A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she’d had an affair, authorities said Saturday. The ad by Ann Marie Linscott, 49, was posted in November as a generic request for somebody to perform a “freelance” job, court document said. Her true intention was only communicated to those who e-mailed her seeking additional information about the job, the

Allahpundit, in commenting on the Jonathan Chait op-ed expressing disillusionment with the Clintons’ campaign tactics and character (discussed here earlier today) asks whether this disillusionment will have any lasting impact, and concludes that it will not: All of this will be forgiven and forgotten once the general election campaign gets going, in an eyeblink.  Yet earlier in the same piece, Allahpundit asks different questions which may be less rhetorical than intended: Can Chait really

Warner Bros. let the options lapse on the young cast that director George Miller chose to play DC superhero staples [The Justice League]. The studio, which had set Tuesday as its greenlight deadline for the pic, confirmed Wednesday the project is on indefinite hold. Racist characterization? From Memeorandum: Obama runs away with SC primary  

Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth Oh, yeah?  I think Earth could kick its ass, even if it weren’t disabled.  This one was good, too: Gladiators Return to New Orleans Suburb  I was hoping it would be about alligators in the gladiolas, but it wasn’t. 

this, perhaps she wouldn’t be in politics now.

With the actual polls in South Carolina closing at 7:00 p.m. ET, it might seem a bit late to look at what Mark Blumenthal wrote at Pollster.com about the uncertainty of the pre-primary polls.  Plenty of folks already blogged about it in the conventional way, wondering whether we could be in for the sort of surprise we got in New Hampshire.  Yet Blumenthal’s analysis is compelling on a different, more general level as well.

Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown write a piece about a smear email that the Obama campaign have been trying to rebuff, and in the process, make this interesting comparison:  The e-mails aren’t a well-funded, faux-grassroots smear like the attacks on John Kerry’s war record.    So, once again, we’re led to ask, what about the Swifties’ claims regarding Kerry’s record constituted a smear? 

That damned Bush screwed everything up: A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.’s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam’s regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program—and

Well, it’s not right if Obama’s kept this: The Obama campaign says it has given away more than $85,000 in Rezko-linked contributions since Rezko was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in the fall of 2006. An ABCNews.com review, however, has identified an additional $100,000 in contributions made to Obama from Rezko’s associates that have not been returned, including $19,500 in contributions from Rezko’s wife and employees of Rezko’s business enterprises. The ABCNews.com

Which of the movies based on a character first introduced in an SNL skit is the absolute worst, and why?