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Pres. Bill Clinton interacts with Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a White House prayer breakfast in 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

A common complaint of most media watchers is that investigative journalism, despite the tools available in today's Internet Era, has become a lost art.Take for example the media's fawning over Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday, with many of the usual suspects calling it "extraordinary," "worthy of Abraham Lincoln," "the best speech ever given on race in this country," and a "definining cultural…

We're getting this one started early for those of you (like me!!!) that have the day off. Other than Duke-Belmont yesterday, I found it a boring start compared to years past. Anybody agree?On the other hand, in the past few years, many of the best upsets occurred on the first Friday. So, maybe today will be better (full brackets after the jump):

When is a terrorist simply an aged "radical" to the Los Angeles Times? When the terrorist is Kathleen Soliah, who in her glory days was a "fetching high school pep-squad member turned fugitive." Soliah was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a group that plotted to blow up Los Angeles Police Department cruisers in the 1970s.Here's how Times staff writer Joel Rubin opened his March…

Front-page article spins slowing luxury item sales as 'housing-related' hardship hitting 'Main Street.'

This is really taking their quest to find stories that makes victims out of members of the U.S. military to the farthest degree! The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is apparently now resorting to advertising to dredge up women in the military "whose marriage is ending" for a story they want to write. There is really only one reason they'd want such examples and that is so that they can show that the…

Thursday evening, the New York Times' Kate Phillips published at that paper's Caucus Blog a 1998 picture of President Bill Clinton shaking Rev. Jeremiah Wright's hand (right, courtesy of NYT).In her posting, Phillips said the photograph was provided to her by the Obama campaign.Given all the controversy surrounding this hateful pastor, and how it has negatively impacted the junior senator from…

Are liberal Democrats less likely to have social lives than conservatives?According to Karl Rove, the answer to that question is yes. The Republican guru all but made that argument explaining why he thought liberals are more likely to be on the web than conservatives."I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing…

Conde Nast's business mag goes after corporations for what it deems 'self-serving' and 'laughable' environmental efforts.

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: a new poll finds that one in five Democrats will vote for McCain if their candidate doesn't win the nomination (paragraph break eliminated):As Democratic Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York slug it out for the nomination, many of their supporters -- at least in Pennsylvania, site of the next major primary --…

It wasn't quite a "thrill up up my leg" moment, but Chris Matthews clearly hasn't gotten over his love affair with the candidacy of Barack Obama. It was a discussion of NM Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama on today's Morning Joe that inspired an outpouring of emotion in which among other things Matthews acknowledged Obama "gets to me."CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think [Richardson's] a gutsy guy…