Amir Taheri has praise for the President of France.

Hamas creates an "on the ground reality" with cranes and bulldozers.

Jose Canseco, steroid user, and extortionist?

Dean Barnett thinks he knows the truth about talk radio (I believe he's got it).

Dick Morris believes he knows how Hillary Clinton will win the nomination by losing in South Carolina.

Courtesy of RealClearPolitics, here are the latest polls from South Carolina (Obama up big), Florida (Clinton up big on the Democratic side, McCain, Romney and Giuliani in a three-way race on the GOP side) and California (Clinton and McCain leading). Also, here is the current delegate count (Clinton ahead for the Democrats and Romney leading in the GOP). If Dick Morris is right, and he may very well be, then Hillary is going to win a significant victory on February 5 and march to the nomination, as there are simply not enough African-American and anti-Hillary voters in the Democratic Party to stop her. While Romney leads in the delegate count for the GOP, I think McCain will win in Florida, which should give him significant momentum for February 5 that will, in all likelihood, allow him to surpass Romney in delegates that day.

At the beginning of this cycle the front-runners were Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Both campaigns were dealt setbacks (especially McCain), and yet both have rebounded and are now in position to win their party nominations. Amazing.