Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General  —  ­ Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned.  A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

Iraq's leaders agree on key U.S. benchmarks  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key laws that Washington views as vital to fostering national reconciliation.  —  The agreement was the most significant …

Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money  —  BAGHDAD — Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.

NOT BLOGGING THE BEIJING OLYMPICS  —  High tech big boys Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been subject to much criticism, in and out of the blogosphere, for cooperating with online censorship in the People's Republic of China.  Some say this cooperation has even led to the incarceration of journalists and dissidents.

FINESSING THE SURGE  —  Some Democrats are scrambling to re-position themselves on the surge in Iraq, and Neo-Neocon is watching them while pondering the contrast with another war and another ending.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers  —  Some Democrats in Congress were for the Iraq war before they were against it.

This is where Fannie and Freddie step in  —  Over the past 20 years major financial disruptions have taken place roughly every three years, starting with the 1987 stock market crash; the Savings & Loans collapse and credit crunch of the early 1990s; the 1994 Mexican crisis …

Poll: Young voters disenchanted with Republican party  —  Two larger-than-life politicians, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, charged into the California governor's office with the help of young voters, many of whom were drawn to the Republican Party by a message of sunny optimism.

THE SHOE DROPS  —  Finally, unexpectedly, out of the blue even, we appear to have arrived at a grand cross-party consensus on Iraq: it's Nuri al Maliki's fault and he should be fired.  Faced with the tough task of biting the bullet one way or another, pols across the partisan divide seem …

Pinning Hopes On Rural Voters  —  Campaign of Edwards, a Southerner, Sees an Advantage With White Men  —  BERLIN, N.H. — When a woman in the crowd shouted a question about education testing here on Saturday, former senator John Edwards made a casual farming quip.

They wait for us to run again  —  George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy.  Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians …

Stop Making Sense  —  Between 2000 and 2006, a specter haunted the community of fundamentalist Democrats.  Members of this community looked around and observed their moral and intellectual superiority.  They observed that their policies were better for the middle classes.