Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law  —  Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil …

Debates and forums going forward  —  As we head into the fall, the campaign is entering a new more engaged phase that will give voters an even greater sense of Barack's message of change and require the campaign to make decisions that balance the important role of debates and maximize time to run the kind of campaign we need to.

Fred Thompson...He looks terrible..Oh, and he may get in when he gets in...  I can understand why he hasn't announced yet.  He looks nothing like the Aqua Velva man Tweety called him...I hope it's just because he lost some weight.  The fact that he's doing so well in the polls without doing …

Cops ask for guns, get missile launcher  —  Authorities trade sneakers, gift cards for 310 weapons  —  Orlando Police Sgt. Barbara Jones holds a surface-to-air missile launcher that had been turned in to the Orlando Police Kicks for Guns 2007 program on Friday.

71% Favor Requiring Foreign Visitors to Carry Universal ID Card  —  Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for "sanctuary cities" that offer protection to illegal immigrants.  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 29% are opposed.

How to tell an expert from an "expert"  —  Matt and Gideon Rose are having a pretty interesting exchange regarding expertise and the Democratic foreign policy community.  I completely agree with Matt when he writes … It's not that the entire VSP community is bad.

More On Wiretapping  —  Thanks to many who responded to my request, particularly to commenter LITBMueller for this highly informed comment.  —  Starting off, Marty Lederman has explained the limitations of the six-month "sunset" clause much better than I did a few days ago:

GIULIANI ENDORSES BUSH'S SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN  —  After Bush won a second term, he entered 2005 in a relatively strong position.  He boasted about having "political capital," his approval rating was around 50%, and he looked at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and saw a very friendly Republican majority in both chambers.

Hundreds pose naked on shrinking Swiss glacier  —  ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland's shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully  —  ANKARA, Turkey - Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew members and passengers hostage for more than four hours.  No one was hurt.

Rove: My 'Worst' Mistake Was 'Saying Something Unkind' To A Colleague  —  Today, Karl Rove gave a media interview at an IHOP in Waco, Texas.  During that interview, he says that now is not the "time for regrets."  The one instance he concedes was a mistake was when he said "something unkind" to a co-worker:

Michael Deaver 1938-2007  —  "Almost instantaneously, he responded, 'Ronald Reagan was my issue.'"  —  Since Ronald Reagan passed away a few years ago, we have seen several members of his inner circle follow him once again.  Lyn Nofzinger, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Cap Weinberger all helped craft …

Qualified to Serve  —  BEFORE BEING nominated by President Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, Leslie H. Southwick served for almost 12 years on the Mississippi Court of Appeals, where he participated in thousands of cases spanning the gamut of civil and criminal law.

If It's Sunday, It's Karl Rove  —  Karl Rove will be a guest this Sunday on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and Fox News Sunday (ABC's This Week is hosting a Democratic presidential debate).  —  Thus far, Rove's farewell media blitz has simply provided him a platform to offer partisan attacks.