Opinion

• Arianna Huffington: A Different Kind of Three-Way: Bill and Hillary Triangulate on Lieberman HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 20, 8:21 PM ET

  To fully understand why Bill Clinton will be spending Monday in Connecticut campaigning for Joe Lieberman, you'll need to make two appointments -- one with Sigmund Freud and one with James Carville.

• Iran-North Korea: Missiles 'R' Us RealClearPolitics.com - Thu Jul 20, 2:30 PM ET

  Iranian presence at North Korea's 4 July missile test was confirmed by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, Chris Hill, in Senate testimony today. This should come as no surprise as the Iranian Shahab missile is based on the North Korean No Dong missile.

• Nasrallah's Game The Nation - Thu Jul 20, 5:50 PM ET

  The Nation -- In January 2004 Sheik Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, presided over a major prisoner exchange with Israel, in which the Lebanese guerrilla movement and political party secured the release of more than 400 Arab prisoners in return for the bodies of three Israeli soldiers and an Israeli businessman and alleged spy, Elhanan Tannenbaum, whom Hezbollah had kidnapped.

• Joseph Nye: The Mideast Mess HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 20, 11:36 PM ET

  What a mess! Once again the extremists have prevailed, and capitalized on inept American policies.

• Inside a War-Zone Hospital RealClearPolitics.com - Thu Jul 20, 1:45 PM ET

  TZFAT, ISRAEL--The screams of the 9-year-old girl as she pushed through the door immediately grabbed everyone's attention. No amount of reassuring from her mother could truly comfort her. Wrapped inside her mother's arms, the trembling child was too overwhelmed to comprehend the war going on around her.

• Lamont Over Lieberman The Nation - Thu Jul 20, 11:52 AM ET

  The Nation -- Joe is down. And for the first time in his eighteen year Senate career, he may be going down.

• DISINTEGRATION OF NATION-STATES HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING Georgia Anne Geyer - Thu Jul 20, 8:04 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- In the mid-'80s, after I had been covering the post-colonial Third World for rather too many trying years, I began to notice some disturbing developments across the world.

• ACTING LIKE NAZIS Ted Rall - Thu Jul 20, 6:02 PM ET

  Collective Punishment Isn't Self-Defense

• CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CIVILIZATION AT STAKE Larry Elder - Thu Jul 20, 6:50 AM ET

  Iran wants to buy time -- time to continue pursuing its nuclear program, in the wake of growing international opposition. So to distract the world's attention, let's start a proxy war.

• MIDDLE EAST CRISIS BLOWS UP BUSH'S ILLUSIONS Joe Conason - Thu Jul 20, 6:50 AM ET

  Watching the president of the United States try to fulfill his responsibilities at an international summit is a sobering experience these days. To observe George W. Bush talking trash, chewing with his mouth open and demonstrating his ignorance of geography marks still another step down in the continuing decline of U.S. prestige. It's the diplomatic equivalent of flag burning.

• JUST FOR A NICKEL TOKEN James Kilpatrick - Wed Jul 19, 8:04 PM ET

  On a Tuesday morning five years ago, Stella Romanski set out to have lunch with her girlfriends. Now she's in the U.S. Supreme Court defending a judgment in her favor of $600,779. And 5 cents.

• LIBERALS: BORN TO RUN Ann Coulter - Wed Jul 19, 8:04 PM ET

  I knew the events in the Middle East were big when The New York Times devoted nearly as much space to them as it did to a New York court ruling last week rejecting gay marriage.

• Editorial roundup AP - Wed Jul 19, 3:38 PM ET

  Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

• WHERE ARE THE CHRISTIANS? Pat Buchanan - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his navy and air force on Lebanon, accusing that tiny nation of an "act of war," the last pillar of Bush's Middle East policy collapsed.

• OUR COMMON ENEMY Linda Chavez - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  Hezbollah is not just an enemy of Israel, it is an enemy of the United States.

• VETO POWER Susan Estrich - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  It could be George W. Bush's first veto. And what a symbolic one it would be: vetoing legislation that nearly three-quarters of the country agrees with.

• KATIE'S CHARITIES: A CONFLICT? Brent Bozell III - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  With an eye on building audience anticipation, and maybe a little political gravitas, CBS sent its anchor-in-waiting, Katie Couric, on a six-city promotional tour, complete with town meetings. Associated Press reporter David Bauder compared her "listening tour" to Hillary Clinton's, and like the former first lady's sojourns, these were frantically pre-screened to be safe and boring. (A blogger in Minneapolis had his pen confiscated.)

• HEZBOLLAH IS HERE Michelle Malkin - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  Sheeple thought of the day: "Hezbollah is not my problem."

• SEND CONDI? William F. Buckley - Tue Jul 18, 8:26 PM ET

  So we incline to support Israel, which is understandable, but which raises, also, questions.

• DEMOCRATS PLAY POLITICS WITH HUMAN LIFE Maggie Gallagher - Tue Jul 18, 8:23 PM ET

  The Senate on Tuesday debated three important bills: Castle-DeGette, which expands federal funding for stem-cell research that kills human embryos; Santorum-Specter, which funds new research that uses the latest techniques to obtain embryonic-like stem cells without actually destroying embryos; and Brownback-Santorum, which would ban "fetal farming" or the practice of growing human fetuses for the purpose of using their body parts.

Most Popular Opinion

• LIBERALS: BORN TO RUN Ann Coulter - Wed Jul 19, 8:04 PM ET

  I knew the events in the Middle East were big when The New York Times devoted nearly as much space to them as it did to a New York court ruling last week rejecting gay marriage.

• WHERE ARE THE CHRISTIANS? Pat Buchanan - Wed Jul 19, 6:50 AM ET

  When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed his navy and air force on Lebanon, accusing that tiny nation of an "act of war," the last pillar of Bush's Middle East policy collapsed.

• CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: CIVILIZATION AT STAKE Larry Elder - Thu Jul 20, 6:50 AM ET

  Iran wants to buy time -- time to continue pursuing its nuclear program, in the wake of growing international opposition. So to distract the world's attention, let's start a proxy war.

• MIDDLE EAST CRISIS BLOWS UP BUSH'S ILLUSIONS Joe Conason - Thu Jul 20, 6:50 AM ET

  Watching the president of the United States try to fulfill his responsibilities at an international summit is a sobering experience these days. To observe George W. Bush talking trash, chewing with his mouth open and demonstrating his ignorance of geography marks still another step down in the continuing decline of U.S. prestige. It's the diplomatic equivalent of flag burning.

• Finally, it seems, Iran has overplayed its hand USATODAY.com - Wed Jul 19, 6:52 AM ET

  The attempt by Hezbollah and Hamas to drag the whole Arab world into their war with Israel in the past two weeks has drawn flak in the form of Arab public opinion that neither militant jihadist organizations anticipated.