The Associated Press is calling the Mississippi special election tonight for Democrat Travis Childers over Republican Greg Davis for the remainder of Republican Roger Wicker's House term.

Six men were facing trial yesterday before a military tribunal for involvement in the September 11 attacks. But only five will be prosecuted. The sixth? He was one of the detainees subjected to torture.

Finally, there is some movement on the FISA domestic surveillance bill.

In recent weeks, the GOP faced major beatings in the political arena. The leaders of the GOP decided to “stop the bleeding” with a memo.

Thus spoke Robert Novak.

Novak's assessment of some of the evangelical community is that they will not support John McCain's Presidential aspirations this year, deciding instead to wait for 2012 when Mike Huckabee will run for office again (they hope). In the meantime, an Obama Presidency would be a plague upon the nation.

They've had military parades. They've thrown our diplomats out of the country. Recently Mikhail Gorbachev has also accused the United States of running 'an imperialist conspiracy against Russia.' Russia is being awfully hyper-aggressive lately. Can't we be friends? Is it 1987 or something?

A nomination fight between former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel and former Republican Congressman Bob Barr? That's right, folks!

Election politics found a home on the web in this year's presidential primaries.

Doug Goodyear, McCain's choice to run the 2008 Republican National Convention, stepped down on Saturday.

Now is the time to submit all non-problems to the Texas State Legislature. The Republican leadership needs the next few months to figure out what to do about them.