Quickies

- Huffpo's R.J. Eskow says the 527 group started by Clinton backers to go after Obama will backfire.

- AP says Clinton has to win 57 percent of remaining delegates to catch up to Obama. An unlikely scenario, given current trends.

- A key figure in the Abramoff scandal, Ohio's former Rep. Bob Ney, leaves prison in W.Va. and is sent to a halfway house. Like all disgraced politicians, a career as a pundit probably awaits.

- The Nation: Mountaintop Mining: Like a third-world autocracy