The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton  —  The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses.  —  The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …

Obama fires back at Bill Clinton  —  Democratic contender counter-punches ex-president on experience issue  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama calls on a reporter at his news conference before a rally in Waterloo, Iowa on Saturday.  —  WATERLOO, Iowa - Former president …

Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry  —  WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies …

'Trust Huckabee' moves into New Hampshire  —  The third-party group assisting Mike Huckabee has moved beyond Iowa and into New Hampshire.  —  Trust Huckabee — a group that the candidate has publicly denounced — made a similar round of automated calls spreading negative information …

The Road Warrior  —  Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities, Edwards can still win by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precincts.  —  Jonathan Torgovnik for Newsweek  —  Conceit or Conviction?  Edwards (in Iowa last week with actor Tim Robbins aboard the candidate's campaign bus) is running hard to pull off a come-from-behind win

The Perils of Huckaplomacy  —  Don't know much about foreign policy.  —  Just moments into the third Republican presidential debate, last June 5, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee about Iraq.  "Governor Huckabee, do you have confidence in the government of Iraq …

Quotomatic Selector say: And the middle school kids were giving, and getting, blowjobs all day.  —  YOUR MOMENT OF DR. HELEN.  Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser throws more bait to the poor souls who have despaired of finding love in this cold, cruel, gynocracy.  "Men are being told not to get married …

Straw-in-the-Mouth Foreign Policy?  —  I don't know much about Mike Huckabee, but found his aw-shucks Foreign Affairs essay strange to say the least (e.g., cf.  "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad." )

Huckabee DWI clemency, donations raise questions  —  From NBC's Amna Nawaz, Investigative Producer  —  Questions are being raised about then-Gov. Huckabee's 2004 decision to grant clemency to a repeat Driving While Intoxicated offender in Arkansas named Eugene Fields, despite the objections of a law enforcement official at the time.

Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal  —  With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.  —  Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win …

Children?  Not if you love the planet  —  This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate "the birth of a homeless child" - or, in Al Gore's words, "a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child."  —  Just for the record, Jesus wasn't "homeless."