Clinton Summons Top Donors, Supporters For Tuesday Speech  —  stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust buzz up  —  Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her New York speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama.

Bill Clinton: Purdum a “Sleazy” “Slimy” “Scumbag”  —  stumble digg reddit del.ico.us news trust buzz up  —  MILBANK, S.D. — Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum …

Byrd hospitalized after suffering a high fever  —  Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) was admitted to the hospital for the third time this year on Monday night, this time for overnight observation after suffering a high fever.  —  Byrd, 90, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history …

Liars Or Fools  —  From Crooks and Liars comes this gem from Byron York on Fox News Sunday: … Yeah, It's hard to figure out where anyone got the idea that Bush was that kind of guy.  As C&L points out: … Perhaps the most touching speech of this kind was the night of the Supreme Court decision …

Sources: House whip, senators to back Obama  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House majority whip and the top ranking African-American in Congress is expected to endorse Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, several sources told CNN.  —  Rep. James Clyburn has so far …

Dick Cheney's Incest Joke Irks West Virginian Lawmakers  —  UPDATE: Vice President Dick Cheney has apologized through his spokeswoman for making an offhand joke during a speech at the National Press Club Monday stereotyping West Virginia as a state prone to incest.

Further Reasons For Skepticism on That Michelle Obama Tape  —  I hoped a tone of skepticism would permeate my earlier posts on the alleged Michelle Obama denouncing “whitey” tape.  Still, some accuse me of hyping the story.  —  The preponderance of the evidence now suggests that there's nothing there.

Romney Criticizes Obama For Visiting Iraq Only Once, Despite Having Visited Iraq Only Once Himself  —  For over a week now, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his right-wing allies have been criticizing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) over the fact that he hasn't visited Iraq since Jan. 2006.

Exclusive: McCain Almost Took “One-Term” Pledge  —  When he formally announced his presidential candidacy last year, Sen. John McCain was inches away from making an unprecedented pledge: if he were elected, he would serve only one term as president.  —  It could have been an earth-shifting moment for the campaign and the primary.

Andrew Coyne's Blog  —  Maclean's national editor loathes politics, and it shows.  —  Earlier: Liveblogging the BC Human Rights Tribunal—Day I, Part I  —  And we're back, with more gripping testimony on what my friend objected to in my friend's representation of my friend's deposition...

Bob Barr to Stormfront: Drop Dead  —  One of the bigger media blunders the Ron Paul campaign made was its handling of endorsements from the bigots at Stormfront.  White nationalists slithered around the fringes of the Paul movement, and Paul refused to return a donation from Stormfronter Don Black …

Bullard High valedictorian to be deported  —  Arthur Mkoyan's 4.0 grade-point average has made him a valedictorian at Bullard High School in Fresno and qualified him to enter one of the state's top universities.  —  But while his classmates look forward to dorm food and college courses this fall, Arthur Mkoyan may not make it.

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79 … JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - entertainmentminute Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health.