The military was scrambling Monday to put together defense teams for the six Guantánamo captives singled out by a Pentagon prosecutor for death-penalty eligible charges alleging they conspired to kill thousands in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

"I will move as quickly as I can, but we will take our time and we will not be bullied by the government," said Army Col. Steve David, Chief Defense Counsel in the Office of Military Commissions. David, an Indiana state judge who was mobilized to the job, said at a bare minimum he needed six lawyers, six paralegals and six independent investigators with top security clearances to work on the trials.

As of Monday morning, he said, he had a sum total of seven military lawyers assigned to his office.

We all know that the media likes nothing better than a woman telling other women how miserable they're going to be without a man. And that's what makes nonsense like this so dangerous - its potential reach. Gottlieb has already been on the Today show touting her article and going head to head with (sigh) professional matchmakers. Who knows how much more media attention this piece will get.

In terms of consequence, Bush v. Gore it ain't. This is a relatively small contest in a nomination campaign that appears to be over. But this is something you'd expect either from Soviet history or a farcical passage in a Faulkner novel. And let's not forget the context. Huckabee starts the day with a blowout win in Kansas. That evening he gets the largest number of votes in Louisiana. Then in the third contest he's neck and neck with John McCain and looks like he may win all three contests of the day -- a shut-out for the all-but-declared nominee. Then as it's going down to the wire, the head of the state party decides he's seen enough and calls it for McCain.

This one looks and quacks like a duck. So someone should give it a much closer look.

The new campaign manager is Maggie Williams, a longtime aide of Clinton's who served as the former first lady's chief of staff when Bill Clinton was president. Williams is a Hillary Clinton loyalist, not one of the "white boys" -- James Carville, Paul Begala and circle -- who some thought would move into leadership roles. This is very much inside=Hillary's-circle shift, rather than a power-play by Bill and his buddies.

But it is still a significant development. And this should be seen more as the beginning rather than the end of upheaval within the Clinton headquarters.

Job one, key Clinton backers admit, is a radical rethink of the candidate's "ask." The campaign needs to come up with a clear reason for Democrats to choose Clinton over Obama -- something better than "experience," which is losing badly to "change" in most exit polls of primary- and caucus-state voters. And, with tough primaries coming up in Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin, she needs it fast.

While the United States relies on Venezuelan oil, Venezuela is even more dependent on the American market. More than half of Venezuela’s oil exports head north toward the Gulf of Mexico—some 1.5 million barrels a day. Over the course of Chávez’s presidency, Venezuela has received billions of dollars from America in oil purchases.

Ultimately, not even a lover of Quixote dares invest too much hope (or cash) in preparing for a break with the American market. Nature has tied Chávez’s arms. Venezuelan crude comes from the earth in a particular viscous form that requires specialized refineries, the type that exists in Louisiana and Texas, not China or India. The country’s fleet of tankers is geared toward transporting this oil to the Gulf of Mexico, and can’t be reversioned for longer hauls. What’s more, Venezuela doesn’t just export its oil to the United States; it actually sells the stuff there in the 14,000 Citgo stations that the state oil company owns.