This is the weekend that New York and Hollywood invade DC for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, at its heart still a charity event, but one that has taken on a life and culture of its own. Let the parties begin.

I think this is right, from TPM Reader EA:

I can’t ever remember a Democrat being so aggressive in attacking an opponent’s foreign policy and national security nonsense. It shows a comfort with toughness that [reflects] both the accomplishments of the administration and hopefully also some political maturity.

Jon Stewart: Rupert Murdoch’s like an Australian Mr. Magoo.

One of the peculiar features of modern elections is the campaign conference call with the political press. It’s like the bastard child of the press conference and the press release, a talking press release if you will.

They rarely if ever feature the candidate. Campaign aides and flacks usually take the lead. But there’s a subset of these calls in which specific issue-area experts stand in, and those are the ones that can get a little unpredictable. For the Romney campaign, they’ve been especially unpredictable and oddly gaffe-prone for a campaign that by virtually every metric is professionally and tightly run.

Bill Clinton steps up to the plate for President Obama and plays serious hardball against Mitt Romney, using Osama bin Laden, in this new campaign video.

How Joe Francis of “Girls Gone Wild” infamy bought a Senate internship.

George Zimmerman’s bizarre pre-arrest website raised more than $200,000 before it was shut down this week.

Alright, which of these did you own?

Bonus points if you’re brave enough to send us a pic of you with it. The more the photo screams the ’90s the better.

Boehner tells Rubio even his phony ‘Dream Act’ is probably DOA in the House.

Before I get to unilateralism, internationalism or pro-democracy or anything else, I really insist my foreign policy experts not make frequent references to our current relations with Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.