Tammy Faye Messner dies  —  (CNN) — Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, CNN's Larry King said Saturday night.  He said the family had asked him to make the delayed announcement.  —  She was 65.

Goodness... What's Happened to France?  —  ** Pajamas Media has the official response from the US Embassy on this unbelievable development in France.  —  Here's a closer look:  —  Volunteers form a human chain to honor fallen U.S. troops in World War Two and form the words …

Kit Bond and the credibility of war supporters  —  Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri, one of George Bush's most blindly loyal Senatorial servants, wrote a letter yesterday to the New York Times which contained a startling admission tossed in as a throwaway line: … Bond told AP the same thing:

Turks Cast Ballots for New Parliament  —  ANKARA, TURKEY -  —  Turks voted for a new Parliament on Sunday in a contest viewed as pivotal in determining the balance between Islam and secularism in this nation of more than 70 million.  —  Many people cut short vacations to head home to cast their ballots …

BBC in need  —  Poor old Auntie Beeb is unwell.  She's confused and no longer knows right from wrong, truth from fakery  —  The BBC executive board gathered for its regular meeting last Tuesday morning for coffee, biscuits and meltdown.  The previous evening, at 5pm …

Yes, We're Safer (1 Letter)  —  To the Editor:  —  Re "Same People, Same Threat" (news analysis, front page, July 18):  —  It is disappointing to read the twist that the Democrats and the mainstream media put on the recent National Intelligence Estimate.  —  Your news analysis asks, "Are we safer?"

Christopher Booker's notebook  —  A lunatic crop of laws for global warming  —  The cool wet summer of 2007 may be looked back on as the moment when global warming finally got serious: in two respects.  First, we are beginning to see the scarcely credible costs of the legislation our politicians …

Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign  —  As you may have seen today, TMZ.com has obtained two photos of Mitt Romney posing with a supporter in South Carolina.  The supporter was holding a sign with the homemade writing, "NO TO OBAMA OSAMA AND CHELSEA'S MOMA" (sic).

Look who's holding hostages again  —  How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?  —  No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.  —  What?  You haven't heard about them?  —  Odd that, isn't it?  But they're there.

How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real Boundary Problems?  —  In the early 1980s, a therapist named Robert Longo was treating adolescent boys who had committed sex offenses.  Their offenses ranged from fondling girls a few years younger than they were to outright rape of young children.

Amid Talk, Rising Frustration  —  Sen. Johnny Isakson expected to be bored by the war speeches on the Senate floor Tuesday night; instead, the Georgia Republican was riveted by the passionate debate and spent hours soaking it in.  But Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, a recent GOP convert to the antiwar cause …

Don Surber: Democrats 'achieve' 14 percent approval  —  WHEN I looked at the numbers last month, the Gallup Poll showed President Bush's job approval was at 32 percent, and Congress was at 24 percent.  Could things get any worse?  —  Of course they can.  Never underestimate the power of the Democratic Party to self-destruct.