Key GOP Senator Breaks With Bush  —  Domenici Urges Change In Strategy on Iraq War  —  White House efforts to keep congressional Republicans united over the Iraq war suffered another major defection yesterday as Sen. Pete V. Domenici (N.M.) broke with President Bush and called for an immediate change …

DOUBLE STANDARDS WATCH:  —  Alan Dershowitz has a regular column in the Jerusalem Post called "Double Standard Watch."  But double standards are not only evident in arguments about the ongoing disputes between the Israelis and Palestinians and among the Arabs.

Congressman Wexler to File Resolution Censuring President Bush for Commuting Libby's Prison Sentence  —  (Washington, D.C.) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence.

More Rimbaud and less Rambo, critics tell sweaty jogger Sarkozy  —  Read Charles Bremner's weblog  —  President Sarkozy has fallen foul of intellectuals and critics who see his passion for jogging as un-French, right-wing and even a ploy to brainwash his citizens.

Press Briefing by Scott Stanzel  —  Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building  —  MR. STANZEL: Good afternoon, everybody.  Happy July 5th.  Hope you all had a wonderful Independence Day.  I don't have anything off the top, so I'll take your questions.

The tragic collapse of America's standing in the world  —  (updated below)  —  One of the very few arguments one can make which will prompt virtually identical objections from both standard right-wing neoconservative fanatics as well as a small, unrepresentative cluster on the Left concerns …

'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them  —  Gen. William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush's obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as well as physical harm.

The Search for an Enemy  —  James Fallows, reports that according to Gary Hart and Lee Hamilton, Lynn Cheney wanted to start a war with China back in the pre-9/11 era.  According to Francis Fukuyama among Bill Kristol and his circle in the 90s "There was actually a deliberate search for an enemy …

China blames social unrest on pollution  —  The head of China's environmental agency has blamed the rising number of riots, demonstrations and petitions across the country on public anger at pollution.  —  Echoing the language of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Shengxian called for a "struggle" …

Will NBC ask Todd about prediction that Bush approval would top 50 percent by July 4?  —  Before the November 2006 midterm elections, NBC News political director Chuck Todd predicted several times that if the Democrats won "control of Congress" and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) became speaker of the House …

Boortz falsely claimed Clinton was convicted of perjury  —  On the July 5 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, while discussing President Bush's commutation of former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's jail sentence, Neal Boortz falsely claimed that …

De Villepin likely to face conspiracy charges  —  Police searched the home of Dominique de Villepin, the former French Prime Minister, yesterday as judges appeared close to charging him with conspiring to implicate Nicolas Sarkozy, now the President, in a corruption scandal.

Fox News: Universal health care breeds terrorists.  »  —  Today on Fox News's Your World With Neil Cavuto, National Review Online columnist Jerry Bowyer attacked Michael Moore's movie SiCKO and its positive portrayal of the health care in countries such as Britain and France.