Lieberman Remains Committed, Plays It Calm  —  The Joe Lieberman political revival tour continued on its way Friday, at times feeling more like a family reunion than a last-ditch attempt to catch Democratic challenger Ned Lamont.  —  It wrapped up a week of quick stops in shopping centers …

'Hezbollah aren't suckers, they know how to fight.  You're scared all the time'  —  Israeli soldiers recount stories of a terrifying week facing the snipers and missiles of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon  —  AT FIRST light they filtered from the undergrowth, camouflaged …

Ending the neoconservative nightmare  —  Witnessing the near-perfect symmetry of Israeli and American policy has been one of the more noteworthy aspects of the latest Lebanon war.  A true friend in the White House.  No deescalate and stabilize, honest-broker, diplomatic jaw-jaw from this president.

GOP Candidates Claim Degrees Of Separation From President  —  On Capitol Hill, Rep. Mark Kennedy (Minn.) and Sen. James M. Talent (Mo.) are known as loyal Republican soldiers, reliable votes for President Bush on tax cuts and the Iraq war.  In elections past, they have aired advertisements featuring …

Slacker Friday  —  I've got a new Think Again here, "Remember Iraq?"  —  Jim Fallows says we won.  You'll have to read why.  — Generals Give Grim Report on Iraqi Strife," the Los Angeles Times.  [Link]  — "Generals warn of civil war in Iraq," Washington Times.  [Link]

Iraqi civil war has already begun, U.S. troops say  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun.  —  Army troops in and around …

The Brink of Madness  —  A familiar place.  —  National Review Online  —  When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union …

Job growth unexpectedly slows  —  Payroll gain of 113,000 misses forecasts for fourth straight month; unemployment rises; wages up.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Job growth came in weak for the fourth straight month in July while the unemployment rate rose, according to a government report Friday …

Clarification of Bias  —  No blogger in the world can seriously claim they are "objective" in the literal sense.  That includes me.  —  My traffic is much higher than usual lately, and there are lots of unfamiliar names in the comments.  I'm getting all kinds of emails from people I've never heard …

ADVICE TO INCOMING FIRST-YEAR LAW STUDENTS: It's just about time for classes to start.  The first year students at Cumberland begin orientation a week from Monday.  I remember my first year experience as being profoundly challenging and humbling.  Thinking back over my first-year …

Israel's Peculiar Position  —  The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.  Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem.  Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman.

Dickie Goes Ballistic  —  So, I don't know this Richard Goodstein fellow from a hole in the ground, but he seemed mostly harmless.  Even considering he was demonstrating at a rally for Ned Lamont, with a group of perhaps 50 Lieberman "volunteers", who seemed intent on getting coverage for their disruptive activities.

Iran: We supplied Zelzal-2 to Hizbullah  —  By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ  —  Iran admitted for the first time on Friday that it did indeed supply long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah.  —  Secretary-general of the "Intifada conference" Mohtashami Pur told an Iranian newspaper …

Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty  —  The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate.  —  The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance our ability to cooperate with foreign governments …