Clinton: No illegal immigrant licenses  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday came out against granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, after weeks of pressure in the presidential race to take a position on a now-failed ID plan from her home state governor.

Ron Paul: Trouble back home  —  While Texan Ron Paul's stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front.  In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.

Buzzy Krongard: I Told My Brother I Was Joining Blackwater's Advisory Board  —  Howard "Cookie" Krongard might have just perjured himself before the House Oversight Committee.  —  Earlier today, the State Department inspector general repeatedly told the panel that he was unaware his brother …

Queen Hillary's disruptive court  —  The press corps finally wakes up to her waffling and evasions.  Plus: Norman Mailer's largely forgotten legacy and our disappointing lesbian icons!  —  The mainstream media have been in a breathless tizzy about how Hillary Clinton waffled, tripped …

Publisher says she was told to lie to protect Giuliani  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — Senior executives at News Corp. urged publisher Judith Regan to lie to investigators about ex-New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik in order to protect Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions, Regan alleges in a lawsuit filed this week.

Car wars  —  A sanctimonious liberal (redundancy alert!) blogger excoriates various conservatives who all presumably own massive, gas-guzzling vehicles like the Ford F-150: … The blogger, one Bob Cesca, published his post at the Huffington Post, founded by the Queen of gas-guzzling Gulfstream Liberals, Arianna Huffington.

I Need 1,165 People Before Midnight  —  UPDATE: Just realized there are 12 questions on the front page of 10 Questions, so the cutoff for getting asked is 1,165 net positive votes before midnight.  I'm at +826 right now.  The heat is on.  Vote below.  —  The 10Questions question period is rapidly drawing to a close.

4Barack  —  "DON'T DO THIS!" a friend wrote, a friend who never uses allcaps, a friend who cares genuinely about what's good for me, and who believes that what's good for me depends in part upon how easily I can talk to the next administration.  "He is NOT going to win.  She has it sewed up.

Most at NYU say their vote has a price  —  Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition.  And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.  —  That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.

Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site  —  A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution …