CLINTON TRIES TO REINSTATE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA'S DELEGATES.  —  This is a very, very, very big deal.  From the Clinton campaign: … This is the sort of decision that has the potential to tear the party apart.  In an attempt to retain some control over the process and keep the various states …

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Polls: Obama Solidifies Lead as Election Day Looms in South Carolina; McCain Holds Narrow Lead Over Romney in Florida; Others Far Back  —  1/23-25  —  1/22-24  —  1/21-23  —  1/20-22  —  Obama  —  41%  —  38%  —  39%  —  43%  —  Clinton  —  26%  —  25%

He Didn't Give at the Office  —  Remember that picture of Yasser Arafat, blood donor?  —  Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.

The Corruption Of Feminism  —  A reader transcribed the following conversation on Hardball tonight: … Wow.  A proud defense of nepotism over feminism.  Or rather, as is the Clintons' wont, a total conflation of feminism with nepotism.  I remember similar Clintonian feminists in the 1990s trashing …

FBI Agent: Hussein Didn't Expect Invasion  —  Before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein misjudged the U.S. military strategy and thought the United States would launch only several days of airstrikes and not a full-scale ground invasion, according to a television interview with the FBI agent …

Is the right right on the Clintons?  —  Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.  —  Something strange happened the other day.  All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …

McCain's Fiscal Mantra Becomes Less Is More  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Senator John McCain said that, if elected, he would do what other presidents had tried but failed to do: cut government spending sharply enough to reduce the budget deficit while lowering taxes at the same time.

Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back  —  The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned.  —  That's the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.

Killer dolphins baffle marine experts  —  It's hard to visualise but the intelligent and ever-friendly dolphin can also be a determined killer.  —  New evidence has been compiled by marine scientists that prove the normally placid dolphin is capable of brutal attacks both on innocent fellow marine mammals …

UN urges review of journalist's death sentence  —  KABUL: The death sentence handed down to a reporter in Afghanistan has prompted the United Nations and several press freedom organisations to call on the Afghan government to intervene in the case.  —  Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, 23 …