BREAKING: Libby Motion For Release On Bond Pending Appeal — DENIED  —  Breaking news from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion issued just moments ago, Judges Sentelle, Henderson and Tatel say the following: … It it a per curiam opinion issued on July 2, 2007, and initialled by all three of the judges.

McCain Shakes Up Campaign  —  McCain, Trailing in Fundraising and Polls, Shakes Up 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  John McCain's campaign, trailing top Republican rivals in money and polls, is undergoing a significant reorganization with staff cuts in every department, officials with knowledge of the shake-up said Monday.

Jihad in Britain  —  The terrorists don't seem to care that Tony Blair is gone.  —  Barely 48 hours on the job, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a lesson in the realities of the post-9/11 world.  —  Terrorist plots in London and Glasgow pushed the U.K.'s security alert …

Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised  —  Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …

ISNA - Tehran  —  TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.  —  This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.

Presidential Pity Party  —  The WaPo is hosting a Presidential pity party this morning — but a closer read shows some significant cracks in the sympathy and hand holding facade.  To wit: … How, exactly, can you learn from the study of history when you refuse to apply history's lessons to yourself …

U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s  —  Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.  —  Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …

Deadly blast at Yemen tourist site  —  7 Spaniards, 2 Yemenis dead in apparent al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing  —  Security guards inspect the scene of a car bomb attack Monday in the Yemeni province of Marib.  —  MSNBC video  —  Blast kills tourists  —  July 2: A suicide bomb attack in Yemen kills at least eight people.

Staying Calm and Carrying On  —  The worrying aspect of the British terror-rash is that it's obviously an amateur effort, inspired rather than organized by al Qaeda.  This means we are likely to face more of these things, but that most of them are not going to be massively successful.

HOW CONSERVATIVES APPROPRIATED BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION.  —  The Supreme Court's decision in last week's school desegregation cases represents the culmination of a 50-year-old debate about the meaning and content of Brown v. Board of Education.  The conservatives have now taken over Brown, no question.

Iraq Four Years Later: From "Bring 'Em On" to Bait and Switch  —  Today marks four long years since President Bush goaded militants in Iraq to attack U.S. troops, telling them to "Bring 'em on": "There are some that feel like if they attack us, that we may decide to leave prematurely.

Voting Rights Turnabout  —  A victory for disfranchised Mississippi voters—and they happen to be white.  —  Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that …