Poll: Bill Clinton's popularity down from last year  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.

Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims  —  Posted on Photobucket and in comments attached to the Daily Kos blog post where the purported Obama birth certificate appears  —  Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist …

Wesley Clark ‘moving on’  —  Four days after his controversial “Face the Nation” appearance, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is taking a break from the presidential campaign — but many Democratic insiders think he has already been crossed off the list of Barack Obama's potential running mates.

Tiptoeing on Bush and Convention  —  WASHINGTON — What if your family was planning a big end-of-summer bash (a Grand Old Party, you might call it) but preferred that you not be seen — or heard?  —  That is the question hanging over President Bush, with eight weeks to go until Republicans gather …

Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown  —  Notes, Witnesses Detail How Campaign Was Conceived and Executed by Leader, Aides  —  HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30.

FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144  —  FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144  —  In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances …

The political establishment and telecom immunity — why it matters  —  Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration.  Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty.

The Helms Legacy  —  One fascinating thing about the death of Jesse Helms is the conservative reaction.  One might expect that Helms' death would prompt from conservatives the sorts of things that I might say if, say, Al Sharpton died — that he and I had some overlapping beliefs and I don't regard …

McCain to get air cover from vets  —  For the first time, the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is about to get a substantial hand from advertisements by an outside group.  —  Conservative and Republican groups have been largely quiet, leaving McCain heavily outmatched …

Man rips head off Hitler waxwork at Berlin's Madame Tussauds  —  A man has torn the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum today.  —  A police spokesman said that the man, 41, had ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.

Iran's Position Unchanged Despite Offered Incentives Package  —  The other day I posted a piece about the most recent set of negotiations (by the EU and others) with Iran.  Lots of incentives were promised....if only Iran would stop its uranium enrichment program (BN-Politics).

The corn-fueled economy and the corn-fueled candidate  —  The Guardian claims to have a confidential World Bank report which concludes that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% — more than the IMF estimate of 20-30%, and far more than the US government's claims that biofuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises.