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Members of a violent gang from Queens that allegedly stole millions of dollars worth of cocaine from drug dealers are facing criminal charges in federal court that include kidnapping and torture, officials said yesterday.

Hillary Clinton can still win the Democratic nomination. But the only way she can do it is to make herself unworthy of support in November.

The Los Angeles Times explains:

Barack Obama's beer choices are getting an approving nod from McClatchy:

Sen. Barack Obama made a last-minute, surprise appearance at a downtown bar this afternoon, ordering a Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer of the working man) and spending half an hour greeting voters. “Everyone voted?” he hollered, walking up Martin Street as he headed into the Raleigh Times bar about 5:30 p.m.

In May 2007, National Review's Mark Hemingway wrote, with annoyance, about the questions directed at Mitt Romney's Mormon faith:

He’s not running for president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he’s running for president of the country.

One-term presidents aren't generally considered fondly by Americans or historians. Jimmy Carter? Even Democrats are sometimes embarrased by him. Herbert Hoover? Steered the country into Great Depression. William Howard Taft? Fat.

But you know who's getting the love? George H.W. Bush. And you know why? Because his son has made him look brilliant by comparison.

Everybody who has ever worked for a magazine or a newspaper knows the oldest gimmick in the world to get people talking about you: Make a list. But now there's a new wrinkle: Stephen Colbert.

Scott Gottlieb takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal this morning to assail Barack Obama for making health insurance more expensive.

Now that -- perhaps -- the Jeremiah Wright kerfuffle is dying down somewhat, I think I've spotted the GOP's next line of attack on Barack Obama: He doesn't smile.

When Ben and I talked last week to Maj. Todd Schmidt about his proposal that the U.S. encourage Western-style education in the Muslim world -- part of winning the "war of ideas" in the war on terror -- there was one clear hitch: Would the Muslim world accept U.S. education efforts? Schmidt's response: The U.S. probably needs to keep its fingerprints off the program and work through international institutions.

I would like to talk about Barack Obama's grandmother.

I have nothing against the woman, understand. Obama seems to regard her fondly, even if he thinks she has sometimes-retrograde racial opinions. Certainly, he wouldn't disown her. But this week, he did disown Jeremiah Wright -- and, in so doing, fell straight into the Consistency Trap.