Clinton Met With Obama About Role In New Administration  —  A Democratic official confirms to the Huffington Post that Sen. Hillary Clinton met with President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss her role in the new administration.  —  Clinton's trip to Chicago, described in press reports as …

Bernie Sanders Joins Leahy In Demanding Ouster Of Lieberman From Chairmanship  —  Okay, we now have a second Senator who's stepped up and joined Senator Patrick Leahy in calling on Democrats to boot Joe Lieberman from his plum slot atop the Homeland Security committee.

Vote tally trend favors Begich for Senate  —  SENATE RACE: With Stevens strongholds still uncounted, leader isn't celebrating yet.  —  scockerham@adn.com  —  More than half the absentee and questioned ballots still to be counted in Alaska's U.S. Senate race come from areas of the state …

BOBBY JINDAL STEPS UP.  —  The Republican ticket this year was notable for refusing to run on any policy innovations or substantive accomplishments whatsoever.  In retrospect, most people think that a mistake.  And so you're going to see a real effort in the GOP over the next few years …

“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good.  “There's nothing going on.  I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons …

Party Loyalist  —  Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics?  —  Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.

RISING TO THE MOMENT  —  We've been fielding emails all day in response to this morning's post on ‘drift’.  And the ones that have particularly stuck out to me are the ones about bailing out the auto industry.  Quite a few readers are of the opinion either that the Big Three are ground central …

A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?  —  Gene Burns is one of the nation's most popular talk radio hosts.  For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture.  But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood …

McCain-Obama Meeting Set in Motion by Graham  —  The upcoming meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and his onetime rival Sen. John McCain was set in motion during a phone call over the weekend between Obama and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), McCain's closest friend.

More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case  —  Next month in Atlanta, a federal court will hear the high-profile appeal of former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman, whose conviction on corruption charges in 2006 became one of the most publicly debated cases to emerge from eight years …

Democratic Pressure on Obama to Restore the Rule of Law  —  In a Senate hearing room in September, weeks before Barack Obama won the election, a series of law professors, lawyers and civil libertarians outlined one of the biggest challenges that will be facing the next president …

Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge  —  ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A conservative California congressman announced Friday that he's mounting a leadership challenge to House Minority Leader John Boehner, as the GOP continues to assess the fallout from last week's election losses.

The Libertarian Temptation  —  A reader who, if not disgruntled, is certainly very far from being gruntled: … Hmm.  As the parent of two teenagers, I come out in hives when someone tells me something is “cool.”  As for “sexually repressed bigoted” etc.; I thought Sarah Palin kicked …

The Loss Of Individual Liberty  —  The challenge for this generation is to get it back.  —  Over dinner with Milton Friedman several years before he died, I offered the great man a compliment.  He refused it.  —  I had just re-read God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book in which William F. Buckley Jr. …

Failure: For Our Future  —  Megan McArdle has been righteous on the Detroit bailout.  The argument from justice is most hard-hitting in this post.  Lots of companies fail.  Lots of cities, built around those companies, decline.  If employees of the Big Three deserve to have taxpayers pay part …

Supreme Court Takes On Campaign Finance Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday added two cases to its docket arising from hard-fought elections, including one concerning whether a film critical of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and advertisements for it are subject to regulation under the campaign finance laws.