Wisconsin exits: Big night for Obama?  —  Mike Allen emails:

What Now For Hillary?  —  The final number looks like a double digit win (the spread is currently 11 points and the current delegate split is 13-8, and likely to be around 42-32 at the end) win for Obama.  That is bad for Clinton.  But the bad news comes from two other results.

Obama turns tables on Clinton  —  Under fire for uncredited echoes of another candidate's speeches, the Obama campaign sought Tuesday evening to turn the tables on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) by highlighting her clearly false claim that her campaign had not fueled the controversy.

Obama's Political Origins  —  Until I came across this article by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, which I regard as factual — with all that that implies — the questions about Obama's background that should have come naturally never quite rose to the surface of my mind.  Barack Obama is the new man, of course.

John McCain's Feb. 19 Speech  —  The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator John McCain's speech to supporters after the Feb. 19 Wisconsin primary, as provided his presidential campaign.  —  Thank you, my friends, for your support and dedication to our campaign.

The Task for Huckabee and Clinton: Define Their End Games  —  Barack Obama and John McCain were the winners of their respective parties' presidential primaries in Wisconsin today.  Obama appears ready to win the Democratic caucuses in Hawaii and McCain in the Republican caucuses in Washington …

CNN: Be kind to castro  —  Michael Graham, blogging at The Natural Truth, brings us this disgusting but not surprising story about how CNN coached its anchors to treat the subject of fidel castro in an early morning email today.  —  I can now confirm independently that not only did such an email go out, here it is in its entirety:

It Is Over  —  Please allow me a dose of hardened market realism concerning Obama's landslide victory in Wisconsin.  The race is over.  Hillary is finished.  The Clinton Restoration is over.  President Bill Clinton's political invincibility is over.  Hillary's electability is over.

Thousands of Prairie View Students March 7.3 Miles to Vote  —  (Crossposted on Daily Kos by dewberry ........ See aerial pictures here.)  —  Photo Courtesy Ken Basart  —  Early voting starts today in Texas.  In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston …

NO SILVER LINING FOR HILLARY  —  A couple of things jump out from tonight's Wisconsin results.  —  First, despite polls showing a relatively close race, Obama looks likely to have a final winning margin in the double digits.  In other words, not close at all.

Wilkes sentenced to 12 years in prison  —  SAN DIEGO - Brent Wilkes, the Poway defense contractor who federal prosecutors contend was the mastermind behind the largest congressional bribery scheme in history, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday.  —  With his daughter crying behind him …

VALLEJO, Calif.  —  The city of Vallejo is on the brink of becoming the first California city ever to declare bankruptcy, City Council members said Tuesday.  —  Vallejo may run out of cash as early as March, council member Stephanie Gomes said.  —  “Not only that, but now we have 20 police …