Just a few things you might have missed this week amidst all the breaking political news:

President Bush attended his final National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday:

I believe in the power of prayer, because I have felt it in my own life. Prayer has strengthened me in times of personal challenge. It has helped me meet the challenges of the presidency. I understand now clearly the story of the calm in the rough seas. And so at this final prayer breakfast as your President, I thank you for your prayers, and I thank our people all across America for their prayers. And I ask you not to stop in the year ahead. We have so much work to do for our country, and with the help of the Almighty, we will build a freer world –and a safer, more hopeful, more noble America.

Michael Yon offers this brief dispatch with a link to the complete story:

“We were taking pretty sustained fire, but once you engage, they just disappear,” Lt. Jacob Deguire said minutes after a gunfight against insurgents in downtown Mosul. “They’re really good at disappearing once you return fire.”

A ruling in the case against Representative William Jefferson has been handed down:

A judge ruled Wednesday that an indictment accusing Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) of masterminding a wide-ranging bribery scheme involving business deals in Africa is valid.

Jefferson’s attorneys argued that most of the charges should be thrown out because testimony his staffers gave to a grand jury violated the Constitution’s speech and debate clause that protects legislative activity from intervention by other branches of government. The clause specifically says a congressman “shall not be questioned in any other Place” about his legislative work.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III agreed with the government’s argument that Jefferson’s interpretation was overly broad and would prevent a member of Congress from ever being formally accused of a crime associated with their work in Congress.

My choice for quote of the week:

I don’t agree with the characterization that McCain is responsible for the radicalization of these conservatives. They have radicalized themselves. They alone are responsible for their emotions and decisions.

Absolutely. Read the balance of this post by Kim Priestcap.

Whether your preference is the Left or the Right, if you are a political junkie you like to have available all the information possible.

This site offers listings of all the Super Delegates on the Democratic side. Given the importance these delegates may place in nominating a candidate on the Left, it might be a site to bookmark.

Here’s a list of superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic Convention that have officially announced who they plan to nominate. If you know of any others or are a superdelegate please post a comment.
We have also created a list of superdelegates that have not endorsed a candidate. There are 796 (not including Michigan and Florida) total Democratic superdelegates that the nominees are trying to be endorsed by. This consists of 720 regular superdelegates and 76 unpledged add-ons. We will add the unpledged add-ons as soon as they are named by each state.

Have a great Friday and terrific weekend.

And mine was no different. Today commemorates the nineteenth anniversary of the day she stepped out of time and into Heaven and eternity.

I thank God I was lucky enough to have had her for 41 years.

She taught me so much that I remember even now. Most of all she taught me how to die with dignity and made it a spiritual experience.

I love you, Grammy, and I always will. I’ll meet you at the Eastern Gate of Heaven when my time comes.

I know people hate to follow links but I couldn’t find this version in YouTube so I’m giving you the link to a cute and all-too-true song.

Click the link. You’ll smile after you see it.