Witnesses recall Romney-MLK march  —  Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser's chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.

RE: Bye, Bye Mike  —  Regarding that Huckabee advisor's soon-to-be-regretted comments about Limbaugh, Huckabee actually encourages people in his book From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPs to Restoring America's Greatness to “listen to less talk radio” as part of his “12 Action Steps to STOP Being Cynical.”

9/11 Panel Study Finds That C.I.A. Withheld Tapes  —  WASHINGTON — A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and 2004 for documents and other information …

Senate Majority Leader Reid Weighs Partisan Divides, Security in Iraq  —  JIM LEHRER: Now, our Newsmaker interview with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada.  And to Ray Suarez.  —  RAY SUAREZ: Senator Reid, welcome to the program.  —  SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV) …

Understanding US Election Issues & Presidential Candidates  —  People living outside America find it difficult to get a clear picture of the issues and candidates in the US presidential election 2008 as a majority of the US media and the blogs seem to have become rather emotive (and partisan? …

Banks Abandon Effort to Set Up Big Rescue Fund  —  Treasury Backed Idea As Response to Crisis; Boost From Foreigners  —  One of the federal government's signature efforts to ease financial instability caused by the subprime-mortgage crisis collapsed as the nation's three biggest banks gave …

Two Polls: Obama Tied In New Hampshire And Would Outpoll Clinton Nationally  —  Is it a sign that direct and apparent “surrogate” attacks from New York Senator Hillary Clinton's camp have backfired?  Perhaps...  Two new polls bring continued good news for Illinois Senator Barack Obama …

Huck talks religion, tolerance, morality  —  From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy  —  ON THE ROAD, IA — In a gaggle with reporters aboard his campaign bus, Huckabee elaborated on his response to a man from Marshalltown, IA, who had expressed concern that only Christians would be attended to by a Huckabee White House.

Bush can all but close the earmarks favor factory with the stroke of a pen (Don't miss the Q & A)  —  If the headline on this post seems too good to be true, be assured it reflects an expert legal opinion, that of the Congressional Research Service.  The opinion is at the heart …

Obama: More Clinton foreign policy aides than Clinton  —  Obama boasted at a town hall meeting in Washington, Iowa of the many former Clinton foreign policy aides now supporting him.  —  “You could argue that there are more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration supporting …

Tent city in suburbs is cost of U.S. home crisis  —  Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people.  It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.

IMUS RIPS NOT-SO-BRAVE BROKAW  —  THE friendship between Don Imus and Tom Brokaw is over.  —  “He [Brokaw] is not the most courageous person I've ever met in my life,” Imus told his listeners on Wednesday.  “He's not the guy I'd want to be in a foxhole with.”

Tucker: John Edwards Can't Be President, His House Is Too Big  —  MSNBC claims to have a great political line up, yet they continue to allow feckless Tucker Carlson to darken their network.  To show just how low the bar can be lowered, Tucker decides that John Edwards' large house makes for good political discussion.

Huckabee, Limbaugh, Saltsman, York And I  —  Reader Jim Welsh writes: … Very true.  —  The person quoted was not a campaign spokesman.  But neither is he or she a person who prayed on my gullibility to identify as a Huckabee ally.  After hearing and reading about Limbaugh's criticism …

Huckabee: ‘If Anything,’ We Treat Inmates At Guantanamo Bay ‘Too Nice’  —  During a campaign stop in Iowa today, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee commented on the conditions at the military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying that “the inmates there were getting …