McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power  —  Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border …

Some mull idea of Sen. Bill Clinton  —  WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary's unexpired Senate term.  —  "As a senator, he'd be a knockout," said Harold Ickes …

Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals  —  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry.

The Hotel Aftermath  —  Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons  —  The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs …

Explosions Rattle Baghdad Neighborhoods  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A string of bombings killed 10 people Monday in the Baghdad area one day after a massive car bomb attack in a Shiite area market delivered the first major blow to the U.S.-led security crackdown.

THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA  —  Investors Business Daily has a hard-hitting editorial denouncing the Congressional Democrats and their "slow bleed" strategy.  It begins: … And that's not the hard-hitting part!  More important, IBD has a poll that highlights the danger the Democrats face:

It's Reported, They Mock, You Decide  —  Making fun of the president is not ideological.  Not making fun of the president, on the other hand, is.  —  And that's what distinguishes "The ½ Hour News Hour," a Fox News version of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," from most other satirical shows.

Cabbie Runs Down Students  —  Religious Argument Leaves One Hospitalized  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.  —  The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left …

Rashofitz - Where We Are In The Scooter Libby Trial  —  "Rashomon" is the cinematic classic in which a story of rape and murder is told from the perspective of four of the people involved.  But what is "the truth", and in what ways are the four people shading their versions of events?

Killer's daughter admits it was political  —  GAZA CITY - Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.

Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war  —  WHAT DOES IT mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for?  —  No loyal Colts fan rooted for Indianapolis to lose the Super Bowl.  No investor buys 100 shares of Google in the hope that Google's stock will tank.

Insurgents' Dirty Laundry on Air  —  I was wondering how the current spate of jihadist-on-jihadist strife is going to be revealed to the public at large, but I never contemplated that it will be done on a jihadist satellite station, Al-Zawra, and through the person of the slimy nutcase who owns it, Mishaan al-Jebouri.

House Call  —  Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution.  —  Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq.  Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power.

You Can be The Ethicist  —  I was posed this problem by someone in a very highly ranked research department in one of the social sciences (not Philosophy, not Madison), and post with permission.  —  Graduate Admissions Committee for the department in question is deciding whom to admit.