HUMAN EVENTS Endorses Fred Thompson  —  The 2008 presidential election is the most unusual and most important in many years.  It's been more than five decades since such a race didn't feature an incumbent President or Vice President.  Since World War II, America has not had a presidential election …

Let's have some fun in Michigan  —  In 1972, Republican voters in Michigan decided to make a little mischief, crossing over to vote in the open Democratic primary and voting for segregationist Democrat George Wallace, seriously embarrassing the state's Democrats.

LAS VEGAS STOP: Clinton pitch hits home  —  Democratic hopeful goes door to door  —  People in the Las Vegas neighborhood saw all the cameras and trucks and buses and police on the streets Thursday, and they began to trickle out of their houses to find out what was going on.

Kucinich Wants What?  —  Maybe Dennis Kucinich just wants to confirm that anyone in New Hampshire would be silly enough to vote for him.  The Democratic presidential also-ran has filed a formal request for a recount in the Granite State primary, based on — I'm not kidding — “allegations and rumors":

Civil Rights Tone Prompts Talk of an Endorsement  —  WASHINGTON — Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said he was rethinking his neutral stance in his state's presidential primary out of disappointment at comments by Bill …

Iran Incident: The Backpedaling Begins  —  The backpedaling has begun regarding Pentagon claims that Iranian fast boats swarmed U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.  —  As I noted here yesterday, my initial reaction was disbelief.  And that the incident was being used as a pretext …

Musharraf: Don't Tread On Me  —  Plenty of presidential candidates in both parties have talked about how they plan to chase al-Qaeda to the gates of Hell, apparently placing that squarely in Pakistan.  Pervez Musharraf, who runs the joint, has an answer for those who propose sending American troops into Pakistan — fuggedaboutit:

The Comeback Continent  —  Today I'd like to talk about a much-derided contender making a surprising comeback, a comeback that calls into question much of the conventional wisdom of American politics.  No, I'm not talking about a politician.  I'm talking about an economy — specifically …

Press editorial board endorses Romney  —  Note: This is an editorial running in Friday's edition of The Grand Rapids Press.  —  Many issues will confront the nation in the next four years, from the ongoing threat of terrorism to the need to find a sensible immigration policy.

Who's Crying Now?  —  One way to see what happened Tuesday is that it was an anti-coronation backlash.  Iowa said: We are not here to crown Queen Hillary.  New Hampshire said: We're not here to crown King Barack.  The polls said they would.  People don't like to be told what they're going to do.

Bringing Obama Back to Earth  —  WASHINGTON — Was it the tears in the New Hampshire coffee shop?  Whenever there is a political upset, everyone looks for the unscripted incident, the I-paid-for-this-microphone moment that can account for it.  Hillary Clinton's improbable victory in New Hampshire …

Sliming Obama  —  Dueling chain e-mails claim he's a radical Muslim or a ‘racist’ Christian.  Both can't be right.  We find both are false.  —  If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one.