Sen. Allen's Remarks Spark Ire  —  Democrat James Webb's Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent.  —  S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera …

Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown  —  THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.  —  The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people …

Our World: The Olmert government must go  —  From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government's incompetent management of the war in Lebanon.  These calls are misguided.

Democrats See Security as Key Issue for Fall  —  After being outmaneuvered in the politics of national security in the last two elections, Democrats say they are determined not to cede the issue this year and are working to cast President Bush as having diminished the nation's safety.

Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah.

From TPM Reader DN ...  I have mixed feelings about what DN has to say.  But I do recognize a lot in it I identify with.  TPM has always been pretty aggressive and pugilistic in its politics.  The site, after all, started during the 2000 recount, the founding political bad act from which, you might say, everything else followed.

America's one-eyed view of war: Stars, stripes, and the Star of David  —  There are two sides to every conflict - unless you rely on the US media for information about the battle in Lebanon.  Viewers have been fed a diet of partisan coverage which treats Israel as the good guys and their Hizbollah enemy as the incarnation of evil.

CNN Int'l snubs Israeli civilians  —  Highly unbalanced report mostly ignores plight of Israeli civilians, portrays Israelis as soldiers and politicians in suits, while coverage from Lebanon features in-depth interviews with Lebanese civilians and images of children and ruins …

Bush Signs Law to Save War Memorial Cross  —  President Bush on Monday signed a law transferring a 29-foot-tall Latin cross high on a hill in San Diego to the federal government, stepping into a long-running dispute over the separation of church and state.  —  Mr. Bush, in the latest unusual …

Ease of Alteration Creates Woes for Picture Editors  —  The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography.

Senate rivals' lieutenants launch ideological salvoes  —  So much for civility in the now three-way race for the U.S. Senate.  —  In separate e-mails sent to reporters over the weekend, top officials in the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and his Democratic challenger …

Will the AFL-CIO back Lieberman?  —  Senator Joe Lieberman (Lieberman-CT) has gotten his beleaguered website back on-line, and there is something fishy on it.  Or rather, in it.  Many websites contain "metadata" which is not shown in your web browser but is used by search engines to help categorize and prioritize the page.

Defeatism and attacks on the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war  —  We have a rule in our country that "attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war" helps The Terrorists and emboldens our enemies.  Joe Lieberman put it this way: "in matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril."

Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?  —  In recent months, we have been bombarded with reports of the death of the Bush Doctrine.  Of course, there have been many such reports since the doctrine was first promulgated at the start of what I persist in calling World War IV (the cold war being World War III).

State briefs: 'Bryson Prayer Force' asks Christians to join  —  KNOX  —  KNOXVILLE — A Christian prayer group is hoping to provide Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson with some divine assistance during his campaign.  —  The "Bryson Prayer Force" is inviting Christians to join …

The Weekly Standard's Bigot Eruption  —  Conservatives cannot help themselves.  They try, time and time again, to excuse themselves from their movement's racist past.  They try to deny that the foundation of the current Republican party came about as segregationist racists were turned …