Mario Loyola write this piece about Lebanon on the National Review website. He believes they may be on the brink of civil war, again.

Are we abandoning our democratic allies in the Middle East? Yes. Soon to be followed by our abandonment of our allies in Iraq.

The Chicago Tribune has seen the light about Iran.

Howard Fineman notes that some Democrats want to revive the "Fairness Doctrine" for talk radio. I won't be surprised to see them try after a Democrats is elected President in 2008, and they may just have the votes to get is passed. I expect it will be nixed by the Supreme Court. If I am right about the first part and wrong about the second, won't that change the face of talk radio in America, and not for the better.

Ralph Peters has these thoughts about the "war czar".

According to this article in the New York Times, local Iraqis helped set up the ambush that resulted in those three soldiers going missing. Of course, locals are involved in nearly all the attacks, either as willing participants or bystanders who are unwilling to get involved to help our troops. This is to be expected in the kind of war we are fighting in Iraq. The only speedy solution is the most brutal one, but we are not going there, which is why I keep predicting our eventual withdrawal without having achieved victory.

Al Gore has a new book, and in this excerpt from Time Magazine, he decries the influence of television in our political process and the resultant assault on reason, as he sees it. Of course, some have said his views on global warming constitute just such an assault, but that's another matter.

A new survey shows all our top presidential candidates are wealthy. Gee, you think?

The Weekly Standard has for its cover story a piece on the subjection of Islamic women, and how that subjection is ignored by American feminists.