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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Rivals try to deflate F. Thompson campaign  —  Fred Thompson has had a relatively easy ride as he has flirted with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  His strategists have found traction promoting him as the heir to Ronald Reagan — and a conservative alternative to the top tier of the GOP field.

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 …

Investigator: Nifong privately acknowledged doubts in Duke lacrosse case  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a "bunch of hooligans" in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove and that the accuser's story was filled …

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.

Closing the Border and Opening the Door: Mobility, Adjustment, and the Sequencing of Reform  —  Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 5, No. 0, 2007  —  Abstract:  —  Since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S.-Mexico border has become increasingly open for trade and private investment.

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.

Romney Steps Up Advertising Push  —  Mitt Romney has stepped up what is already the costliest early advertising push in a presidential campaign, an effort that his advisers and several media experts credit with helping vault him to the lead in the Republican field in some recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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 …

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.