Below The Beltway

Or, something like that:
Andy Pettitte was not surprised to learn that his friend and former teammate, Roger Clemens, is being investigated by the Department of Justice for possibly making false statements to Congress earlier this month.
“In my mind, I was prepared that it might happen,” Pettitte, the Yankees’ left-hander, said at Legends Field on Thursday. [...]

Not surprisingly, the FBI announced that it was opening an investigation to determine if Roger Clemens’ committed perjury during his February 13th Congressional testimony:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids, officials said Thursday in the case of another baseball star snared in a [...]

C. Vivian Stringer, the coach of the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team, has become only the third women’s coach with 800 career wins:
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — The 800-win club has a new member: C. Vivian Stringer.
Stringer joined Pat Summitt and Jody Conradt as the only women’s basketball coaches to win 800 games as No. 4 [...]

It’s official, the meltdown is in full force now.
Back in January, Hillary Clinton had double-digit leads in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. It’s a much different story now. According to Rasmussen, she now leads in Ohio by only 5 percentage points.
But that’s not the worst of it.
For the first time, Clinton has fallen behind in Texas:
Barack [...]

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A U.S. Intelligence official said yesterday that there was evidence that Serbian police let the attack on the U.S. Embassy happen:
The Serbian government decided to pull back its police in Belgrade last Thursday so that demonstrators could attack the U.S. and British embassies, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told a Senate committee yesterday.
“We have [...]

It’s not as bad as unsubstantiated allegations of an extramarital affair, but this morning the New York Times has jumped on the bandwagon of those wondering if John McCain might be Constitutionally ineligible to be President:
Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal [...]

A Canadian television station reports that staffers for Barack Obama have told Canadian officials to basically ignore the candidate’s statement’s against the North American Free Trade Agreement:
Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign team told a Canadian official not to take his criticisms seriously, CTV News [...]

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced in a New York Times Op-Ed piece today that he is not running for President:
I listened carefully to those who encouraged me to run, but I am not — and will not be — a candidate for president. I have watched this campaign unfold, and I am hopeful that [...]

We’re three episodes in to Jericho’s short, but still welcome, second season and, already I can say this — if the writing for the show had been as tight, and the plot moved as well, as it has in these three episodes, there’s no way the show would’ve been canceled back in May. In the [...]