Cory Booker, the charismatic young black politician who’s often compared to Barack Obama, just won a landslide victory in the Newark mayoral election. Booker’s previous mayoral campaign was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Street Fight.” We previously chronicled Booker’s campaign in these pages, with specific reference to his blogging at the Huffington Post. MORE »

This just in, fresh off the AP wire: MORE »

• The blogosphere has been dominated by Domenech’s demise. Our coverage is collected here (scroll down).
• Candid photographs of Katherine Harris: they’re as addictive as crack, and as dangerous too.
• Speak incoherently and carry a big pen: President is now the longest-sitting president since Jefferson not to exercise his veto.
• A fire breaks out in the CNN studio — probably arson by a jilted lover. As for the “suspicious package” at the White House, let’s blame it on the French.
• Embroiled in the latest “to blog or not to blog” pseudo-scandals: Washington Times opinion page editor Tony Blankley, and Newark mayoral candidate Cory Booker.
• Some of our subjects here at Wonkette can get so sensitive. Lighten up, guys!
• Supreme Court justices can get so childish. It’s all fun and games until someone breaks a gavel.
• Rummy slaps around MoDo: “If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.” We don’t know whose side to take in this one.
• Career advice for radio talk show hosts: don’t call the Secretary of State a racial epithet. She may not be the next NFL commissioner, but she can still kick your ass.
• Dick Cheney’s diva-licious demands, revealed.
• Last week was your chance to buy a piece of history: Duke Cunningham’s loot hit the auction block.
• President Bush goes on a candor offensive, taking unscripted questions from town-hall audiences — and even Helen Thomas.
• Congressmen get to have all the fun: free booze, plus trips to Colorado and Scotland. What’s not to like?

* Newark 06 appends an update (but not quite a correction) to its prior post about Cory Booker and the HuffPo. [Newark 06] MORE »

Earlier this afternoon, we passed along a report from the NYT’s Newark 06 blog, suggesting that Newark mayoral aspirant Cory Booker didn’t exactly “blog” at the Huffington Post. The Times gave this report: MORE »

We previously linked to the NYT’s new blog about Newark politics, Newark 06. We actually have a soft spot for the city, since one of us used to work there and went to law school with mayoral candidate Cory Booker. MORE »