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The leaders of the top Christian Conservative organizations have threatened to bolt the Republican party and support a Third Party candidate if Rudy Giuliani is the presidential nominee:

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives [...]

We interrupt your regularly schedule political programming to bring the results after 3 weeks of play in the 2007-08 Polipundit Pigskin Challenge, as we head in Football Sunday Week 4:
34 WMVBUD
32 The 1st Placers
31 A.J. Sparxx
31 Duke’s Nukes
30 WMVSYLVIE
30 Big Island
29 LA Costa Dug
25 Mike from Philly
24 Carolina Mike
20 Schmidty
We now return you to your [...]

A new poll shows Fred Thompson surging to a strong second place in Iowa.
Meanwhile, the buzz around The Beast’s campaign is all about her unholy “cackle.” (I don’t call it that, the Old York Times does.) The Cackle is so egregious that you must see it for yourself on video before you can fully appreciate [...]

Long War Journal
Abu Usama al Tunisi, an al Qaeda leader from Tunisia, was killed in an airstrike in Musayyib along with two other al Qaeda operatives. He was “in the inner leadership circle of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and was a likely successor to him,” Multinational Forces Iraq stated [...]

The Conservatives with Attitude! sponsored Conservative Leadership Brunch featuring a 2008 GOP Presidential Candidates Forum and Straw poll held in New Jersey has just ended and it was a great event.
In front of a standing room only crowd of over 100 people, surrogates for Governor Mitt Romney, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Congressman Tom Tancredo and Congressman [...]

WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.
“Newt is not running,” spokesman Rick Tyler said. “It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman [...]

Apparently lethal injection is “cruel and unusual” in some quarters,
In a fresh sign that the use of lethal injection in capital punishment faces an uncertain future, the Supreme Court issued an unusual last-minute reprieve for a death-row inmate in Texas late last night.
Although the court gave no reason for its decision, the inmate, Carlton Turner [...]

Edwards on the campaign trail,
We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two,” John Edwards said [...]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will open a Memphis office aimed at catching immigrants who have been ordered deported or have broken other laws.
Fugitive Operations agents can arrest immigrants anywhere in the U.S. The Memphis office will focus on fugitives in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The Fugitive Operations office concentrates on catching immigrants who [...]

We’ve said over and over and over that the U.N. is a bunch of corrupt incompetents.
Now widely acclaimed (and rightly so) reformist icon Vaclav Havel agrees:
For dozens of years, the international community has been arguing over how it should reform the United Nations so that it can better secure civic and human dignity in the [...]

Words fail me.
Clinton: $5,000 for every U.S. baby.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
Clinton, her party’s front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during [...]

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a plan to build fencing along parts of the Mexico border a “terrible idea” that overlooks local communities.
“I have been against the fence, I thought it’s a bad idea even when it was just a matter of discussion,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “These are communities where you [...]

Someone please tell me: Is New Jersey’s new anti-illegal-immigrant motor vehicles law at all like Georgia’s highly successful similar law?

U.S. Dollar hits all-time low.
The dollar declined to a record low of $1.4190 per euro and last traded at $1.4185 at 7:33 a.m. in New York, setting a record for a seventh day, from $1.4153 yesterday.
“The U.S. economic outlook is pointing to the dollar falling further,” said Daragh Maher, senior currency strategist at Calyon in [...]

More good news,
Illegal immigrants living in states and cities that have adopted strict immigration policies are packing up and moving back to their home countries or to neighboring states.
The exodus has been fueled by a wave of laws targeting illegal immigrants in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and elsewhere. Many were passed after congressional efforts to [...]