From the Associated Press via CBS News.

The Dallas Morning News reports that an aide for Texas State Senator Bob Duell has been up to all kinds of hijinx:

A veteran Capitol staffer resigned Monday over allegations he impersonated both a state representative and a newspaper reporter in the last month – first to sway a state primary race, then to glean information on an ethics complaint against his boss.

Yikes.

Tabulating caucus results when everybody decides to vote is hard, and takes time.

Oil hit $109 per barrel today. Many people focus on the psychological value attached to a number like $100, as a threshold between something the American people could stomach and something the American people will have a serious problem with. What I have a serious problem with is the math behind the increases: in the last three weeks, the market unit price of oil has increased by 10 percent. As far as I'm concerned, that's worse than the arbitrary importance that everyone hung on $100.

Lest we forget that Mississippi votes today in the last contest before Pennsylvania. 33 delegates are at stake and Obama appears to have a pretty commanding lead in the polls there. Here: avail yourself of Hufffington's massive compilation of news and happenings concerning today's contest.

Mike Ciresi, who had been competing for the DFL nomination to run against Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota, quit the race yesterday, saying he wanted to avoid a floor fight at the state convention. The two remaining major candidates are Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, and of course, Al Franken.

While everything else is going on, John McCain is trying to raise enough money to compete in the general. To put the hill he has to climb in perspective: Obama and Clinton, thus far, have raised $195 million and $173 million, respectively; McCain has managed only $55 million in total.

The NSA is more or less collecting information on what citizens spend and buy and who they talk to. You may have thought that was going on already, but the unsettling part out today is how wide the NSA's net is.

The US drinking water supply contains trace amounts of a plethora of drugs — everything from over-the-counter pain meds to prescription antibiotics and tranquilizers — according to an AP investigation.

You're going to see many campaign ads for many state house races this cycle, but how many will you see that are musicals? A campaign ad for John McClelland puts the two together for instance #1: