If leaks from the White House mean anything, President Obama will opt for a mini-surge, doomed to be called Surge Light, which would mean an additional 10,000 to 20,000 troops and not the 40,000 or more that Gen. Stanley McChrystal would like.

A Missouri man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller says he did so out of necessity to protect unborn children.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event has special meaning for me since I was living and working in Berlin when it happened. I had been there for over a year when The Wall came down, and I stayed for almost a year afterward.

I've read both of President Obama's books,* Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. I recommend them to anyone who has an interest in politics generally or Barack Obama in particular.

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent.

Share your tributes and memories of Spc. Frederick Greene. One of those killed at Fort Hood, Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn., was assigned to the 16th Signal Company.

Share your tributes and memories of Capt. John Gaffaney.

Share your tributes and remembrances of Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow. One of the Fort Hood victims, DeCrow, 32, was from Evans, Ga., and was helping train soldiers on how to help new veterans with paperwork and had felt safe on the Army post.

Share your tributes and remembrances of Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo. One of the Fort Hood victims, Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va., arrived in the United States in his teens from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, knowing very little English.

Share your tributes and remembrances of Lt. Col. Juanita Warman here. One of those killed in the Fort Hood tragedy, Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace, Md., was a military physician assistant with two daughters and six grandchildren.

"When Nidal Hasan's fellow students complained to the military medical school faculty about his 'anti-American propaganda,' a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept these officers from filing a formal written complaint," thereby allowing him to remain in  …

Yankees fans, an Iranian protest, and Rodeo clowns are among this week’s memorable images. Tell us which pictures you like and which ones shouldn't have made the cut.

I'm Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and author of "How Barack Obama Won." Please join me for another Q&A session here on Newsvine where we'll be discussing U.S. politics.

The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again! He'll be running in the Democratic primary, and he's convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins  …

Political analysts differ over the potential implications of today's elections -- tell us what you think is on the line.

Obama the incrementalist is the headline of a column written by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post a few days ago.