Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner  —  If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here.  When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”

Rocky blogger Major Andrew Olmsted killed in Iraq  —  He was the first casualty for 2008 in Iraq.  And a small part of Maj. Andrew Olmsted likely would've chuckled at that fact.  It would be droll and play into his sense of self-deprecation.  —  But for everyone else, the news would be devastating.

WTF?  —  Okay, I could come up with a few good snarky lines on this one.  But I'll settle for someone just explaining to me what the hell Mike Huckabee's talking about.  —  TPMer Eric Kleefeld and I were chatting this evening about whether everyone's underestimating Huckabee's chances in this race.

Inside the Ring  —  Inside the Ring  —  Coughlin sacked  —  Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff.  The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work …

Obama: Ecstasy & Agony  —  This is just a late Friday night prediction.  But after reading this regrettable excess from Ezra Klein as well as all of the more reasonable but nonetheless hopeful, proud, idealistic and sincere sentiments of pride and well-wishing for Obama as the first serious …

Obama: The World's Candidate  —  Watching America.com is running a multiple feature of global stories about the candidate who has the world's attention - Obama.  He is has the world's attention not because he is personally more interesting than any other candidate, but because he is symbolically the most important - and by far.

Turnout Thoughts  —  I am still gathering my thoughts on Obama's win.  In all likelihood, his vote count is lower than actual turnout for his candidacy due to the excessive weighting of rural precincts that went for Edwards.  And while Obama performed fantastically, Clinton and Edwards …

Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater  —  Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he made a point to travel to what today would be considered “red” states.  Five days after he announced his candidacy, he visited Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Justices to Decide if Rape of a Child Merits Death  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Constitution allows the death penalty for the rape of a child.  —  The justices acted only three days before a scheduled argument in another important death penalty case …

Helping Huck  —  I am informed that Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich are helping Huckabee behind the scenes.  Morris has been everywhere today promoting Huckabee.