Top Items:
Nadim Ladki / Reuters:
Hizbollah bombards northern Israel — BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas bombarded northern Israel with rockets and fought up to 6,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon on Wednesday after Israel vowed to pursue the war until a strong international force arrived.
RELATED ITEMS:
Haaretz:
Report: Fierce fighting as IDF commandos launch raid deep in Lebanon — Israel Defense Forces commandos reportedly landed by helicopter late Tuesday night near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek in what Lebanese security sources described as a major operation against suspected Hezbollah positions.
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF commandos capture Hizbullah members after battle
IDF commandos capture Hizbullah members after battle
Discussion:
Associated Press, Confederate Yankee, Hyscience, Democracy Now, AMERICAN FUTURE, Pajamas Media and Israellycool
Josh White / Washington Post:
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit — Congressman Discussed Killings Involving Serviceman's Squad in Haditha, Iraq — A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming …
RELATED ITEMS:
Associated Press:
Source: Haditha evidence implicates Marines — Investigators reportedly finish initial review in deaths of 24 civilians — WASHINGTON - Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children …
Discussion:
A Blog For All
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon — Allegations Brought to Inspectors General — Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort …
Rosemary Bennett / Times of London:
We must rethink the War on Terror - Blair — Read Blair speech in full — FIVE years into the War on Terror, Tony Blair called yesterday for a "complete renaissance of our strategy" to defeat militant Islam. — Speaking in Los Angeles, the Prime Minister admitted that the use of force alone …
RELATED ITEMS:
MSNBC:
Evolution's foes lose ground in Kansas — Darwin's defenders increase their strength on Board of Education — TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.
Discussion:
Daily Kos
RELATED ITEMS:
Jason Apuzzo / LIBERTAS:
Mel Gibson, Conservatives & The Cult of Celebrity — The Gibson mug shot. — Disney has unsurprisingly cancelled Mel Gibson's Holocaust TV series that he had in development. [The Reuters article obnoxiously states: "The actor ... holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views."
RELATED ITEMS:
Keith Epstein / TBO.com:
Ex-Aide: Harris Hid Subpoena — More from this channel: — This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin. Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer to download this plugin. — WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris received a grand jury subpoena …
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Hill fries free to be French again — The fries on Capitol Hill are French again. — So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom." — Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names …
CNN:
Cuban TV: Castro says health 'stable' — Illness forces Cuban leader to cede power temporarily to brother — HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Fidel Castro's health situation is "stable" and he is in "good spirits," according to a message attributed to him and read on Cuban television Tuesday evening.
RELATED ITEMS:
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Mideast Lessons From 1973 — Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking backward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. — That long-ago war, like the current one in Lebanon, began with an Arab sneak attack …
Discussion:
The American Thinker, american footprints, The Bullwinkle Blog, Blue Crab Boulevard and War and Piece
Frank J. Gaffney / Opinion Journal:
One War — In its war on terror, the U.S. would never accept the limits being pushed on Israel. — WASHINGTON—On Sept. 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government.
Discussion:
PoliPundit.com
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Democrats Scrambling To Organize Voter Turnout — Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that they lack an effective plan to turn out voters this fall, creating tension among party leaders and prompting House Democrats to launch a fundraising effort aimed exclusively at mobilizing Democratic partisans.
Ynetnews:
Long-range rocket lands near Jenin — Some of long-range rockets fired at Israel Wednesday land across Green Line, in West Bank area - most southern point Hizbullah has managed to hit so far. Police sappers believe rockets made in Syria — Ali waked — Some of the long range rockets …
Discussion:
Yourish.com
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records — A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday. — The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic …
Roger Kimball / Armavirumque:
'Potentially incendiary' at the Brooklyn Public Library — This spring, in my capacity as publisher of Encounter Books, I had the honor to publish Melanie Phillips's book Londonistan, a brilliant, but also harrowing, look at the ways in which radical Islam has established itself in England.
Discussion:
It Shines For All