Our place in history is secure:
History will record the Indiana and North Carolina primaries as the events that secured the 2008 Democratic nomination for Barack Obama—and put the final nails in the coffin of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
This article and a lot like it try to figure out "what went wrong" for Clinton. Most of them overlook the two most obvious: 1. A lot of people intensely dislike Clinton. 2. Obama ain't Clinton.
Finally, after all the frivolous lawsuits we've had, here's an important one:
A Florida man has sued the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, seeking recognition of 10 men he says served as president before George Washington.
You think it's awful that white-collar criminals are treated more gently than ordinary lawbreakers? Well, you ought to love this:
The cell phone I had just before the current one had a glitch. If I didn't retrieve my voice mail in exactly the right way, I had to listen to all the saved voice mails before the phone would deliver the new ones.
John McCain, responding to a reporter asking him about the famous comment by fellow Republican Thad Cochran, that the idea of someone with such a temper being president send a chill down his spine, said he does get angry -- about corruption and runaway spending in Washington.
"You know something, the American people are angry, too, and they're not going to take it anymore," he said.
It's almost possible to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton, the way everybody is joining the "Get out of here now!" brigade:
It ain't over 'til it's over, but a growing number of Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest friends now think it's really over.
A veil of gloom descended on Clinton's campaign Wednesday, with people close to her questioning how long the former first lady could -- or should -- remain in the race following a surprisingly thin Indiana win and blowout loss in North Carolina on Tuesday.
The news from Myanmar Burma just keeps getting worse. As many as 100,000 may be dead, and the thugs who run the place are putting up all kinds of roadblocks for a world that wants to help:
But the U.S. ambassador to Bangkok said later the United States was still waiting for approval from Myanmar.
Kouchner suggested on Wednesday invoking a U.N. "responsibility to protect" to deliver aid without the junta's approval, but France's bid to make the Security Council take a stand was rebuffed.
A member of another misunerstood and put-upon minority (only 10 million Americans out of more than 300 million) asks for our understanding:
A Dartmouth professor feels the heat and flees the intellectual kitchen:
Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights.
The march of progress in the Mideast:
The ulema in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province have declared that use of mobile phones by women is haram, or forbidden in Islam. The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Khabrain reported that the imam of Jama Masjid Hazrat Umar Farooq made the announcement during his Friday sermon.
Aren't allies wonderful?
Now this is chutzpah:
CARMEL, Ind. -- Sponsors of a proposal to provide City Council members up to $18,000 in city-funded health benefits are withdrawing the ordinance after hearing strong public outcry against it this week.
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Word to the wise, all you politicos: Beware of the bus.
This humble mode of transportation has become an unstoppable serial killer this presidential season, metaphorically speaking. Hardly a week goes by without someone reviving the cliche of the 2008 campaign -- that a former ally of a candidate has been thrown under a bus.
They're just now figuring this out?
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party's message isn't good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC's money.
From what I heard, this really didn't happen all that much, for all the bluster about how serious Democrats were going to be about it:
Voters in some polling sites are being challenged when asking for ballots, based on whether they're switching parties from previous elections.
Secretary of State Todd Rokita says in Indiana's open primary, you can be challenged, but you still have whatever ballot you want. Those who get challenged should be offered a form to sign and then handed the ballot requested.
Headline of the week:
Filling Coastal Zones With People Complicates Hurricane Evacuation
Those darn people. They complicate everything, don't they?
Curse those diabolical Republican legislators! They passed that voter ID law to keep minorities and old folks from voting for Democrats the way God intended them to. And just look at what happened:
More than 1.6 million votes were cast Tuesday in the Democratic and GOP presidential races with nearly all precincts reporting, according to unofficial tallies by The Associated Press. That smashed the 1992 primary turnout of a little more than 1 million votes.
A tribute to Hillary Clinton, who just won't quit.
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Former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall Derringer gets a nice Washington Post byline. With a little help from former Mayor Paul Helmke, she takes a run at defining Indiana's brand of conservatism:
With all the talk about "the primary that finally matters," I was expecting a big crowd at my polling place. But when I stopped by to vote just before 8, it wasn't that busy. There was a steady trickle of people, but no lines. And my polling place is one of those bundled three-precinct sites. I do hope we hit 50 percent turnout. If we don't hit it for this election, with all the publicity it's gotten, we're not likely to ever again.
