Ted Stevens has lost in Alaska, which pushes the Democrats number in the U.S. Senate to 58, including Joe Lieberman, who has been allowed to keep his committee chairmanship.

David Broder and Thomas Friedman are unhappy with the possibility that Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State. But could the choice be one that makes Conservatives happy?

As the automakers continue to beg Congress for more taxpayer money, there are some dissenters out there. Mitt Romney, who was born in Detroit, the son of an auto executive, says the Big Three should be allowed to go bankrupt. George Will agrees.

Somali pirates continue to seize ships, while the "international community" finds itself powerless to do anything about it. Historically, piracy has always flourished when the great commercial nations were either unwilling to do the tough things needed to stamp it out, or when they were too involved in fighting each other (and then, oftentimes, they were subsidizing the pirates so that they might prey on their enemies). There are only three solutions, as I see it, to this problem. One is to restore stability to Somalia. No one seems willing to spend the blood and treasure that would be required to do that. The second possibility is to attack pirate strongholds, burn their boats, and hang all the pirates that can be captured. No one seems willing to do that, either. So, I guess the solution we will see going forward is the third one, which is to pay up.

Finally, the trailer for the new Star Trek movie is out. Here is the story in The Daily Mail, which features the trailer. It sure doesn't look like your father's Star Trek, but it may very well be what Gene Roddenberry would have wanted, were he to have had access to the special effects technology of today, and the looser standards for sex and violence.