500,000 displaced residents due to the California wild fires.

Iraqi officials are trying to defuse the crisis with Turkey.

Rudy's rooting for the Red Sox. The pressure is now on Hillary.

Just painful: "Actually, just look at what Osam -- Barack Obama -- said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq." Mitt Romney, doing the Osama-Obama tango today.

In response, Obama said, "I don't pay too much attention to Mitt Romney."

South Carolina: Romney rising?

"I think it's great to have been mayor of a big city. I think it's great to have been governor of a state," said John McCain today. (But obviously not that great.)

In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she would review executive powers as president and perhaps might give up some.

Ahem: "Former President Bill Clinton is quite the romantic husband, according to wife Hillary ... " yup, that's where we stopped reading.

Fred Thompson says no federal money for sanctuary cities, like, oh, New York City.

"I want to apologize to, first of all, my colleagues, many of whom I've offended; the president, his family, to the troops ... and I do apologize." Rep. "Pete" Stark actually, um, apologizes.

It's away! Discovery blasts off despite bad weather.