Deputy A.G. McNulty Announces Resignation  —  Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced his resignation today, saying he is leaving the Justice Department later this summer to enter the private sector, officials said.  —  McNulty announced his plans to leave in a letter …

Bloomy tops Rudy in battle of the titans  —  Daily News poll shows overwhelming support for billionaire  —  Michael Bloomberg is not only a better mayor of New York than Rudy Giuliani - he'd make a better President, too.  —  That's the result of a Daily News poll released today that asked …

Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry  —  Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq.  One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs.  The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting …

The Matt Drudge primary  —  How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign.  Hint: It involves the Drudge Report.  —  Photo composite of Matt Drudge.  —  WASHINGTON — John McCain's "Bomb Iran" scandal almost never happened.

Gingrich Says There Is a 'Great Possibility' He Will Run for President  —  The Former Speaker of the House Warns GOP Hillary Clinton Has a Good Chance of Becoming President  —  Newt Gingrich for president?  It could happen.  —  In an interview with Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America …

Hagel Continues Flirtation With Independent Bid  —  For The Fix, watching Sen. Chuck Hagel's (R-Neb.) political hand-wringing is like looking at the sun — you know it's bad for you but you just can't resist.  —  During a remarkably politics-free weekend in Alabama, this blogger happened to tune into …

Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall  —  These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones.  There's one massive exception — the Internet.  It is, we are told, a giant town hall.  Indeed, it has millions of people speaking out in millions of online forums.

Values Message  —  One of the reasons I trust General Petraeus is he just comes right out and says what needs to be said.  The letter which he sent to our forces serving in Iraq (posted below) is a case in point.  The letter is more important than it might appear on first glance.

Rosie Advances WTC 7 Conspiracy Theory Again  —  I guess Rosie missed the tanker accident near the Bay Bridge two weeks ago.  The tanker was carrying 8600 gallons of unleaded gasoline.  In that accident. … Impossible according to Rosie.  Yet the roadway was gone.  Go figure.  Rosie went on to bluster:

Red, White and Voting Blue — Where Dems Made Gains in '06  —  The Fix is a firm believer that only by understanding past elections can we hope to make accurate predictions about future contests.  —  Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, has produced a study of the 2006 electorate that goes …

Lieberman Helps Collect Cash for Collins  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) is never going to win any popularity contests among his party's liberal base — a fact he seems decidedly unconcerned about despite his 2006 Democratic primary loss to Ned Lamont.  —  Not only has Lieberman endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.)

Atomic Agency Concludes Iran Is Stepping Up Nuclear Work  —  Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency's top officials.

To InstaPundit: No, they won't  —  I get the warning and humor of this line, but frankly I'm tired of it.  Prof. Reynolds needs to hit the books. … He's right that the credible threat of violence drives people all over the world to bow to unreasonable Muslim demands …

McCain blames Petraeus for his armed escort in Baghdad...  After his photo-op went terrible wrong in Baghdad, McCain the straight talker is now blaming Gen. Petraeus for making him take a military escort into the marketplace where Lindsay Graham bought a few rugs.  (The now infamous Baghdad Stroll.)

U.S. Air Marshals Flooding German, British Flights  —  Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  As many as five or six U.S. air marshals are now assigned to each U.S.-bound flight from airports in Frankfurt, London and Manchester, England, because of fears terrorists might attempt …

Shock as Sarkozy woos anti-US leftwinger  —  Nicolas Sarkozy, the right-wing reformer who becomes French President on Wednesday, upset both the United States and his opponents yesterday by offering the job of Foreign Minister to a Socialist veteran with anti-American credentials.

The Stasi on Our Minds  —  a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 216 pp., Ä8.50 (paper)  —  One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination …

Norm Coleman Live Blog  —  Just preparing for the live blog of Norm Coleman's speech at the University of Minnesota.  Stay tuned!  —  10:05 CT - Larry Jacobs introduces the series of speakers, talking about the U's open-government projects.  This is one of a series of events, and I'm going to try to make a few of these.

Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War  —  Good news for war foes: Harry Reid just spoke on the Senate floor, revealing that he'll allow a vote this week on the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would cut off funding for the war by March 31, 2008.