I really don't care what anyone else has to say.  After the merciless beatings that Hillary Clinton has taken night after night from Keith Olbermann, for her to have gone on his show Monday night was nothing less than courageous.  And as for Barack, it's not a question of whether he's Black enough or White enough, whether he's too liberal or too centrist.  The question is whether Barack Obama is man enough to be president of the United States.

Sheesh! Guess no one passed the word to them that the mainstream media is supposed to be ignoring John Edwards, because The Fresno Bee just urged Democrats and independents to vote for him in California's February 5 Democratic primary.  More below the fold.

John Edwards was on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday morning.  Acknowledging John McCain's victory in the GOP's South Carolina primary, Edwards posed this challenge to the Democratic Party:

And what we need to think about is--as a party--is who are we going to put up against who now looks like it may be John McCain on the other side. I mean, this is a guy who's a great advocate for campaign finance reform. So are we going to put a candidate against him who've taken in lots of money from lobbyists and PACs? And he's also a very strong candidate, with a long, long record, including an extraordinary record of military service. So he will be strong. And we have to put up somebody who's strong against him and somebody who represents change in a meaningful way.

CBS News FACE THE NATION, Sunday, January 20, 2008

Using an alternate quote from a Q&A session Edwards had this morning with reporters, Associated Press writer Jim Davenport tried to brand Edwards as falsely claiming that he is the best Democratic candidate to beat McCain.  Did he succeed?  You decide on the flip.

To witness the American mainstream media's coverage of Campaign '08, an overseas visitor to these shores might hastily surmise that only two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination were worthy of note, not a third whose presence in the race has lifted the hopes of the poor and middle class, and struck fear deep into the heart of corporate America.

But then, upon returning home, our visitor would find in the publications of his native land surprising clues to a disturbance rising in America, such as a dispatch this morning from Reuters.

More below the fold.

In Texas, when someone is admitted to the hospital with gunshot wounds, is there any law that requires the hospital to notify the local sheriff's office?

For the answer, look below the fold.

The accident recalled another incident eight years ago, when the Cat in the Hat balloon also struck a lamppost and injured four people, one of whom spent several weeks in a coma.

CNN flashed the news eleven minutes after the accident.  MSNBC followed minutes later.  WNBC-TV carried the news a half hour after the parade ended.  But if you had been watching the parade on the NBC television network, you wouldn't have known that anything had gone wrong. Read on.