Political news this morning...

An update to this post, I've been informed by a source that Steve Henry is in the race but no LG candidate is selected as of yet. The Herald Leader has much of the same.

More on the loan.

Northup for Congress? pulled a Dave Letterman the other day and lists a top ten.

Lance Armstrong was at UK the other day as a part of his participation in the President's Cancer Panel.

Also in Lexington, the UK College Democrats debated the UK College Republicans and drew an "overwhelming turnout" according to UK Dems president Richard Becker.

Senator Tom Daschle is still waying a 2008 run for the Oval Office.

They're serving sno cones in Idaho as hell froze over.

The suddenly competitive race is a delicious development for Larry Grant, a Democratic candidate for the House who finds himself transformed from sacrificial lamb to reason for worry among national Republican strategists.

His Republican opponent is Bill Sali, an eight-term state representative with a corrosive reputation for irking his fellow Republicans. The Republican speaker of the Idaho House, Bruce Newcomb, said this spring of Sali: "That idiot is just an absolute idiot."

Interesting news from JTA. American Jews are more supportive of a preemptive strike against Iran than they have been in the past.

American Jews are less supportive of a U.S. military strike on Iran than they were a year ago, but they remain overwhelmingly convinced that the Arabs want to destroy the State of Israel.

Those observations emerge from the American Jewish Committee's annual survey of U.S. Jewish opinion, which was released Monday.

Thirty-eight percent of respondents say they support U.S. military action to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, down from 49 percent last year. However, 57 percent support an Israeli strike against the Islamic republic.