People are getting married later in life, and many are living together before they get married, which is helping to drive down the divorce rate, according to this article. I wonder, though, if part of the answer is the fact that so many young people watched their own parents get divorced and so are reluctant to put their own children through the experience.

Bob Novak thinks things look grim for the GOP in 2008. He is, of course, correct.

John Podhoretz knows the real reason why those moderate Republican congressmen went up to talk to the President about Iraq the other day.

Billions in oil missing in Iraq, while Dick Cheney stands on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf and warns the Iranians to behave. Meanwhile, Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchange rounds in Gaza while their children watch a Mickey Mouse knock-off indoctrinate them in Jew-hatred. Just another day in the Middle East.

Mort Kondracke says there is a Plan B for Iraq, and it isn't pretty.