Poll: Top Democrats Deadlocked In Iowa  —  Huckabee Catching Up To Romney Among Hawkeye State Republicans  —  (CBS) Democrats and Republicans are both headed toward heated showdowns in Iowa, where, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, Hillary Clinton holds a statistically insignificant lead …

Ex-Publisher's Suit Plays a Giuliani-Kerik Angle  —  Judith Regan, the former book publisher, says in a lawsuit filed today protesting her dismissal by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate, that a senior executive there encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair …

Spitzer Dropping His License Plan  —  Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy.  —  The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday …

Ex-FBI Agent Accused Of Security Breach  —  Woman Pleads Guilty To Charges Involving Improper Access Of Information  —  (CBS) A 37-year-old woman who previously worked as an FBI agent and a CIA analyst, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving improper access of information, CBS News has learned.

Full Video: McCain Says Supporter's "Bitch" Query About Hillary Is "An Excellent Question"  —  Below we noted that a local Fox affiliate had reported on a John McCain event in South Carolina where he'd stood by while one of his supporters called Hillary a "bitch."

Newsweek  —  Remember that big announcement I promised earlier?  Well, it's now official. … Yeah, there's a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news.  But Newsweek is "balancing" me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.

Iowa Waitress Speaks Out: I Didn't Get Tip From Clinton, Media Has Misplaced Priorities  —  For the past week, Anita Esterday's life has been turned upside down.  A single mother of two, she found herself in the middle of a media circus when it was reported that Sen. Hillary Clinton's …

President vetoes bill funding Labor, HHS and Education in '08  —  President Bush, as expected, vetoed a $150.7 billion funding bill for the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education departments, but he signed into law a $460.3 billion bill funding the Defense Department.

F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause  —  Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect …

UPDATE: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Huckabee—Whatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks" … Jump forward to the present day, Mike Huckabee running for the Republican presidential nomination has signed a no-tax pledge and jumped on the Fair Tax bandwagon.

Is the Roll-Out Sputtering?  —  Tracking the roll-out for the Iran war through the last week, we have seen some high profile developments.  We learned that the pressure is on military intelligence officers and other key nodes of the intelligence community to come up with evidence …

Display of Anti-Bush Sign Has Competitive Bridge World in an Uproar  —  In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy.  But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003 …

The war on Thanksgiving  —  The annual war on Thanksgiving begins.  Via Orbusmax, the Seattle schools are using the holiday to indulge in oppression studies 101: … Look, I'm all for truthful, historically accurate lessons about Thanksgiving.  But the "diversity"-peddlers agenda is not about historical accuracy.

Majority believe Bush has committed impeachable offenses.  —  A new American Research Group poll finds that 55 percent of voters believe President Bush has "abused his powers" in a manner that rises "to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution," yet just 34 percent believe he should actually be impeached.