Malkin quits The O'Reilly Factor.  —  Inside Cable News has obtained an e-mail written by Michelle Malkin stating that she has decided to quit appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor: … Some highlights of her time on the show HERE, HERE, and HERE.

GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping  —  Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance.  —  Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate …

Democrats profile another SCHIP family  —  Michelle Malkin, meet Bethany Wilkerson.  —  Bethany is the latest child being profiled by Democrats arguing for an override of President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill.  —  Malkin, the conservative blogger …

Top Air Force Official Dies in Apparent Suicide  —  The second-highest ranking member of the Air Force's procurement office was found dead of an apparent suicide at his Virginia home Sunday, Air Force and police officials said today.  —  The official, Charles D. Riechers, 47 …

Nobel Committee Bypassed Holocaust Savior for Al Gore  —  As media do a victory lap over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, it seems a metaphysical certitude that few Americans are aware of the other 180 nominees for the award besides the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore.

Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News (UPDATED)  —  Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've been investigating for over a year.  I've been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan …

Universal healthcare: it's not just for Dems anymore  —  With the party taking a bit of a beating over its resistance to expanding access to healthcare for low-income children, Republicans on Capitol Hill apparently have a new idea: they'll introduce a universal healthcare plan of their own.

The land of optimism is in the dumps, but refuses to accept how it got there  —  Not since Watergate has such pessimism afflicted Americans.  They want politicians to lift them without facing the cause  —  On April 27 1968 the vice president, Hubert Humphrey, announced his presidential candidacy.

Orrin James Noon, Jr., 1943-2007  —  After surviving nearly eight months with pancreatic cancer — the same disease that killed his own father four years ago — my dad passed away quietly at home this morning.  My three siblings and I were able to spend the last few days with him …

Video: Job of U.S. soldiers is killing "mothers and sisters," says David Crosby  —  So self-parodic is this all the way around the horn that I can't muster the requisite outrage.  Of course David Crosby thinks American soldiers are out to kill women.  Of course Graham Nash thinks "dialogue" is the answer to suicidal jihadism.

'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI  —  10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP  —  U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.