In various posts about the increasing acrimony over the tight Democratic campaign for the presidential nomination, people have speculated over whether the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton, particularly if achieved by superdelegates or the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations, could depress Democratic turnout, particularly among black voters, sufficiently to affect the outcome of a general election. I have generally assumed that the black vote is largest in states that strongly

of America for the first time in her adult life. And not only because Barack’s doing well.  Headline of the Day:  EX-HOMECOMING QUEEN BEATS DISABLED SISTER WITH PROSTHETIC LEG  (In case you’re wondering, you laughed because you’re a horrible person).  Big deal. Same thing happened to me when I wore my “Sure Would Dig Some Poontang” t-shirt to the YMCA.

Do Washington Post reporters and editors communicate with each other? Today, Dan Balz has a front page story on  Sen. Hillary Clinton’s deep ties to Texas, starting with an anecdote from Hidalgo County judge J.D. Salinas to make the point: Sixteen years ago, as a young volunteer, Salinas helped look after Clinton when she came to McAllen for a big South Texas rally the day before her husband was elected

Because that’s all religiousy and rude: But the Latin Mass published by the Vatican last year resuscitated the conversion insult, praying on Good Friday that God “lift the veil” from “Jewish blindness.” Catholics and Jews both objected. In last week’s formal promulgation of the Latin Mass, the Vatican stepped back from that extreme language, but Catholics are still to pray that God “enlighten” the hearts of Jews “so that they

As an author of The Almanac of American Politics, Michael Barone should know better than to misrepresent the way the GOP selects delegates in the presidential nomination campaign: Winner-take-all is the Republican idea of fairness. The party seeks unity and uniformity, and doesn’t encourage dissent. You know the rules in advance, and if you come out ahead you get the big prize. Thus, few Republicans thought it unfair when John

In a chaotic eulogy, [Mugniyah’s] boss Hezbollah’s chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, practically promised war on Israel -the presumed doer-, America, and the West. Following nearly 24 hours of silence, the Syrian official media acknowledged the bomb in its bosom; decrying it as a ”flagrant violation of international law” the first time such concern for civility has been demonstrated by a regime steeped in murder. Tsk, tsk.  What a world. More:

Via e-mail, a reader (known to PW readers, but I was unsure whether to use the name) identifies a potential bit of über-spin from Bill Clinton: “The political press has avowedly played a role in this election. I’ve never seen this before,” the former president said. “They’ve been active participants in this election. . . . But I don’t want to talk about the press. I want to talk about the people.

The New York Times starts a series “examining the lives of youth across the Muslim world at a time of religious revival” in Egypt: Here in Egypt and across the Middle East, many young people are being forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence, sexual activity and societal respect. Stymied by the government’s failure to provide adequate schooling and thwarted by an economy without jobs to match their

Via email, this mildly humorous story found at not the wolverine: Yesterday, TheNinja and I rode to Princeton for what has become a pretty regular weekend ride: ride – coffee – ride. Typically, we stop at Small World Coffee, so I can increase my bougy academic cred by drinking way too expensive organic fair trade coffee and listening to world music (and the baristas are way cute). As we were