Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe  —  WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

Frequent Errors In FBI's Secret Records Requests  —  A Justice Department investigation has found pervasive errors in the FBI's use of its power to secretly demand telephone, e-mail and financial records in national security cases, officials with access to the report said yesterday.

'What Has Happened to Dick Cheney?'  —  Is the vice president losing his influence, or perhaps his mind?  That question, even if it is phrased more delicately, is creeping through foreign ministries and presidential offices abroad and has become a factor in the Bush administration's relations with the world.

Democrats Rally Behind a Pullout From Iraq in '08  —  Democratic leaders in the House and Senate began a new legislative push on Thursday for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2008, coalescing behind a fixed timetable to end the war.  —  The plan to establish a specific date …

US sends spies into Pakistan to kill bin Laden  —  By Toby Harnden in Washington and Thomas Coghlan in Helmand  —  America is stepping up its hunt for Osama bin Laden by dispatching additional CIA operatives and paramilitary officers to Pakistan to kill or capture the al-Qa'eda leader.

Net worth of U.S. households skyrockets  —  WASHINGTON - The net worth of U.S. households climbed to a record high in the final quarter of last year, boosted mostly by gains on stocks, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.  —  Net worth — the difference between households' total assets …

Good News Bad News  —  Hope lost, hope maintained, dreams and longing on International Women's Day in Iraq.  —  It's time for the news:  —  Bad news, Dem Cong war plan still calls for surrender.  Good news, they probably won't be able to agree on this either.  "Son of Slow-Bleed" if you will.

Update on Gilly—Not out of the Woods Yet  —  Still here  —  Jen here.  I just got off the phone with Gilly's Mom.  Last night, her message was that "they brought him down from surgery, but he's still under sedation."  I called her this morning to get more details, and here they are:

THE BATTLE EPIC 300.  —  If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war.

Cubans sneak ashore during U.S. security drill  —  MIAMI (Reuters) - While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.

Prof pays price for causing offense  —  Sensitivities take precedence over truth and academic freedom  —  When UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan ended his legal-process class on Feb. 15, there was no sign that he had offended anyone.  There were no questions or complaints, and no one approached him afterward.

[Editors' note: the article below is David Horowitz's defense of Matt Sanchez, a Marine corporal and Columbia student, who is now the target of the Left's campaign of personal destruction.]  —  I am generally a forgiving soul.  If treated half-decently by my opponents I am prepared to overlook …

Rove: Prosecutor Purge Is "Normal and Ordinary"  —  The Arkansas Times' blog has video of Karl Rove speaking today on the topic of the prosecutor purge.  I've typed up a transcript of the remarks, but I'll leave it to readers in comments to point out the many distortions (and some plain lies) in Rove's comments.