Obama will out-campaign McCain,

will out-fund-raise McCain, will out-strategize McCain, and will out-debate McCain.

If the Presidential candidates are serious about the U.S. achieving energy self-sufficiency,

they'll start talking about offshore drilling for oil and gas, and the building of nuclear power plants.

I will once again fly Spirit Airlines

when my only alternative is to walk from South Florida to LaGuardia.

Compare the goodwill spread this week by Pope Benedict XVI

with the ill will spread this week by former President Jimmy Carter.

Google is the only stock I own

that's up more than 90 points today.

JetBlue

ain't what it used to be.

Is there a worse VoIP service

than Verizon's VoiceWing?

But we're pretty sure he died.

A correction in today's New York Times: 

"An obituary last Thursday about the actor Richard Widmark referred incorrectly to the genesis of the movie 'Cheyenne Autumn' and misstated other aspects of his work. The film, in which he played an Army captain, was suggested by the 1953 book 'Cheyenne Autumn,' by Mari Sandoz, according to the film's credits; it was not based directly on Mr. Widmark's research. Also, the film was released in 1964 -- not 1963 -- as an accompanying picture caption correctly noted.  In the film 'Panic in the Streets,' the epidemic confronting a public-health doctor played by Mr. Widmark was pneumonic, not bubonic, plague. In 'Kiss of Death,' the character played by Mildred Dunnock, who is bound to her wheelchair and pushed down a flight of stairs by an ex-convict played by Mr. Widmark, is the mother of an underworld informer -- not the mother of an informer played by Victor Mature. The obituary also omitted two survivors: a stepson, Marc Weisgal, and a stepdaughter, Amy Fonda Ivers."

G-d Bless America

If the United States did not exist, the world would have lost to fascism in the 1940s, Communism in the 1970s, or terrorism today.

If the roles were reversed, and Clinton led Obama,

would the media ask repeatedly if Obama planned to drop out of the race?

Abbott and Costello

could not have said it better.

The Democratic Presidential race feels like a replay

of the internecine 1968 battle between Bobby Kennedy and Gene McCarthy.

More and more headlines in The Wall Street Journal

contain the words "Plunge" or "Free Fall."  It's getting scary out there.

The Upper East Side is one big parking lot

The President is in town and East 79th Street is blocked off for his use. 
As a result, cars heading uptown or downtown haven't moved for more than an hour.

The overwhelming coverage by The New York Times of the Spitzer matter

indicates that The Times believes its coverage has a good shot at winning a Pulitzer Prize.

McCain endorsement by Hillary Rodham Clinton?

"Sen. McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign; I will bring a lifetime of experience; and Sen. Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002."

The advertising themes used by Hillary Clinton today

will be the John McCain commercials of tomorrow.

As the Democratic Party moves farther and farther to the left,

the Republican Party moves farther and farther to the center.

Scary, Obscure Quote of the Day (from today's Wall Street Journal)

"Total sovereign-wealth fund assets are forecast to quadruple to around $12 trillion by 2015, making the funds the biggest grouping of investors in the world...."

West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI and its co-defendant are paying $49 million

to settle the first class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.
West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI has offered $13 million to settle the second class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.
West Publishing Company's BAR/BRI now faces a third class action brought on behalf of more than 100,000 law students and attorneys.

Remember when the sports pages were about sports,

and not about money, drugs, and litigation?

With hindsight--

Sprint is to Nextel, as Time Warner is to AOL.

Obama as Veep would help a ticket led by Hillary Clinton.

Clinton as Veep would hurt a ticket led by Barack Obama.

Well, excuuuuse me!

From the front page of today's New York Times, printed hours before Mitt Romney dropped his Presidential bid:
"Mitt Romney's aides say he is committed to staying in the race despite his losses on Tuesday, and [he] has an eye on the possibility of a brokered convention."

After the Clintons abandoned their erstwhile friend Joe Lieberman in his political time of need,

why are they surprised that Teddy, hundreds of other Democratic officials, and most American blacks abandoned them?

The Democratic Party's nomination battle will effectively end

when Al Gore endorses Barack Obama.

If a 13-year-old girl is kidnapped and forced to have sex with 20 men,

she's a victim.  But not according to The New York Times.  According to today's Times, she's a prostitute. The Times refers to "her and other prostitutes" and repeatedly calls her a prostitute, even though the story explicitly says she was abducted and forced into sex for money, and did not have sex willingly.

The 2008 Democratic and Republican candidates for President will be

John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

Ron Paul, Mike Bloomberg, or Ralph Nader

will make this year's interesting and complicated Presidential election even more interesting and complicated.

The biggest loser in this year's Presidential election

may be Bill Clinton.

John Edwards' oratory sounds less and less like that of a Presidential candidate

and more and more like that of a trial lawyer.

Some of the happiest people tonight over Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire win

are Republicans.  They know how to beat Hillary Clinton.  They don't know how to beat Obama.

How much of the momentum is pro-Barack?

and how much is anti-Hillary?

Most public corporations today exist primarily for the benefit of management,

and not for the benefit of shareholders.

The only Democratic candidates with meaningful experience

are Joe Biden and Bill Richardson.

South Beach is filled with young people with looks

and old people with money.

The Presidential nominee of the Republican Party

will be John McCain.

Sign of the Times

Verbatim, from its website: "Shipping is free if you choose to pick it up in your local Walmart store."

The Conceit of the Media

CNN has a full-page ad in today's New York Times and, presumably, in newspapers across the country.  The ad has tiny pictures of the eight Republican Presidential candidates, and a giant photo of CNN's Anderson Cooper, the debate moderator.  The photo of Cooper is about 20 times the size of the photo of each candidate for President.

Mike Huckabee

is the Republican Party's Jimmy Carter.

The Contorted Priorities of The New York Times

The announcement of this year's Rhodes Scholars was tucked away today in the B section and ran only one column inch.  No pictures, no names, and no coverage by a Times reporter.  The one paragraph was attributed to the AP.

Same paper, same day: About 12 column inches, with a picture, AND a Times byline, about Paris Hilton, who was "falsely linked to the plight of drunken elephants."

It seems as if every time I pass my local bank,

it has a new name.

Of the three corrections of the same article run by The Wall Street Journal,

the one that ran today is my favorite:

"A page-one article Tuesday about the Basque language, Euskera, in some editions contained several translation errors. The word for donkey herder is astazain, not ahuntzain; the word for pig herder is urdain, not artzain; and a cowboy is a behizain, not an urdain."

Primetime television

is sometimes funny.

Posted on CNBC this morning: WRITER'S ON STRIKE.

I guess he is.

If he looked Presidential,

Bill Richardson would be the Democratic Party's nominee.

Ron Paul

may become the Republican Party's Ralph Nader.

The second best thing about living in Manhattan

is not having to own a car.

The new Fox Business Network is to CNBC

as Conde Nast's new Portfolio Magazine is to Forbes.            Click here.

An active candidate for the U.S. Presidency

should not be allowed to be, at the same time, a U.S. Senator or state governor, or to hold a similar government position.  It is impossible to serve one's constituency properly while simultaneously seeking the highest office in the land.  State and federal provisions should be made so that a Presidential candidate can temporarily step aside, with a replacement serving until the candidate's quest is resolved.