Since mentioning Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic firewall right after the New Hampshire primary, the media discovered it in Nevada and is giving it at least some play for Super-Duper Tuesday, particularly with regard to the 370-lb gorilla that is California (441-lbs if you count superdelegates). Sen. Barack Obama is taking his campaign to the firewall, but this year’s accelerated schedule hampers him.  Hispanic voters in California (and elsewhere) simply do not know him, particularly

I have a friend who works in a DA’s office.  Recently, there has been a scandal concerning the processing of “downer” cattle–too sick or weak to be used as food, for both health and humane reasons.  This is terrible, of course, and the secretary has been fielding calls nonstop.  They’ve received 6000 emails from around the globe on the subject. It was terrible, too, when a mentally disturbed man poured lighter fluid

“The surge gave us the combat power to take the fight to the enemy,” Lynch said. He cited a Jan. 10 battle in Arab Jabour where U.S. bombers dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes to clear an insurgent stronghold. U.S. troops have built 50 new bases south of Baghdad where they live full time instead of commuting from massive bases in western Baghdad as they had in the

The rerererepentence of Bill Clinton: Once again, Bill Clinton is ready to repent. On Sunday the former president is scheduled to visit black churches in South Central Los Angeles, where he’s expected to offer a mea culpa to those who “dearly loved him” when he was their president, Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) says. Watson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), tells

As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office. The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door,

and the gang at Flopping Aces: 2 Million served.

Not given much attention in Bride magazine: A Massachusetts couple has filed a lawsuit claiming their wedding reception in New Hampshire was ruined by drunk guests from another wedding party. Sans and Marcy Milbury of Danvers, Massachusetts, had their reception last fall at the Granite Rose banquet facility in Hampstead. Their lawsuit describes drunk guests from another wedding attacking their attendants and vomiting all over the restrooms the two parties

even in the face of the sublime. “We can’t seem to get past putting ourselves at the center of everything.”