Weekend Odds and Ends

I'm going to see Sen. Obama speak Monday. I'm audaciously hopeful about it. Here's news...

The President's big Petraeus propaganda campaign which peaked last week was a complete failure... polls show the testimony "failed to change fundamental attitudes toward the war."

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan... CBS's Lara Logan investigates the state of medical care there.

Mike Johanns, the Agriculture Secretary, resigned this week, amid rumors that he intends to run for the Senate seat that Chuck Hagel will be vacating after next year. And right after a joke in The Onion too!

Larry Craig, still a Senator, turns to the ACLU for help. A closet civil liberties fan?

Which members of Congress are the most corrupt? The answers may (not) surprise you!

In what comes as a huge bombshell, it appears that the right-wing's xenophobic immigration rhetoric is turning off hispanic voters. Fox News, natch, was proud to play its part.

Finally, and not surprisingly, construction of new homes falls to the slowest pace in years.