The conventional wisdom is already congealing around results in the Nevada and South Carolina presidential contests yesterday.

 
On the Republican side, the line is that John McCain’s win in South Carolina last night is comeback and vindication, after his 2000 loss to George W. Bush marked by extreme campaign ugliness by Bush tacticians including Marvin P. Bush, the president’s youngest brother.

 
On the Democratic side, the line is that Hillary Clinton’s ‘victory’ in Nevada was awarded by women and Latinos, as proclaimed by the Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray and Anne Kornblut this morning and, instantly, by CNN ...   more »

64^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. White House statements about purported Iraqi weapons of mass destruction continue without cessation. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the White House and the Office of the Vice President search feverishly for any evidence, any at all, to back up their public assertions.
February 8-14, 2003:

 

Feb. 10, 2003 -- “On 10 February 2003, a US Defense Attache Officer reported that he had examined the warehouses [in the port of Cotonou, Benin, Africa], as described by the reporting in paragraph fifteen, and found they contained cotton rather than ...   more »