Gallup reports the end of Hillary Clinton as the inevitable candidate:

The latest results are based on Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted March 27-29. Obama did particularly well in interviewing conducted on March 29.

This marks the first time either candidate has held a double-digit lead over the other since Feb. 4-6, at which point Clinton led Obama by 11 percentage points.

The Smoking Gun has published 30 letters like this one from Henry Kissinger.

Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz, and John Bolton top the list of individuals who wrote a federal judge on behalf of former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for lying to investigators and a federal grand jury examining the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

As the judge considered the appropriate punishment, he received testimonials to Mr. Libby’s character from luminaries like Kissinger.

When representatives of the media asked that the letters be released, Mr. Libby’s lawyers argued against that, saying it “needlessly risks undermining the fair administration of justice” and added there was “the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.”

The judge rejected these arguments saying that “the court must strive to be as transparent as possible without compromising the fairness of the system or the ability of the court to acquire information relevant and helpful to the sentencing process.”

The letters were released Tuesday and were readily available online.

They are a fascinating collection of testimonies trying to influence Judge Reggie Walton of Federal District Court in Washington DC.

He has not changed too much.

Look at these pictures.

Al Gore still looks and speaks like a teacher.

Or The Godfather.

Unfortunately his style is out.

And it doesn’t matter that his ideas are right.

His campaign about global warming has been an instant success.

But his new campaign for the White House could be a great disaster.

The temptation must be too big.

Here, here here, here, and here you can see that the next campaign is going on.

The Nobel prize is going to be easier than the U.S. presidency.

Wait and see.

The New York Times has been publishing very sensitive front page pictures about the situation in Iraq.

Almost every day.

All of them are excellent examples of photojournalism.

And, I am sure, a nightmare for the White House.

You don’t need too many words to understand what’s going on there…

Just pictures like these.

The White House kitchen is busy for tonight’s dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, that will seat 134 people in the State Dining Room.

Picture by Reuters.