Democrats debate 'do-over' for Florida, Michigan; Obama smashes fundraising records with $55M in Feb; Russian arms dealer in Thai custody...

7 March :: "Pariah states" Florida, Michigan, punished for voting early in party primaries, now want "do-over" opportunity, as DNC, state gov'ts spar over who would fund a re-vote; Clinton campaign announces $35 million fundraising peak in February, including an astounding $4 million in 48 hours after Tuesday's vital wins in Texas, Ohio, yet Barack Obama's "army of small donors" reportedly has given him $55 million in the month of February, far beyond any previous record for any candidate; Obama has said he will use the momentum of his campaign to answer charges leveled at him by his rival Democrat from New York... New York Times reports "Viktor Bout, 41, is suspected of supplying weapons to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of pouring huge arms shipments into Africa’s civil wars with his own private air fleet. He was arrested by the Thai authorities at a hotel in Bangkok in an operation in which undercover investigators posing as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, sought to purchase millions of dollars in arms"; yesterday, ABC News reported that "In a January 2005 letter to Congress, then-Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz admitted the Defense Department 'did conduct business with companies that, in turn, subcontracted work to second-tier providers who leased aircraft owned by companies associated with Mr. Bout'", though the NY Times and various other major media outlets have failed to report this vital piece of information in much of their reporting about Bout's arrest and pending extradition requests...