White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements  —  Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions.

Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts  —  Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight …

A New Power Rises in Iraq  —  ERBIL, IRAQ - What a difference a year makes.  —  Fourteen months ago I flew to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, from Beirut, Lebanon, on the dubiously named Flying Carpet Airlines.  Flying Carpet's entire fleet is one small noisy plane with propellers, cramped seats, and thin cabin pressure.

Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami  —  People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami.  —  But when he mistakenly associated Fidel …

In hospital  —  As earlier mentioned in the comments section, my mother is in the hospital.  The doctor says that right now they're just making her comfortable.  She's sedated, with painkillers among other things.  Lungs collapsed so right now we just want to make sure she has dignity and is not in pain.

Howard Kurtz, Michael Barone & Argument by Anecdote  —  Following up on this post from the other day, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz this morning wrote about the regular commenters at Little Green Footballs who expressed support for Al Qaeda's plot to assassinate former President Jimmy Carter.

Gitmo Confession in USS Cole Bombing  —  Luis Martinez and Maddy Sauer Report:  —  An enemy combatant who has confessed to planning the bombing of the USS Cole says he bought the boat and the explosives and that he was with Osama bin Laden in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when the bombing was carried out in October 2000.

So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq?  —  HARD QUESTIONS, FOUR YEARS LATER.  —  Four years after the first coalition soldiers crossed the Iraqi border, one can attract pitying looks (at best) if one does not take the view that the whole engagement could have been and should have been avoided.

Get Out of DOJ  —  Should Gonzales resign?  Plus KSM's confession and more.  —  Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is under fire for what Democrats are calling a political purge.  But how unprecedented was the dismissal of those eight U.S. attorneys?

EXCLUSIVE TO PJM: FRED THOMPSON ON "300"  —  The comic book movie "300" about the Spartans and the Persians in 480 AD is still breaking box-office records.  Now it seems the rulers of modern-day Persia, Iran, are not amused.  —  "300," shows a small band of Spartans saving the lives …