Bush Plan for Iraq Requests More Troops and More Jobs  —  President Bush's new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis …

Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran  —  Uzi Mahnaimi New York and Sarah Baxter Washington  —  ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.  —  Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow …

EYEING IRAN  —  WHY W'S TAPPING ADMIRAL TO HEAD CENTRAL COMMAND  —  WORD that Adm. William Fallon will move laterally from our Pacific Command to take charge of Central Command - responsible for the Middle East - while two ground wars rage in the region baffled the media.

Media Matters Distorts Something (Yawn)  —  Media Matters's front page has a graphic that states: "Warbloggers refuse to admit their errors in making fraud allegations against AP."  Here it is:  —  Interestingly, the post of mine that they highlight is this one, titled "Media Matters Isikoffs See Dubya."

Mr. Ford Gets the Last Laugh  —  IN recent days, I've been bombarded by requests to comment on my relationship with President Gerald Ford.  Until now, I've tried to say nothing — any remarks from me during the Ford family's private time of grief would have been inappropriate.

Cloned Bull  —  THE BUM RAP ON CLONED FOOD.  —  Which came first, the chicken or the egg?  People have puzzled over that question for at least 2,000 years.  In the eternal cycle of natural reproduction, they saw no answer.  But the cycle turns out not to be eternal.

Spanish bishops fear rebirth of Islamic kingdom  —  Spain's bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of Cordoba - once the heart of the ancient Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus - as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe.  —  Plans include the construction …

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation  —  The world's largest philanthropy pours money into investments that are hurting many of the people its grants aim to help.  —  First of two parts  —  Ebocha, Nigeria - Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb.

Eason On Down  —  Many great bloggers have already written definitive posts about the rightosphere's Jamail Hussein witch hunt so I won't go into the particulars.  It's an ugly story all around and I'm hoping that it shows, once and for all, the difference between the "angry left" …

Troop surge can't be brief, backers insist  —  They want 18 months at minimum.  Democrats, and some Republicans, resist a hard line.  —  WASHINGTON — The leading advocates of an increase in U.S. forces in Iraq warned President Bush on Friday that any buildup lasting less than 18 months was doomed to fail …

Selective Amnesia  —  The pundits who sold the Iraq War change their tune and bury their records.  —  When political leaders make drastic mistakes, accountability is delivered in the form of elections.  That occurred in November when voters removed the party principally responsible for the war in Iraq.

White House Seeks Lawyer Wise to Ways of Congress  —  President Bush is seeking a new chief lawyer with credentials as a proven combatant as he and his staff prepare for a potential raft of investigations from Democrats in Congress who have promised to challenge the White House's conduct of policy and its assertions of executive power.

AP's Carrol Is Wrong On Jamil Hussein  —  Update: Rick Moran weighs in here.  But there's a point in this I overlooked.  Jamil Hussein's name was on a list of several AP's sources under scrutiny.  Is AP's Carroll suggesting bloggers put all of them in danger, too?

House Adopts Pay-as-You-Go Rules  —  Changes Aim to Curb Deficit Spending, Shed Light on Earmarks  —  On its second day under Democratic management, the House yesterday overwhelmingly approved new rules aimed at reining in deficit spending and shedding more light on the murky world of special-interest projects known as earmarks.