Book Review: "The Enemy at Home"  —  First, a disclaimer - I love making fun of lefties.  As a matter of fact, the interests I list on my MySpace.com homepage are extreme sports, getting ink done and slagging on liberals.  So you might think that Dinesh D'Souza's new book, "The Enemy at Home" would be right up my alley.

Bill Richardson Enters '08 Field  —  Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico jumped into the 2008 presidential race today, announcing that he had formed a campaign exploratory committee in order to seek the Democratic nomination.  —  "I am taking this step because we have to repair the damage that's …

Intelligence Community to Congress: "The dog ate my national intelligence estimate"  —  Back in July, I reported that, in spite of pressure from CIA analysts, intelligence czar John Negroponte was blocking a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq.  The CIA describes an NIE as …

Turkish Police Arrest Teenage Suspect in Editor's Killing  —  The Turkish police on Saturday arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the killing of a newspaper editor who championed Armenian rights, Turkish authorities said.  —  The editor, Hrant Dink, 52, a Turk of Armenian descent …

Iraq PM Stops Protecting Shiite Militia  —  U.S. Intelligence Convinces Iraqi Leader to Drop Protection of Anti-American Cleric's Militia  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq Jan 21, 2007 (AP)— Iraq's prime minister has dropped his protection of an anti-American cleric's Shiite militia after U.S. intelligence convinced …

MTP Transcript for Jan. 21, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the war in Iraq.  Should Congress support President Bush's plan to send more American troops to Iraq?  Yes, says the leading advocate for a troop increase.  —  SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): These moves will give …

Video: SNL hammers Hillary on Iraq  —  Lieberman and a precious few others aside, their "hawks" are opportunistic liars who only supported the war initially because it was politically expedient to do so.  We've always known that.  —  Their base knows it, too.  —  Blowback

Chavez to U.S.: 'Go to hell, gringos!'  —  CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell!" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday for what he called unacceptable meddling after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant Venezuela's fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers.

U.S. Toll in Iraq Is 27 for Deadly Weekend  —  The United States military said that two marines died Sunday in western Iraq and that an additional seven service members died Saturday.  The deaths brought the weekend toll to 27 and made Saturday the third-deadliest day for United States forces since the war here began.

Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global  —  THE internet could become even more difficult for governments to regulate with a new website, Wikileaks, promising to provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to upload confidential documents.  —  Australians are among the volunteers behind the site.

Don't you know your left from your right?  Part II  —  The disgrace of the anti-war movement  —  On 15 February 2003 , about a million liberal-minded people marched through London to oppose the overthrow of a fascist regime.  It was the biggest protest in British history …

Milton Friedman @ Rest  —  Email from a Nobel Laureate.  —  In July last year, the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics in 1976, granted an interview to The Wall Street Journal.  Today we publish material from a question-and-answer exchange he had by email—shortly after their meeting …

Refugees Find Hostility and Hope on Soccer Field  —  Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park.  —  "There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor," Lee Swaney, a retired owner of a heating …

Taking Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle  —  When John Smith, a swaggering sixth grader at one of New York City's growing collection of kindergarten- through eighth-grade schools, feels lost, he heads downstairs to the colorful classroom of his former third-grade teacher, Randi Silverman, for what she calls a "Silverman hug."

Video Showdown: Obama vs. Hillary  —  The 2008 primaries have already begun - online.  —  Barack Obama was first out of the gate, announcing his candidacy in a video placed on the web.  Hillary Clinton responded with her own video yesterday.  Andy Plesser handicaps the technology behind the two videos …

Army Says Improper Orders by Colonel Led to 4 Deaths  —  Army investigators say that Col. Michael D. Steele, a decorated combat veteran and brigade commander in Iraq, issued improper orders to his soldiers that contributed to the deaths of four unarmed Iraqi men during a raid in May, according to military documents.

Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?  —  Early on a a windy Saturday morning in November, Rhonda Arias drove her Dodge Caravan past a Wal-Mart at the end of her block and onto the Interstate.  She was beginning the 50-mile drive from her house in southwest Houston to Plane State Jail …