Officials: Edwards to enter 2008 race  —  WASHINGTON - Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards intends to enter the 2008 race for the White House, two Democratic officials said Saturday.  —  Edwards, who represented North Carolina in the Senate for six years …

Not Going to Happen  —  Yglesias: … Indeed.  I don't know why it seems like inhabitants of a certain corner of the blogosphere seem be the only ones who understand this, though I suppose people are finally starting to get it.  I imagine Bayh dropped out in part because he recognized that the Iraq bed isn't going to uns**t itself.

In Farewell, Rumsfeld Warns Weakness Is 'Provocative'  —  Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld bade farewell to the Pentagon on Friday with a combative valedictory speech in which he warned against hoping for "graceful exits" from Iraq and said it would be wrong to regard the lack of new attacks …

Military Taking a Tougher Line With Detainees  —  A part of the Camp 6 center at Guantánamo, which had been intended to be common area.  With the tighter security, however, the inmates will not be sharing meals there.  Camp 6 also has one-man exercise pens.

Iraqi PM invites Saddam officers to return to army  —  Source: Reuters  —  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday Iraqi army officers of all ranks sacked after the U.S. invasion in 2003 would be allowed to reapply for their posts in the new army.

Prosecutor post is filled in recess  —  A surprise late-afternoon announcement Friday that J. Timothy Griffin will become the new U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas drew the ire of U. S. Sen. Mark Pryor, whose spokesman said the maneuver amounts to "basically circumventing the normal process."

Why they deny the Holocaust  —  On top of nearly constant anti-Semitic propaganda, much of the Muslim world hasn't even heard of it.  —  ONE DAY IN 1994, when I was living in Ede, a small town in Holland, I got a visit from my half-sister.  She and I were both immigrants from Somalia and had both applied for asylum in Holland.

Women Lose Ground in the New Iraq  —  Once They Were Encouraged to Study and Work; Now Life Is 'Just Like Being in Jail'  —  BAGHDAD — Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.

Publisher behind O.J. Simpson book fired  —  NEW YORK - Extra!  Extra!  The press release arrived with a headline worthy of Rupert Murdoch: HARPERCOLLINS TERMINATES JUDITH REGAN.  So ended, at least for now, one of the book world's most profitable and provocative careers.

Richardson Attacks McCain  —  We can bitch all we want about St. John McCain, but it's going to take bigger guns that bloggers to point out just how insane he really is.  Bill Richardson, a man who has serious foreign policy credentials, is at least willing to criticize John McCain.

WHY THE TEXAS TEN PERCENT PLAN IS WORSE THAN TRADITIONAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: In 1996, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held, in Hopwood v. Texas, that the use of racial preferences to achieve "diversity" in college admissions is unconstitutional.  In response, the Texas state legislature adopted …

Flynt Leverett  —  Senior Fellow; Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative  —  Flynt Leverett is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.  Most recently, Dr. Leverett was a Senior Fellow …