In one of those quietly terrifying page-one stories in the March 3 New York Times, we learn that G.W. Bush's crack legal team advised him, after 9/11, that, among other unheard-of things, he could use the US military to conduct warrantless domestic searches in the name of fighting terrorists. (See Memos Reveal Scope of Power Bush Sought in Fighting Terror

Why didn't American journalists think of this sooner?

• Bush: "I don't know what the guy said, but I saw his sole"
• Modesto Bee: "I couldn't believe he had time to get a second one off."
• Politico: Bush ducks shoe, but female press secretary gets whacked in face with microphone during ensuing melee

I called Sonia Chang-Diaz’s Campaign Manager Deborah Shah yesterday to ask if her soldiers were pulling a traditional java-driven all-nighter before today’s primary, in which her candidate is challenging State Senator Dianne Wilkerson for her Second Suffolk Senate District seat. My plan was to surprise them at 4am, when volunteers and even candidates tend to say the darndest things.

"The local grassroots movement, helmed by 'Wayne Pickering,' is proposing an ordinance initiative for the November 2008 San Francisco ballot in order to get the poop/pee/vomit plant's title changed.

First she tried to market the image of herself as a fearless first-lady-caught-in the-line-of fire with her exaggerated claims of narrowly missing sniper fire while on a visit to Bosnia in 1996, but now she’s trying to dupe the public into thinking she possesses the same die-hard, give-it-your-all, not-going-down-without-a-fight personality as…Rocky Balboa? In her most recent public appearance, Senator Clinton compared herself to the legendary Sylvester Stallone character in a speech given to the AFL-CIO in Philadelphia today

I can hang

David S. Bernstein talks to FNX about Obama, his generation, and of course, his article: "Obama outside the Boom: The first political leader of my generation acts nothing like the rest of us — which might be how he’s gotten where he is."

MP3: Obama and Gen-X: Berstein breaks it down for FNX.

Why can't we be friends? Obama and Clinton enter horses in the Texas race.

Good afternoon, Super Tuesday. For the latest, read Steven Stark's article "One for the books: Can tales of the Democratic party's glory help Obama and Clinton?" or listen below.

MP3: Political guru Steven Stark talks politics, what else, with FNX this Super Tuesday

This is what a Superdelegate looks like

Steven Stark talks primaries with FNX. Is Hillary Clinton losing it?

Read Stark's article "Losing it? Hillary Clinton has squandered a huge lead. Can she get it back?" And, listen to Stark talk smack about superbad superdelegates and dark horses in the possible race for an independent presidential candidate.

IRRADIATION FIXATION
10 years ago
February 13, 1998 | Dan Kennedy reported on the controversial activist Michael Colby and his organization Food & Water’s effort to fight against the use of irradiation on the food supply.
“Irradiating food by zapping it with gamma rays, according to its advocates, eliminates all or most of the bacteria that can make people sick.

Even the hacks at Fox News got the bulletin after last night's victory speeches: John McCain can stoop to stealing Barack's stump taglines, but nobody -- American hero or no -- wants to follow Obama. Yes, Hillary is losing the ground game . . . hard. But, as you can see above, what we're really all agog about is MSNBC enabling embeds on their news video.

On the off chance you're one of the three people who hasn't seen the original, the above will be much funnier after you watch this.

One thing we're gonna miss about the Hollywood writers' strike: dudes are gonna have less time on their hands for stuff like this. We only wish Mitt had dropped out a week later, if only so we coulda heard Fred Armisen warble "I saw my dad march with MLK."

Post-Super Tuesday what will the Democratic race for President look like?

Exective Editor of the Phoenix Peter Kadzis helps FNX's Special Ed talk politics and presidential candidates. For more on the impendng race read Steven Stark's article "The morning after: Now that Super Tuesday is behind them, where do they go from here?".

When your political platform is "change", doesn't offering more of the same seem counter-intuitive? Apparently not to Barack Obama, who delivered his Super Tuesday pre-mortem speech from Boston last night, in front of a crowd that CNN called "a mosh pit" -- but which those of us who were actually on the floor called "a yawn fest".