Every year the National Football League (NFL) and all of its professional football teams agree before the beginning of the season that Preseason games do not count towards determining who gets into the playoffs at the end of the regular season.

Now just imagine this scenario:

"The voters trust Hillary Clinton."
-Terry McAuliffe on MSNBC

Really? Is that what the voters are saying? I believe that recent polling begs to differ.

Check out this article from the Washington Post.

Here we are on the eve of the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, and the question on everyone's mind is, "when will this end?" Not how. Not why. Simply when.

Two people hold the key to bringing this charade to a halt - Hillary and Bill Clinton. Certainly even her staunchest supporters, in a moment of deep honesty, would have to concede that her "inevitable" nomination is no more. If she won 100% of the popular vote in that state, and every available delegate, she would still only pull even with Obama. And that is not going to happen.

If ABC wonders why it's news programming has suffered at the hands of the cable news channels, they need not look any further than the debate in Pennsylvania the other night.

A recording of a recent phone conversation between Sean Hannity of Fox News and George Stephanopoulos of ABC has been released confirming that Stephanopoulos was taking cues (and writing notes, per his own statement) from Hannity on the kinds of questions he should be asking Obama in the debate.

President Bush and Senator McCain have been fervently waiving the American flag these past several years, insisting that we must support the war effort in order to show that we "support the troops".

However, both the Bush Administration and John McCain have yet to get behind the most recent Veterans Administration bill that has been proposed by Congress that would expand educational assistance to retired vets. Are you ready for their reasoning?

If anyone is curious why problems don't get solved in this country, just look at the questions that were asked in the first 40 minutes of last night's debate. A brief association 10 years ago with an individual who was a radical in the 60's, serving as a former First Lady, or having been a prisoner-of-war, does not determine one's fitness for (or lack thereof) higher office.

Think how much simpler it would be if we would adopt the British way of electing our leaders. Six weeks before the elections campagnes are launched and six weeks later the elections are held. It would compel candidates to be more creative and prevent the ongoing mud slinging. It may not be prevented, but we would not have to endure it for an interminable amount of time.

Alright, not for my favorite story of the week: President Bush is throwing a huge birthday party for the Pope in honor of his visit. 12,000 people have been invited to the event (the previous record for the Bush administration was 7000 for Queen Elizabeth) and it is scheduled for Wednesday, on the Pope's birthday. Only one minor detail... the Pope isn't coming.

It should come as no surprise to those of you who have not been sleep-walking through the past 7 years that an informal survey of 109 presidential historians finds that 98% of them believe that George Bush is the single worst U.S. President in history.

The article covering this survey is published in U.S. News and World Report.

Alright, while there are a huge number of legitimate news stories out there to comment on, I've got to take a moment to take care of a true plague upon this great nation of ours: the suffix -gate.
Can we just agree as a people to stop with the -gates? Bittergate? Can we really promote what is, at worst, a poorly worded comment to -gate status?