As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages of her campaign: That she is ahead in the national popular vote when all votes are counted …

Setting the Record Straight: President Bush's Interview With Richard Engel of NBC News  —  The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:  —  30 Rockefeller Plaza  —  New York, N.Y. 10112  —  Mr. Capus:

Tennessee Senator Takes On His Own Party  —  Talk about internecine upset.  —  The office of Senator Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee, has weighed in today, siding with Senator Barack Obama's objections to the state's G.O.P. Web campaign against Michelle Obama.

Clinton cites Karl Rove as reason to stay in  —  PRESTONSBURG, Kentucky (CNN) - Hillary Clinton defended her reasoning for staying in the presidential race Monday afternoon by pointing out that Karl Rove's analysis shows her to be the strongest candidate against John McCain in November.

Muslim school officials attack news crew in Twin Cities  —  I've followed the story about the Tarik ibn Zayad Academy and allegations that it abuses its status as a state-funded charter school to teach Islam instead of a public-school curriculum for the last six weeks.

The Right's Neurotic Addiction to War  —  Just to add on to Kyle's piece about the Addicted to War crowd, their understanding of history is to laugh at.  Take Jennifer Rubin's rehash of the Great Cold War Myth: … Neither, actually.  Ronald Reagan did not “win” the Cold War.

Missed Story  —  How many people showed up for Obama's rally in Kentucky?  Oh, he didn't campaign there?

Top Hillarylander mulls Obama job  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign manager and confidante, Patti Solis Doyle, and Sen. Barack Obama's top adviser have informally discussed the former Clintonite's going to work for the Obama campaign in the general election.

McCain Finds a Thorny Path in Ethics Effort  —  Sorting out the lobbying entanglements of his campaign advisers is proving to be a messy business for Senator John McCain.  —  On Monday, just days after it issued new rules to address conflicts of interest, the McCain campaign …

Racial woes: GOP fails to recruit minorities  —  Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.

Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 2003 federal law aimed at child pornography, concluding in a 7-to-2 opinion that a federal appeals court was wrong to find the law unconstitutionally vague.  —  The law in question arose from a sensible …

John Bolton: “Bush Hit the Nail on the Head— Now the Nails Are Complaining” (Video)  —  “Bush hit the nail on the head in Jerusalem and the nails are complaining now.” … Former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton slammed Barack Obama and democrats for their policies of appeasement tonight on Hannity and Colmes:

Tracking Poll: Obama opens up biggest lead ever over Clinton  —  (CNN)- Amid reports that the Democratic Party's leaders and largest fundraisers are beginning to take steps to try to bring their party together after a long, hard-fought primary campaign, the latest Gallup daily tracking poll …

THE FALL OF CONSERVATISM  —  Have the Republicans run out of ideas? … The era of American politics that has been dying before our eyes was born in 1966.  That January, a twenty-seven-year-old editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named Patrick Buchanan went to work for Richard Nixon …

Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor  —  One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse …

Soros warns global boom is over  —  Billionaire investor George Soros has given his gloomiest assessment of the state of the US and world economies.  —  He told BBC business editor Robert Peston that the “acute phase” of the credit crunch may be over but effects on the real economy are yet to be felt.