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.

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

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 …

Senators Differ on Immigration Bill  —  Kennedy Believes Bill Will Pass, but Sessions Highlights Its Waning Support  —  Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is defending his support of the proposed immigration reform bill and challenging his opponents to put forth better solutions.  —  "Where are they?

`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 …

'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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Poll: What Americans (Don't) Know  —  We asked Americans about current events, history and cultural literacy.  And we got some pretty disheartening results.  —  For our What You Need to Know Now cover story, we asked our polling firm to test 1,001 adults on a variety of topics …

The tipping point of evil, part II  —  On May 30 I posed the question: "What will it take to arouse the ire of the American people so that they demand that Nancy Pelosi put impeachment back on the table?"  —  Every day, as the Bush Administration racks up more crimes against the Constitution …

Russert: ISG Commissioners Say Giuliani's Excuse For Leaving Is Untrue  —  Earlier this week, Newsday reported that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani quit the Iraq Study Group after co-chairman James Baker offered "him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit."