David Mills, one of the men responsible for my favorite TV show, The Wire, died yesterday while working on a new HBO show about post-Katrina New Orleans called Treme. I was looking forward to checking this new show out (created by David Simon, one of the co-creators of The Wire and a long-time friend of Mills). I will, of course, still watch the show, but the creativity and contributions of Mills will be greatly missed.

Michael Barone writes about the frictions between two sets of American ideals and the people that hold those ideals.

Could the relationship between the U.S. and Israel go the same way that the relationship between France and Israel went back in the 1960s? I doubt it, but it is possible.

Two Republican primary campaigns are drawing some interest on The Washington Post op-ed page. E.J. Dionne writes about the Senate contest in Florida between Crist and Rubio, while George Will writes about the Senate contest in Arizona between McCain and Hayworth.

Polls continue to show that the American people want the new health care law repealed. If those polls are correct, and especially if the significant numbers of independents want the law repealed, it bodes very well for the GOP in November.