So, the sanctions against Iran have made the newsrounds by now. Clearly the Bush administration has decided to make another bad decision unilaterally because nobody wants to play with us.

Ron Paul just set the Republican record for single day fund raising. Playing on themes from V for Vendetta and Guy Fawke's Day, his supporters rallied around anti-Iraq war/anti-Bush sentiment to raise 4.2 million dollars. Paul's popularity, and his supporters' enthusiasm, is establishing a significant schism within the Republican party.

Sure, President Bush's AG nominee Michael Mukasey made it past the Judiciary Committee and was sent to the floor for approval by the full Senate. But new polls show Bush breaking disapproval rating records set by one President Richard Milhouse Nixon.

The American Association of People with Disabilities, the Epilepsy Foundation, and a consortium of other groups recently concluded their historic live presidential debate webcast.

We've got a special message to go along with the TPA roundup this week. Two TPA member blogs have been nominated for the 2007 Weblog Awards: Three Wise Men and The Agonist. You can vote for Three Wise Men here and The Agonist here.

Call it the great overreaching. In politics, one often has to look backward to figure out the present. Such is the case when it comes to the Houston City Council and the Harris County Republican Party.

From time to time we turn our attention to international matters here at the Blue, and when we do it usually isn't good. That is the case with Pakistan, and the moves President Musharraf has made in the last several days which indicate he is exerting force control over the state to maintain power.

How ironic! On the eve of the World Series, in a craven attempt to garner New Hampshire votes, Rudy Giuliani became an illegal immigrant in Red Sox Nation.

With the end of the Bush administration only 15 months away, members of the cabinet are beginning to plan their political life after Washington. For Margaret Spellings, the soon to be unemployed Education Secretary, the future just might be a return to Texas politics.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is working hard as America's top tax code author. Last week Rangel proposed what would be the largest tax code reform in two decades, the Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 2007.