Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are acting like presidential candidates; in other words, the gloves are already off. I guess Obama isn't content to let Fox News do his work for him.
Anti-terror investigators have figured out that all Muslims are not alike.
In Chapter 6 of the Washington Post's online Gerald Cassidy opus, Cassidy falls in love with a peasant during the throes of the Russian Revolution and must make the ultimate choice. Not really.
Chuck Hagel is getting ready to run for president. More interesting is the notion that actor and former senator Fred Dalton Thompson could be jumping in. That's an official sign that nobody has any clue who the GOP nominee is going to be. I don't know. Thompson was a hell of an admiral in The Hunt for Red October, one of those compusively watchable movies you can't turn off once you flip to it on a rainy Wednesday evening. ("Has he made any Crazy Ivans?!?") Can he call his bid "The Hunt for Red November?" (Sorry.) 
The Politico article also notes that Thompson will have a great platform to explore a campaign by serving as a substitute host on the Paul Harvey radio show. If you don't know who Paul Harvey is, you aren't from the Midwest.
At Slate, Dahlia Lithwick details the bidding war among firms for Supreme Court clerks, a subject that our Tony Mauro has covered again and again.
Now on to something that's really important: Among area teams, Georgetown, Maryland, George Washington, Virginia, and Virginia Tech all drew bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Georgetown is seeded No. 2 in the East and will be playing close to home at Winston-Salem on Thursday. Maryland drew a No. 4 seed in the Midwest bracket. Ohio State, this poster's alma mater, is No. 1 in the South. How many office copiers will be pumping out brackets today, much to the delight and consternation of co-workers and supervisors?
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