Below The Beltway

It’s not just John McCain, it looks like Elizabeth Dole’s Senate seat is vulnerable as well:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in North Carolina finds Democratic challenger Kay Hagan with 48% of the vote and the incumbent United States Senator Elizabeth Dole three points behind with 45%.
That’s a slight improvement for Dole who trailed by [...]

RealClearPolitics’ John McIntyre explains why today’s primary matters so much:
Barack Obama has had three previous opportunities to knock Hillary Clinton out of the race. First, in New Hampshire in early January where all the polls pointed to an Obama win; second, on Super Tuesday in early February where a win in California (where the polls [...]

Over at Slate, Troy Patterson posts a review of the season premiere of 24 that shows a complete misunderstand of both the show, and why people watch it:
There’s depth to 24, but it’s all in the violence?the sight of an actual everyman who, unwillingly drawn into the terror plot, beats a man to protect his [...]

No, really, Chris Dodd is running for President:
NEW YORK — Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd announced Thursday he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, saying problems at home and abroad meant it was time for him to “get out of the bleachers and onto the arena floor.”
Dodd, a 26-year Senate veteran, told the [...]

The blogosphere is abuzz over this report from the Sunday Times of London that Israel is planning to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons sites, with nuclear weapons:
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran?s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield [...]

I will admit that, in the beginning, I supported the War in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had demonstrated himself to be an enemy of freedom when he invaded Kuwait without provocation in 1990, he’d used chemical weapons against both Iranians and his own countrymen, and, at least as presented by the people who are supposed to [...]

One sign that the real estate market in Northern Virginia is still very soft are the number of people who signed contracts to buy new homes who are trying to get out of them:
Lisa and Reggie Starr thought they were getting a good deal when they signed a contract to buy a new six-bedroom house [...]

Bob the Crazy Politico on the difference between a blizzard in Virginia and a blizzard in the Midwest:
Now I remember why I liked Virginia, when they were scheduled to get 12-16 inches of snow everything closed, two weeks beforehand, and it normally melted within a few days. I also lived in an apartment, with a [...]

I USED TO BE BI-CURIOUS, but now I’ve just gone all the way to becoming “bi”
Heh.

No official announcement yet, but it certainly looks like former General Wesley Clark is seriously considering running for the 2008 Democratic nomination:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wesley Clark said Tuesday he wants to avoid waiting too late to make a decision on whether to run for president _ a mistake he made in his failed 2004 [...]