Bloggers for Cornyn: catch the fever.

Wow.

The Mexican government has ordered 2,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a wave of drug-related violence that is blamed for 200 deaths since January, officials announced Thursday.

Some bloggers sneer at the mainstream media as being too corporate. Some mainstream media types look down on bloggers as little more than remoras, free riders without standards. However, Silicon Valley Insider details a new report that is quite revealing. In an anonymous survey, mainstream media reports admitted to quite the dependence on blogs in the course of doing their jobs.

Howard Dean is doing the full court press on having a nominee no later than July 1. And the news from the last few weeks tells us many Democratic Party heavyweights are starting to agree that it has to be over before it goes to the convention.

After that whole embarrassing "We Sent Ballistic Missile Parts To Taiwan By Mistake" thing earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates decided to call for a full inventory of nuclear weapons and materials. My concern is this: in the nuclear weapons department, shouldn't we already know what we've got and where it is?

A New York Post columnist is convinced that the GOP has lost the interior west, and that it will only get worse, with Colorado leading the charge into the Wild Blue Yonder:

As Caldara put it: "Colorado is, in fact, the test tube of how to export liberal expansion to the Western states." A moderately conservative state has been turned Blue, Caldara says, because of "the absolute demolishing of what the Right stood for, how the Republican Party turned into something it was never meant to be and went away from Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan ideas."

McCain/Condi or Obama/Bloomberg: take your pick of today's far-fetched VP speculations.

I don't even really know what to say about this. But Henry Waxman does: time for hearings!

[House Oversight Chair Henry Waxman] wants 22 year-old AEY President Efraim Diveroli, his 25 year-old VP (and masseur) David Packouz, and the company's general manager, also 25, to testify before Congress about how they managed to get a $300 million U.S. contract to supply (sometimes forty year-old) ammunition to the Afghan Army, among other contracts.

The cover of Time Magazine this week will feature Al Gore. The article related to that cover by Joe Klein considers (again) whether Al Gore could (no matter how improbably) end up with the nomination.

It has been a long primary season and the end is still a ways off, so I guess I can't read someone the riot act for speculation or gaming out interesting - if impossible - scenarios.