Toll Mounts in Pakistan On Second Day of Clashes  —  Clashes between government supporters and opposition activists flared for a second day Sunday in the country's largest city, bringing the weekend death toll to about 40.  —  The clashes in the southern city of Karachi were prompted …

Hagel-Bloomberg In '08?  You Never Know  —  Senator Says Today's GOP Is Not The Party He Joined; Considers An Independent Ticket In '08  —  (CBS) The Republican Party has been "hijacked" and led away from its core values, Chuck Hagel, the Republican Senator from Nebraska, said Sunday on Face The Nation.

Haven't We had Enough Good ol' Boys For a While?  —  Dean Barnett conjures up a terrifying picture (albeit not one that scares him): … That's not pop culture.  That's rural Southern culture.  Nascar.  The opiate of the good ol' boy masses.  Gary Cooper.  A great movie, but hardly au courant.

'More troops' call as Iraq murders soar  —  234 bodies dumped in Baghdad in only 11 days  —  The US military surge in Iraq, designed to turn around the course of the war, appears to be failing as senior US officers admit they need yet more troops and new figures show a sharp increase in the victims of death squads in Baghdad.

Shaping the future  —  (One of the things that goes with being an SF writer is that people expect you to talk about, well, the future.  Last week, engineering consultancy TNG Technology Consulting invited me to Munich to address one of their technology open days.

Judge in Padilla case comes under pressure  —  When Jose Padilla first entered her courtroom in 2006, Miami federal judge Marcia Cooke ordered security guards to uncuff the al-Qaida suspect.  —  "No handcuffs in court, please," she said.  —  It was a small gesture, but one that signaled …

CLERK RINGS UP N.J. JIHAD JERKS  —  HOW HERO HELPED TO STOP PLOT  —  It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go inside to have a copy made of a tape showing them firing guns and praising jihad.

Transcript: Rudy Giuliani on 'FNS'  —  WASHINGTON — The following is a partial transcript of the May 13, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been in the center …

Bush playfully conducts orchestra in Va.  —  JAMESTOWN, Va. - JoAnn Falletta was doing what a conductor should — concentrating on the orchestra in front of her.  No wonder it took her a few seconds on Sunday to realize someone behind her was motioning for a try.  President Bush.

"Coalition forces are using every means at our disposal...  Make no mistake: We will never stop looking for our soldiers..."  —  By Michelle Malkin  · May 13, 2007 09:33 pm  —  ***Scroll for updates...milblog readers mull over questions about the patrol...President Bush is …

Tucker: Active-Duty Generals Will 'Revolt' Against Bush If He Maintains Escalation Into 2008  —  Appearing on NBC's Chris Matthews Show this morning, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker revealed that sources within the military are warning of "a revolt from active-duty generals …

Fortress America's gate is open  —  Most terrorists seem like bumbling losers if they're caught before the act: That's certainly true of the Fort Dix jihadists who took their terrorist training DVD to the local audio store to be copied.  It was also true of the Islamists arrested in Toronto …

U.S., Iran Plan Talks on Pacifying Iraq  —  White House Says Meeting Will Focus on 'Productive Role' for Neighbor  —  The White House confirmed yesterday that the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad is likely to meet in the next several weeks with Iranian officials about stabilizing Iraq …

What We Got Right in Iraq  —  Once conventional wisdom congeals, even facts can't shake it loose.  These days, everyone "knows" that the Coalition Provisional Authority made two disastrous decisions at the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: to vengefully drive members of the Baath Party …