Lebanon About To Fall  —  The cease-fire agreement appears to have created a crisis in Lebanon's government, as a Cabinet meeting of Siniora's government has been abruptly cancelled.  The Cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy their army into southern Lebanon and to displace Hezbollah.

Pan-Islamism challenges idea of nation state  —  Here's how an early report by Reuters covered the massive terrorism bust in the United Kingdom.  They started out conventionally enough just chugging along with airport closures, arrest details and quotes from bystanders, but then got to the big picture:

Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized  —  SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader in this country.  —  Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring …

WATCHING LEBANON  —  In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive.  "It's a moment of clarification," …

Polls Shows More Americans Favor Democratic Candidate for Congress  —  A new poll shows an uptick in support for a Democratic candidate in the next Congressional elections.  —  When asked whom they would vote for "if elections for Congress were held today," 45% of U.S. adults said they would vote …

Transcript for Aug. 13  —  MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues this Sunday: the threat of terror.  Nearly five years after the September 11 attacks, a chilling new plot: terrorists planning to blow up airplanes bound for the U.S.  —  (Videotape):  —  SEC'Y MICHAEL CHERTOFF …

Give It Up, Joe  —  Sore loser Lieberman is fighting for his job, not the good of his party.  —  THE LONGER Sen. Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign in Connecticut goes on, the harder it gets to detect any rationale for his candidacy that's persuasive to anybody who isn't Joe Lieberman.

Connecticut Senate: Two Days After Primary, Lieberman Ahead by 5  —  Lieberman 46%, Lamont 41%  —  Senator Joe Lieberman's decision to run as an Independent sets up a lively campaign season for Connecticut voters.  In the first General Election poll since Ned Lamont defeated Lieberman in Tuesday's primary …

Inside Hezbollah's Free Fire Zone  —  NORTHERN ISRAEL - I teamed up with Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, and took a rental car through Hezbollah's shooting gallery to the front line on the Lebanese/Israeli border.  Famed military historian Michael Oren …

Demeaning Democracy  —  Cheney Paints Lamont Victory As Helping Terrorists  —  Vice presidents are notorious for serving as an administration's chief attack dog, and time and again Dick Cheney has been unleashed to accuse anyone who is opposed to the Bush administration of aiding the terrorists.

Ahmadinejad starts his own blog (Update: Fake?)  —  Believe it.  Al-Reuters has already written it up.  —  He was even thoughtful enough to provide an English translation.  Click the little American/English flag icon on the right and you'll see.  —  There's an e-mail box where you can send him a message.

Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil  —  Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days