten Powers, NY Post
Biography Alone Doesn't Win Elections - William Kristol, New York Times
House Candidates Worth Taking a Look At - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
Steps That Can Safeguard the Economy - Larry Summers, Financial Times
A Brave New Federal Reserve - Jonathan Macey, Wall Street Journal
Al Gore's New Campaign - Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes
Age as an Asset: McCain & the Boomers - Suzanne Fields, Washington Times
The Last Boomer Game - Michael Kinsley, The New Yorker
Will Zimbabwe's Mugabe Steal Another Election? - John Fund, WSJ
Afghanistan: The Longest War - Richard Holbrooke, Washington Post
RCP Charts: Obama vs. Clinton | McCain vs. Obama | McCain vs. Clinton
Sunday Shows: Gore on 60 Minutes | Fox News Sunday | Meet The Press

March 27, 2008, "Lock Them in a Room," Jagadeesh Gokhale, American Spectator (Online). I'm glad that the Social Security and Medicare Trustees have started reporting the costs of fixing those programs' finances permanently.

March 26, 2008, "Some Major Threats to Limited Government," William A. Niskanen, Examiner.com. Some of the major new threats to limited government in the United States are independent of who is elected to the White House and Congress this November.

March 24, 2008, "Obama's America," John Samples, American Spectator (Online). In the middle of his now famous speech on race and politics in America, Sen. Barack Obama claimed that his life story has made him an unconventional candidate.

March 21, 2008, "Bridges Over Troubled Water," Christopher Preble and Jeremy Lott, American Spectator (Online). Does fiscal conservatism stop at the water's edge? It's a question worth pondering because Senator John McCain is a hawk who is also rightly skeptical of too much federal spending.

March 18, 2008, "Fighting for Our Right to Bear Arms," Robert A. Levy, Boston Globe (Online). Does the Constitution's Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms or is that right reserved exclusively for members of a "well-regulated militia"?

March 18, 2008, "Why Tax Havens Are a Blessing," Daniel J. Mitchell, Foreign Policy. If Ian Fleming ever had the urge to write a spy novel about tax policy, he might have found good material in the German external intelligence service's recent purchase of confidential client data stolen from a Liechtenstein bank.

March 17, 2008, "Armed for Liberty," Alan Gura and Robert A. Levy, Legal Times. Two hundred years ago, the rights secured by the first 10 amendments were so widely accepted that many of the Framers considered a Bill of Rights unnecessary. Yet the Anti-Federalists wisely insisted on a Bill of Rights, fearing that fundamental tenets of individual liberty might later be deemed inconvenient, impractical, or even dangerous.

March 15, 2008, "Jobs Hysteria from the Times," Alan Reynolds, New York Post. New York Times writer David Leonhardt declared an "End to the Good Times" on March 8 by claiming three consecutive months of job loss (it was actually one or two months, depending on which survey you use) proves "recession . . . is now unavoidable."If that were true, then 2003 should have been the start of a really nasty downturn.

March 14, 2008, "Peace Won't Come to Zimbabwe," Marian L. Tupy and David Coltart, The Wall Street Journal. Zimbabwe's presidential and parliamentary elections on March 29 are rigged in favor of the incumbent leader Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

March 14, 2008, "Persian Pitfalls," Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online). Whether Washington likes it or not, Iran is a major regional player, and Iranian cooperation will be needed if there is to be progress regarding Iraq, Afghanistan and a host of other problems. If the United States adopts a strategy of engagement, there are indications that the Iranian public might prod its government to reciprocate.

March 13, 2008, "More Pain at the Pump," Thomas A. Firey, Baltimore Sun. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, says the old saw. It may soon be lined with higher-priced gas stations, too, thanks to Maryland's General Assembly. State lawmakers are considering legislation to ban motor fuel "zone pricing,"

March 13, 2008, "Against a Common Purpose," John Samples, American Spectator (Online). Americans are not soldiers in an army seeking victory in war, or employees of a business seeking to maximize its profits. They are not members of a church defined by their common effort to save sinners or aid the poor. The United States is not an organization pursuing a single, common purpose.

March 12, 2008, "The Cost's the Thing," Michael D. Tanner, National Review. For some time now, the debate over how best to reform the American health-care system has been dominated by the question of "universal coverage," how to provide health insurance to those without it. That remains the battle cry of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who promises to provide "health insurance for every single American."

March 10, 2008, "WHOm Are They Kidding?," Glen Whitman, American Spectator. Armed with supposedly objective reports showing the American medical system is among the worst in the developed world, candidates left and right -- but mostly left -- are plugging ambitious plans to "fix" healthcare.

March 10, 2008, "Inflation Alert," Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., The Wall Street Journal. The 1970s was a decade of stagflation — the concurrence of a rising inflation rate and stagnant economic growth. The U.S. economy has not now reached the double-digit inflation rate (almost 15% by 1981), or the 9% unemployment rate, experienced back then.

March 8, 2008, "Sovereign Wealth Paranoia," James A. Dorn, South China Morning Post. There is a rising chorus from Washington and beyond warning about the risk that sovereign wealth funds - especially those of non-democratic governments - pose for US national security and "economic sovereignty".

March 4, 2008, "The Corruption of Democracy in Venezuela," Gustavo Coronel, USA TODAY (MAGAZINE). Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela in December 1998 on the strength of three main promises: convening a Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution and improve the state, fighting poverty and social exclusion, and eliminating corruption.

March 4, 2008, "School Choice's Ace in the Hole," Adam B. Schaeffer, USA TODAY (MAGAZINE). School Choice is becoming the most popular education reform idea, but not all school choice is created equal. The most powerful kinds allow parents to choose any school—public, independent, or religious.

March 3, 2008, "Public-Financing Follies," John Samples, New York Post. America's decrepit and unpopular system of taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns has suddenly taken center stage in this year's election - with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama each caught between his long-expressed principles and his self-interest.

March 3, 2008, "Time For a New Russia Strategy," Nikolas Gvosdev, International Herald Tribune. The election of Dmitry Medvedev as Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor to be president of Russia provides an opportune moment to initiate a long-overdue review of America's strategy toward Russia.

March 2, 2008, "Implausible Choice," David Boaz, Washington Times. With John McCain now clearly headed for the Republican presidential nomination, attention is turning to who he will choose as a running mate. One early favorite is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the darling of the evangelicals.

March 1, 2008, "Ohio Needs More Foreign Trade," Daniel T. Griswold, The Wall Street Journal. In a bid to woo blue-collar voters in Ohio before Tuesday's presidential primary, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton trashed free trade during their debate this week in Cleveland. Sen. Clinton denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement.

B'rer McCain and the Briar Patch
Clarice Feldman
The co-called Campaign Finance Reform Act is an unconstitutional abomination. But nobody anticipated who would get hurt the most by it. More

Does Obama know America?
James Lewis
Does Barack Obama really understand America as it is? Or does he fall for the paranoid narrative of the Left? More

Doing Something About the Financial Mess
Christopher Chantrill
The Bush administration launched Part Three of the Bush administration's plan to Do Something. Part One is to have the Federal Reserve System print lots of lovely money. More

HUD Secretary -- Yet Another Corrupt Bush Crony, Resigns in Disgrace

by Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone - 7:10 AM

Barack, Bowling and Blue Collar Voters

by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report - 5:56 AM

Lou Dobbs Almost Calls Condi Rice a "Cotton Picker"

by Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend - 5:40 AM

Rep. Harman: Military Woman "More Likely to Be Raped by a Fellow Soldier Than Killed by Enemy Fire"

by Ali Frick, Think Progress - 5:32 AM

Bush Admin's Secret Iraq Intel Source "Curveball" Revealed

It's the Clintons Who Need to Chill Out - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
Trying to Shove Hillary Aside - Marie Cocco, RealClearPolitics
Self-Destructive Democrats? - David Limbaugh, Townhall
Obama is Change America Has Tried to Hide - Alice Walker, The Guardian
Does Obama Understand Defeat? - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Why Casey's Endorsement Matters - Terry Madonna & Michael Young, RCP
Keeping U.S. Markets Competitive & Orderly - Paul Maidment, Forbes
Paulson's Reform Plan Long Overdue - Gerard Baker, Times of London
Treasury Secretary Responds to Wrong Crisis - Clay Risen, New Republic
How Liberalism Killed Detroit - Rich Lowry, National Review
Where Fence is Tall, Border Crossings Fall - Daniel Wood, CS Monitor
The Lessons of Basra - Robert Dreyfus, The Nation
McCain's Democratic Realism - Joseph Loconte, Weekly Standard
The West's Cowardice Toward Islam - Henryk Broder, Der Spiegel
America's Poisoned Campuses - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
Hillary's Rev. Wright, Part 2 - Timothy Noah, Slate
There's No Excusing Obama on Wright - Ed Koch, RealClearPolitics
RCP Blog: Daily 08 / Politics Nation: AM Thoughts: In It to Win It

Clinton Runs as Rocky In Philly - Jason Horowitz, New York Observer
Obama Readies Plan to Reshape the Electorate - Ben Smith, The Politico
Despite Rhetoric, Obama is a Liberal - Peter Wehner, Wall Street Journal
It's Time for Clinton to Make Way - Andrew O'Hagan, Daily Telegraph
Clinton is Doing Obama a Favor - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obama's Abortion Extremism - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Gore's Conspicuous Silence on Primary - Dick Morris, The Hill
Finally the Dems Have an Iraq Plan - Ilan Goldenberg, The New Republic
The Basra Business - Frederick Kagan & Kimberly Kagan, Weekly Standard
Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction - George Packer, World Affairs
The Intelligence Consensus - Anna Eshoo & Mike McConnell, Wall St. Journal
Evolution of Religious Bigotry - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Have Blacks Reached the Promised Land? - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Threat to Homeschooling - John Stossel, RealClearPolitics
How Not to Save Housing - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
KISS Rule for Markets, Regulation - Lawrence Lindsey, Wall Street Journal
Redistricting Looms Large - Reid Wilson, Politics Magazine
Dem Nat'l Tracking Polls: Rasmussen: Clinton +1 | Gallup: Obama +4
State Dem Polls: PA: Quinnipiac: Clinton+9, PPP: Obama+2 | NC | IN| KY

Clinton's Doing Obama A Favor
- Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Gore's Conspicuous Silence on Primary
- Dick Morris, The Hill
Rasmussen: Clinton 5
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Karl Rove Likes What He Sees
- Lisa DePaulo, GQ Magazine

Hillary Cannot Let Go of Her Dream - Sally Bedell Smith, Financial Times
Clinton Fatigue Driving Pressure to Quit - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
Obama and The Patriotism Problem - Joe Klein, Time
Academics for Obama, Jacksonians for Clinton - Michael Barone, US News
Why the Dem Race Could End in North Carolina - Susan Page, USA Today
The Year That Wasn't - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
The Tax Debate We Need to Have - Geoff Colvin, Fortune
Undue Haste on the Economy - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Perils in the Price of Rice - David Ignatius, Washington Post
On Trade, Heeding Labor's Demand? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Chinese Spies Penetrating the U.S. - Warrick & Johnson, Washington Post
In Iraq, It's 'Hearts and Minds' Again - Daniel Henninger, Wall St. Journal
The Pakistan Paradox - Dennis Ross, The New Republic
Caging the Bear: Should Nato Expand East? - Ralph Peters, New York Post
King and Kerner: An Unfinished Agenda - Edward Brooke, Washington Post
Campus 'Activism' Redefined - Michael Graham, Boston Herald
King's Imprint - Cal Thomas, Sacramento Bee

Editorials
General Petraeus's Return - New York Sun
An Economy on the Edge - USA Today
Subprime and the Housing Bailout - Wall Street Journal
Democrats Should Come Clean on Trade - Seattle Times

Political News & Analysis
Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win' - ABC News
Clinton & McCain Ads Spar Over Housing Issue - New York Times
DNC Convention Stance Surprises Campaigns - The Politico
McCain Credits Lessons Learned at Naval Academy - Baltimore Sun

Obama and King - Juan Williams, Wall Street Journal
The View From Room 306 - David Brooks, New York Times
The Prophetic Anger of MLK - Michael Eric Dyson, Los Angeles Times
Media Back in Tank for Obama - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Will Obama's Glamour Be a Problem? - Virginia Postrel, The Atlantic
Real Issue Behind McCain's '100 Years' - Greg Scoblete, RealClearPolitics
Big Labor Goes All In This Election - Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal
The Unfinished Business of Liberalism - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
Why Media Wants the Democratic Contest to End - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
Conservatives Jump on the McCain Express - Rick Perlstein, The Nation
Campaign to Portray McCain as Racist Gets Under Way - J. Taranto, WSJ
The Little Fibs Campaigns Tell All Day Long - John Dickerson, Slate
RNC Fights Over 2012 Calendar - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
Haditha: The Collapse of a Liberal Fiction - Michael Reagan, Human Events
The American Pope - David Van Biema & Jeff Israely, Time
Will America Lead in Fighting Jihad? - Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review
Last Chance for US to Shape Global Order - Phillip Stephens, FinancialTimes
RCP Blog: Daily 2008 / Politics Nation: AM Thoughts: The End is Near!

PA Knockout Try Is Risky for Obama - Jeanne Cummings, The Politico
Obama Could Win Pennsylvania - John Baer, Philadelphia Daily News
Hillary's Biggest Mistake - Dick Morris, The Hill
The Storm Before The Calm - Rick Klein & Mike Elmore, ABC News
McCain Chief Optimistic, Sees Hurdles Ahead - Reid Wilson, Politics Nation
McCain '08: A Flashback to Dole '96? - Charles Hurt, New York Post
Dr. King, Forgotten Radical - Kai Wright, American Prospect
The Press Botches Basra - David Gartenstein-Ross, Weekly Standard
With Basra Assault, US Helped Sadr - Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
Small Victories for Tort Reform - John Stossel, Wall Street Journal
Dem National Polls: Hotline, CBS/NYT, Gallup & Rasmussen Tracking
'08 Videos: David Axelrod on "Charlie Rose"

Editorials
40 Years After King - Philadelphia Inquirer
Is America Closer to Realizing King's Dream? - The Economist
The Fed's Bad Precedent - Wall Street Journal
Contractors Gone Wild - USA Today

Political News & Analysis
Clinton Aide Met on Trade Deal - Wall Street Journal
Clinton Denies Electability Remark - Associated Press
Obama's Support Softens - New York Times
McCain Sees King Speech As Chance to Mend Ties - New York Times

Candidates mark assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Patriotism Problem: Democrats to talk more about what's wrong with America than what's right

Hillary Clinton - With John on Her Side

1994 Redux: Clinton Hasn’t Changed A Bit - National Review Online: Latest Healthcare Plan Would Still Lead To Government Takeover

Working Mom Editorial - Hillary is right on the issues that need fixing

Obama's church: 'Enough is enough' - Ministers call for dialogue on race, end to disruptions

Wife's beer fortune gives McCain access to millions

Superdelegates fret over political blowback

Bill and Hillary Clinton earned $109 million since 2000