G.O.P. Senators and Bush Reach Wiretap Accord  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration's domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House …

Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace  —  DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace  —  SEC. RUMSFELD: Come on in, folks.  Good morning.  —  Last week I had the privilege of visiting the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library …

Election - Year Politics Shadow Ports Issue  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are using the uproar over an Arab company's planned takeover of some U.S. port operations to paint Republicans as faltering on the GOP's signature issue — national security — and accuse them of ignoring port safety in the past.

It's Not Just Foreign Law They Don't Like . . .  Chief Justice Robert's decision for the unanimous Court in in the law school/military recruiting case today gets the constitutional analysis just right in my opinion.  (Full disclosure, I signed on to an amicus brief by a number of professors …

SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE....Ed Kilgore responds to my angry post about the DLC's wonkish 7-point healthcare plan with this: … Here's my guess: in private, I'll bet all of these gentlemen do acknowledge that a simple single-payer national healthcare plan is the best policy.

Cheney: Iran Faces 'Meaningful Consequences' if It Doesn't Curb Nuclear Program  —  Vice President Cheney threatened Iran today with "meaningful consequences" if it fails to cooperate with international efforts to curb its nuclear program.  —  "For our part, the United States is keeping …

IRAQ: THE UNTOLD TRUTHS  —  AMONG the many positive stories you aren't being told about Iraq, the media ignored another big one last week: In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, it was the Iraqi army that kept the peace in the streets.

17 Responses to "7/11/2005 - Feature - Libertyville Abortion Demonstration"  — BCSays:  —  I thought this was a brilliant piece.  —  Whilst I encourage the debate on abortion, this demostrates that some people are fervent anti-abortionists but haven't actually thought much about the topic at all.

More Sunni - al-Qaeda Divisions: The Real Civil War  —  Anbar tribes and tribes from the city of Hawijah oppose Zarqawi's jihad  —  Faced with the continued prospect of submitting to the brutality of al-Qaeda, Sunni tribal leaders continue to band together to fight the terrorists in their midst.

The Today Show Becomes Matt Lauer's Geography Class  —  I honestly think MSM has given up on any attempt at objectivity.  They know their game is up, so they figure, "Why hide it?"  —  Such is the case this morning with Matt Lauer's rendition of an unbiased Katie Couric interview.

Missed Tributes  —  Now for a few humble thoughts about the Oscars.  —  I did not see every second of it, but my wife did, and she joins me in noting that there was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans.

From 'Three's Company' to two's a crowd  —  BEVERLY HILLS — Seventies icon Suzanne Somers was strolling into Vanity Fair's Oscar party at Morton's when she vanished in the Madonna glare.  —  Somers had just stepped onto the red carpet when a bloodcurdling cry erupted from the paparazzi behind the barricades.

8,000 desert during Iraq war  —  At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the Iraq war began, Pentagon records show, although the overall desertion rate has plunged since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.  —  Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers …