Candidates eye prize of Potomac primaries

WASHINGTON (CNN)—The races for the Oval Office pressed on Tuesday with voters in Virginia, Maryland and the nation’s capital casting ballots in a Democratic contest with no clear winner, and in a GOP battle that is looking more and more like a drubbing.

Sen. Barack Obama heads into the so-called Potomac primaries looking to sustain the momentum he mustered in his sweep of five Democratic contests last weekend.

The demographics in Tuesday’s primaries suggest the senator from Illinois could pull off a political hat trick over rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. However, the senator from New York said Obama’s recent success doesn’t faze her because future primaries will swing her way. . .

Mexico’s president to visit California

SACRAMENTO – Mexican President Felipe Calderón will make his first – and some have argued overdue – official visit to California on Wednesday as part of a tour of major U.S. cities in an effort to reach out to the 12 million Mexican immigrants in this country.

In California, Calderón will address the state Legislature and attend a private lunch meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and other officials.

He is also scheduled to tour a wine country vineyard owned by an immigrant from his home state, Michoacán, and meet with migrant workers in Los Angeles. His appearance in California culminates a tour that includes stops in Boston, New York and Chicago. . .

Red-light camera violations go unpunished

Thousands of drivers who ignore their red light camera tickets are receiving an unusual giftfrom Orange County courts:

Their cases disappear.

No fine. No points on their driving records.

Meanwhile, the drivers who face up to their mistake and respond to their tickets face a $346 fine, driving school and sometimes, a spike in their insurance rates. . .

The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico
By Michelle Malkin

A reader asked me to check into information that President Bush was pushing a massive foreign-aid package to Mexico to help them secure their southern border against the flow of illegal aliens from Central America.

“We can’t even get our own border straight, and we are going to provide Mexico with funding so they can solve their problem,” the reader fumed. “I doubt the Central Americans are staying very long in Mexico anyway. We know where they are going!”

Too outrageously outrageous to be true . . .