Her Own Worst Enemy  —  Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi lost big on the Steny Hoyer-Jack Murtha race.  —  The old mayor would not be pleased.  —  Years ago I spent Election Day in San Francisco with Rep. Nancy Pelosi as she made her way around town.  She was elegant, smart and popular …

Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94.  —  Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger …

Community responds to Taser use in Powell  —  RAW FOOTAGE  —  of the taser incident.  —  An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.

Military may ask $127B for wars  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II.  —  The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion …

REGAN: 'I DID NOT PAY OJ'  —  Full Statement From Publisher Judith Regan:  —  Why I Did It  —  I was sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down.  Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment.  It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading.

Clinton Rules Redux  —  Man are these catty little MSNBC snots enjoying their full-on Demo bitch fest.  They are partying like it's 1999.  Norah O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mary Ann Akers and some other person I don't know have just spent half an hour discussing the fact that Nancy Pelosi ruined …

Bush: Vietnam war offered lessons for Iraq  —  HANOI, Vietnam — President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

Why Iraq Is Crumbling  —  "A republic, if you can keep it."  — Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"  —  We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they do not appear able to keep it.  —  Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil.

APF  —  Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3  —  Last Updated:November 16.  —  Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest retailer …

Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized  —  The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

Minority Report: House Leadership Elections  —  House GOPers will caucus at 8 a.m. today for their leadership elections.  After a week of stating their conservative cases and strategies to their colleagues, candidates will vote by secret ballot until a majority is reached.  A quick primer in order of the ballot:

Iraq pullout talk makes Iran uneasy  —  Although officially opposed to the American presence, the Islamic Republic fears the repercussions of a dangerously unstable neighbor.  —  LONDON — Iran has consistently opposed the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, but new prospects of a stepped …