N Korea trains Syrian missile engineers: report  —  A report says North Korea has trained Syrian missile engineers and the Arab nation has bartered farm products and computers for missiles from the Stalinist state.  —  The two countries have recently strengthened missile cooperation …

Explosives belt designated for holiday attack found in Tel Aviv apartment  —  A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.

The Day Before Ahmadinejad's US Visit: Down With USA (Update: Arabic Reads, 'Death to USA')  —  Tomorrow, Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves for New York, to speak at the UN and be feted by the National Press Club and Columbia University, and by "progressives."

Rapeseed biofuel 'produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol'  —  A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.  —  Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived …

Romney Falls Flat — Bombs, Even.  —  Romney hit some of the themes he needs to — he spoke on being a "Change Republican" and emphasized family values in particular.  He also pointed out his support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, which, with Thompson's rejection of it, makes him unique among the major Republican candidates.

Bush: Kids' health care will get vetoed  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush again called Democrats "irresponsible" on Saturday for pushing an expansion he opposes to a children's health insurance program.  —  "Democrats in Congress have decided to pass a bill they know will be vetoed," …

Iraq: Blackwater guards fired unprovoked  —  BAGHDAD - Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday.  He said the case was referred to the Iraqi judiciary.

BAD CALL BY RUDE RUDY  —  PUTS NRA CROWD ON HOLD FOR JUDI  —  Hold on, it's Judi.  —  That's the stunning line Rudy Giuliani told an already-skeptical crowd of gun enthusiasts yesterday when he abruptly interrupted his speech - to take a call from his wife.

Family Values  —  A Republican stands by his daughter, does the right thing, and backs his daughter's right to marry the woman she loves.  If only more Republicans had the humanity and courage of the mayor of San Diego, they could go into the twenty-first century sharing their ideas rather than their phobias.

Video: Of course we'd invite Hitler to speak, says Columbia dean  —  Webloggin's also on this.  I have it in my head somehow that Dwight Eisenhower, when offered the opportunity to personally accept the surrender of a German general, refused.  So unspeakably loathsome did he find the Nazis …

Nuance and Resolve in Nominee's Judicial Rulings  —  In his 18 years on the federal bench, Judge Michael B. Mukasey issued more than 1,500 decisions concerning matters as cataclysmic as the Holocaust and as mundane as milk, beer and cigarettes.  —  In his opinions, Judge Mukasey comes across …

You know, it's boring that this needs to be pointed out, but Republicans aren't the only people out there with opinions on things.  —  In today's Washington Post piece on the failure of Levin-Reed in the Senate, Shailagh Murray reports that brash and confident Republicans know for a fact that public opinion is now shifting on Iraq:

Mitt Romney's Silence on Blackwater  —  Just caught this.  Politico's Kenneth Vogel suggests that Mitt Romney's silence about the Blackwater killings in Iraq may have something to do with the fact that: … I thought it might have been Romney's general stance on the inappropriately termed war …

OH, THAT JENA SIX  —  By any reasonable measure, Fred Thompson, the actor-lobbyist-presidential candidate, is off to a rough start.  Particularly on policy matters, Thompson has been confused and uninformed about everything from Social Security policy to drilling the Everglades for oil to the 2005 Schiavo controversy.

Romney: Giuliani will need family support  —  MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Mitt Romney used a press conference here to take a veiled but unmistakable shot at Rudy Giuliani's messy personal life, saying that the eventual Republican nominee would need to have a united front from their family to defeat Hillary Clinton.