Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney  —  Senator Labels Bush Iraq Policy 'Disaster,' Lieberman Bid 'Huge Mistake'  —  Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted fellow a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.

Dismantling the Liebermachine  —  I find it quite ironic that those best positioned to understand the implications of Lieberman's downfall are the most apt to describe the race as unimportant or meaningless instead of the momentus event it really is.  I would throw into this TPM reader DK …

Experts Praise Royal Treatment of Karr  —  Authorities probably had a very good reason for allowing JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr to live it up on the 15-hour flight to the United States, legal experts say — they wanted him to talk.  —  Denver attorney Larry Pozner …

The YouTube Election  —  AUGUST, usually the sleepiest month in politics, has suddenly become raucous, thanks in part to YouTube, the vast videosharing Web site.  —  Last week, Senator George Allen, the Virginia Republican, was caught on tape at a campaign event twice calling a college student …

Minnesota's muddled election scene makes forecasts hazardous  —  Minnesota's electoral politics are deeply muddled as we head into the high election season next month.  —  The national political environment favors the Democrats, but the state's political situation benefits the Republicans.

Hewittian Hysteria  —  Writes Hugh Hewitt on his Townhall blog: … These kinds of statements vex me, just as blanket statements that voting for Republicans is some sort of vote to punish the poor or a vote for racism or hatred, or authoritarianism or whatever.

IRAQ: QUIT OR COMMIT  —  I've been putting off writing this post for a couple of months.  Not out of any fear of blogospheric consequences although it would pain me if my honest opinion drove people away from this site.  But I realize many readers who have been following my evolving position …

If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi  —  Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don't like Britain they should pack their bags  —  Scotland Yard described it as a plot "to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale".

Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way  —  WASHINGTON - Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb. says.  —  Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008 …

A Higher Power  —  James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.  —  Amid the highly charged political infighting in Washington over what to do in Iraq, you might be excused for not noticing that a bipartisan commission quietly started work last spring with a mandate to help the Bush administration rethink its policy toward the war.

British Night Goggles Go From Iran To Hezbollah  —  The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Israelis have found sensitive night-vision goggles on Hezbollah fighters that originated in the UK.  The tactical equipment appears to come from a shipment sent from the British government to Iran in 2003, intended to help interdict narcotics.

Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout  —  The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

MOMENT OF TRUTH  —  ISLAMO-FASCIST TERROR COULD TRIGGER A BRUTAL  —  WESTERN RESPONSE  —  IN the wake of Israel's strategic setback in Lebanon, where's the Middle East headed?  (Hint: The road sign doesn't read "Age of Aquarius").  —  Powerful emotions intoxicate all sides.

World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle  —  One way to measure how the world has changed in these last five years is to consider the extraordinary address to his nation by General Musharraf on Sept. 19, 2001.  Pakistan was one of just three countries in the world (along with …

SHORT MEMORIES  —  Our foreign policy is just plain wrong (Menzies Campbell, The Observer, August 20, 2006) … How easy it is to forget what the world looked like exactly five years ago in August, 2001.  A huge and contiguous swath of the globe from Lebanon through Syria, Iraq, Iran …