Thanks, yes. It’s great to be back. (ap)

Why should Huckaboom and Sarah Palin get all the attention? America’s Mayor has been conspicuously absent from general speculation about 2012. Mostly, he seemed adrift, a man without a reason. But — behold! Rudy is resurgent — turning up all over cable and today, and RNC conference call with reporters, fulminating against plans to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed on trial in Manhattan.