She's Still Here!  —  He thought a little thing like winning would stop her?  —  Oh, Bambi.  —  Whoever said that after denial comes acceptance hadn't met the Clintons.  —  If Hillary could not have an acceptance speech, she wasn't going to have acceptance.

BREAKING NEWS: Dean, Pelosi, Reid set Friday deadline for superdelegates' choices, move to force end to Clinton bid  —  With the final primary concluded barely hours before, top Democratic Party leaders in Washington early this morning ratcheted up the pressure to force all remaining uncommitted superdelegates …

What's on the Michelle Obama Rant Tape?  —  Here's what's known so far:  —  The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.

Awakening By Talking  —  Rich Lowry gets frighteningly reality based: “Part of the success of the surge is that we were talking to Sunni tribesmen and former Saddamists who were doing terrible things in Iraq.  When conditions were right (they got sick of al Qaeda, the Shia were killing them, we were there in force), we flipped them.

Obama pivots on Iran?  —  Barack Obama will make an appearance today at the AIPAC conference, attempting to convince the pro-Israeli lobby that he fully supports Israel and stands against her enemies.  That will take a nifty bit of pivoting, as Danielle Pletka notes in today's Weekly Standard.

Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home  —  Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to television star Johnny Carson, faces the possible loss of his Beverly Hills home to a foreclosure action initiated by a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp.  —  Howard Bragman, a spokesman for Mr. McMahon …

Clinton Supporters Offer To Help McCain  —  Matt Burns, the spokesman for the GOP convention in St. Paul e-mails to say that the RNC's convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.

McCain to challenge Obama to additional debates  —  John McCain will use the first day of the general election to propose additional debates or joint forums beyond the three sanctioned for this fall, according to a McCain source.  —  At a town hall meeting and press conference in Baton Rouge later …

What's Behind Hope and Change  —  IMHO, Obama needs to be exposed for his ideological extremism, which Obama generically packages as hope and change.  McCain would be in a far better position to do so if he wasn't competing with Obama by embracing similar rhetoric.

AIPAC, one year later  —  Last year at the policy conference of the American Israel Political Action Committee, what's since become manifest was just emerging: Obama has an extra bar to clear with parts of the Jewish and pro-Israel communities.  —  There, he stumbled a bit …

Unity Watch: NY Cong. Delegation Plots Clinton's Next Move  —  The following notes were passed along by someone who listened to the just-completed conference call conducted by members of New York's Democratic congressional delegation:  —  Sen. Charles Rangel's a little impatient …