In dead-tree TIME this week, Jay and I will have a story on Hillary Clinton’s strategy for dealing with the new challenge she faces from Barack Obama. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading down to South Carolina this morning, so that I can see all the Democratic candidates being put through their paces at tonight’s debate, tomorrow night’s …

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Pretty much all of the Democratic presidential candidates are attending tonight’s debate in South Carolina – the first major debate of the 2008 campaign season. The debate will be broadcast by MSNBC live from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg from 7 to …

In the continuing back and forth between Henry Waxman and the RNC comes a letter to Waxman from RNC lawyers containing “the current list of users who we believe are or were White House employees using RNC accounts for whom we have been able to identify active e-mail data on operational RNC servers”:

A Waxman aide tells me the …

The press corps was not impressed, but I think the crowd was slightly more so. I predict many stories will incorporate the truly grim* weather as a symbol for McCain’s stolid cadences and generally flat aspect. There was even a slight break in the clouds at the end of the speech — where McCain got cheers from the veteran-friendly crowd …

McCain has been on the Daily Show more than any other guest. This may be the toughest interview he’s gotten on any show.

There’s approximately one minute of wackiness and sort of unbecoming chumminess, then Stewart goes after him hard on Iraq, Reid (Stewart may be the only “news” anchor to accurately characterize the majority

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Rahm Emanuel’s office has put out excerpts of the speech that he plans to give at Brookings this morning, one that is being touted as the first shot in the Democrats’ effort to put the various Bush Administration scandals into broader–and darker–context. These are themes you are likely to be hearing a lot:

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For the first time ever, Toyota tops GM worldwide sales for the quarter. John Edwards is the first to jump on the issue, but I suspect we will be hearing more about it from the other candidates.

P.S.: Mr. Swamp, who just last year traded in our (still running) 1988 Camry for a new one, won’t be surprised.

UPDATE: To Ama and Atothek and …

A quick tour of the news channels shows CNN reporting on the supplemental, MSNBC on Cho’s escort service dealings and Fox looking at border regulation. No one is currently reporting on the hearing regarding Pat Tillman’s “friendly fire” death in Afghanistan (remember that war?). If journalism is the first draft of history, Congressional …

Tom Hamburger of the LA Times reports a new and potentially significant investigation by a normally obscure federal office, one that is looking at whether the nexus of the various scandals of the day might be at the White House. Hamburger writes:

The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney,

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Who could this eyewitness to the David/Crow/Rove smackdown possibly be?

In the eyewitness’ version, again, David and Crow are a bit more aggressive than their own story suggests. The eyewitness says David told Rove, You need to bring in new people to tell you the truth. Rove mentioned Dr. John Marburger, the White House science advisor.

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Thanks a ton for all the questions you posed here. It will take awhile to work through them; I decided to start with some housekeeping-related queries first. A nice batch was submitted by paul_lukasiak:

1) You have the title of “editor of Time.com” Do you actually perform any editorial functions — do you, for instance, offer your peers

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