Woodward Book Says Afghanistan Divided White House  —  WASHINGTON — Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book.

Barack Obama's Bob Woodward gamble  —  Early in President Barack Obama's term, he and his aides faced a rite of passage familiar to every White House for the past 40 years: What to do about Woodward?  —  In Obama's case, the answer came quickly: The White House doors swung wide for the world's most successful nonfiction writer.

Emanuel, Eyeing Chicago Run, Could Leave the White House in October  —  White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Olivier Douliery / Getty Images  —  White House aides are preparing for the possibility that Rahm Emanuel may step down as chief of staff as soon as early October if he decides …

Cuomo leads Paladino by six just points  —  Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo, who had led the GOP field by thirty points for most of the year, is now leading Republican rival Carl Paladino by just six points among likely voters, an astonishing new Quinnipiac University poll shows.

Toomey Up 7 Points In Pennsylvania Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters, Especially Independents, Disapprove Of Obama  —  Republican Pat Toomey has hit the magic 50 percent mark as he leads Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak 50 - 43 percent in the race for Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat …

“All Faggots Must Die”  —  The above comment was left today by “Jimmy” on my post about the DADT cloture vote.  The IP address *appears* to resolve to the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office.  The ISP is “United States Senate.”  I'm confident that the JMG internet sleuths can get to the source.