Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the outgoing Armed Services Committee chairman and “close ally” of criminal ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA), says “he sees no need to revive an oversight and investigations subcommittee to question current and proposed Pentagon policies.” Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the expected incoming chairman, thinks otherwise.

“I am not ‘running’ for president,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) tells Fortune. “I am seeking to create a movement to win the future by offering a series of solutions so compelling that if the American people say I have to be president, it will happen.”

former President Bush was “forced to defend his son from verbal attacks” from a “hostile audience.” “We do not respect your son,” a woman in the audience told Bush. “We do not respect what he’s doing all over the world.” “Bush appeared stunned as the audience of young business leaders whooped and whistled in approval” at the woman’s comments, coming after the “retired president had just finished a folksy address on leadership by telling the audience how deeply hurt he feels when his son the president is criticized.”

A new Democracy Corps poll finds that, in conservative-held congressional districts nationwide, “liberals” and “progressives” are viewed more favorably than Rush Limbaugh. On a scale of warm (100) to cold (0), here was the breakdown: progressives 45.0; liberals 40.1; Rush Limbaugh 33.0.

that his favorite activity growing up was baseball. “I liked baseball. That was my hobby. Sports,” he said. “Then, perhaps realizing that sports was the wrong thing to push in a classroom, even a fake one, the president added: ‘The best thing that I did was to learn how to read.’ Continuing in that vein, the last thing we heard before being pushed out was Bush cautioning the kids that ‘there are people who watch TV too much.’”