The value of a pro-war blogger's reports from Iraq  —  Bill Roggio's accounts bring home a feel for what US troops are facing in Iraq.  —  WASHINGTON - In recent months, the gruesome images and stories emanating from Iraq have hardened the public's perception about the conflict there.

A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals  —  There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture.  The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.  —  Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic …

Pelosi May Give Jefferson a Lesser Committee Assignment  —  House Democratic leaders, who have vowed to run a more ethical Congress, are struggling with how to respond to the reelection of Rep. William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat whose Washington home freezer once held $90,000 in alleged bribe money.

Tom DeLay: I Don't Write My Own Blog  —  Criminally indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) launched a personal blog yesterday.  The new site seemed to mark a shift for DeLay: last year, he said he found the fact that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "does his own research on the Internet" …

A Dictator's Double Standard  —  Augusto Pinochet tortured and murdered.  His legacy is Latin America's most successful country.  —  AUGUSTO PINOCHET, who died Sunday at the age of 91, has been vilified for three decades in and outside of Chile, the South American country he ruled for 17 years.

Iran president says Israel's days are numbered  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered.  —  Ahmadinejad, who has sparked international outcry by referring …

STUDENTS 'LOVE' COP KILLER HONORED AT NEW YORK COLLEGE  —  NEW YORK — New York City college students who share a community room named for an escaped cop killer called the fugitive their hero Tuesday as the school's officials demanded the removal of the honor.

Dual bombing in central Baghdad kills 57  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other Tuesday on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 150, police said.

THE SITUATION ROOM  —  President Bush Stops At State Department To Show He's Listening To New Ideas About Iraq; Rumors Say There May Be Some Effort To Get Rid Of Nouri Al-Maliki; Space Shuttle Discovery Docking With International Space Station In Series Of Dangerous Maneuvers …

Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington  —  Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, flew out of Washington yesterday after informing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and his staff that he would be leaving the post after only 15 months on the job …

Why Is It So Important That American Students Learn a Foreign Language?  —  I ask this after reading the summary of the new Time magazine cover story, "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century."  In quoting the chairman of UPS it says that country needs:

Business lobbyists flock to Centrist Democrats  —  One of the earliest signs that life for Democrats would be different in the majority came at a post-election event sponsored by the New Democrat Coalition, the pro-business group of centrist Democrats.  —  Previous affairs drew at most 20 lobbyists …

Pastor Quits After Revealing Same-Sex Relations  —  The senior pastor of a suburban Denver evangelical church resigned Sunday after admitting to having had sexual relations with men.  The move apparently came after the pastor was confronted by another minister in his church who had been alerted …

Michelle Malkin fiddles while Baghdad burns  —  Warbloggers endured a bleak November, watching their political heroes suffer the loss of both houses of Congress, while President Bush's approval ratings fell toward Nixonian levels, the mainstream media finally conceded the battle for Iraq …

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FASCIST  —  The decadent whims of the world's wackiest despots  —  They're quirky, vibrant, and they march to the beat of their own military drums, when they're not off committing crimes against humanity.  Since time immemorial, autocrats, absolute monarchs …

From a Muslim outlook, imams have missed the point on flight behavior  —  The first thing one must understand about this whole hullabaloo with the Muslim imams taken off a Phoenix-bound plane in Minneapolis is that it most definitely was not about the right to prayer or freedom of worship.

Trying to Understand Clinton Legacy  —  The legacy of Bill Clinton's presidency is a complicated one for the progressive movement, and for the Democratic Party.  On the positive side, he was a Democrat who actually occupied the White House, something that not many Democrats have been able to do since 1968.

Israel Nuke Comment Sparks Controversy  —  JERUSALEM (AP) - A slip of the tongue by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about Israel's nuclear policy ballooned into a domestic crisis Tuesday for the Israeli leader, who came under criticism from across the political spectrum.