Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’  —  Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects  —  By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE  —  In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House …

Obama's Case for Opting Out  —  Sen. Barack Obama recently hinted that he might break a promise and opt out of public financing for the general election because he's already “created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it.”

Hey, why bother with a trial?  —  As revealed here a few weeks ago, the investigative unit of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission recommended to the Commissioners that they not proceed against Maclean's for having the temerity to publish an excerpt from my book.

Athens School ‘Attack’ Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged  —  There are major new developments today in the case of a supposed beating of a student from Athens Middle School.  —  Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District …

As Chicago Bids for Games, Obama Ducks Olympics Criticism  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama doesn't seem to want to talk about the Olympics or Senator Clinton's call for a boycott of the opening ceremonies on August 8, 2008.  —  At a town hall in Malvern, Pennsylvania …

Pew on the Middle Class  —  This is a pretty striking trend.  Politically, it's a bit tricky since the salient trend is the dramatic narrowing of the better/worse gap, but the betters still outnumber the worses.  You want to tap into the sentiments of the growing “worse” bloc …

CBS News, Katie Couric Are Likely to Part Ways  —  Barring a Change, Departure Could Follow the Election;  —  A Successor to Larry King?  —  After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the “CBS Evening News” …

Former President Carter to Meet With Hamas Chief  —  Former president Jimmy Carter plans to meet next week in Damascus with Khaled Meshal, the head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in a direct rebuke of the Bush administration's campaign to isolate it.

Elton John: ‘To hell with them’  —  There's a real crowd at Radio City, complete with scalpers, and lines around the block for Elton John and the Clintons.  —  Toward the back of one line: Frank Luntz, Lanny Davis, and Doug Schoen.  ("I used to be in business with Mark Penn," Schoen joked.)

New InsiderAdvantage Poll  —  Latest InsiderAdvantage Poll Pennsylvania Primary: Clinton 48%, Obama 38%  —  A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton regaining some ground she'd previously lost to Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary race.

Gay press frustrated by Obama approach  —  Mark Segal didn't want to wait.  After weeks of requests to interview Barack Obama, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News concluded the senator's aides may never make him available.  —  So even as the Obama campaign held out the possibility …

Reverend Eric Lee's Anti-Semitism: A Personal Story [video]  —  On April 4, 2008, at a Los Angeles event commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King, the African-American fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi gave Israeli-American Daphna Ziman its Tom Bradley Award for community service.

Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain's Ear  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.

Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months  —  President Supports Suspending Pullout Of Forces in Iraq  —  President Bush plans to announce today that he will cut Army combat tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months, returning rotations to where they were before last year's troop buildup in an effort …