Daily Polichicks - Thursday

We've said it before and we'll say it again: the Daily Polichicks isn't exactly daily, a'ight?  So after a week's vacation, we've got a lot of catchin' up to do in today's edition.

But first, let's talk about the MAJOR NEWS EVENT that is happening today.  The Sex and the City movie hits theatres nationwide!  Technically SATC comes out tomorrow, May 30th. But we have tix to catch it first thing Friday morning, at 12:01 a.m. to be precise, which is really in the middle of the night on Thursday which is today.  So like we said, the SATC is coming out today. And we are psyched!

(Confidential to Carrie Bradshaw: Word is that you are thinking about marrying Big.  Four words: Don't do it, girl!  Marry a man who strings you along for a decade, marries another woman instead of you, and is only available to you now because he screwed up his marriage by, well, screwing you on the side?  There has got to be a better candidate.)

Anyway, here's your Daily Polichicks.

Campaign '08:

An in-depth analysis of campaign jams [The Washington Post]

Our next president will likely face the women in combat issue. John McCain is against the idea of women in combat.  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have yet to reveal their positions. [The Los Angeles Times]

Catfight! The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee will decide on Saturday what to do about seating delegates from Florida and Michigan.  Free tickets to the brawl "sold out" in 3 minutes flat. [The Los Angeles Times] 

This happened over the holiday weekend, so we didn't mention it before.  Hillary Clinton expressed her surprise that some people want her to drop out of the race in May, because during the 1968 presidential campaign, Bobby Kennedy wasn't even assasinated until June.  In response, the Obama camp had a hissy and Clinton apologized. [The Washington Post]

U.S. News:

OMG! American Idol runner up, Clay Aiken, is having a baby with his 50 year old best friend, Jaymes Foster.  Foster was artificially inseminated.  Of course. [TMZ]

Just when George Bush thought there was no disloyalty worse than Heidi Montag spreading that Lauren Conrad made a sex tape, his own BFF turned frenemy.  Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan dished the dirt on Bush in his new book. (Confidential to Steve: If you can't say something nice, then sit down right here next to us! No offense to G Dub or anything.) [The Los Angeles Times]

Sad news. Dianne Odell, a polio survivor who lived in an iron lung since she was 3, died when a storm knocked out the power to her home and the iron lung shut off. [The Los Angeles Times]  

World News:

In Britain, rapists get away with murder. (In our book, rape is murder.) Only 5.7% of rapes reported there result in a conviction.  In the U.S., only 13% of rape cases result in a conviction. [The Washington Post]