Protest in Iran targets British Embassy  —  TEHRAN, Iran - About 200 students threw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy on Sunday, calling for the expulsion of the country's ambassador because of the standoff over Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines.

Iraq Prepares to Resettle Arabs Sent to Kirkuk by Hussein Edict  —  The Iraqi government will soon begin relocating Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk under an edict by Saddam Hussein to force Kurds out of the disputed northern city, officials said Saturday.  —  The controversial step …

Prosecutor Posts Go To Bush Insiders  —  Less Preference Shown for Locals, Senators' Choices  —  About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by the White House and the Justice Department with trusted administration insiders.

Fox Catches McConnell Hypocrisy Over Testimony Of White House Officials Under Oath  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace aired archived video of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calling on the Clinton White House to testify before Congress under oath.  Here's what McConnell said on June 16, 1996:

The Effect of the Troop Surge on Casualties in Iraq (So Far)  —  I track casualties in Iraq using the reports at Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, and I have do so for a long time.  There is no better way to get a sense of how things are going in Iraq, though you have to be careful …

President's Radio Address  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  In recent days, the House and Senate each passed emergency war spending bills that undercut our troops in the field.  Each of the Democrats' bills would substitute the judgment of politicians in Washington for that of our generals on the ground.

Gingrich decries bilingual education  —  WASHINGTON- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.  —  "The government should quit mandating …

My Big Announcement: TAM Bought by MySpace  —  Remember that "big announcement" I teased you with a few days ago?  Well, here it is.  —  I also put it below the fold because it's a bit long.  —  FOX INTERACTIVE MEDIA ENTERS INTO LANDMARK AGREEMENT WITH THE AMERICAN MIND BLOG.

Terry Jones: Captured British sailors good for a laugh  —  I'll never watch Monty Python the same way again.  Not after Terry Jones has made a mockery of the British sailors and Marines currently held hostage in Iran, by comparing them them and their treatment to al Qaeda terrorists captured on battlefields in Afghanistan.

Routine call, horrific crime  —  Responding officer, others remember Lillelid family slayings  —  GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - A decade has passed since Greene County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Frank Waddell was dispatched to Payne Hollow Road to investigate what he thought would be a routine disturbance call on a Sunday night.

"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  It's been such a long, long Time since it's been good  —  How many ways can one news outlet demonstrate that it is out of touch with the public in one week?  —  Yesterday, Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney wrote about his magazine's latest poll …

Christopher Booker's notebook  —  It's time Defra tried a bit of mud-slinging  —  Last week a Commons committee produced as damning a report on a Government department as anyone could remember.  After investigating the incredible shambles made by the Department for Environment …

UK Embassy in Tehran hit by violent protest  —  Philippe Naughton, Times Online, and agencies  —  Witnesses heard several small blasts and saw smoke rising from inside the British Embassy compound in central Tehran this afternoon during a student protest over 15 detained sailors and Marines.

Ex-Bush Aide Dowd Says He "Misplaced" Faith In Bush (UPDATED)  —  Note: This was put up under the wrong byline.  Since it's already on the web we'll leave it and put the byline under this.  —  By Joe Gandelman  —  You know a Presidency is in trouble with former — and trusted …