Clifford May says if we need to fight the Islamists for 100 years, that is a better alternative than to lose to them.

Michael Ledeen says talking to the Iranian Mullahs is a waste of time.

Nancy Pelosi blocks a trade deal with Colombia.

Airline travel is bad, and getting worse, as more delays and cancellations loom. The airline industry is also being battered by rising fuel costs, and pilots are finding it to be a more difficult career choice. The Delta flight attendants that I talk to on my weekly ride to and from New York aren't very optimistic about the way things are going, and some of the more senior attendants have been offered a buyout package. Perhaps some consolidation will improve the situation (Delta is talking with Northwest about just such a possibility), but I suspect not. The airlines do not compete with each other on a level playing field so that when they face an unavoidable cost increase, like rising fuel prices, that hits every carrier equally, they cannot respond by raising prices. Legacy carriers tried to do just that, but newer low-cost carriers didn't go along, so those price increases didn't last long. The industry is imbalanced due to this mixture of legacy carriers, holdovers from a more regulated era, and low-cost carriers that sprang up since deregulation, and an infrastructure that is made up of mostly government-run airports and a government-run air traffic system. It just won't work, no matter how you slice it.

Chuck Todd says John McCain has a path to victory, but needs to know who he will face, sooner rather than later.

Lanny Davis says Obama's minister problem won't go away. I think he is right.

Dick Morris, analyzing some poll numbers, says Obama's weakness is weakness.

Bill Kristol has a conversation with the President.