New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides' Involvement In Attorney Scandal  —  Justice Department documents released tonight include new emails linking Karl Rove's top aides — former White House political director Sara Taylor, who resigned last month, and her deputy Scott Jennings — to the U.S. attorney scandal.

Gaza: Armed Palestinian Groups Commit Grave Crimes  —  Source: Human Rights Watch … During recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.

CBS blames sexism for bad ratings  —  Leslie Moonves, CBS chief executive, on Tuesday suggested that sexist attitudes were partly to blame for the faltering performance of Katie Couric, the news anchor he recruited to the network with a $15m annual pay package.  —  "I'm sort of surprised by the vitriol against her.

James Carville, call your agent!  —  So the Washington Post and New York Times both dutifully printed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's smack-talking assessment of the Republican field yesterday:  —  "I've learned one thing in listening to all the debates and reading about all these people running …

Full text of Blair's speech on politics and media  —  Full text of Tony Blair's speech on the changing relationship between politics and the media, delivered on June 12  —  The purpose of the series of speeches I have given over the past year has been deliberately reflective …

Post-traumatic Iraq syndrome  —  The war is lost.  Americans should begin to deal with what that means.  —  LOSING HURTS MORE than winning feels good.  This simple maxim applies with equal power to virtually all areas of human interaction: sports, finance, love.  And war.

Senate Republicans Work $4.4 Billion Border Security Amendment  —  WASHINGTON — GOP negotiators of an immigration reform bill are crafting a large border security amendment with mandatory, immediate funding that they hope will assuage concerns of both Republicans and Democrats, FOX News has learned.

Munitions Dumping at Sea  —  It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past.  Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores.

Poll: Romney surges ahead in New Hampshire  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has jumped to the head of the pack of 2008 Republican presidential contenders in New Hampshire, according to a CNN/WMUR poll out Tuesday.  —  Romney shot past former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani …

AlGore Video: Bush (41) Lied, People Died — 1992 edition  —  If the MSM actually cared about past statements by possible presidential candidates, this clip would be among the juiciest on earth.  The MSM would get Al Gore on camera to explain his transformation from reasonable hawk to hard left anti-war screecher.

Thompson Wants to Be President  —  How much deeper can Fred Thompson wade into the presidential waters without actually announcing that he is a candidate?  —  He was up to his eyeballs tonight on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.  —  Asked directly if he would like the job of president …

TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89  —  LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday.  He was 89.  Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.

Simon Kelner: Would you be saying this, Mr Blair, if we supported your war in Iraq?  —  'Opinion and fact should be clearly divisible.  The truth is, a large part of the media today not merely elides the two but does so now as a matter of course.  In other words, this is not exceptional.

Giuliani Sets Forth a Dozen Priorities for His Presidency  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani on Tuesday outlined what he said would be the 12 major priorities of his presidency, among them fighting terrorism, cutting taxes, achieving energy independence and, in a new theme for him, overhauling the education system.

19th-century weapon found in whale  —  BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago.  Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile …