Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Coulter During Live Television Appearance  —  Elizabeth Edwards confronted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter during a live interview on MSNBC this afternoon, charging that Coulter's "personal attacks" on former senator John Edwards and others were based on "the language of hate."

Poll: GOP support for Iraq war wavering … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low.  Not only that, but Republican support is beginning to waver.  —  President Bush's troop buildup, or "surge," meant to quell the sectarian violence is now in place.

New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left  —  Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.

Leaving No Tracks  —  Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001.  A phone message awaited her.  —  "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview.

Shamnesty document drop: The "Clay Pigeon" amendment Update: Pounding Reid...and getting your RNC refund Update: House GOP passes anti-amnesty resolution  —  10:43pm Eastern.  Here's an easy-to-use, interactive video phone guide to the shamnesty senators who voted YEA on cloture today.

Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on Terrorism  —  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.

TEHRAN BURNS  —  VIDEO With virtually no warning, the Islamic Regime declared gas rationing in oil-rich Iran, sparking furious protests — and Pajamas Media has video of the angry crowds setting gas stations on fire.  —  Ardeshir Arian reports unrest sparked by gas rationing continued all night until sunrise.

Judge Orders Prison Time for Ex-Interior Deputy  —  A federal judge rejected the tearful pleas of the former second-ranking official in the Interior Department yesterday and sentenced him to 10 months in prison for a felony conviction of obstructing a Senate investigation into corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Bowling With Our Own  —  Robert Putnam's sobering new diversity research scares its author.  —  Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so.  His five-year study shows that immigration …

Weeds and wasted lives on the farm run by UN's rural kingpin  —  The Environment Minister and world authority on sustainable development has let his once-thriving land go to rack and ruin  —  It looks as if no one has lived here for years.  Tall, dense elephant grass grows everywhere.

Aspartame linked to cancer: study  —  The US Food and Drug Administration says there is no need for an urgent review of the safety of aspartame, despite a new study showing the sweetener may cause cancer.  —  A US consumer group has called for the review after Italian researchers published …

a picture is worth a thousand posts  —  That is a horrible picture of VIvi!!  —  KARLA  —  RO, I AGREE WITH U ON MOSTLY EVERYTHING.  BUT SOMEHOW I FOUND THE PICTURE OF VIVI DISTURBING.  I DON'T EVEN LET MY CHILDREN PLAY WITH ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THAT.  IT'S JUST A COMMENT.  BUT OH WELL!!!!!!