Congressional Quarterly does a ton of legwork in determining which districts are safe zones for their incumbents and which are ripe for the picking by the opposition. Congressman Chet Edwards has been the most targeted Democratic member of the House for several cycles but he has maintained his spot by being extraordinarily talented and serving his district incredibly well.

The Iraq War's five year anniversary has been an occasion for both sides of the debate to reassert their positions.

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The main hangup in the Michigan plan for a re-vote concerns who can vote in it.

In the midst of a big Pay Attention To McCain Tour through the Middle East, John McCain asserted that Iran is training al-Qaeda and then sending them to Iraq. Suddenly, Joe Lieberman came to the rescue!

A watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against House Speaker Tom Craddick on Tuesday over some of his travel expenses. Craddick spent $13,513.40 for a charter jet to attend a prominent Republican's funeral, and $1,800 to take his wife with him to a conference in Lithuania. The Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and Judges contends that these expenses were an excessive and illegal use of campaign funds.

This has sort of been buried on a very busy news day, but this is important. As part of a new strategy to deal with the unchecked increase of fuel prices, Delta Airlines has offered to buyout 30,000 employees, or more than half of the company's current workforce. The goal is to cut some 2,000 jobs from the company. Pilots are not included in the offer as they have a union contract.

Joe Scarborough was caught sneaking a bite of a brownie during the premiere of MSNBC's "Race for the White House." The "Morning Joe" host apparently couldn't wait for the commercial break, and was caught on camera with his chocolate snack in hand. His chagrined grimace on realizing his mistake is priceless.

The Fed got their rate cut on once again today, dropping the federal funds rate from 3.0 percent to 2.25 percent. The response on Wall Street thus far seems to be a little from Column Good and a little from Column Bad.

The federal government occasionally engages in troublesome activities, like internal audits. In recent years, the results have been less than ideal when the audits cover intelligence operations or defense contracts. A new internal audit at the Justice Department concerning the FBI's terror watch list is also not ideal. You can check out the story here. If you're really ambitious, you can read the report yourself.