TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’  —  Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois, sat for an interview Saturday in Indiana with Chris Wallace.  The interview aired on “FOX News Sunday.”  They touched on a wide range of topics including the marathon race to the Democratic nomination …

Nev. GOP recesses state convention, angering Paul supporters  —  RENO, Nev. - Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.

Obama stops the clock on Fox  —  Barack Obama finally appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” stopping the “Obama Watch” clock at 772 days and change.  And, believe it or not, it was a friendly exchange, touching on familiar themes.  —  Host Chris Wallace, who had started the clock …

CLASH OF THE INDEPENDENTS  —  It's electability, stupid.  —  That's what Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have been spinning to super-delegates and anyone else who will listen since she lost her grip on once-inevitable nomination.  —  There's just one problem - when it comes to independent voters …

How the South Won (This) Civil War  —  Southernism is taking over our national dialogue.  Maybe it's time for the North to secede from the Union.  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee led an ill-advised incursion into Pennsylvania.

Late Night: Johnny Can't Read  —  I stopped by Larry Johnson's No Quarter and found his latest post on Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.  We've both written about Ayers before, but we have different views of Ayers and his wife.  As I've said many times, I admire the work the Ayers' have done …

D.N.C. Advertisement: McCain's ‘100 Years’ in Iraq  —  Using footage from the town-hall-style meeting way back in January when a voter and Senator John McCain went back-and-forth about how long the United States would stay in Iraq, the Democratic National Committee has begun broadcasting a new advertisement.

An Anatomy of Surrender  —  Islam divides the world into two parts.  The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission.  Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission.

THE BUBBA GAP....Apparently this week's issue of Newsweek was guest edited by Mark Penn.  The cover story is blurbed like this: “Barack Obama is a Niebuhr-reading ESPN watcher.  The origins of his troubles with the ‘other’ tag.”  And the cover photo dramatizes this as arugula vs. beer.  Cute!

The nomination battle  —  Arnold Kling summarizes quite succinctly just how much the stars aligned to put Obama in the lead: … Arnold thinks that as soon as the dust has settled, the party will unite behind the nominee.  —  I would guess that this will be less true of a Hillary Clinton nomination than of a Barack Obama nomination.