Hillary Clinton makes a stir by telling a Congressional Black Caucus forum that every child born in the country should receive a $5,000 baby bond to help pay the costs of college or buying a home. However, it is not the first time she has made this proposal. It was also part of the American Dream Initiative that she put forward at a DLC …

Speaking of (perceptions of) the inevitability of Sen. Clinton winning the Democratic nomination for president, Republicans are behaving as if the votes have already been cast. The Hill newspaper has a piece today about Stop Her Now and other efforts to tarnish Clinton’s image in anticipation of her winning the nomination. And Mike …

I know this is a blog about politics, but I encourage anyone out there who hasn’t already done so to read Amanda Ripley’s Time.com piece about Tania Head, the 9/11 “survivor” featured on yesterday’s front page of the New York Times. Ripley interviewed Head for a story about 9/11 survivors several years ago. She looks back on that …

Via Ana, who is not able to post it herself at the moment, comes this reaction to Rush from John McCain:

Any American who risks his or her life to defend us has earned the respect and gratitude of every American citizen, irrespective of their views on this
war. If Mr. Limbaugh made the remark he is reported to have made, it

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Here’s my podcast on, yes, those McCain ads. BECAUSE SWAMPLAND COMMENTERS CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF JOHN MCCAIN.

Re: “Phony soldiers.” I’ve emailed Romney and McCain camps for comment. Perhaps one of my colleagues can get in touch with Rudy. Maybe they’ll demand for Rush to be deported!

BORING ADMINISTRATIVE COMMENT: We’re in the process of …

Note: I wrote this yesterday, but idiotically didn’t hit “publish.” Perhaps a thought still worth reflecting on…

Just to judge by the chatter in the mediasphere about last night’s debate, it sounds like Hillary “won” (insofar as these things are winnable): she got off a few good lines (mostly having to do with Bill), she made some …

Barack Obama drew a crowd officially estimated at 24,000 last night on Hillary Clinton’s home turf in Manhattan. In this week’s dead-tree TIME, I look at what he is–and isn’t–doing to close the gap with a frontrunner who is looking increasingly inevitable.*

*Commenter Boring Commenter makes a good syntax point: Inevitability is not …

This means he also has to stay within the federal election system’s spending limits, which could make it far more difficult to compete against such deep-pocketed rivals as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (He is the first top-tier Democrat to do that; on the Republican side, John McCain expects to do the same.) Edwards insists this is …

Continuing today’s do-it-yourself theme here in the Swamp, Mitt Romney’s campaign has announced a winner of its Create Your Own Ad contest:

Ana earlier noted an entry by our former colleague John Dickerson, who is now at Slate. But those folks at Slate didn’t stop there. There was also this one, by former Clinton domestic policy …

Apparently, John Edwards was for combat missions in Iraq before he was against them. In his September 7 speech on terrorism, here’s what he had to say:

Even though the presence of U.S. troops has served as an attractive target for terrorists, our eventual withdrawal will not remove the threat. As president, I will redeploy troops into

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Our Jay Newton-Small has a smart piece about President Bush, the born-again conservative, and how his decision to prove his bona fides by promising to veto the children’s health care bill is making many a lot of Republicans unhappy.