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This post is about a pet peeve: the Clinton campaign’s love affair with the phrase “raises serious questions.” Just once, I’d like a reporter to respond: You’ve told us so and so raises serious questions. What questions? How are they serious? And why all the serious questions from the ’solutions’ candidate?

What will blogging be like when the machines take over?

Remember how, when Clinton was up against the ropes in her Bosnia lie, her campaign sent an email arguing that Obama has exaggerated his status as a Senior Lecturer by calling himself a Law Professor? Today the University of Chicago Law School made a statement that he wasn’t exaggerating–Obama was a professor.

In an effort to significantly enhance the public integrity unit, Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien disbanded it. Also, this has nothing to do with Elliott Spitzer or the tendency of public corruption units to expose public corruption. It’s about math.

I was inspired last week by the launch of the Change Congress movement to post a badge in the sidebar and a video of Lawrence Lessig describing the idea. Today, we heard the announcement of the first congressional bite at the Change Congress apple. Thing is, it wasn’t quite name we were expecting, “blue dog” Congressman Jim Cooper.

The same day that the news media adopted the term Tonya Harding strategy to describe the Clinton campaign, Tonya was in the local Clark County news for… something to do with guns.

So yes, Clinton was recently caught in a lie she’s been repeating for months about ducking sniper fire on the tarmac in Bosnia, part of her Commander-in-Chief credentials. Her handling and explanations of the lie are worse than the lie.