Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He's Creating A 'Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind'  —  This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol defended Vice President Cheney's decision to exempt himself from an executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information.

The human rights outrage in Iran...and a challenge to Rosie O'Donnell and her ilk  —  Today I am joining blogs Gateway Pundit, Ali Eteraz, and Iran Focus in reprinting the latest batch of Iranian repression photos being distributed by the regime's state-run FARS News agency and ISNA.

Frank Rich: They'll Break the Bad News on 9/11  —  Frank Rich looks at how the Bush Administration will try to play the American public yet again as the September deadline for the Iraq fiasco approaches.  —  Frank Rich, The New York Times, June 24, 2007  —  By this late date we should know the fix …

Immigration bill awaiting key test vote  —  WASHINGTON - Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants.  —  A fragile compromise was pulled from the Senate in early June …

Chemical Ali Will Hang For Murder of 180,000 Kurds  —  Chemical Ali will hang for his lead role in the death of 180,000 Kurds murdered during the "Anfal" campaign, mounted between February and September 1988 by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.  —  (photos de halabja)

'Most severely wounded' soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breathe  —  TAMPA, Florida: He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive.  He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry.

Crises of Faith  —  America is becoming more secular; Europe is becoming more religious.  Both trends could mean trouble.  —  N othing divides the United States from Europe like religion.  America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.

Old girlfriends cast their vote for Thompson  —  IN the battle for the women's vote, Fred Thompson has a secret weapon against Hillary Clinton - the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president.  —  The Hollywood actor and former Tennessee senator racked …

Prosecutor Becomes Prosecuted  —  THE misconduct that cost the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case his career certainly seemed to call for a severe penalty: he withheld evidence from the defense, misled the court and inflamed the public.  —  Yet other prosecutors found by the courts …

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Glenn Greenwald  —  (Please welcome Salon blogger and author Glenn Greenwald who is here to discuss his book A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.  You can read an excerpt here — JH)  —  After 9/11, I remember being quite surprised …

'Meet the Press' transcript for June 24, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Immigration, what should happen to the 12 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S.  ? How much does our economy rely on their work?  Are we serious about border security?

`Road map is a life saver for us,' PM Abbas tells Hamas  —  Selected minutes acquired by Haaretz from one of last week's cease-fire negotiations between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and faction leaders from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular and Democratic Fronts …