Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power … Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room.  The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel …

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.

'Chemical Ali' Sentenced to Hang for Genocide of Kurds  —  Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty on Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.

'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.

J. Goodrich: The gender buzz  —  Studies that support traditional roles for women get swarmed on by the media, while more nuanced research just can't seem to generate any noise  —  An important parenting study came out in March.  It tracked the effects of good fathering on 19,000 children born …

Matthews on Clinton "being surrounded by women": "[D]oes that make a case" for or against her as commander in chief?  —  On the June 24 edition of the NBC-syndicated Chris Matthews Show, during a discussion about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), host Chris Matthews asked Kathleen Parker …

George Bush: 'Worse than Fascist Dictators'  —  Former Washington Post sportswriter, Seinfeld writer and executive co-producer, and television comedy writer Peter Mehlman has written something for The Huffington Post that might qualify as the most hyperbolic nonsense written by a member of the Hollywood Left …

Mrs. Edwards Comfortable With Gay Unions  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, kicked off San Francisco's annual gay pride parade Sunday by splitting with her husband over support for legalized gay marriage.

House conservatives warn Bush of immigration's cost  —  Conservative leaders among House Republicans say that President Bush's upcoming showdown with them on immigration could threaten support for the Iraq war as well as for the president's other top policy goals.

Obama: "Faith got hijacked."  —  It's nice to see Obama say these words:

Illegal Immigrants Targeted By States  —  Frustrated with Congress's inability to pass an immigration overhaul bill, state legislatures are considering or enacting a record number of strongly worded proposals targeting illegal immigrants.  —  By the time most legislatures adjourned in May …

Ready for Bloomberg?  —  Six months ago, when I began hearing rumors of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's possible interest in an independent presidential campaign in 2008, I went to see the mayor at his City Hall office.  —  He told me what he has said repeatedly ever since …

Speech Police, Riding High In Oakland  —  Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values.  That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.  —  At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city's government says those words, italicized here …

A veteran newspaper editor friend has some sharp observations about the Post Cheney piece: