She will not allow America’s future to be Swift-boated: Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign aides stepped up their effort to force Democrat Hillary Clinton to release her tax returns yesterday, to shed light on the sources of income that enabled her to loan $5 million of her own money to her presidential bid.While Obama made public his tax return last year, Clinton’s top advisers have maintained that they will only

Howard Kurtz on the Shuster kerfuffle: In case there was any doubt, using a prostitution metaphor for the daughter of a presidential candidate is not a good career move. MSNBC suspended correspondent David Shuster yesterday for an undetermined period for making a disparaging on-air remark about Chelsea Clinton. Meanwhile, officials in her mother’s campaign raised the possibility of punishing the news channel by boycotting future debates. While filling in as

That’s what Little Miss Attila was hearing at CPAC. It would explain the whole secret identity.  And the crush on Kirsten Powers. All the more reason to cast Scarlett Johansson.

Well, she is pretty hot, I guess. I don’t know if I’d go public about that, though.  They say he takes steroids. 

happyfeet! Happy belated birthday, bmoe! 

The Archbishop of Canterbury was facing demands to quit last night as the row over sharia law intensified.  Leading bishops publicly contradicted Dr Rowan Williams’s call for Islamic law to be brought into the British legal system. With the Church of England plunged into crisis, senior figures were said to be discussing the archbishop’s future. One member of the church’s “Cabinet”, the Archbishop’s Council, was reported as saying: “There have

“For the Troops” is a compilation CD that they can download.  It contains tracks by, well . . . .  Anyway, it’s cool, I guess, but is it representative of what they’re listening to?  Speaking of which, Major John is headed back to Kuwait.  h/t <del>Reynolds </del> h/t Major John I’m voting for whoever the military guys ask me to this time around, as a token of thanks.   

In the L.A. Times, Joel Stein delivers the latest chapter in the Book of Obama: Obamaphilia has gotten creepy. I couldn’t figure out if the two canvassers who came to my door Sunday had taken Ecstasy or were just fantasizing about an Obama presidency, but I feared they were going to hug me… What the Cult of Obama doesn’t realize is that he’s a politician. Not a brave one taking

on Arkansas, after tornadoes, by God, because of Huckabee. More.   Still more. Previously.

RCP conveniently reprints the transcript of Dark Lord Karl Rove’s preview of the next week or two of the Democratic campaign from Hannity & Colmes.  At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers gives a similar rundown, favoring Sen. Barack Obama across the board in this weekend’s contests — caucuses in Maine, Washington state and Nebraska, plus the Louisiana primary.  Indeed, Obama is also favored the so-called “Potomac primary” next Tuesday, comprised of Virginia, DC, and