THE BIG QUESTION: "With the race now moving on to Indiana and North Carolina on May 6 -- and probably West Virginia (May 13) and Oregon and Kentucky (May 20) -- here's my question: will Clinton and/or Obama attend the Kentucky Derby? It's on May 3." Mint Juleps beat boilermakers, anyway.

TIGERHAWK:

Hillary's victory speech was pretty good, at least by her standards. She is no Obama, but certainly made it seem as though she were in for the long haul. Frank Luntz, by the way, agreed, calling it "fantastic, absolutely the best speech I've heard her give."

I cannot recall her giving a better one, but that doesn't make it "fantastic." But here is the key point: Hillary Clinton will not quit at anything she truly dedicates herself to do. In that regard, she reminds me of none other than George W. Bush. . . . I noted, by the way, that New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was in the background behind Hillary, clapping away for the cameras to record. He has apparently recovered from his bout of superdelegate vapors.

Watch those weathervanes over the next few days.

UPDATE: Now Obama's on, and he's declaring victory because, well, he just is. Also, Bush is evil. TalkLeft has more.

MORE: Jennifer Rubin thinks Obama sounds bitter. More here.

STILL MORE: Marc Ambinder: Clinton Internet Fundraising: 100K in 20 minutes?

FINALLY: A foolproof prediction: Six more weeks of pandering!

CARLY FIORINA FOR VICE PRESIDENT? I don't see it. She certainly doesn't come off very well as a manager in Michael Malone's book on HP.

Here's our interview with Malone, by the way.

RACE AND GENDER in the Pennsylvania exit polls.

MCCLATCHY: Clinton's win in Pa. leaves Obama battered, party reeling.

FOOD SHORTAGES in Japan? This is getting a lot of (probably exaggerated) attention in the survivalosphere. Those folks are like Paul Krugman, having predicted 9 of the last 0 food crises, but the news story, at least, is real.

I wonder, though, if this isn't something like a bank run: "Costco Wholesale Corp. is seeing higher-than-usual demand for staple foods such as rice and flour as consumers worry about a global food shortage, according to a Tuesday report by the Reuters news service." Of course, the solution to a bank run is to pass out the cash until people get tired. But it's easier to create cash on demand than food. Today's supply-chain practices tend to produce skimpy inventories, too, which makes it easier for stores to sell out, and thus for consumers to panic.

UPDATE: Stephen Clark sends along Spengler's take on the global food shortage. "The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America's attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure."

ANOTHER UPDATE: What food shortages in Japan? asks a blogger . . . in Japan. What, press reports unreliable?

MORE: And here's a blogger in Thailand who says that news reports of food riots there are bogus. More here.

BILAL HUSSEIN GOT RELEASED UNDER A GENERAL AMNESTY, but Michael Totten observes: "I don’t know if he’s guilty or not, and he deserves the presumption of innocence. Either way, his case brings attention to an issue most consumers of news from Iraq rarely consider: the fact that large media companies--the Associated Press and other news wire agencies and newspapers--work with some sketchy characters in Iraq."

PENNSYLVANIA POLLS have been closed for 20 minutes, but no numbers or projections. Plenty of TV blather, though!

UPDATE: Clinton 67, Obama 33 -- with a big, big, less than one percent of the vote in. Expect this to change. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Liveblogging of the results from TalkLeft, and, from Stephen Green, drunkblogging. Green's still sober enough to make this excellent point about the Democrats' nominating rules: "If the Democrats ran a winner-take-all system like the Republicans and the Electoral College do, she’d have this thing clinched — and Obama would look like a regional candidate who can’t win much outside the South and his home state of Illinois."

MORE: Fox is projecting a Clinton win, but no margin yet.

STILL MORE: CNN calls it for Clinton, too.

MORE STILL: Mighty Casey has struck out.

IS THIS MCCAIN'S PEAK?

UPDATE: Or not.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Atlantic' s photo editors show their feelings - the McCain Photo above the story has this name: http://thecurrent.theatlantic.com/McCain%20loser.jpg.

GOOD: Mugabe Isolated In Southern Africa As Arms Ship Barred From Ports.

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