It’s a long shot, but not an impossibility, as Jay Newton-Small writes in a new piece on Time.com. Meanwhile, the Republicans are losing yet another Senator to retirement — although apparently not for a few years.

My theory is that the Rockies are reaping the karmic benefits of generosity, having granted a full series share to the widow of their minor league coach who was killed by a batted ball. There is a lesson in this for politicians. The President, an ardent baseball fan, might reconsider his SCHIP veto.

A very quick hit on Rudy, pegged to the release of his FEC filings.

You know the joke about Republicans that they stop caring about children once they leave the womb? True or not, it at least suggests that there is an age at which conservatives will not conduct a character attack on a child. It turns out that being two-and-a-half is old enough: I’m such a meanie that [...]

A rival campaign alerted me to these details from the Obama filing: $27.00 For Printing At The Arkansas State Archives In Little Rock, Arkansas. $9.30 For Printing At The William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas. $207.75 For Travel/Lodging At The La Quinta Inn & Suites In Little Rock, Arkansas. In case you [...]

One of the advantages of working in the big, soulless office building that houses the Time Washington Bureau is the fact that I occasionally bump into former Texas Congressman Martin Frost on the elevator. (He’s the kind of guy who will always hold the OPEN DOOR button for you.) Frost, who headed the Democratic Congressional [...]

This op-ed, by 12 US Army captains who formerly served in Iraq, doesn’t quite have the current, on-the-ground credibility of the NY Times op-ed by 7 current enlisted men last summer, but it is devastating all the same. Also, on the military beat: Fred Kaplan, excellent as always, had a really important analysis of Sec. [...]