Bill Richardson is set to endorse Barack Obama
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Say what you want about Huckabee’s policies, but I cannot help but be impressed with this guy’s composition during debates and on the campaign trail. In this clip he deserves much praise as he comes to Obama’s defense:

While you’re waiting for the next issue of The Michigan Independent which discusses torture in depth, you must check out the Washington Monthly’s own feature on the perverse effects of torture.

On the same day Barack Obama gives his inspiring and momentous speech on race in America, a federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of Proposal 2, the Michigan law banning the consideration of race and gender in government institutions. BAMN has already pledged to appeal.
While I do not question the legal legitimacy […]

While JP Morgan (with help from the Fed) was able to acquire Bear Sterns for $270 million, the market treated this acquisition a little bit differently. With the rest of the financial sector reeling today, investors have increased the value of JP Morgan Chase by 12% (and climbing in after hours trading). To put this […]

The New York Times reports on the Ferraro controversy:
The Ferraro comments overshadowed an increasingly bitter dispute between the campaigns about the candidates’ qualifications to serve as commander in chief.
The They report this in spite of the entire article getting buried on page A23 while another Obama-Clinton story fronts on page 1, hardly an overshadow. Even […]

Zach over at the Michigan Dems blog digs into John McCain:
I’ve been thinking a lot about why I had been fooled by the straight-talk express. Was it because I was young and naive - no doubt partially. But though Sen. McCain has always been very conservative, his conservatism was, until recently tempered with common sense […]

In a surprising result, Dennis Hastert’s old congressional seat was picked up by Democrat Bill Foster in a special election today. Foster also gains the distinction as the Democratic Party’s newest superdelegate, already pledged to Senator Barack Obama.
At at time when we are investing smaller and smaller amounts in the sciences, Foster, a physicist, is […]

From the latest issue of Science (subscription required):
Most institutes are affected, but the pain is acute at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where up to 12 intramural labs–run by 16% of 74 tenured staff–could be shuttered. “This is a completely new category of nightmare,” says an NICHD investigator who asked […]

Slate gives their take on the sudden resignation of Samantha Power from Obama’s campaign.
Passage:
“The resignation matters symbolically, but that’s about it. Power has called herself an “informal adviser” to Obama, and she wasn’t exactly part of the regular campaign entourage. (She did travel with the campaign in Iowa and South Carolina.) Her stepping down doesn’t mean she […]