NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!  —  The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

Edwards takes lead in InsiderAdvantage Iowa poll  —  John Edwards has leapfrogged over his rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and leads the Democratic field in Iowa, according to the latest InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll.  In the Republican caucus race, Mike Huckabee continues to hold a narrow lead over Mitt Romney.

Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes  —  WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda …

Huckabee admaker calls cross imagery “absolutely accidental;” Paul says “fascism' will be ‘carrying a cross’  —  Asked about Republican rival Mike Huckabee's Christmas-themed ad, which we wrote about yesterday and has attracted attention in part because of the image of a cross that many see hovering …

House to vote on $70 billion for wars  —  WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give President Bush an end-of-session victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.

Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both “Aberrant Behavior,” But They're At “Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"  —  By Greg Sargent - December 18, 2007, 4:57PM  —  Oh, man.  One of Mike Huckabee's chief advisers has just attempted to clarify …

Inside a GOP effort to rig the 2002 New Hampshire elections  —  WASHINGTON — A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal election-day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S. Senate election said in a new book and an interview …

No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions  —  In 1967, Jack Wennberg, a young medical researcher at Johns Hopkins, moved his family to a farmhouse in northern Vermont.  —  Dr. Wennberg had been chosen to run a new center based at the University of Vermont that would examine medical care in the state.

Reid: Al Qaeda Still Winning In Iraq  —  Harry Reid doesn't know when to give up, or more precisely, when to give up on giving up.  After spending the last several months trying to live down his declaration of America's defeat in Iraq on the Senate floor, Reid once again gave al-Qaeda …

The Army's Other Crisis  —  Why the best and brightest young officers are leaving  —  Matt Kapinos was born into the military, at a U.S. Army hospital outside Frankfurt, Germany.  It was 1979, and his father was an Army officer, one of thousands of soldiers stationed along the plains of central Europe.

Giuliani's Kerik Woes Resurface Through Informant  —  Candidate Distancing Himself From Former Confidant  —  By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk, Page A01  —  In the heady days of the 1990s when Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor of New York and Bernard B. Kerik was one of his most trusted lieutenants …

Huck = Harriett Miers?  —  Huck = Harriett Miers?  —  A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs.  —  The same forces that joined to force the White House to withdraw Harriett Miers' Supreme Court nomination …