1. Hillary Clinton scored a surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary yesterday in the race for the nomination of the Not Very Democratic party. John McCain won the primary of the Banana Republican party.
  2. The corporate media “objective” spinmeisters wet themselves in their eagerness to declare the monumental nature of this change in momentum and how it totally transforms the Not Very Democratic race. These are the same paragons of wisdom far beyond what us ordinary grovelling readers could hope to know who, until shortly before the Iowa caucus, had repeatedly proclaimed Clinton’s invincibility — and then, in the few days between Iowa and New Hampshire, proclaimed Obama’s invincibility. As John Edwards tartly noted, 98% of the public has yet to be heard from — but even 2% is a lot more of the population than is represented by those with content-producing jobs in the corporate media, let alone, more importantly, the owners and sponsors of said media.
  3. There is reasonable room to doubt that the New Hampshire results are actually correct, although there is as yet not sufficient evidence to conclude one way or another whether the primary was stolen for (not necessarily by) Clinton.
  4. Philip Agee, a hero of the fight against the American national security state, has died at the age of 72.