Taxpayers fund Bill Clinton spending  —  The Clintons have made a $100-million fortune since leaving the White House, but a Politico analysis found that hasn't kept Bill Clinton from taking full advantage of the publicly funded perks offered to ex-presidents.

Dean: McCain's Age Worries Voters  —  DNC Chair Cites Health, ‘Old-Fashioned’ Views  —  Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that swing voters participating in focus groups commissioned by the D.N.C. bring up John McCain's age unprompted.

Is that really a naked woman in Dick Cheney's sunglasses?  —  WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women.  —  Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney …

SHOCKING— New Obama Audio Posted Online!  —  This is just amazing.  —  If Obama really wanted to have a talk about race he could start by explaining his hateful words on this audio.  —  (9 minutes 53 seconds)  —  Just words?  —  Bob McCarty also finds it shocking.

Spy photos reveal ‘secret launch site’ for Iran's long-range missiles  —  The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.  —  The imagery has pinpointed the facility …

More of the Wright stuff  —  Just to keep up to date, the noxious Rev. Jeremiah Wright will speak at the Detroit branch of the NAACP 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner.  I would have jumped on this one yesterday, but given that NAACP chair Julian Bond has compared the GOP to the Taliban …

Athletes who take Tibet stand ‘face Olympic cut’  —  Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer's Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.  —  Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee …

House Votes to Put Off Trade Deal Bush Sought  —  WASHINGTON — The unity exhibited Thursday by House Democrats in stalling a White House-sponsored trade pact with Colombia masks deep party divisions on the issue, which is certain to become even more highly charged given coming consequential trade deals …

Obama Triangulates and Won't Go Where Other Great Americans Will on Hamas  —  Ben Smith of Politico points out that Barack Obama has “drawn a line” regarding which of the world's problematic bad guys should be met by Presidents like himself — and Jimmy Carter.  He thinks Carter should not meet any Hamas leaders.

Barack Obama may lose support in Philadelphia over ‘street money’  —  CULTURE CLASH: Barack Obama campaigns in Philadelphia last week.  His people are telling Democratic leaders there that he won't pay “street money” to those who help the campaign.  —  Candidates traditionally get out the money to get out the vote.

Freedom Is Not the Problem, It Is the Solution  —  Doesn't it seem like year after year, more and more decisions we should be making for ourselves, are instead being made by nameless bureaucrats in Washington?  They tell us how to spend our money.  They tell us how to run our businesses.

IRAN'S BUSTED IRAQ BID  —  BASRA ‘RISING’ WAS TEHRAN'S OP  —  A GAMBLE that proved too costly.  —  That's how analysts in Tehran describe events last month in Basra.  Iran's state-run media have de facto confirmed that this was no spontaneous “uprising.”

Rev. Jeremiah Wright to speak in Detroit at month's end  —  The one piece of good news for Barack Obama in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's latest plan for a return to the pulpit (of a sort), is that it will occur five days after Pennsylvania's April 22 primary (though in plenty of time to have a potential impact …

Bush Abdicates to Generals on Iraq; 10 Killed in Sadr City; Al-Maliki Excludes Sadrists  —  Bush Abdicates to Generals on Iraq;  —  10 Killed in Sadr City;  —  Al-Maliki Excludes Sadrists  —  War turns Republics into dictatorships.  The logic is actually quite simple.