Facing off over Marine Corps  —  3 war opponents chain selves to door of recruiting station, and right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic  —  As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps …

Barack Obama and John McCain lead rivals 2-1 in Illinois, poll shows  —  Favorite-son Sen. Barack Obama and Arizona Sen. John McCain each hold a better than 2-to-1 edge over their closest presidential rivals entering the Illinois primary, but many voters say they're still undecided or could change …

The Accompanists  —  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama Warm Up to Their Parts in Orchestrating Victory  —  Both are confident and funny, opinionated and very smart.  Both are Ivy League lawyers with working-class roots.  Both have formidable identities independent of their formidable partners.

The fat lady won't sing on Super Tuesday  —  THERE'S A side of me that resists giving career advice to rich successful guys with good hair.  That said, there's still hope, Mitt Romney.  —  There's a big difference between the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday.  At the end of the Super Bowl, the champion is crowned and the season is over.

Why I'm Backing Obama  —  Forty-seven years ago, my grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower bid farewell to a nation he had served for more than five decades.  In his televised address, Ike famously coined the term “military-industrial complex,” and he offered advice that is still relevant today.

Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast  —  (CNN) — An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.  —  Ships have been dispatched to repair …

blogroll amnesty day!  —  email skippy if you want the code to these logos!  —  readers of this space may have noticed a plethora of “blogging around” posts, wherein we give you several links to several other blogs.  —  astute readers might theorize that we are just lazy.

Obama Slams McCain in N.M.  —  ABC News' David Wright, Sunlen Miller and Andy Fies Report: At a raucous town hall meeting on the economy in Albuquerque, N.M., Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama today accused Republican presidential contender Sen. John McCain of towing …

Dear People, You have lost your minds.  Love, Rachel.UPDATED  —  You have lost your minds.  —  Love, Rachel.  —  UPDATED  —  The reason I haven't posted anything in a day is because I've been spending my free time reading everything I can get my hands on about John McCain in a quest …

Tortured Testimony  —  THERE WAS one overarching takeaway from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey's testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee: When it comes to waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques, the ends justify the means.

Which of these men did the photographer think was a hero?  —  This morning is the fortieth anniversary of one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War.  It was taken on 1 February 1968, with the Tet offensive in its early stages.  It pictures General Nguyan Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner.