Exclusive: On Sunday night conference call with major donors, Clinton says she's going to win  —  In a private Sunday night conference call with several hundred major donors, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) trumpeted the success of her website-announced campaign and revealed that healthcare …

Book Review: "The Enemy at Home"  —  First, a disclaimer - I love making fun of lefties.  As a matter of fact, the interests I list on my MySpace.com homepage are extreme sports, getting ink done and slagging on liberals.  So you might think that Dinesh D'Souza's new book, "The Enemy at Home" would be right up my alley.

Bill Richardson Enters '08 Field  —  Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico jumped into the 2008 presidential race today, announcing that he had formed a campaign exploratory committee in order to seek the Democratic nomination.  —  "I am taking this step because we have to repair the damage that's …

Chavez to U.S.: 'Go to hell, gringos!'  —  CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell!" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday for what he called unacceptable meddling after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant Venezuela's fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers.

Intelligence Community to Congress: "The dog ate my national intelligence estimate"  —  Back in July, I reported that, in spite of pressure from CIA analysts, intelligence czar John Negroponte was blocking a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq.  The CIA describes an NIE as …

MTP Transcript for Jan. 21, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the war in Iraq.  Should Congress support President Bush's plan to send more American troops to Iraq?  Yes, says the leading advocate for a troop increase.  —  SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): These moves will give …

Refugees Find Hostility and Hope on Soccer Field  —  Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park.  —  "There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor," Lee Swaney, a retired owner of a heating …

Video: SNL hammers Hillary on Iraq  —  Lieberman and a precious few others aside, their "hawks" are opportunistic liars who only supported the war initially because it was politically expedient to do so.  We've always known that.  —  Their base knows it, too.  —  Blowback

Hagel Says Cheney Criticism Is 'Complete Nonsense'  —  Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney claimed congressional opposition to the administration's escalation plan undermines the troops.  Cheney said "you cannot run a war by committee," and whatever Congress does …

Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?  —  Early on a a windy Saturday morning in November, Rhonda Arias drove her Dodge Caravan past a Wal-Mart at the end of her block and onto the Interstate.  She was beginning the 50-mile drive from her house in southwest Houston to Plane State Jail …

A Shark in the Kiddie Pool (FDL Book Salon Presents Cliff Schecter)  —  (NOTE: We have a Jane Update (!!) from John at Crooks and Liars.  Our girl is home from the hospital!  Whoo-hooooooo!!)  —  You know that Republican pundits must groan inside and quake in their Stacy Adams loafers …

LURID AP REPORT ON IRAQ OUTRAGE DOESN'T CHECK OUT  —  WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist.  But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as "destroyed …

Kansas Senator Announces Bid for Presidency  —  Declaring himself a proud conservative before a crowd of cheering supporters waving American flags, Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, on Saturday announced his candidacy for president.  —  Mr. Brownback, an evangelical Protestant …

FRANCE RETURNS TO DARK AGES  —  French darkeneurs plan an electricity-free earth-saving experiment: … Don't do themselves any favours with their advertising, do they?  The only illumination during this period will be courtesy of French youths.  Sydney folk may be annoyed …

Don't you know your left from your right?  —  As a child of politicised parents, Observer columnist Nick Cohen followed in their tradition and became a trenchant voice on the liberal-left in the 1980s and 90s.  But the Iraq War changed all that and forced him to rethink.