Hillary Clinton has been putting on a bright smile and a happy face, claiming to be unfazed by the swelling of Obamomentum which swept her rival to sweep every single state since Super Tuesday. Before yesterday's Potomac Primaries, the conventional wisdom was that Hillary hadn't been expected to...

PETERBOROUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE — It was standing-room only at the McCain rally today at noon in Peterborough, New Hampshire — at least we assume so, since the event was stuffed to capacity and the fire marshal ordered it closed.

As the Straight Talk Express swung...

Hello, and welcome to Baltimore and Morgan State University for the first-ever PBS Black Voter Forum, proud to welcome half the GOP presidential candidates! In honor of same, tonight we've got half the liveblogging staff — it's just me, alas, on this...

Yesterday, I wrote about the new ObamaGirl video and, more generally, the impact of YouTube videography on the 2008 election (yeah, I know, me and everyone else). I remember when the "Hillary 1984"...

This is something that has bothered me for a while: What is up with the dismissive, slightly mocking attitude towards Missing White Women? As a group, they couldn't be more sympathetic: Almost always abducted, sexually assaulted, or brutally murdered. Way too many of them are not found. Individually, their stories...

Paris Hilton is news. That is a fact, like evolution. What kind of news depends on the day: Attending a premiere in a low-cut dress? Celebrity news, for Star and Us Weekly. Premiering another season of "The Simple Life?" Entertainment Weekly and TVGuide. Having a nip slip? Okay, maybe that's...

You've got to hand it to Hillary Clinton — she knows how to take a lemon and squeeze it into lemonade. That's exactly what she (and her handlers, natch) have done with her latest YouTube video wherein...

Unbelievable. Rosie O'Donnell actually quit The View, three weeks before her contract was up, like a big, blubbery baby. Seriously.

There are huge ironies here, but the first one that struck us was that she left after her showdown...

Okay, I couldn't let this one pass. Cenk Uygur posted his "Man-Crush List" yesterday, pointing out a few men of virtue and substance whom he admires. Awesome — HuffPo is all about the love. Except why did he have to go ruin it by being homophobic and sexist?...

Today marks the Ides of March, made famous in history and literature as the day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of his inner circle in a deed of political and personal reckoning, and also that selfsame day last year when I posted my very first blog...

I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby not only has one of the most punctuated names in Washington, he also has one of the most mysterious — not even the White House knows his real name. Or if they do, they're not telling. Or at...

I first met Morty through a quadruple-blind set up, the product of my mother giving out my number to her friend to be passed down through a chain of mothers and daughters to a woman named Marcy White to give to her...

A new issue of Newsweek is out today, but we can't let this one go: Last week's cover story on depression in men turned on the central point that men were less likely than women to seek treatment for...

Brit Hume provoked a strong reaction Sunday with his comments on Fox News calling Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) an "absolute fountain" of "naiveté" and saying he was "long past the day when he had anything but the...

Greetings and welcome to RussertWatch, made meta yesterday thanks to the glowing review of "Meet The Press" during the Libby trial last week, wherein former Vice-Presidential communications director Cathie Martin noted that she often suggested that Vice-President Dick Cheney go on "Meet The Press" to "control the message." From...

Last night was Bush's seventh State of the Union speech, and, depending on who you ask, it was confident, subdued, apologetic, unapologetic, clappy and not-as-clappy (though even not-so-clappy still means a hearty regimen of stand-up-sit-down applause cues that we're shocked John McCain was immune to). We're not...

Wow - big day today. "Dreamgirls" got shut out at the Oscars, Cheney got called out at the Libby trial, and tonight, Bush is going to bust out the State of the Union, because it's been so long since he last addressed the nation, and it was...

Bill Kristol has chutzpah: Not only is he unapologetic about pushing the Iraq war for almost four years, now that it's in such a shambles; and not only does he blame the current situation on the poor execution by the administration, not his own failure of vision;...

Barack Obama has announced that he will be launching a presidential exploratory committee, eschewing fancy launching pads like the Sunday talk shows or a Katrina backdrop and taking it straight to YOU — the people — via his website. In keeping with all...

I just read an item in Newsweek that chilled and angered me, and it's not even the one about how Iraq is breeding a new generation of terrorists in its war-torn children ("The Next Jihadists"), or the one wondering "Has Bush Ordered Secret War on Iran?" (which mentions...