When giving instructions to a child, be specific, very specific!

Roger Simon is on to something here:

The RogerLSimon.com tip of the day - skip to end! The whole point of the piece is in the last three paragraphs or so - neatly buttoned up in New York Times speak in the last sentence…..

Somehow I don’t think this is a problem unique to New York:

Somewhere down there in the chain of command of New York State politics, there must surely be an honest person. It could take a while before we work our way down to him, though.

Jay Tea asks a very important question.

The only answer I can think of is it just wouldn’t be (ahem) politically correct.

Usually when another nation bestows an award upon a US President it receives ample media coverage. If this event (July 2007) was covered, I must have missed the news:

WARSAW (AFP) — Poland plans to bestow its top award on the late US president Ronald Reagan, in a posthumous homage for his role in the collapse of the communist bloc, Polish authorities announced Wednesday.

The wife of the former US leader, Nancy Reagan, is to receive the Order of the White Eagle from Polish President Lech Kaczynski when the latter visits the United States next week…

Soon, my home state will vote in the primaries. Republican turnout will no doubt be low with John McCain having secured the nomination and the race on the democratic side will certainly be Mrs. Clinton’s to lose.

Will this Bosnia issue change the mind of many voters in PA? The Philadelphia Inquirer has already endorsed Senator Obama and while Mrs. Clinton would like the endorsement of The Philadelphia Daily News, that could be in doubt following a meeting the Senator attended with journalists from that publication where she was queeried on her version of the trip abroad:

This afternoon, in the session with Daily News editorial writers and reporters (and some Inquirer staffers as well) in a conference room at the Daily News and Inquirer Building, I asked the presidential candidate about these discrepancies and also showed her a copy of the photo — at the top of this post — of her on the tarmac that day.

She was quick to answer, jumping in before I was fully finished with the question. Here’s her response in its entirety:

“Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire — that’s not what I was told. I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left, Now that’s my memory of it.

What the Daily News will do is any one’s guess, but the Senator can ill afford to lose another Philadelphia paper to Obama. It may not change the final result in the state but it could cost her delegates she desperately needs.