Top Items:

A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: — As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Brian Beutler, Gateway Pundit, Argghhh!, FP Passport, QandO and mediabistro.com
RELATED:

Scott Thomas revealed; Update: So is his blog — He's Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. He's also calling most of his critics chickenhawks, even though most of his critics a) served in the military and/or b) have been to Iraq or c) both.
Discussion:
BLACKFIVE, The Jawa Report, michellemalkin.com, Winds of Change.NET, Little Green Footballs and minx.cc


Memo appears to contradict Gonzales — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A group of Senate Democrats on Thursday will call for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself during Capitol Hill testimony. — The group said it plans to make the request in a letter to the solicitor general.
RELATED:


Senator May Seek Gonzales Perjury Probe — Leahy Sets Deadline For Revised Testimony — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy threatened yesterday to request a perjury investigation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Democrats said an intelligence official's statement …
Discussion:
TPMmuckraker, Think Progress, Booman Tribune, The Carpetbagger Report, Salon, Daily Kos, Macsmind, Corrente, Beliefnet, Outside The Beltway, The Anonymous Liberal, Brilliant at Breakfast, Sadly, No!, Washington Monthly, Balkinization, Happy Furry Puppy Story …, Watching Those We Chose and The Democratic Daily

Did Gonzo Lie? — Alberto Gonzales performed poorly as a witness …

Omerta — YouTube of Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart discussing …
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars


No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer — Cases Indicate Willingness to Defy GOP Orthodoxy — Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued …
RELATED:

Fred, interrupted — From NBC's Carrie Dann
Discussion:
National Review, Fox News, IMAO, Blogs For Fred Thompson, race42008.com, Hot Air and Boston Globe

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour — On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel's annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby.
Discussion:
DefCon Blog
RELATED:


McCain's Media Team Resigns, Futher Shaking Up Campaign — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain's well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.

War Crimes and the White House — The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions — One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality …

US Senators call for universal Internet filtering — Submitted by Adam Thomas on Wed, 2007-07-25 20:47. - Americas - Tech - United States - News — US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order …


Stacking the Court — WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the "political thicket," it may require a political solution to set it straight.

New Solar Photovoltaic Cell Efficiency Record: 42.8% — A consortium of research teams has achieved a new record in photovoltaic cell efficiency. … What I want to know: Are these materials inherently more or less expensive to manufacture for unit area than existing silicon photovoltaics?
Discussion:
Winds of Change.NET

'It Didn't Happen' — Democrats go soft on crimes against humanity. — Barack Obama's latest pronouncement on Iraq should have shocked the conscience. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, the freshman Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate opined …

The Senate on Iraq: No 'Phony Debate' — On reading the July 21 editorial "The Phony Debate," it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies — the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions.
Discussion:
Think Progress

As regular readers... IMPEACHMENT? — As regular readers of this site know, I've always been against the movement to impeach President Bush. I take this position not because he hasn't done plenty to merit it. My reasons are practical. Minor reasons are that it's late in the president's term …