Ted Kennedy will undergo brain surgery today at Duke University Medical Center. While I have consistently been on the other side of him politically, I wish him well, as politics ends at the operating room door. I would be remiss, however, if I did not point out that the Senior Senator from Massachusetts is the beneficiary of some of the best health care in the world and, under our current system, he has the ability to choose his doctor and hospital. Let us hope that we keep (or, better yet, expand) the choice factor in our health care system.

An article that explains the power of The Drudge Report.

Hillary's crazy crew may cause Obama some headaches in the weeks ahead, as Hillary weighs her options after her big victory in Puerto Rico.

The decision by the Democratic Party's Rules Committee to compromise on the Florida and Michigan delegations may have been the best they could do but, at least as far as Michigan goes, it might be a Pyrrhic victory for Obama.

Robert J. Samuelson once again points out why, when it comes to addressing real big problems, democratic politics simply can't get it done.

U.S. deaths in Iraq fell sharply in May, which may be yet another indicator that the surge strategy has succeeded there. While all such gains are tenuous in that part of the world, it does look more and more as if the Iraqi government has some room now to establish it's authority over the whole country. Al Qaeda appears to be on the run, Moqtada al Sadr seems to be in a much weaker position with the Iraqi Army now established in Sadr City, the important port of Basra is now under government control, and the Sunni tribes in Anbar are still being cooperative. Much can go wrong, of course, but as of now things are going right.