Dems set war bill without Iraq timeline  —  WASHINGTON - In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday.

Iran plans Iraq summer showdown  —  Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.

Onetime Giuliani Insider Is Now a Critic From Outside  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani runs for president, his image as a chief executive who steered New York through the disaster of Sept. 11 has become a pillar of his campaign.  But one former member of his inner circle keeps surfacing to revisit …

McCain Hits Romney Hard  —  Mitt Romney has been trying to make quite a bit of political hay out of the compromise immigration bill — he sees it as one of John McCain's key weaknesses as relates to the Republican base and a great way to differentiate himself as the One True Conservative in the race …

Immigration Compromise Faces New Opposition  —  Proposal Stays Alive, But Foes Lie in Wait  —  The Senate voted last night to move forward on an overhaul of immigration laws, but even proponents of the delicate compromise proposal conceded that the furor over the deal was surpassing their expectations and endangering the plan.

Best of the Web  —  Today's Video on WSJ.com: Mary O'Grady on Hugo Chavez's latest power grab.  —  The Rankest Ex-President  —  As a great man once said, there he goes again!  "Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is 'the worst in history' in international relations …

THE AMERICAN WAY: INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA, SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND WATER-BOARDING?  —  Tom Maguire writes: … I quote the above, not to embarrass Tom Maguire, but as his comment is rather evocative— in its striking juvenilia—of the quality of the debate in the right blogosphere about torture.

Editorial: Macho Mistakes at Ground Zero  —  As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration's failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators.

Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty  —  Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who as a Democratic presidential candidate recently proposed an educational policy that urged "every financial barrier" be removed for American kids who want to go to college …

Edwards not involved in haircut  —  As he told the New York Times's Matt Bai of the haircut mess, "Other people arrange these things, and I wasn't personally involved in it."  —  To be fair, this one should probably just be filed, at least in part, under the weirdness of the campaign life …

President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer  —  PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all for coming.  Mr. Secretary General, thank you very much for joining us.  Laura and I are really happy to have you here at our place in Crawford.

A Canadian philosopher worth reading  —  In winning the Templeton Prize for religion, philosopher Charles Taylor is not only $1.5 million richer, but he also joins an august company of scholars and world leaders, including physicist Freeman Dyson, author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, evangelist Billy Graham, and Mother Teresa.

'Fallujah' Fantasies  —  I am always amazed at the variants of anti-Americanism in Britain, France, and Germany, because beneath the convenient left-wing sermonizing one always suspects lingers nostalgic angst, of the world of preeminence before the crass "swaggering" Americans took over.

75 Reasons to Oppose the New Immigration Bill  —  When the FBI arrested six terrorists in New Jersey two weeks ago it turned out that three of them had been in the U.S. illegally for at least TWENTY years.  —  These three had crossed our unprotected border and had been living in New Jersey.

Al Gore with Diane Sawyer  —  Al Gore tries to explain his book to Diane Sawyer on GMA, but can't get her to stop asking about him about he '08 election.  Oh, and how fat is he?  Here's the link to his book: The Assault on Reason,  —  Download (2388) |  Play (2474) Download (1630) |  Play (1927)

Richardson Formally Enters Race for President  —  Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico formally kicked off his bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination today, highlighting his Hispanic roots and wealth of experience and issuing a forceful call to end American involvement in Iraq.