In America, a Republican presidential candidate is wise to invoke Reagan; in Britain, it's Thatcher. That's exactly what Rudy Giuliani did at the Margaret Thatcher Atlantic Bridge lecture yesterday in London. Speaking on the threat of Islamic terrorism, Giuliani said, "As Margaret Thatcher would have put it, this isn't a time to go wobbly!"

Giuliani also had a chance to meet with a few other important British politicos, including current Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Prime Minister Tony Blair. (Mary Jacoby, Wall Street Journal)

Also while in London, Giuliani called for an expansion of NATO to include Israel and leveled a stern warning to Iran: "If they get to the point where they are going to become a nuclear power, we will prevent them." (Marc Santora, New York Times)

Closer to home, Giuliani on Friday plans on courting another stalwart of conservative politics, the NRA -- a group he hasn't been on the best of terms with in the past. (Michael Shear, Anne Kornblut, Washington Post)

Sticking with the GOP race, social conservative icon James Dobson sent out an e-mail to supporters ripping Fred Thompson with this rhetorical question: "Isn't Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won't talk at all about what he believes, and can't speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?" (Eric Gorski, AP)

Thompson, meanwhile, was on the trail firing a shot or two of his own in the direction of Mitt Romney. "My philosophy doesn't depend on my geography," Mr. Thompson said, while in Texas. "Wherever I stand, I'm the same way and have been all my political career -- what I call common-sense conservatism." (Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News)

Fred08: Just Like McCain?. Or so suggests a review of Thompson's and McCain's roll-call votes between 1995 and 2003, which found that the two agreed 83% of the time. (Mike Madden, Ryan Konig, Arizona Republic)

$3.7 Million. That's the word on McCain's fundraising totals for the quarter, according to an "influential friend" of McCain. The hope was $4.5 million. (Ralph Hallow, Washington Times)

"Taken out of context." The explanation from Jesse Jackson regarding his comments about how Barack Obama is "acting like he's white" comments quoted yesterday. (AP)

The context of Jackson's comments is the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. "If I were a candidate I'd be all over Jena," Jackson had said, putting the pressure on Obama to respond to the case. (Nicholas Wapshott, New York Sun)