Yesterday, we flagged the comments of Liz Trotta, a Fox News contributor, joking about wanting to off both Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama. A laugh a minute, you might say. Today she gave what I guess is called an ‘apology.’ Says Trotta, it was a “lame attempt at humor.”

As we take the day, whatever else we’re doing, to honor those who’ve died in our country’s service, let’s also remember the tens of thousands of Americans now serving — right this moment — in Iraq and Afghanistan — people who are at once at the center of our national debate and yet, increasingly, as people, invisible.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) trails his Democratic opponent in the latest Rasmussen poll.

Here’s Bill over the weekend on the campaign stump, riffing about how no one has ever tried to run the also-ran candidates out of the Democratic race once there’s a presumptive nominee, until this year, when it happened to Hillary:

And here’s the NYT fact check on what really went down in 1992, for example, after Bill became the presumptive nominee.

To anyone who remembers past Democratic nomination contests, it will be no surprise that there is nothing unprecedented about the pressure on Hillary to get out of the race.

The New York Times offers an investigative report on border guard corruption along the U.S.-Mexican border — replete with your standard Bush Administration misfeasance. Turns out dissolving the internal affairs unit at Customs and Border Protection didn’t work out so well.

Hillary’s evolving rationales for which count most matters — pledged delegates, superdelgates, popular vote — shouldn’t distract from the fact that the primary system is broken.

Joe Lieberman is the scheduled headliner for the Rev. John Hagee’s 2008 Christians United For Israel “Washington-Israel Summit” this summer.

We caught a retired-general-cum-TV-analyst cultivated by the Pentagon as a “message force multiplier” back on the air on CNN last week. This time he was touting the Administration line on the threat posed by Iran. Take a look.

Stonewall Johnson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He went on to become one of the most revered Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Wait, that’s Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C. and went on to become one of the most controversial and obstinate Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose testimony before Congress has given him the inside track for this year’s Golden Duke Award for Outstanding Achievement in Corruption-based Chutzpah …

High-res version at Veracifier.com.

We have Rick Perlstein at the Book Club this week, with his new book, Nixonland.

In his opening post, Perlstein describes the reaction to his book from the right and how it reflects the obsession with the idea that liberals to this day are merely “condescending” toward conservatives and conservatism.

Late Update: Amanda Marcotte joins in the discussion, contemplating how to overcome what she calls the “spite vote.”