Dole scolds Limbaugh  —  Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.  —  Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up …

Michelle Obama: I Would Have To Think About Supporting Clinton If She Is The Nominee  —  Imagine if Bill Clinton had said that?  Michelle Obama needs to straighten this out immediately.  Really bad stuff from the Obama campaign.  —  Update (TL): More than 300 comments, this thread is closing.

Republicans have become the credibility-free party  —  (updated below)  —  Substantial attention has been paid to the historic unpopularity of the Bush presidency, but relatively little attention has been paid to the accompanying collapse of the Republican Party's credibility.

Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 1-Feb. 3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — On the eve of the Super Tuesday election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences.

Before the Big Day...  I resist predictions, as all sane people should after the New Hampshire primary, but I felt compelled to make a few observations before the Big Day.  —  GOP:  —  1) John McCain has another good night.  —  Democrats:  —  1) It will be a draw between Hillary and Barack, deciding little.

Vote McCain—Because Life Expectancy Is Going Up  —  The McCain campaign must be pretty spooked about conservative reaction to the story that their man isn't a full-throated Sam Alito fan.  Today the campaign sent out an email to supporters trumpeting this Wall Street Journal op-ed …

Clinton speaks to crowd of 4,000 in Minneapolis  —  Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a full house during her campaign stop at Augsburg College in Minneapolis Sunday afternoon.  She signed autographs after her speech.  —  She called on 4,000 at Augsburg to help nation's economy work for all.

Muslims Enraged, Seething at Wikipedia  —  Apparently there are a whole lot of Muslims enraged and offended at Wikipedia, because there are ... gasp ... drawings and images of Mohammed in his Wikipedia entry.  —  Blasphemy!  —  So they're demanding that Wikipedia stop violating …

Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby  —  (not in so many words...despite or because of polls showing that Obama is now leading or tied with Hillary Clinton nationally.). … I'm sorry.  Hold up, time out.  What??  Unless every Obama adviser I've spoken to over the past year has out and out lied to me …

FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping  —  CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) — The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.

A STRIKE IN THE DARK  —  What did Israel bomb in Syria?  —  Israel and the U.S. have avoided comment on press reports about a nuclear facility.  —  Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried …

Feb 5 Projections: Revised  —  According to campaign sources, polling and stealing off other analysts, Hillary Clinton has an edge in New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  —  Obama has an edge in Idaho, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota and Illinois.

DNC boost for sex biz  —  Denver can expect prostitution spike during convention  —  Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August.  —  The sex and adult entertainment industries are expecting a boom in business …