At ‘One Nation’ rally, a unionized show of unity  —  Organizers of Saturday's “One Nation Working Together” rally at the Lincoln Memorial are proud of their diversity.  Before the event, they predicted it would be the “most diverse march in history.”  It turned out they were right.

Third Party Rising  —  A friend in the U.S. military sent me an e-mail last week with a quote from the historian Lewis Mumford's book, “The Condition of Man,” about the development of civilization.  Mumford was describing Rome's decline: “Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE  —  Europe  —  The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe.  Current information suggests that al-Qa'ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks.  European governments have taken action to guard …

Sanders: GOPs ‘do not want Americans to succeed’; Obama should steer left  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans “do not want Americans to succeed” in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November.  —  Sanders, a self-proclaimed …

Rev. Franklin Graham: Islam ‘evil’  —  Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham, called Islam “wicked” and “evil” on Sunday during a televised town hall-style discussion about American's feelings about the religion.  —  “They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers …

Midterms outlook: Purely partisan  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) sparred Sunday over how well their respective parties will do on Nov. 2.  —  Cornyn, who once predicted a tsunami that would wipe out Democratic majorities in Congress, seemed less confident that Republicans would run the table.

Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson.  (I'm just saying.)  —  Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian.  Very amateur.  —  One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: “Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?”

Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so  —  I told you so.  —  On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before.

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O'Donnell  —  ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O'Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy.  For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central …

Brown, Whitman heatedly debate illegal immigration  —  The California gubernatorial candidates tangle in a blistering dispute over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they meet for a Spanish-language debate.  —  Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet at Cal State Fresno …

Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be ‘buried’  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be “buried” in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.  —  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West …