Clinton Insiders Take Umbrage at Solis Doyle Move  —  FLINT, Mich. — The nomination fight is over, but the warring between the Obama and Clinton campaigns lives on.  —  The Obama team announced today that it had picked former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle to serve on its general election staff.

My endorsement  —  A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama.  From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.  —  Over the next four years …

Second President Bush floats prospect of a third  —  (CNN) - For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won't be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November.  But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.

Obama Plans Trip Pre-Election Day Visit to Iraq and Afghanistan  —  FLINT, Mich. - Senator Barack Obama said today he intends to visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the November election.  —  Mr. Obama, who spoke to the Iraqi foreign minister by telephone this morning, said he was “encouraged” by the reductions in violence in Iraq.

The Fall and Rise of Hillary Clinton  —  What she won by losing.  —  The victor and the vanquished are standing in a cluttered hallway backstage at the Washington Convention Center, conducting a conversation short and sweet—for one of them, at least.  It's just around noon on June 4 …

Boycotting the Associated Press  —  Lots of fallout today from the Associated Press's self-defeating decision to threaten legal action against web sites that link to and quote their articles.  Techcrunch says they're banning the AP: Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned.

Fiscal Poison Pill  —  A poison pill, in corporate jargon, is a financial arrangement designed to protect current management by crippling the company if someone else takes over.  —  As I read the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of the presidential candidates' tax proposals …

McCain on offshore drilling: For it before he was against it before he was for it again  —  Just a recap: McCain was AWOL on the windfall profits tax debate in the Senate (a failed Carter relic that he says he'd be “glad to look at").  He had nothing to say about Rep. John Peterson's effort …

Man Who Helped Create ‘Daisy Ad’ Dies  —  Tony Schwartz, a self-taught, sought-after and highly reclusive media consultant who helped create what is generally considered to be the most famous political ad to appear on television, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan.  He was 84.

Don't call me nigger, Whitey  —  Or, how Sly and the Family Stone have prefigured the tortured logic of mainstream “liberal” American academic/media elite discourse on race.  From the Chicago Tribune: … Beyond the irony of being lectured on what people should or should not take offense …

As Obama Aide, Reporter Dons Flack Jacket  —  ST. LOUIS — As Barack Obama started fielding questions at a hospital here last week, Linda Douglass stood off to the left, scribbling in a reporter's notebook, as she has in every presidential campaign since 1980.

Hitting McCain on “a Google”  —  Ben Smith notes that Barack Obama is to mention Google three separate times in his Michigan speech today.  —  That's surely no accident.  —  Last week, discussing how easy it is to find information on people these days, McCain said, “You know, basically it's a Google.”

What's Next for MTP?  —  With the poignant farewell to Russert on yesterday's Meet the Press, the conversation is now turning to replacements.  —  Let me just say, that I didn't agree with Tim Russert's approach to his show in every respect.  I thought his obsession with the green-eyeshade stuff could be tedious.

Blogger arrests hit record high  —  More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.  —  Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report.

Depends on the definition of the word ‘mandatory’  —  Also from John McCain's press conference this morning, the senator from Arizona once again makes it clear that he doesn't really understand cap-and-trade: … Which is, of course, completely out of line with his own proposal for a cap-and-trade scheme …