“Of course we’re happy for Vice President Gore and the IPCC for receiving this recognition,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said, referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the award with Gore. [Reuters]

High-temperature hater Al Gore is considered a favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize, the winner of which will be announced from Oslo tomorrow. A win for the former vice president will definitively prove that “cold climate = world peace” is now a scientific truth. And never ye doubt, Gore’s hobo entourage on the internets thinks this could get him into the presidential race. MORE »

* Start practicing your draft card burning now — troop surge may include 48,000 new soldiers. [DefenseTech]
* All the Oscars and Nobel prizes in the world can’t stop Al Gore from crying himself to sleep about the one that got away. [MoJo]
* Fuck it, nevermind: Limbaugh’s up for a Nobel too. [Think Progress]
* If you love Jesus, you hate Alexandra Pelosi. It just has to be that way. [Pandagon]
* Luckily, mom has access to some armor-plated transport. Because if there’s one thing about bible belts, it’s that they usually have guns on them. [Captain's Quarters]
* Joe Biden is a racist marketing genius. [The Carpetbagger Report]
* Barack Obama’s so open minded he even hires staffers who maxed out their contributions to Bush in 2004. [The Politico]
* Judith Miller had to go to jail all by her lonesome thanks to… Jason Blair. [Radar]

• Mark Warner gives up his presidential run. Why? Warner says, “I’m going to dodge those questions.” [WP, NYT]

• Republicans place North Korean nukes on the “Clinton’s fault” list, Democrats mention last 6 years. [WSJ]
• Panel questions capability of Iraqi leadership, will tell you the other things they question after the election. [WP]
• Republicans won’t “stay the course” with hopeless candidates, plan to “cut and run,” redistribute funding to closer races. [WP]
• Senate investigators release report re-confirming the Abramoff/non-profit payola brouhaha. [WP, NYT]
• Bush stumps for Hastert in Illinois, refers to him as, “the future speaker of the House.” [WP, NYT]
• Proof nothing was learned from the ’60s: ACLU is horrified to learn the Government monitors anti-war groups, sometimes calling them potential terrorist organizations. [NYT]
• Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist who pioneered micro-credit loans, wins the Nobel peace price. Bono continues hanging out with President Bush for some reason. [WP]

* John Cornyn has the administration talking points down cold, but as for the writing — brother needs a grammar class. [The Hill Blog] MORE »

There goes the sub-Saharan neighborhood. Bono is teaming up with Rick Santorum. Yes, that Rick Santorum. NewsMax tells all: MORE »