Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.  —  Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up …

Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on daily polling from Feb. 1-Feb. 3, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — On the eve of the Super Tuesday election, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain closely matched in national Democratic voters' nomination preferences.

Michelle Obama: I Would Have To Think About Supporting Clinton If She Is The Nominee  —  Imagine if Bill Clinton had said that?  Michelle Obama needs to straighten this out immediately.  Really bad stuff from the Obama campaign.

The Final Mission, Part II  —  FALLUJAH - The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country.  Most Americans have heard about the success in this province by now …

Bush Seeks Budget of $3.1 Trillion  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush submitted a federal budget of $3.1 trillion on Monday, declaring that the spending plan would keep the United States safe and prosperous and, despite its record size, would adhere to his principle of letting Americans keep as much of their own money as possible.

McCain and the Supreme Court  —  The conservative movement has made enormous gains over the past three decades in restoring constitutional government.  The Roberts Supreme Court shows every sign of building on these gains.  —  Yet the gulf between Democratic and Republican approaches …

DNC boost for sex biz  —  Denver can expect prostitution spike during convention  —  Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August.  —  The sex and adult entertainment industries are expecting a boom in business …

Clinton's ‘35 years of change’ omits most of her career  —  WASHINGTON — To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she's spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good.  —  She routinely tells voters that she's “been working to bring positive change to people's lives for 35 years.”

Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby  —  (not in so many words...despite or because of polls showing that Obama is now leading or tied with Hillary Clinton nationally.). … I'm sorry.  Hold up, time out.  What??  Unless every Obama adviser I've spoken to over the past year has out and out lied to me …

Hillary vs. the Patriarchy  —  “Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women,” said Bill Kristol yesterday on Fox News Sunday, one of the many “news” outlets to expose Kristol's reliable sexism.  “The Democratic establishment would be crazy …

Health Care Reformers — Don't Despair!  —  We're going to take a moment from the debate about individual mandates in health care reform — a topic to which I shall return soon enough — to bring you some unambiguously good news.  If, that is, you think universal health care is a good idea.

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan  —  The Afghan government says that Britain had a secret plan to train 2,000 Taliban fighters  —  Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan …