Spate of Good News Gives White House a Chance to Regroup  —  In a White House that had virtually forgotten what good news looks like, the past few weeks have been refreshing.  A Republican won a much-watched special congressional election.  President Bush recruited a Wall Street heavy hitter as Treasury secretary.

Liberal Activists Boo Clinton  —  Rejection of Iraq Timetable Gets Cool Reception at Conference  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal activists yesterday as she defended her opposition to a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq …

Robert Luskin Sends Bush's Brain Message on Plane: 'Case Over'; Attacks Blogosphere  —  The message reached Karl Rove on his BlackBerry: "FITZGERALD CALLED.  CASE OVER."  —  Strapped into his seat, his cell phone darkened in preparation for takeoff on a flight to New Hampshire …

Corps condemns video mockery  —  Islamic scholars and the Marine Corps have condemned an Internet music video called "Hadji Girl" that allegedly shows Marines mocking dead Iraqis.  —  The four-minute video contains images of what is said to be a Marine in Iraq singing a song that seems to glorify killing an Iraqi young girl.

RUDY GOES NUCLEAR  —  FORMULA FOR '08 SUCCESS  —  June 14, 2006 — A small gathering in Mid town yesterday got a sneak peek at Rudy Giuliani's formula as he gears up for a likely 2008 presidential run.  That formula: one-third leadership, one-third technocratic centrist and one-third radical conservative reformer.

Clinton and Kerry Show Democratic Divide on Troop Withdrawal  —  WASHINGTON, June 13 — At the moment that the White House is again trying to cast them as weak on national security, Democrats are debating their stance on the war in Iraq with new intensity, with some of the party's leading figures …

FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can't recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that.  —  The $1,000 payment was just one example cited …

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Orders U.S. Reporters to Exit Guantanamo  —  NEW YORK In the aftermath of the three suicides at the notorious Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today.

Your congressman just got a raise  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.  —  The 2 percent cost-of-living raise would be the seventh straight for members of the House and Senate.

Committee: Fire Churchill  —  A majority of the University of Colorado committee leading an inquiry into Ward Churchill recommended today that the ethnic studies professor be fired.  —  Of the 10 voting members, six said he should be fired.  One said he should be suspended without pay for two years …

RWN's Ann Coulter Interview #3  —  John Hawkins: Do you think teachers are underpaid?  —  Ann Coulter: The good ones are, that's why they deserve merit pay.  The bad ones are  —  overpaid.  Too bad their unions don't let us distinguish between the two.  —  John Hawkins: Is global warming occurring and caused by mankind?

Detainees in Despair  —  I WAS released from the United States military's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in July 2004.  As I was about to board a plane that would take me home to France, the last detainee I saw was a young Yemeni.  He was overwhelmed by emotion.

Shadegg's memo stokes fight on pork  —  A leading fiscal conservative in the House has stoked debate over pork by circulating a newspaper story linking Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) to "the inherent risk of corruption at the heart of the congressional earmark process."

Could a 15-Year-Old With a Laptop Be the New Campaign Media Guru?  —  Daily Kos's convention — the in-person gathering of the nation's most-read online political blog — was practically carpeted with presidential candidates.  But perhaps the most notable presentation came from Ava Lowery …

Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe  —  "The Inconvenient Truth" is indeed inconvenient to alarmists  —  "Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth" …

'New Direction' is new theme for Democratic plan  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic House and Senate leaders are planning to reduce the cost of student loans and prescription drugs, raise the minimum wage and launch an effort to develop alternative fuels if they win back control of Congress.