MY TAKE ON THE DEM DEBATE  —  So, a few observations about the Democratic debate.  —  First, a few months ago, I said that I didn't get what Barack Obama thought he was doing in one of the debates, that he was doing a very good job debating as the frontrunner, when in fact he was falling further and further behind Hillary Clinton.

Why I Believe Bush Must Go  —  Nixon Was Bad.  These Guys Are Worse.  —  As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.

“I Thought That Mitt Romney Won The debate.”  —  Dick Morris is no friend of Mitt Romney, and his declaration of Romney as the “winner” tonight is the assessment that caught my eye.  That's called “an admission against interest,” and it is very significant.  I think I know why.

New Hampshire G.O.P. Backs Out of Fox Forum  —  Ron Paul raised nearly $20 million in the last quarter, likely more than any of his rivals.  He garnered 10 percent of the Republican vote in the Iowa Caucuses, surpassing Rudolph W. Giuliani.  And he's in New Hampshire this weekend on the airwaves …

Playbook: Bradley to endorse Obama  —  Good Sunday morning.  —  The local front of the (Manchester) Union Leader has a story about media groupies who, in a quadrennial ritual, congregate around hotels in hopes of getting a photo with Chris Wallace or Tucker Carlson.

For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets  —  A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.  —  Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI …

Scratch an Independent Bloomberg and Get a Democrat, Positions Show  —  Hundreds of miles from the hustings of New Hampshire lurks a possible presidential candidate who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and stricter regulation of handguns.  Who doesn't mind taxing the rich on their income …

The Problem with Populists  —  WASHINGTON — Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress.  Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise.  Social conservatives …

McCain and the Debate  —  The more I thought about it last night, the less well his performance sat with me.  I think he won as a political matter and now would be surprised if he doesn't win handily in New Hampshire.  But he was nasty toward Romney, letting his hatred—and I used that word advisedly—show.