Blue Radar

As I post each morning, here are some of the political stories thatmight not be worthy of their own posts, but are nonetheless newsworthy:

• FOREIGN POLICY Paris prosecutors have thrown out a lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld, which originally alleged that he engaged in human rights violations.
• CIVIL LIBERTIES The US government is now allowing the Feds to track Americans by their cell phones.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Rudolph Giuliani says he voted for McGovern in 1972, even though he preferred Nixon.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL According to the Huffington Post, Michael Bloomberg might be considering a 3rd party run for president: "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been receiving foreign policybriefing sessions on a wide variety of topics, providing the strongestindication yet that he is considering a run for the White House, theHuffington Post has learned."
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL Fred Thompson is taking on Rudolph Giuliani on the issue of guns.  "He relates everything to New York City. Well, New York City is notemblematic of the rest of the country, I don’t think. I think thesentiments of those people in the rest of the country are in support ofthe Second Amendment — which is where I’ve always been and I don’tthink he’s ever been," Mr. Thompson said.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL The RNC is slamming Barack Obama for criticizing the amount of money the US is spending on the space program.  "It is ironic that Barack Obama's plan to help our children reach forthe stars is financed in part by slashing a program that helps us learnabout those very same stars," an RNC spokesperson said.
• 2008 ELECTION/PRESIDENTIAL On the campaign trail, Mike Huckabee says he wants to penalize those who break immigration laws, but not penalize children.  Huckabee rhetorically asked, "If a child is gasping for air, asthmatic, and he's on the hospitalsteps, what do the other candidates suggest we do, let him sit thereand gasp until he doesn't have any air left and he dies? If a childcomes to our school -- and our law, by the way, in most of our states,mine certainly says you've got to educate a child if he's of child age-- what do you, break your own law and say, `No, you can't come in theschoolhouse door'? No, you don't do that."

If we left something out, it's because we either wrote about ityesterday or are scheduled to do so in an individual post later today. Otherwise, feel free to add any stories to the commentbox.