Former Bush White House Press Secretary Tony Snow has died at age 53 of colon cancer. He leaves behind a wife and three children under the age of 15.

CNN just confirmed that Sen. Obama is currently meeting with Sen. Edwards in North Carolina, likely discussing a possible endorsement.

Zogby has a new poll out this morning (e.g., 1AM this morning) that shows Obama widening his lead in California and taking the lead in Missouri, as per this Reuters story. More below the jump.

According to Harold Meyerson over at the American Prospect's TAPPED blog, the race card may be in play now in the worst possible way.

BREAKING NEWS 10,000 more National Guard troops are being called up for duties on the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast, CNN confirms. Details soon.

They said there were enough troops in the area to be able to cope with the recovery effort. It was already obvious that much more help than a few thousand troops would be needed, and this about doubles the number.

Fox News also reports that Bush will address the nation at 5PM Eastern tonight.

Tomorrow, a rag-tag team of college students and community activists, with the support of Rev. Al Sharpton, will launch a protest in Santa Monica and begin to change all of that.

He almost got his intended effect: she's conspiracy-theorizing and wondering if he knows something she doesn't, though she's considering a run for Canada as opposed to signing up with the Army. I'm sure other kids, unaware of the fact that Congress has to authorize a draft and hasn't even come close to doing so, have signed up because they were told they'd have to serve anyway.

Is this an isolated incident or is it institutionalized? If any with media connections would like to explore this topic further, I do have the number to the recruitment office that called her, though not the name of the recruitment officer.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia apologized to a Hattiesburg American reporter in a letter received today, and said that he has learned a lesson from the experience.

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"It has been the policy of the American judiciary not to thrust themselves into the public eye, where they might come to be regarded as politicians seeking public favor," Scalia wrote.

It's great that he apologized, but his justification is off. Whether his speeches are published or not, he's still making them, thus thrusting himself into the 'public eye'.

Maybe he shouldn't be making speeches at all.

The following is an ad placed by the St Petersburg Democratic Club in local papers:

"And then there's Rumsfeld who said of Iraq, "We have our good days and our bad days". We should put this S.O.B. up against the wall and say "This is one of our bad days," and pull the trigger."

Then they associate themselves with Kerry's campaign. This is unacceptable.

The biggest, strategic disadvantage of a space-based missile defense system (or even of proposing one) is this: whenever you build a weapon, someone is going to try to out-weapon you or try to undermine your weapons. With Star Wars, it could be (or is) as simple as dummy missiles designed to confuse the system and allow the real nuclear weapons to slip through to their targets. The only way to stop the one-upmanship is through international diplomacy and agreements -- imagine if the missile shield were an international effort designed to protect everyone.

But, no, Bush is willing to spend billions on a missile defense system that will be invalidated or ineffective in a couple of years, if it works at all. And I'm sure that when the system is undermined, there will be a 'fix' for it that will mean billions for the aerospace industry and defense contractors.

Now there's a government in power in Russia reminiscent of the Soviets, and a Republican administration on our side of the world. We're looking at the kindlings of a second Cold War. So if Reagan got us out of the first Cold War (ha), then let it be known that Bush dragged us into the second.

H. R. 3920
To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court.

To sum it up: if the bill were to pass the legislative branch and public opinion, the Congress could reverse any decision by the Supreme Court by 2/3rds majority vote in both Houses, given that the decision was made after the passing of this bill.

The bill is sponsored entirely by Republicans, whom I've listed below. They all won their last elections with ease.

This is an issue the blog community can quickly propel to the media spotlight. If everyone posts about this, the media will catch wind and it'll turn from an election-year bill that nobody pays attention to (but is pure gold for TV re-elect commercials in solid-R districts) to another example of Republicans trying to seize power.

Then it was changed to "Officer: Wesley Clark Indirectly Involved in Waco..."

Ah, semantics.