Playing Democrat At Columbia  —  The novelty of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance yesterday at Columbia University did not, as many critics would have it, lie in the fact that an august Ivy League institution had invited the Iranian president — a Holocaust-denier, authoritarian leader and sponsor of terrorism — to speak on its campus.

A Little Rock Reminder  —  Nine Pioneers Showed Why School Integration Matters  —  Fifty years ago this week, President Dwight Eisenhower risked igniting the second U.S. civil war by sending 1,000 American soldiers into a Southern city.  The troops, with bayonets at the end of their rifles …

The Ugly Side of the G.O.P.  —  I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week.  But what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington.

23% Approve of MoveOn.org Petraeus Ad, 58% Disapprove  —  Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans approve of an ad run in the New York Times "that referred to General Petraeus as General Betray Us."  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% disapproved.

Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: "When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?"  —  Tucker substitute host David Shuster confronts Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) about the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican party when he asks about Rush Limbaugh's Senator Betrayus smear …

Giuliani party seeks $9.11 per person  —  WASHINGTON - A supporter of Rudy Giuliani's is throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican's presidential campaign.  —  Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday …

Court Advances Military Trials for Detainees  —  A special military appeals court, overturning a lower court ruling, on Monday removed a legal hurdle that has derailed war crime trials for detainees at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba.  —  The ruling allows military prosecutors to address …

Poll: Democrats sit strong with voters despite corruption  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey voters link government corruption more with Democrats, but they're not necessarily planning to vote Republican, a poll released Tuesday found.  —  And they're unsure whether they want a top corruption-buster …

Marines Denied Permission To Film Commercial  —  On The Streets Of San Francisco  —  New York said "yes," but we said "no." Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco?  —  San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy …

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Union Doozy  —  Sorry to everyone who was expecting a new cartoon last Friday.  I do page design on top of cartooning, and there were two big projects that monopolized my day on Thursday.  My original plan was to draw an O.J. Simpson cartoon after I was done with the first project, but, alas, it wasn't meant to be.

Aussie diggers injured and dog killed  —  THREE Australian soldiers were wounded and an explosive-detection dog killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks by Taliban extremists in southern Afghanistan last week.  —  A special operations task group vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb during …

Clinton campaign kills negative story  —  Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for president learned that the men's magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland.  —  So Clinton's aides pulled a page from the book …