Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort  —  Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

SETTLED  —  Granholm orders state workers to report to work this morning  —  LANSING - State government is open for business after lawmakers gave Gov. Jennifer Granholm what she wanted this morning to call off a shutdown.  —  After the Senate early this morning passed a sales tax expansion …

Burma: Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle  —  Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.  —  The most senior official to defect so far …

Clinton hits turbulence  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) last week flew into a sudden burst of media wind shear.  After months of mostly rosy portrayals of her campaign's political skill, discipline and inevitability, the storyline shifted abruptly to evasive answers …

Final Bow  —  With mixed emotions I announce: John and I will no longer be producing editorial cartoons.  John will continue posting his work at his blog, John Cox Art, and he and I will continue working together on various projects, but there will be no more regularly scheduled editorial cartoons.

Blackwater guards fired unprovoked: Iraq police evidence  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iraqi investigators have evidence that US private guards fired unprovoked on Iraqis in a deadly Baghdad shoot-out, a magazine said Sunday, citing a police report countering claims that they shot in self-defense.

GOP Is Ready to Roll Out the Klieg Lights for Craig  —  Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho is a tough guy to run out of town.  —  Not that his Republican colleagues aren't trying.  Worried that the disgraced lawmaker intends to remain in the Senate indefinitely, they are threatening to notch …

Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Favorite People On The Right (2007 Edition)  —  Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their "Favorite People On The Right."  Representatives from the following 50 blogs responded...

"TROOPS OUT NOW" MARCH AND ACTION, WASHINGTON DC: SEPTEMBER 29, 2007  —  Well, at least she got the symbol right.  Usually these folks just end up carrying around ads for Mercedes-Benz.  Still, given the probable average income of the families these kids spring out of the confusion is to be expected, I suppose...

Air Force Arranged No-Work Contract  —  Experts Question Official's Deal With Nonprofit  —  While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a paycheck.  So the Air Force helped arrange …

Reporting While Black  —  ARE YOU IN A GANG?  —  THE police officer had not asked my name or my business before grabbing my wrists, jerking my hands high behind my back and slamming my head into the hood of his cruiser.  —  "You have no right to put your hands on me!"  I shouted lamely.

U.S. Embassy rips Senate plan on Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed to have been al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday.  —  The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile …