Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles  —  After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President's Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.  —  As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain …

U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000  —  Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.

JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid  —  JPMorgan Chase was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns, the beleaguered investment bank, in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to people involved in the negotiations.

EASTER MASS ATTACK!!  Protesters Scream & Spray Fake Blood at Churchgoers  —  NOT JUST ANTIWAR...  Leftist Protesters Attack Catholic Worshippers at Easter Mass in Chicago  —  The Progressives squirted fake blood around on the Catholics attending Easter Mass this morning.!!

Taming the Beast  —  We're now in the midst of an epic financial crisis, which ought to be at the center of the election debate.  But it isn't.  —  Now, I don't expect presidential campaigns to have all the answers to our current crisis — even financial experts are scrambling to keep up with events.

Turkish ruling party cracks down on free press  —  An e-mail from a Turkish professor: … As a Turkish journalist points out in a private e-mail, for all the talk within the State Department of Prime Minister Erdogan and his Islamist-leaning party as representing democracy …

L.A. Times Has Hit Piece on McCain — Which Resurrects the Old Canards About Ties Between Saddam and Al Qaeda  —  The L.A. Times saves space on its Sunday front page for a hit piece on John McCain.  The main thrust of the piece is to say, in essence, “Nyaah, nyaah, John McCain said that Iraq would be a cakewalk, but it wasn't.”

Cigarette display ban considered  —  Displaying cigarettes in shops could be banned in England under government plans being considered to cut smoking and discourage children from starting.  —  Ministers are also considering tougher controls on vending machines in pubs and restaurants.

Obama: ‘This is not a crackpot church’  —  Carrie Budoff Brown sends over the transcript from Obama's appearance, airing tomorrow, on the Michael Smerconish Show on 1210 AM WPHT in Philadelphia, from audio the show provided.  —  In the interview, Obama says he's talked to Wright in the past about …

Let's Not, and Say We Did  —  I shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama's speech last Tuesday.  —  It wasn't when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask?  Why not join another church?”

March 23: Maria Bartiromo, Erin Burnett, political roundtable  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again.  But Wall Street and Main Street are still nervous about talk of recession, bankruptcy, bailouts and more.  What now?

State Democratic Party postpones district conventions  —  LANSING — Acknowledging that Michigan's delegate selection mess is unlikely to be resolved in the coming week, the state Democratic Party decided to postpone its congressional district conventions.  —  The 15 district gatherings …