Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner  —  If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here.  When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”

Huckabee Moves to New Hampshire, With Tweaks to His Message  —  HENNIKER, N.H. — Fresh from his victory in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has to be considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination.  But that has not sobered up his distinctive Bible Belt-meets-Borscht Belt act on the stump.

WTF?  —  Okay, I could come up with a few good snarky lines on this one.  But I'll settle for someone just explaining to me what the hell Mike Huckabee's talking about.  —  TPMer Eric Kleefeld and I were chatting this evening about whether everyone's underestimating Huckabee's chances in this race.

Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of “social unraveling” if Obama loses  —  (updated below)  —  Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a “theory” about what might help Obama win in the general election.  After noting that Obama will be “the first serious mainstream black contender …

Clinton: Obama's Too Liberal  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama's detractors in the blogosphere that he is so a liberal after all:  —  Progressive record?  Heaven forbid!  I thought he didn't have experience.  —  The Tom Edsall article I got …

He's Absurdly Likeable.  A Favorite of the Faithful.  But, Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer?  —  Pick an issue - any issue - being debated in the United States of America as we approach the 2008 elections, and Mike Huckabee can find a way to tell you that it won't matter until we collectively slim down.

Inside the Ring  —  Inside the Ring  —  Coughlin sacked  —  Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff.  The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work …

Rocky blogger Major Andrew Olmsted killed in Iraq  —  He was the first casualty for 2008 in Iraq.  And a small part of Maj. Andrew Olmsted likely would've chuckled at that fact.  It would be droll and play into his sense of self-deprecation.  —  But for everyone else, the news would be devastating.

Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater  —  Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he made a point to travel to what today would be considered “red” states.  Five days after he announced his candidacy, he visited Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.