McCain: A Question of Temperament  —  John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body.  It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past …

Secretary of State Rice Mocks Muslim Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a Coward  —  BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target  —  The furor over ABC's Democratic debate last week was not universally shared.  —  While Obama supporters (and many media critics) decried what they saw as biased, gotcha-style questioning, a vocal minority (mostly Clinton supporters) was unmoved.

Obama: Can't ‘Swift Boat’ Me  —  Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek  —  Seeing Ghosts: Obama's ties to Ayers and Auchi are distant, but his foes plan to pounce  —  The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response team in order to repel attacks it anticipates …

Everyone an Anti-Semite  —  For reasons I can't quite comprehend, even some pretty hardened TNR-haters seem to see Leon Wieseltier as making a positive contribution to the world.  Certainly, some very good stuff appears in the back of the book over there, but the man's own work is a kind of writing-as-thuggery.

This Week: Bringing Up McCain's Life-Long, Federally-Provided Health Care Is “A Cheap Shot”  —  Wow.  George Stephanopoulos actually listened to us and asked John McCain some pretty tough questions today on This Week.  Who knew that George read teh blogs?  McCain's body language …

So How Do We Fight An Information War?  —  The usual suspects are going bonkers - bonkers! - over the notion that the Pentagon briefed a cadre of retired military men who served as ‘expert commentators’ in the media.  —  So here's my problem.  If we're engaged in counterinsurgency …

Obama, Clinton And Capitalism: It's Okay For Them, But Nobody Else  —  Remember Chico Escuela?  —  He was a character created by Actor Garrett Morris on the “Saturday Night Live” TV show, back in the 1970's.  Morris became famous for uttering these simple words in broken-English …

WTF Toddler Threatens To Kill President Bush!  (This Video Is Banned From YouTube)[All 3 Parts Full Version]  —  Some toddler throws threatning remarks about President Bush!  The video has been taken down from youtube.  Heres what they didnt want you to see.

Bloody Weekend: 32 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 6 Dead  —  CHICAGO (CBS) ― A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago.  At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning.  Two others were stabbed in a home invasion.  This comes after at least 20 people were shot …

NEW PA. POLL HAS CLINTON HOLDING LEAD  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  A new MSNBC/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll of Pennsylvania indicates things are staying fairly competitive in the Pennsylvania Dem primary.  —  The poll of 625 likely Dem primary voters was conducted Thursday …