Obama leads — in cash  —  $32 million in the second quarter will allow him to 'vigorously' compete in important early states  —  WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) beat chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in second-quarter fund-raising …

Primary money  —  The money that counts in a Democratic primary is that raised in chunks of $2,300 or less.  Everything over that may be a sign of general election strength, or a mark that you have rich friends, but it's not getting spent on TV in Iowa or early voting programs in California.

In Hunt for Bomb Plotters, Britain Sees a Qaeda Link  —  With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda.

Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran  —  The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article — headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" — that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran.