Mary Katharine asks: Update: Is it just me, or is an overtly sexist attack of this nature– something we haven’t seen in the campaign yet to my knowledge– just a little odd and almost tooperfect? She’s having a rough time of it in New Hampshure, she cries at a campaign stop, and along come two trogolodytic sexists whom she can vanquish with her grrrl power. Just seemed like a really odd attack

Silent Screams on a post that highlights the softer side of protein wisdom

of latent global pro-Americanism discovered off coast of Norway.  Obama vows to aid development. h/t Hot Air: Obama Now Seen as Most Electable Candidate in Either Party I think that’s true. And it’s easy to say that it’s due to his presentation in the national media, and that’s partially the case; it’s also the case that he worked his ass off in Iowa, so I have to give him that.

‘I CAN’T MAKE HER YOUNGER, TALLER, MALE’ smarter, less selfish, humbler, harder working, more honest . . . . 

Study: Anxiety May Be Bad for Your Heart

He’s not going to get it back by pulling a Politico like this: TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Flapdoodle. Codswallop.  I mean, she stands to make a fortune on campaign contributions as things stand.

Yesterday afternoon, I suggested that Mike Huckabee’s rivals should try to puncture his image of likable authenticity, not by pointing to his more liberal positions per se, but to use his flip-flops to paint him as this year’s Man from Hope — a slick-talking pol who will tell people what they want to hear. Last night, at the GOP candidate forum, Mitt Romney questioned Huckabee’s honesty on the issue of

published by National Journal.  Another grim milestone. How to explain the enormous discrepancy between The Lancet‘s estimation of Iraqi war deaths and those from studies that used other methodologies? For starters, the authors of the Lancet study followed a model that ensured that even minor components of the data, when extrapolated over the whole population, would yield huge differences in the death toll. Skeptical commentators have highlighted questionable assumptions, implausible

Too bad for him, Norman Mailer’s not around anymore.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was her own fault, the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview that aired Sunday on U.S. television. Bhutto sits on stage at a campaign rally minutes before her assassination. “For standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone — nobody else. Responsibility is hers,” the former general told CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Bhutto was killed December 27