Won’t Gleen(s) be relieved?  The Clinton campaign is no longer taking contributions from a Turkish American who financed a film that depicted an American Jew trading in Iraqi body parts. Mehmet Celebi had been listed on the presidential campaign website of U.S. Sen. Hilalry Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as a “Hill-raiser,” someone who had raised more than $100,000 for her presidential bid. Celebi had co-produced “Valley of the Wolves: Iraq,” a

Shit you is the thing I do not do: An autobiographies? 

BEST COUNTRIES TO BE A WOMAN Measures of well-being include life expectancy, education, purchasing power and standard of living. Not surprisingly, the top 10 countries are among the world’s wealthiest. Iceland Norway Australia Canada Ireland Sweden Switzerland Japan Netherlands France SOURCE: UNDP Gender-related development index It’s clear that Canada’s much better for women than the United States because . . . uh . . . well, culturally they’re so different.

In this campaign cycle, people have become increasingly aware of the odd and varied ways in which the Democrats and Republicans award delegates to the candidates seeking their respective party nominations.   The other day, RCP’s Jay Cost posted an analysis of the systemic biases in the method by which the Democrats award delegates to states: In my opinion, the Democrats’ nominating system stinks. It doesn’t stink as much as the

The willful ignorance of Libby Spencer on “Hispanics and electability” caused me to take a look at the question of whether (or how) the GOP nomination of John McCain affects the Hispanic vote.  After all, the Hispanic vote has been a factor in the Democratic race, though the media was generally slow to pick up on it.  Moreover, an October 2007 Pew poll notes that while they may make up only

The New York Times, having whiffed on its “maybe McCain had an affair” story, and having whiffed again on its “maybe McCain isn’t a natural born US citizen” story, goes for the trifecta: Maybe McCain has cancer! In 1999, during Mr. McCain’s first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of