Rep. Adam Putnam: Time for Gonzales to Go  —  A congressional Republican leader on Friday joined bipartisan calls for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign but the White House reaffirmed its confidence in President George W. Bush's long-time friend.

U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart  —  American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.

Deliver us from evil  —  According to the AP.  Iraqi insurgents are now fighting each other, as "moderate" Sunni terrorists tangle with "extremist" al-Qaeda whose brand of Islam is so radical that it prohibits placing cucumbers beside tomatoes because these vegetables have different genders.

Matthew Yglesias rightly chastises the media for failing to ask whether Harry Reid is substantively right or wrong in his assertion that the war is "lost."  But perhaps we should be careful what we wish for.  —  Here, for instance, is CNN's Kyra Phillips explaining in a surprisingly cutting way that Reid is in fact wrong.

The Saturday Cartoons  —  All cartoons are posted with the artists' express permission to BobGeiger.com.  Please visit the following sites to see more work from these fine cartoonists:  —  Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle  —  Tony Auth, The Philadelphia Inquirer  —  Justin Bilicki, City Pulse

World Bank steps up pressure on Wolfowitz  —  The World Bank's executive board on Friday ratcheted up the pressure on Paul Wolfowitz to step down as president by simultaneously promising swift action on the Shaha Riza controversy and broadening the scope of its investigations to include other issues as well.

Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting  —  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach — but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue.

Blue Angels jet crashes during air show, killing aviator … (CNN) — A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an "enormous fireball" during an air show, authorities said.

Iraqi doctor who disputes official death tolls is denied visa to visit UW  —  An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel to North America to meet other academics.

Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher  • Dennis Prager  • Michael Medved  • Hugh Hewitt  —  MKH: Thanks, Gov. Romney, for taking some time to hang out with us at Townhall today.  I'm in D.C. Where are you today?  —  MR: I'm in Iowa City, IA, which is the home of the University of Iowa …

Regarding Obey: I was wrong.  —  Yesterday, I singled out House Appropriations Chairman David Obey as having a special obligation to defend the mandatory redeployment timelines in the House version of the "Iraq Accountability Act."  —  I felt that this special responsibility fell on Obey …

Land-Swap Plan Causes Trouble For Congressman  —  Mr. Renzi Offers Field  —  To Mining Companies;  —  Grand Jury Is Active  —  SUPERIOR, Ariz. — As they dig for nickel, copper and other commodities in the far corners of the earth, the world's largest mining companies …

Jihadist video shows boy beheading man  —  KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan - The boy with the knife looks barely 12.  In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy.  Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.