Details Emerge About Suspects in Canada Bomb Plot  —  MISSISSAUGA, Canada, June 4 — Several of the people arrested by Canadian authorities in a huge counterterrorism sweep over the weekend regularly attended the same storefront mosque in a middle-class neighborhood of modest brick rental townhouses and well-kept lawns.

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.

Iran to Make Offer by Six Powers Public  —  Leader Protests U.S. Tone in Nuclear Dispute but Hints at Breakthrough  —  TEHRAN, June 3 — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran would publish details of the package of incentives and possible penalties prepared by the United States …

Paul Bass  —  Seasonal Memory Lapses  —  Medical researchers have identified a host of causes for amnesia, from encephalitis to traumatic brain injury.  —  I've discovered another cause: political campaigns.  —  Exhibit A: The current campaign in Connecticut for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.

The Truth, John Kerry, and The New York Times  —  Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans …

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.

GEORGE BUSH MADE ME HAVE SEX  —  Well, not literally.  —  Bush has been blamed for most of the world's ills over the past five years.  He has been blamed for tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, obesity, a rise in global temperatures, and the pimple on Duncan Black's posterior.

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.

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 …

GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves  —  Republican convention draws religious conservatives  —  SAN ANTONIO - Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention.  "It's great to be back in the holy land," the Fort Worth native …

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 …

China: June 4th:Silence, Memorial and Blogger's Saying  —  Today it's June 4th, the 17th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre, which marked the end of student democracy movement in Beijing and nationwide lasting from March to June, 1989.  The communist party of China still did not recognize …

State, U.S. would be far better off without flood of illegal immigrants  —  "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub"  —  Fact: America is the most generous legal-immigrant-receiving country on Earth, admitting more immigrants each year than are admitted by all the countries of the world combined.

Gay Marriage Amendment Getting a Presidential Push  —  Conservatives who think Bush has buried the issue denounce the planned event as a ruse.  —  WASHINGTON — The campaign against gay marriage is scheduled to get the full White House treatment on Monday — words from President Bush in front …

Tradeable Gas Rights  —  Martin Feldstein has a way to reduce gasoline consumption, tradeable gas rights: … Getting over my surprise at the Feldstein's call for government intervention in the marketplace, particularly for the government to set a national cap, I'm not fully convinced.

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.

RCMP Went Undercover For Raid  —  The Toronto Star reports this morning that the RCMP itself sold the Toronto terror cell the three tons of ammonium nitrate it planned to use for devastating attacks on Canada.  The Mounties moved to capture all of the suspects as soon as the deal for the fertilizer concluded: