From the Pork Barrel: Of Nobel Prizes and Cruise Missiles

* Winner of the 2006 Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights wants Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize revoked due to excessive bombing of Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights founder's country.

* If Chris Christie does get pushed into GOP nomination campaign against his will, it'll probably take a whole lot of party members to do the pushing. (Because he's so resolute, obviously. What did you think I meant?)

* Republicans' plan to place "In God We Trust" signs on all schools to only add $90 million to national budget.

* Researchers at Duke University find NPR to be liberal using state of the art Twitter technology.

Tags: Barack Obama, Bill of Rights, Bolivia, Chris Christie, Constitution, Economy, House of Representatives, Muammar Qaddafi, New Jersey, Nobel Prize, NPR, Pork Barrel, Primaries, Religion, Republicans, Science & Technology, Twitter

Migration Madness 2010: Racial Profiling Tournament Brackets

Arizona's recent bid to lead as America's biggest racial profiler has already received backing from Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, and the Northern Mariana Islands, among others. But now seven of Mexico's fellow Latin American countries have followed its lead with motions in supports of lawsuits challenging Arizona's immigration enforcement law SP1070…

Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru filed separate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico's legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups….

Mexico says the law would lead to racial profiling and hinder trade, tourism and the fight against drug trafficking.

You know what that means, don't you? It's time for Migration Madness, the tournament in which political entities slug it out in the headlines for the title — no, the legal right, actually — to have or not have Constitutionally unsound racial profiling implemented within the United States.

And, no that we know which governing bodies have qualified, we can finally draw up the tournament seedings, which are based upon several factors, including country ranking, win-loss war record, ethnicity, and whether or not I think a country had a funny name. Continue after the jump to see how it shakes out…

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Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Immigration, Michigan, Mike Cox, Nebraska, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia