Press Conference by the President  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  Fancy digs you got here.  Thanks for your hospitality.  It's good to visit with you.  I look forward to taking some of your questions.

Europeans Delay Decision on Role Inside Lebanon  —  The ruins of southern Beirut Sunday, after being pounded by Israeli airstrikes for a month.  Arab nations promised reconstruction aid.  —  The shaky, United Nations-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon suffered another blow on Sunday …

Charges Over Terror Plot  —  Eleven suspects in the alleged UK airport terror plot have been charged.  —  Police have also revealed that they found bomb-making equipment and martyrdom videos during their investigations.  —  They said eight people had been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism.

Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at all-time high  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.  —  Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor …

Is Tomorrow Doomsday?  —  Asa Eslocker Reports:  —  While no extra safeguards are in place, U.S. law enforcement are not ignoring the possible significance of tomorrow's date, August 22, a date that marks an important historic event on the Islamic calendar.

NY'S LAMONT WANNABE  —  WILL NETROOTS TAKE ON HILLARY?  —  JONATHAN Tasini has less than a month to become New York's Ned Lamont.  The Democratic primary is on Sept. 12, he's at 13 percent in the polls and he's just had his best fund-raising week ever online.

Devastation...Still  —  This evening will be the first night of a two-part documentary that Spike Lee developed on the devastation in the Gulf Coast after Katrina, specifically about New Orleans after the levees broke.  HBO will air the four hour documentary on two successive nights …

Bush Now Says What He Wouldn't Say Before War: Iraq Had 'Nothing' To Do With 9/11  —  President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his "freedom agenda" and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11.

British Law Against Glorifying Terrorism Has Not Silenced Calls to Kill for Islam  —  From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and American soldiers.  It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he said.

Dangers await Lebanon returnees  —  When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.  —  The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next …

BUCHANAN DECLARES: THIRD WORLD CONQUEST OF AMERICA  —  "As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way.  What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended."

A Call to Support Democracy  —  As the debate on Iraq rages on, we hear more and more voices that call for throwing in the towel and leaving the mess to Iraqis to sort out.  A new and unexpected proponent of this argument is Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, who said in a recent column that it's time for "Plan B."

Judge drops Padilla terror charge  —  Padilla, codefendants faced double jeopardy, ruling says  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a "dirty bomb" suspect and detained as an "enemy combatant."

Sunday school teacher dumped for being female  —  WATERTOWN, New York (AP) — The minister of a church that dismissed a female Sunday School teacher after adopting what it called a literal interpretation of the Bible says a woman can perform any job — outside of the church.

Banish The Bling  —  A Culture of Failure Taints Black America  —  Have we taken our eyes off the prize?  The civil rights movement continues, but the struggle today is not so much in the streets as in the home — and with our children.  If systemic racism remains a reality …

Our Covert Enemies  —  In our war against Islamo-fascist terrorism, we face enemies both overt and covert.  The overt enemies are, of course, the terrorists themselves.  Their motives are clear: They hate our society because of its freedoms and liberties, and want to make us all submit to their totalitarian form of Islam.