Heading Toward the Danger Zone  —  Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?  —  Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …

A Shameful, Ugly Ad  —  Manipulative.  Shameful.  Race-baiting.  Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state.  —  Senator John McCain was right to condemn …

Party Fears Racial Divide  —  The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …

Bill Moyers plays Whiffleball with the Rev. Wright  —  Not that anyone should expect that Bill Moyers Journal will involve journalism, but the former LBJ flack's “interview” with Barack Obama's longtime spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright cannot be fairly called a softball game.

Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts  —  The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.  —  A spokesman for the Pentagon said the briefings and all other interactions …

Come Saturday Morning: Hiding the Costs  —  The WaPo's Dana Milbank lets us know about a family that wanted the world to see their son, husband and father laid to rest — but was thwarted by the Pentagon: … This is part of the Bush team's strategy of doing their level best to hide the true costs of their war of choice from us.

Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats  —  FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.  —  But minutes into the talk, the officer …

Ron Paul is down but not out  —  Two candidates not named John McCain got a combined 219,913 votes in the Pennsylvania Republican primary Tuesday, and one of them is still in the race.  —  Sort of.  —  “I'm a real candidate, but I try to keep everybody living in the real world,” …

Iran War Drums Beating?  —  As previously noted, Admiral Mike Mullen told a gathering at the Atlantic Council that he fears the United States and its allies “will have to deal with Iran in the very near future.”  That statement left a lot of room for strategic ambiguity.

Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed?  —  A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month.  The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned …