Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) began her 2008 campaign by announcing a Presidential Exploratory Committee on January 20, 2007. Even after her defeat in Iowa’s primary, she ran her campaign as though she were already the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. She then proceeded to lose 12 straight contests in a row, and [...]

To anyone who thought Hillary Clinton’s claim to 35 years of experience was bullshit, in general: now so are the specifics.
The centerpiece in her “I have foreign policy experience” argument lately a compelling anecdote about how she basically took on sniper fire in Bosnia back in the early 1990s when she visited there as part [...]

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce his resignation, according to his senior aides. This follows revelations yesterday that he was named in a prostitution sting operation. Spitzer is known as “Client 9″ in the federal affidavit (read it here), apparently spent upwards of $4000 (!) for a little more than [...]

The world record holder for the marathon Haile Gebrselassie announced today he will not be participating in the Beijing Olympics marathon this summer, claiming the air pollution is so bad in China that it would be an undue risk to his health. He suffers from exercise induced asthma but will still run in the shorter [...]

Yesterday’s news cycle was dominated by Bill and Hillary Clinton’s suggestions that they are open to a Clinton/Obama general election ticket. Oh, really? You mean you wouldn’t be opposed to making the man with the most delegates and states won, and overall popular vote leader part of your ticket?? How conciliatory and gracious. I guess [...]