• Page Six: Donald Trump defends the biggest, swankiest flag ever [NYP]
• Cindy Adams: Cindy predicts Michael Ripoff’s demise. [NYP]
• Liz Smith: Anthony Kennedy whoops it up with Lally Weymouth. [NYP]
• The Reliable Source: Hillary Duff, Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton spotted in the area. [WP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Will Bloomberg run for President? Signs point to… maybe! [NYDN]

May we please have a major politician with even slightly interesting taste in music? Is that too much to ask? Another week, another politician’s iPod filled with the Stones (once again, we ask: No “Midnight Rambler?” “Under My Thumb” would be pretty funny, right? Can we please find out that Laura Bush has “Mother’s Little Helper” on her workout playlist?), the token Motown classics, and, of course, the fucking Eagles. And U2, cementing their position as the modern Eagles, but even more boring. MORE »

* Additional analysis of the Plamegate leak scandal. This isn’t looking too good for the president. [Andrew Sullivan] MORE »

* Reliable Source: Rep. Cynthia McKinney reportedly “stabbed” Capitol Hill officer with her cellphone; her new haircut may have caused the confusion. . . Final Four lawmakers put hometown bets on the NCAA game. [WP]
* Under the Dome: DSCC jumps on Sen. George Allen for saying the Senate is “too slow for me.” [The Hill]
* Inside the Beltway: Twenty-two House Republicans seek a review of federally funded sex-ed programs. [WT]
* Page Six: Rush Limbaugh gives “private pointers” to Monica Crowley. . . “Good Morning America” producer who knocked Bush in a leaked email also wrote of Madeleine Albright’s “Jew shame.” [NYP]
* Ben Widdicombe’s Gatecrasher: Rupert Murdoch and his New York Post are “cozying ever closer” to Hillary. [NYDN]

* Names & Faces: Anna Nicole Smith’s case arrives at the Supreme Court tomorrow. [WP]
* Inside Politics: Justice Antonin Scalia: “I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle. Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?”. . . Sen. Reid (D-Nev.): “If elections were held today, we’d pick up five seats. The Senate would be 50-50.”. . . Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) was expecting a “legit” reporter when he sat for an interview with “The Daily Show.” [WT]
* Page Six: Judith Miller is reduced to wearing all black and reading the New York Post on the subway. [NYP]

Well, it is a slow month for gossip. . . . MORE »