- Only five people have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom & the Congressional Gold Medal but one of those names probably isn’t recognizeable to most people. Jonathan Alter looks at the life of Norman Borlaug.

- Ronald Brownstein writes of Rudy Giuliani as the Federalist candidate.

- John Fund looks at the national implications of Dr. Broun’s upset victory in a special House race in Georgia.

- Rich Lowry says Hillary Clinton “has done more than any other Democrat to show she’s ready to be president” and says “I will never support her, but nor will I ever again underestimate her.”

- Pat Buchanan takes the opposing view on Hillary Clinton seeing her debate-follow-up attack on Sen. Obama as a misstep and taking his side on the issue.

- David S. Corn notes that despite Richardson & Romney’s push to elect governors they haven’t yet won back the support they gave.

Peggy Noonan discusses Robert Novak’s new memoir and notes the following from his stories and those like it she has read about Washington in the 1950’s:

Washington in the 1950s was a pretty wonderful place to be. It seems in almost everyone’s memoirs, certainly this one, to have been the last time Washington was fun. It was “shabbier and less pretentious” than today, but it was also an easier place, a more human one, in part, apparently, because everyone in the White House, on the Hill, and in the newspaper bureaus was drunk. (In fact, that would explain the ’50s, wouldn’t it?) In the Washington young Mr. Novak enters, senators plot over whiskey and cigars; reporters knock back scotches while trading tidbits at the press-club bar; lunches with sources begin with doubles; the senate majority leader is soused in the lobby, singing to himself. Beehived women chain-smoke with the boys and listen to their tales of woe.

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- Tom Bevan deconstructs slogans as well as John Edwards stance on them.

- Peggy Noonan says the Bush administration has left the base entirely and lays into him like I haven’t seen anyone do in a long while. A further sign Republicans are turning on this administration and are looking for a change in this election.

- E.J. Dionne says watching the political debates is like watching parallel worlds.

- Rich Lowry writes about what he calls Clintonomics 2.0.

- A.B. Stoddard writes about Fred Thompson whom she calls a “force to be reckoned with”.

- Lynn Sweet says that Obama is on a fund-raising binge.

- Howard Fineman talks Al Gore & reason.

- Fareed Zakaria writes about the Republican candidates changing views on immigration.

- Richard Reeves uses the Congressional Democratic strategy of Vietnam to highlight the current Republican strategy toward Iraq and says Only Republicans Can Stop the War and says if they don’t they face defeat in the next election.

- Joe Klein writes about Religion, good works & the opposite of sin and the two presidential candidates who are doing the same.

- Richard Cohen looks at weight & politics.

- David S. Broder looks at the longshots in the race and has some praise.

- Howard Kurtz calls Iowa weird, then qualifies it & looks at Sen. Clinton.

- Howard Fineman looks at Clinton’s California Strategy | McCain & The Upside of Anger | Running Hard by Staying Out

Immigration
Immigration debate filled the Congress & the campaigns this week and many columnists took the time to write about it. They include Paul Krugman | Eleanor Clift | Pat Buchanon | Tony Blankley | Lynn Sweet | George F. Will | John Fund

Sorry yesterday was a busy day but here is Columnist Corner on Sat nor Friday.

- Ana Marie Cox looks at the many gaffes of Mitt Romney.

- Paul Bedard says if you don’t like the current GOP crop of candidates check out John Cox.

- Tony Blankley looks at Michael Bloomberg and what he calls the ‘Third Party Freak-show‘.

- Pat Buchanan looked at the Republican debate and asks who was right, Giuliani or Paul?

- This week Jerry Falwell passed away and Howard Fineman looks back at his legacy and impact on politics.

- David S. Broder says the current primary schedule is no way to chose a president.

- Peggy Noonan says Fred Thompson isn’t yet running but he is running a great campaign.

- Chuck Todd looks at conventional wisdom.