Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle Poll: Clinton Rebounds as Closing Campaign Boosts Her Barely Ahead of Obama in Texas - Tied in Ohio!  —  Republican McCain leads in Texas and Ohio  —  UTICA, New York - On the strength of some strong campaigning in Ohio and Texas, Democrat Hillary Clinton …

Ask Tough Questions?  Yes, They Can!  —  SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of “Saturday Night Live” to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.

Lobbyist to run McCain's Hill effort  —  Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional Republicans — the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in the 2008 presidential race …

Rush Limbaugh Explains Why He's Urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to Vote for Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday 2  —  This is a rush transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” February 29, 2008.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” …

Irresponsible Primary Moves  —  This looks bad. … Senator Clinton has no reason to care about what I have to say, obviously, since I voted for Obama.  And she voted against the Moveon censureship (one of them anyway) resolution in the Senate, while Obama didn't, and then Moveon endorsed him anyway.

Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere  —  Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths.  Some male bloggers tend to think women …

Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction  —  In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

A Defining Moment  —  The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night.  But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007.  —  On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak.

One Way or Another, Women Will Decide It  —  Today Could Be the Start of a Comeback for Hillary Clinton, or It Could Be the End of Her Campaign.  In Interviews in and Around Austin, the Capital of Texas, Women Discussed Her Candidacy.  —  Hernandez living room, North Austin …

Gone in 60 Seconds  —  HOW MY BLOG STARTED THE AVALANCHE THAT BURIED PRESIDENTIAL AIDE TIM GOEGLEIN.  —  I spent much of last Friday being congratulated for “brilliant reporting” that consisted of a minute's worth of typing on my laptop.  That's how long it took for me to notice what seemed …

Are Women Dumb?  —  Whoa.  I just read the Charlotte Allen piece in the Washington Post Outlook section that Kathryn linked to Sunday.  (Unpromisingly Titled, “We Scream.  We Swoon.  How Dumb Can We Get?")  I want to believe that the Post got as much dissident mail on that one as it deserved.

The $2 Trillion Nightmare  —  We've been hearing a lot about “Saturday Night Live” and the fun it has been having with the presidential race.  But hardly a whisper has been heard about a Congressional hearing in Washington last week on a topic that could have been drawn, in all its tragic monstrosity, from the theater of the absurd.