1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle  —  GORI, Georgia — Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia veered closer to all-out war on Saturday as Russia moved parts of its Black Sea fleet toward Georgia's coast and intensified air attacks on Georgia, striking two apartment buildings …

RAPING GEORGIA  —  RUSSIA INVADES AN AMERICAN ALLY  —  AS I write, Russian tanks grind into a brave and isolated democratic state.  —  Assuming that the world's attention would focus on Beijing, Moscow stage-managed an elaborate act of aggression against Georgia.

War in Georgia: Yawns and Kneejerks in America  —  Russian peacekeepers at an anti-aircraft gun in the disputed region of South Ossetia  —  Predictably, in the wake of Russia sending reinforcements to back up its peacekeepers under seige by the Georgian army in the tiny disputed territory of South Ossetia …

Reticence of Mainstream Media Becomes a Story Itself  —  For almost 10 months, the story of John Edwards's affair remained the nearly exclusive province of the National Enquirer — through reports, denials, news of a pregnancy, questions about paternity and, finally, a slapstick chase through a hotel in Beverly Hills.

Old media dethroned  —  Edwards' admission signals the end of the era in which traditional media set the limits of acceptable political journalism.  —  When John Edwards admitted Friday that he lied about his affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, a former employee of his campaign …

Edwards  —  I never much liked John Edwards as a politician...and I guess we now know that he's a heel as a human being, too.  But that doesn't mean his tawdry personal life is any of my concern.  Consensual sex among adults isn't something that we in the media should bother about …

McCain in a nutshell  —  Is Barack Obama fit to be president?  That is a question we hear all the time.  But Rex Nutting of Dow Jones MarketWatch wonders why few are asking the same question about St John McSame.  He takes a look on John McCain's resume and doesn't see much that would qualify him to lead the nation.