Clinton: Wright ‘would not have been my pastor’  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made.

Obama Releases 2000-2006 Tax Returns  —  Barack Obama today released his 2000-2006 tax returns:  — 2006 Return  — 2005 Return  — 2004 Return  — 2003 Return  — 2002 Return  — 2001 Return  — 2000 Return  —  Here is a summary of the figures:

ACROSS IRAQ, BATTLES ERUPT WITH MAHDI ARMY  —  Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army fought US, Iraqi forces in Baghdad and Basra on Tuesday. … The Mahdi Army's seven-month-long cease-fire appears to have come undone.  —  Rockets fired from the capital's Shiite district of Sadr City slammed …

Ending The Nomination Campaign  —  A consensus seems to be forming that Hillary Clinton has only a very slim chance to win the nomination.  Recent articles in The New York Times and The Politico are examples of this.  Further, the consensus is not only that Clinton has a very small chance …

LIMBAUGH'S LYING VOTERS UNDER INVESTIGATION...  “Operation Chaos,” Rush Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries, has been very effective.  It doubled Republican turnout in Ohio and Texas, boosting Clinton and prolonging the Democratic race.

Criminal Intent  —  The presidential candidates need to stop ignoring America's crime problem—and start considering innovative solutions.  —  Here's a funny thing about this presidential campaign season: Two crime dramas—"The Wire" and “Law & Order”—have gotten more attention than actual crime.

Chelsea Clinton Startled by Monica Query  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort Tuesday when asked whether her mother's credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.  —  “Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the …

1 Of 2 93-Year-Olds Charged In Manatee County Sex Sting  —  MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.  —  In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to take him to trial in April.

HARRY REID: “IT WILL BE DONE.”  —  The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Molly Ball has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the record seeming to imply that high-level, uncommitted Democrats are ready to tell Hillary to quit the race: … Cryptic.  But as I wrote yesterday, the tide is truly changing …

THAT'S NOT WRIGHT  —  You can always tell when a scandal story has peaked and is ebbing, almost down to the minute: when your political opponents start to raise it explicitly against you.  That was the minute I knew Bill Clinton was going to weather the Monica story — the moment when Republicans first started hitting him over it.

Why Anti-Cassandras Get the Media Attention  —  Paul Krugman today bemoans the fact that on the housing crisis and especially on Iraq the people who get the most media attention are those who got it wrong. … (Brad DeLong, Dean Baker and others have made similar complaints.)

Britain is world's 7th most stable and prosperous nation  —  The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation's achievements and standards.

A Big Win for Judicial Supremacy, a Big Loss for Government Language Lawyers and Another Example of Real Change  —  Parents “do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children.”  —  So wrote a California judge in a case that has ominous potential for the estimated …

LET'S TURN OUT TO SUPPORT THE VETS  —  Scott noted this morning that the principal of Forest Lake High School canceled the scheduled appearance this morning by Forest Lake alum Pete Hegseth and his fellow Vets For Freedom.  The cancellation was prompted by an unspecified number of complaints from …