OBAMA TANGLES WITH THE PRESS  —  From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan  —  SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference.

Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton  —  (CNN) - As Hillary Clinton battles to keep her presidential bid alive, she may be getting help from an unlikely source: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.  —  Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote …

Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan cut from KSFO, vows to continue conservative activism  —  Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan is one of my favorite conservative activists.  She's led countless battles against anti-military goons in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveled to Iraq …

Obama camp: HRC needs double digits  —  In a statement emailed to reporters, and reiterated on a conference call just now, Obama's campaign Manager, David Plouffe, says: … “They were sitting on enormous leads as recently as two weeks ago,” he said on the call, dismissing the notion of a Clinton “comeback.”

Every Voter Should Hear This Phone Call  —  In the closing hours before the March 4th elections, I wanted to share an amazing phone call with you.  It comes on the heels of a new tracking poll showing Hillary doing better than Sen. Obama against John McCain - as well as public polls …

The Assbiting Strategy  —  Yglesias: … To the extent that this is about his successor, my guess is that they figure that Congress will rediscover its interest in oversight and objections to presidential executive power overreach.  The very powers Bush claimed will, for a Democratic president, be the foundation for impeachment.

How are we all not dead?  —  Jesus H.!  This account of the Bush administration's attempt to engineer a coup in Gaza is more terrifying than anything I've ever imagined.  Let's look at the gory highlights: … And since the elections didn't go as the Boy King planned, guess what he did then?

South America on brink of war  —  SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — South America was on the brink of war yesterday as Venezuela and Ecuador amassed troops on the Colombian border in response to the killing of a Marxist rebel leader.  —  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to join the rebels …

Pressing Issues  —  The blogosphere is all abuzz about this outrageous Charlotte Allen piece in the WaPo yesterday saying women are dumb.  It was over the top, but frankly I'm a little bit surprised that everyone is so shocked.  It doesn't seem much more obscene than the fare we've heard from the right for years.

THE THREE RULES TO UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS  —  In the wake of Canadian memos flying about on what exactly Obama's chief economist told a Canadian consular official, Noam Scheiber asks a befuddled question: … Based on my extensive experience with the people of the Great White North …

Existential Realities Of The Democratic Race  —  Q. What does “win” mean?  —  A. The winner of the Democratic nomination is not the person who wins the most states, not the person who wins the most votes, is not the person who gives the best speeches... it's the person who wins 2024 (25? …

Man Butchers 15-Month-Old Nephew in Jeddah Supermarket  —  Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store's fruit and vegetable section.