White House, Cheney's office, subpoenaed  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.  —  Also named in subpoenas signed …

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.

MASS RIOTING Against the Regime in Iran (Video!)  —  RIOTING IN IRAN!!  —  The latest gas crisis has the people rioting against the Regime!  —  ** Report: Upset crowds set fire to some 50 gas stations in Tehran!  —  ** Another Report: "The Situation is Out of Control!"  —  Video from a Leftist Iranian website.

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.

Too Little, Too Late  —  It's frustrating to see this level of attention given by the MSM and the Huffington Post alike to the theory that GOP Senators are taking on Bush over the war.  I was writing about this yesterday and have a Guardian column out about it but we're way past the point for this kind of B.S.

GOP preps for talk radio confrontation  —  House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.

Senate Sausage  —  Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, e-mails:

Senate Judiciary Subpoenas OVP  —  Just now, news has hit the wires that the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Pat Leahy, has issued a subpoena for Dick Cheney's office as part of the wireless wiretapping investigation.  More news as we get it, and links.  CNN has a news alert at the top of their home page at the moment.

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 …

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.

John Mackey: Libertarian Fascist?  —  Jonah Goldberg's much-delayed Liberal Fascism used to be subtitled "The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton."  It's got a new subtitle: … Whole Foods was co-founded by current Chairman and CEO John Mackey, who in a 2005 reason …

Buffett Slams Tax System Disparities  —  Speech Raises at Least $1 Million for Clinton Campaign  —  Warren E. Buffett was his usual folksy self Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as he slammed a system that allows the very rich to pay taxes at a lower rate than the middle class.

Ms. Edwards asks Coulter to stop attacks  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks," a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.

The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group: the Dick Cheney Fan Club.  Chapters gather in phone booths, refrigerator boxes and, at the annual convention, we take up three whole booths in the back of a nearby Arby's.  —  Why do I like Dick Cheney?

MoveOn depicts Dingell as a dinosaur  —  MoveOn is paying for radio advertisements depicting Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) as a dinosaur whose views on global warming haven't kept pace with the times.  —  In the ads, which begin running today in Ann Arbor, Mich., a father tests his son's knowledge of dinosaurs.