Take a good, hard look at what's going on here  —  Be sickened.  Be frightened.  Be angry.  But don't you dare be shocked.  —  Unless you've been had.  —  Either way, the time has long passed for domestic bliss born of ignorance, virtue and wilful denial.

A Hard Look at Haditha  —  The apparent cold-blooded killing last November of 24 Iraqi civilians by United States marines at Haditha will be hard to dispose of with another Washington damage control operation.  The Iraqi government has made clear that it will not sit still for one, and neither should the American people.

Gunmen kill 21 commuters near Baghdad  —  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Gunmen killed 21 people — many of them high school students — after dragging them off buses northeast of Baghdad, officials said.  Four Sunni Arabs were spared and the dead were all Shiites or Kurds.

Colbert Tells College Graduates: Get Your Own TV Show  —  NEW YORK At the close of his commencement speech before 250 graduates (and 4000 others) at tiny Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. on Saturday, satirist Stephen Colbert left them with a piece of advice: Get your own TV show.

Gore says don't count on a 2008 run  —  WASHINGTON - Al Gore, the Democrats' nominee for the White House in 2000, says he has all but ruled out running for president in 2008, saying the best use of his time is to educate people about global warming.  —  "I haven't made a Sherman statement …

Hillary and Bill: A Relationship Too Political to Be Ignored  —  COMPLAINTS about the May 23 Page 1 article on Hillary and Bill Clinton add up to one of the most uniformly negative and partisan reader reactions to a Times article during the past year.  Most decried as tabloid journalism …

Fears for the worst as 10,000 Spitfires head for Germany  —  The last time they flew across the Channel, they were 32 feet long, with Rolls-Royce engines and wings bristling with 20mm cannons.  —  Now they measure all of 18 inches, have no engine and not so much as a peashooter - but their …

Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell  —  Democrats know how to fight real wars, not just political ones, says Peter Beinart.  —  IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other.  The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president …

Ahmadinejad: I've Got A Secret  —  Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to publicly release the package offered by Western nations for an end to Teheran's uranium-enrichment program.  Brushing off a warning from Kofi Annan, Ahmadinejad says he wants his people to remain fully informed of the situation:

Terror cell 'was planning nerve gas attack on capital'  —  Your view: should police be allowed to shoot terror suspects?  —  Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security services.

Citizen soldiers, citizen media: The War Tapes  —  On Friday, I attended the New York premiere of The War Tapes, the true story of National Guardsmen who filmed their own tour of duty in Iraq.  (My original photos: here, here, and here.)  —  "The War Tapes" is a milestone in journalism.

LONDONISTAN  —  HOW BRITAIN'S HABITUAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM REAPS TERROR  —  June 4, 2006 — AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British.  Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course …