The news that Ariz Congressman Rick Renzi is in a whole lot of trouble with the feds reminded me that this was the same Renzi who ran what may have been the scuzziest negative ads of the 2006 campaign against attorney Ellen Simon–the ad linked Simon to the Massachusetts ACLU’s attempt to protect the North [...]

Here at Swampland, we know that our commenters have lives as well as attitudes. Over at Trifecta’s blog Newpairodimes, we have been following the difficult pregnancy of Mrs. Trifecta. We are delighted to announce that everything is, finally, just fine. Virtual cigars all around. UPDATE: Added the bloglink. Thanks, Paul.

Greg Sargent rightly points out that Hillary is not the only front-runner whose negatives suggest otherwise: Hillary Clinton: Definitely would, 27%; Would consider, 26%; Definitely would not, 45% John McCain: Definitely would, 12%; Would consider, 39%; Definitely would not, 47% As you can see, McCain has edged higher than Hillary in the “definitely would not” [...]

Now that’s what I call resume-padding: When Morgan Freeman comes over to greet Obama, the senator begins bowing down both hands in worship. “This guy was president before I was,” says Obama, referring to Freeman’s turn in Deep Impact and, clearly, getting a little ahead of his own bio. Next, a nod to Bruce Almighty: [...]

Yglesias has been correctly obsessed with the Kirkuk situation. My sense is that the external–Turkish–threat may be greater than the internal (mostly Sunni) Arab situation. In recent weeks, the Maliki government has smiled upon “voluntary” relocation plans for the Kirkuk Arabs: there is synergy between the desire of Kurds and Shi’ites to have their own [...]

Other Klein not just clever, but closer to the truth than he may think. In Ron Suskind’s excellent book, the One Percent Solution, there’s a hilarious scene–p336– that takes place in the inner sanctum of the CIA right after Osama issued his last minute verbal assault on Bush just before the 2004 election. The consensus [...]

These are not the emails you’re looking for. UPDATE: Yeah, this is all dead tree and whatnot.

President Bush–unplugged, unhinged, unscripted, incoherent–at a town meeting, via Atrios and You Tube.

John Podhoretz steps in to show that the NRO’s Corner is not the moral wasteland John Derbyshire would have you believe: The notion that a human being or group of human beings holding no weapon whatever should somehow “fight back” against someone calmly executing other people right in front of their eyes is ludicrous beyond [...]