Is our children learning? Maybe not. But president Bush seems to have taught Senator Clinton a thing or two about how to hold a Potemkin town hall: Clinton Camp Admits To Planting Questions

My favorite bit — the Clinton camp couldn’t even fess up straight: “A Clinton aide initially denied the claim in the story, but the campaign later told The Associated Press some parts were true.”

FreeRice.com: An altruistic pastime.

For what it’s worth, I max out at about 44 on their vocab meter.

Los Angeles Times

Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided paying $35.5 million in medical expenses by rescinding about 1,600 policies between 2000 and 2006. During that period, it paid its senior analyst in charge of cancellations more than $20,000 in bonuses based in part on her meeting or exceeding annual targets for revoking policies, documents disclosed Thursday showed.

Paleocons spontaneously combust.

Our $9 trillion debt — that’s $9,000,000,000,000 for those of you who like to see the zeros — now costs only $8.373 trillion in Canadian currency.