THIS is the week John McCain takes a measure of what the Republican presidential nomination is worth.

THE US Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, finds it “incomprehensible” that Canada’s ships in the Persian Gulf would not automatically turn over possible Iraqi war or human rights criminals to the US.

THE disastrous election defeat can be overturned is the message Fine Gael activists will hear from a top US political strategist at their behind closed doors conference today.