Judge: FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Legal  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI raid on a Louisiana congressman's Capitol Hill office was legal, a federal judge ruled Monday.  —  Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said members of Congress are not above the law.

Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released on Internet by al Qaeda (Video/Images)  —  A brutal video showing the desecration of the bodies of two U.S. soldiers has been released on the internet by an al Qaeda linked group.  The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.

Lieberman campaign files forms to run as petitioning candidate  —  HARTFORD, Conn. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman filed paperwork Monday that will allow him to collect signatures to petition his way onto the November ballot if he loses an August primary.  —  Lieberman's campaign announced the move in an e-mail to reporters.

Rove: Bush to veto DeGette bill  —  President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said today.  —  "The president is emphatic about this," …

FREE GILAD NOW!  NY RALLY! … It was something to see.  An incredibly beautiful scene.  —  Roughly a thousand people (to my eye at the height.)  Young (alot), old all walks of life.  My only issue was the co-opting of this rally by the Democrats.  Clearly Israel is a non-partisan issue.

Officials: 15 Injured In Building Blast  —  NEW YORK — A four-story building on Manhattan's Upper East Side collapsed into a pile of rubble Monday after a thunderous gas explosion that hurled fireballs high into the sky and left the upscale block covered in bricks, broken glass and splintered wood.

The U.N. Sideshow on Korea  —  The United Nations Security Council certainly should register international condemnation of last week's North Korean missile launches.  But if any serious progress is going to be made on this and the related North Korean nuclear issue, it will not be through Security Council resolutions or sanctions.

KILL, DON'T CAPTURE  —  HOW TO SOLVE OUR PRISONER PROBLEM  —  July 10, 2006 — THE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize a mistake the second time you make it.  By that standard, we should be very experienced in dealing with captured terrorists, since we've made the same mistake again and again.

JOHN MURTHA: The Patriot Project Exclusive  —  UPDATE III: The entire piece is cross-posted here.  —  UPDATE II: Christy from firedoglake did a wonderful post on the piece and the issue of smearing vets.  I can't thank her enough for her kind words and drawing attention to the article.

Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized  —  NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism.  —  When reached for reaction to Universal's statement, the head of the company the New York Post asked …

A REVOLTING TRUTH:  —  Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN's Nic Robertson comes as a shock:  —  From its gruesome particulars, the report goes on to describe the fear that has gripped even the most hardened Iraqis during this latest round of sectarian bloodletting.

Provost review clears Barrett to teach class on Islam  —  Following a thorough review, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell today announced that lecturer Kevin Barrett will teach, as scheduled, a class titled "Islam: Religion and Culture."

Aksa Brigades announce female suicide bomber unit  —  A group belonging to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party announced on Monday that it had recruited 100 Palestinian women to launch suicide attacks against Israel.  —  A woman who identified herself as Um al-Abed told reporters …

Esquire Puts One Of Their Own On The Cover — McCain  —  Sen. John McCain is the subject of a very positive yet appropriately elegiac profile in the coming issue of Esquire.  Written by Chris Jones , it's slated for the cover.  —  The thesis: McCain is worried about the country he loves.

Conservatives and Immigration  —  The debate on the right about freedom, culture and the welfare state.  —  No issue more deeply divides American conservatives today than immigration.  It's the subject on which we get the most critical mail by far, no doubt reflecting this split on the right.