Official: Radicals wanted to create carnage at Fort Dix … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The federal government charged five alleged Islamic radicals with plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey.  —  A sixth was charged with aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms by three of the others.

Call me irresponsible: I say Romney won  —  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — It would be terribly irresponsible to pick a winner of Thursday night's Republican debate.  So I will.  —  I think Mitt Romney won.  And I think John McCain came in second and Rudy Giuliani came in third.

China finds two companies guilty in tainted pet food export  —  SHANGHAI: China said Tuesday that it had found two companies here guilty of intentionally exporting contaminated pet food ingredients to the United States.  —  The country's quality control investigator released a statement …

Poll: Most back Congress over Bush in war funding fight … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Most Americans disagree with President Bush's decision last week to veto the war funding bill that contained a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.  —  What do they think Congress should do now?

Sally Quinn Expresses Beltway Zeitgeist Again  —  I'm not giving you the link because I don't want you to read it in full.  Take my precis:  —  Sally Quinn writes in the Washington Post that she is from Savannah, Ga., and typically notices people's skin color but in the case of Barack Obama she doesn't …

Pelosi threat to sue Bush over Iraq bill  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.  —  Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers …

Debunked Insight Magazine and Fox News Smear Campaign  —  Contact: Tommy Vietor or Robert Gibbs, 202-228-5511  —  Debunked Insight Magazine and Fox News Smear Campaign  —  In the past week, many of you have read a now thoroughly-debunked story by Insight Magazine, owned by the Washington Times …

Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' wants Islam takeover  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas militants have enlisted the iconic Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic dominion and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience — little kids.  —  A giant black-and-white rodent — named …

So, Farewell Then, Jacques Chirac  —  TAKE YOUR SCORN FOR THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD WITH YOU.  —  "All political careers end in failure," a British statesman once wisely said.  Judging by the wreckage of the famous political career that ended this week, he was even wiser than he knew.

Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush  —  Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues — such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders …

Who's Afraid of the White House Attorneys Connection?  —  Tuesday, May. 08, 2007 By MASSIMO CALABRESI/WASHINGTON  —  If the White House did nothing improper in the controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys last year, why would top officials in the Justice Department …

Habeas Restoration: Move Quick  —  I'm told there's an outside shot that House Democrats on the Armed Services Committee will put a restoration of habeas corpus into the Defense Department Authorization Bill being marked up tomorrow and Thursday.  Apparently Chairman Skelton has the votes …

Netroots on shaky ground  —  An online liberal movement that seeks to imitate GOP tactics places too much emphasis on style over substance.  —  IT'S IRONIC.  At precisely the moment so many people think that the Republican Party and the conservative movement went off the rails, the people who hate the right the most want to copy it.