Obama And Dean Team Up To Recast The Political Map  —  Sixteen months after he launched his campaign for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama may, just now, be entering his campaign's most perilous stage.  Facing a rift of sorts within the Democratic Party and concerns over the scope of his political base …

Senate Panel Accuses Bush of Iraq Exaggerations  —  WASHINGTON — In a report long delayed by partisan squabbling, the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday accused President Bush and Vice President Cheney of taking the country to war in Iraq by exaggerating evidence of links between Saddam Hussein …

GOP fears Obama's money machine  —  With Hillary Clinton's campaign coming to an end this weekend, Barack Obama's rise as the Democratic nominee brings serious bad news to a new group — John McCain's finance team.  —  A review of campaign finance data offers not one ounce of good news …

Obama Confronts Lieberman On McCain Advocacy, Tone, on Senate Floor  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman, the self-described “Independent Democrat” who caucuses with the Democratic party in the Senate even though he has endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, got some tough talk from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois …

Clinton Says V.P. Is Obama's Choice  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today disavowed a campaign by some of her supporters to pressure Senator Barack Obama into choosing her as a running-mate, saying they were acting on their own and the decision on who to pick was “Senator Obama's and his alone.”

Obama's ‘Identity’ Beat Hillary's ‘Identity’  —  “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”  —  Be that as it may, what remains is that the candidacy of the first liberal white woman to run for president is about to lose, defeated by, yes, a black man.

Obama the naive  —  His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.  —  » Discuss Article Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea “without preconditions” is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states.

McCain's teeth  —  Hunter already mocked John McCain's website today, and I'm still shaking my head at the blatant rip offs from the Obama website.  But I'm also shocked that his team didn't ... well, take a look:  —  It's pretty bad when your hair is whiter than your teeth.  Take a closer look:

2 Top Leaders of Air Force Pushed Out After Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The Air Force's senior civilian official and its highest-ranking general were ousted by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday following an official inquiry into the mishandling of nuclear weapons and components, senior Pentagon officials said.

Hillary Bows Out  —  “If only she'd done this weeks ago,” Matt writes.  I take his point: It would probably been better for the party if Hillary had conceded defeat somewhat earlier (though there would have been the potential embarrassment of having the presumptive-nominee lose primaries …

HOW ‘LIBERAL’ CARE WOULD KILL TED  —  IRONICALLY enough, the dangers of the lib eral health-care agenda are being made clear by the care that a liberal icon, Sen. Ted Kennedy, has received since his brain seizure last month.  —  One day after an MRI detected a tumor, Kennedy was quickly diagnosed …

The Meaning Of Box 722  —  For at least six months now I've been planning, and putting off, this post.  The imminent occasion of the first African American major-party nominee forces my hand.  It's time for me to help give a sense of just how far we have come.

Steyn Trial Marked by End of Civilization  —  I'm spending this week in a Vancouver “human rights” courtroom - actually a windowless basement whose sole link with the outside world, the clock, is stuck at 8am.  Mark Hemingway provides an “idiot's guide” to the idiot case here.