Starting today, Pollchecker takes over as moderator of the blogs on Capitol Hill Blue. Her willingness to take on this job is much appreciated by your overtaxed and overburdened publisher.

Her job will be to try and bring some order to the chaos. We've noticed that some bloggers seem obvious to the few, but necessary rules that we have set down here for blogging on Blue. For example:

Last night, a racist using the screen name "amtexas" signed up as a member of Capitol Hill Blue and immediately posted a rambling, error-filled, incoherent racist tirade against Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and African-Americans in general.

The post came after I went to bed. I discovered it when I awoke this morning and immediately removed it and banned the poster.

An FBI agent may bring down the wrath of fellow agents and his bosses by going public about the bureau's failings when it comes to fighting terrorism.

The nation's top spy chief says, yes, waterboarding is torture.

Some might say this is not really news.

Some think he is the real thing. Others don't.

The jury is still out on Mike Huckabee.

Looks like some of the walls that surround the White House are starting to crumble.

Not by any action of the Bush Administration, mind you, but through the actions of activists and even Congress.

President George W. Bush is threatening another veto of another spending bill coming out of the Democratic Congress.

Bush claims he wants fiscal responsibility -- on any spending except for the billions upon billions that he has wasted on his failed Iraq war.

Hypocrisy lives on in Washington.

Oprah Winfrey, putting her name and prestige on the line by supporting and campaigning for Barack Obama, says she's tired of politics as usual.

We're got a newsflash for you Oprah.

So are the rest of us.

A blog post by a Loyola Marymount University student led to his arrest Saturday.

The 21-year-old student posted an online threat to shoot people on campus.

In light of mass murders this year at Virginia Tech and a shopping mall in Omaha, Neb., police take such threats seriously.

When he was just a little-known governor of Arkansas and a longshot candidate for President, Mike Huckabee didn't get much attention.

That was then, this is now. Now Huckabee is running near the top of the GOP Presidential pack and he is getting lots of attention.

And he is squirming under the spotlight.

The damning news that the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes that showed torture of terrorism suspects has brought demands for investigations by both the Justice Department and Congress.

The tapes, which the CIA admits shows "waterboarding" of terrorism suspects could become the "smoking gun" of the Bush Administration's use of "harsh interrogation" techniques long banned by the Geneva Convention.

The White House, of course, says it didn't know about the existence of such tapes but new evidence shows that former Bush counsel Harriet Meirs advised the CIA to not destroy the tapes.

Gennifer Flowers, one of Bill Clinton's many dalliances outside of his marriage, says she considering voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton for President.

Flowers, whose 12-year affair with Clinton that became an issue in the 1992 Presidential election, says she is not yet decided but supports the idea of a woman President.

Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.

President George W. Bush's band-aid fix for the home mortgage crisis isn't fooling many people and critics are quick to point out his "deal" with lenders to freeze rates for sub-prime lenders in trouble is too little, too late.

The plan would not help the millions of Americans currently behind in their mortgages nor will it aid others headed for trouble.

Quick fixes seldom work in the long run and Bush's quick fix may not even provide relief in the short term.

Uncle Sam is spending $200 billion (yes that's "billion" with a "b") to remake its war machine.

It's an old marketing trick. When a product fails (like it has in, say, Iraq), it's time to remake the product and convince American taxpayers that all that money is worth the effort.

A female suicide bomber has killed 16 in a suicide attack in Iraq.

So much for the peace that the Bush administration claims exists in that civil-war torn country.

Female suicide bomber kills 16 in Iraq