Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban  —  Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:  —  NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials …

Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps  —  Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference  —  Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

Beware the Bloggers' Bile  —  A strange thing happened to me the day the House of Representatives voted to pass the Iraq-war-funding bill.  Congresswoman Jane Harman of California called as the debate was taking place.  "Look, I would love to have cast a vote against Bush on this," she told me.

Giuliani will skip August straw poll  —  New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run  —  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.

Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards  —  "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night.  But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added.  —  Mr. Murdoch hosted …

D-Day: On the Beaches, Over the Cliffs, and Behind the Lines  —  I watched "Band of Brothers" this weekend.  All 10 hours of it.  It was just about the perfect thing to spend a weekend doing, especially the weekend between Memorial Day and D-Day.  I would recommend it to anyone.

CASH TO HILLARY CONTINUES FLOWING IN Q2, SECRET DOCUMENT SHOWS  —  And the money kept rolling in from every side...  Numbers from a top-secret spreadsheet show the former first lady and senator from New York on track to exceed money she raised in the first quarter, over $27 million, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!

'Homosexuality Isn't Natural or Healthy'  —  Bush's Choice for Top Doc Compared Human Genitalia to Pipe Fittings and Said Homosexual Practices Can Cause Injury or Death  —  President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., wrote a paper in 1991 that purported …

Sources: Thousands of Turkish troops enter Iraq … ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials said.  —  Two senior security officials …

I'M WITH FRED — AND NEW MEDIA STRATEGIES  —  It's been six months since I last posted here at QandO to announce that I'd taken a position as New Media Advisor to the Senate Republicans.  I believe we accomplished a great deal over the past six months and gave the Senate Republicans …

Campaign Funds for Alaskan; Road Aid to Florida  —  It is no secret that campaign contributions sometimes lead to lucrative official favors.  Rarely, though, are the tradeoffs quite as obvious as in the twisted case of Coconut Road.  —  The road, a stretch of pavement near Fort Myers …

When Presidential Pardons Turn Political  —  President Bush has pardoned 113 people during his presidency, including a Tennessee bootlegger and a Mississippi odometer cheat.  —  But none has drawn the public scrutiny, nor posed the same political challenge, as the candidate that many conservatives hope …

Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush  —  When Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 25, 2003 to discuss preparations for a possible invasion of Iraq, he was asked by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) …

CBO's misleading immigration $ numbers  —  The new Congressional Budget Office report on the Senate immigration bill is a textbook illustration of how advocates of massive new spending programs (and the tax increases that will be inevitable to pay for them) hide the true cost …

Thompson Raises $220K Online in 18 Hours  —  Sources close to the Thompson campaign have passed along the following first-day results for ImWithFred.com: … We'll see what traffic measuring services like Alexa say in a day or so, but this has to be considered a powerful shot across the bow.