Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills  —  Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton's struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.  —  Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama …

Election 2008: New Jersey Presidential Election  —  New Jersey: McCain in Toss-Up with Both Clinton and Obama  —  John McCain holds statistically insignificant leads over both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in New Jersey.  It's McCain 45%, Clinton 42% and McCain 46%, Obama 45%.

Interviewing Six Conservative Female Bloggers On Dating  —  One of the great things about my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, is that I get to link a wide variety of articles and see which links draw the most clicks.  While doing that, one of the things that I've found is that any article about dating tends to do really well.

Iran Brokers Call for Ceasefire; Bush reduced to Irrelevancy in Iraq; Fighting Continues  —  Iran Brokers Call for Ceasefire;  —  Bush reduced to Irrelevancy in Iraq;  —  Fighting Continues  —  McClatchy provides a lot of important detail about Sunday's surprising developments regarding …

Obama had greater role on liberal survey  —  During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion- positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he's projected during his presidential campaign.

Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Obama  —  WASHINGTON — With an eye to the general election and the Pennsylvania primary, some Republicans who oppose President Bush's war policy are endorsing Senator Obama.  —  Senator Obama speaks at a rally on the Old Main Lawn at Penn State University yesterday …

Superdelegates: A guide to the undecided  —  In a Democratic nominating contest that could ultimately be decided by their votes, divining the intentions of the 794 Democratic superdelegates has become something of a Washington parlor game.  —  By nearly all counts — generally measured …

OOPS  —  Racial healer Lou Dobbs explains how he's sick of “cotton pickin'” black leaders telling him how he can and can't talk about race (he catches himself at the last minute — sorta) ...  Special thanks to TPM Reader AR for the catch.  —  Late Update: Whenever we do posts like this …

Biography Isn't Enough  —  The McCain campaign's first general election ad, released Friday, includes moving footage of him as a prisoner of war.  What was Democratic Chairman Howard Dean's reaction?  “While we honor McCain's military service, the fact is Americans want a real leader …

Gray Lady vs Jeremiah Wright, Round 2: Did Wright intimidate the Times into pulling punches?  —  The New York Times has responded to an angry letter written by Rev. Jeremiah Wright — more than a year ago.  The letter resurfaced this past week, and it contains accusations of misrepresentation and …

Supreme Court won't intervene in Jefferson case  —  The Supreme Court Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that curtails the FBI's power to search congressional offices.  —  The case arose out of the FBI's raid of the offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) in 2006.

Butterfield: More endorsements coming  —  U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield of Wilson says he is the only North Carolina congressman supporting Barack Obama, but he expects further endorsements Tuesday or Wednesday.  —  “There have been substantial discussions between the Obama campaign and the other six …

The Dilbert Strategy  —  Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy.  To hide their lack of any actual ideas about what to do, managers sometimes make a big show of rearranging the boxes and lines that say who reports to whom.

LAST REFUGE ...  PA Gov. Ed Rendell on Fox News coverage of the Democratic primary campaign ...  Late Update: Here's the video:  —  Hat tip to the Politico.

The John McCain “centrism” fallacy  —  In a lengthy and largely (though not completely) admiring profile of John McCain, Newsweek's Michael Hirsh writes: … (There's that generous and patently false “McCain-was-merely-mistaken” media defense again).  And there's also this: