Giuliani Has No Real Chance With GOP Voters . . . or Does He?  —  The 2008 presidential campaign is just weeks old, but already an article of faith within the Republican Party — the belief that no politician who favors abortion rights and gay rights can win the GOP nomination …

Edwards Hopes To Raise "Coulter Cash" After "Faggot" Slur  —  Former Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is hoping to use right wing pundit Ann Coulter's use of the word "faggot" in remarks about him to raise "Coulter cash."  The incident at this year's Conservative …

A New Mystery to Prosecutors: Their Lost Jobs  —  After Daniel G. Bogden got the call in December telling him that he was being dismissed as the United States attorney in Nevada, he pressed for an explanation.  —  Mr. Bogden, who was named the top federal prosecutor in Nevada in 2001 …

How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world  —  Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that "climate change" was "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.'' Ever.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery - AIPAC Policy Forum  —  Thank you so much for your kind introduction and the invitation to meet with you this morning.  —  Last week, this event was described to me as a small gathering of friends.

Children of 11 to be finger printed  —  CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.  —  The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports.

FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug  —  Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk  —  The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers …

The Must-Do List  —  The Bush administration's assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections.  The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped.

Expert in Russian poisoning case is shot  —  FBI joins investigation, but officials think it's just local crime  —  WASHINGTON - FBI agents say they are assisting police in suburban Washington who are investigating the shooting of a Russian expert — a man who spoke out on "Dateline NBC" …

Brit Hume On Walter Reed: 'It Looks Terrible' For The Bush Administration, 'Which Is The Problem'  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume spoke about the Walter Reed scandal in entirely political terms, saying "the problem" is that it "looks terrible" for the administration.

Numbers Drop for the Married With Children  —  Institution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, Affluent  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households — a share that has been slashed …

Sticking Up for Padilla, Ineffectively  —  Yesterday, Cenk Uygur wrote a rather hysterical post in support of accused terrorist Jose Padilla.  He made a number of factual assertions that I showed were wrong here.  Now, Uygur has attempted a comback in this long, rambling post.  As usual, Uygur is long on emotion.

Blind Faith  —  What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't  —  HarperSanFrancisco.  296 pp.  $24.95  —  The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural — from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels and demons.

That so?  —  TPM Reader FF just flagged this article in today's Oregonian.  According to the article, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) was at a Republican conference defending his changed position on Iraq and specifically his opposition to the 'surge'.  And in the course of defending himself …