For the Best Understanding of the Israel-Palestinian matsav (situation) http://www.ariga.com/2006-02-03.shtml
and read Robert Rosenberg's Ariga regularly.

Whoops
Ok, so Scotter Libby's trial is postponed for a year.
til January, 2007. Whoops. The midterm elections will be over. E-mails are missing from 2003 in the Executive Office. Whoops

Media Matters - Media largely ignored Fitzgerald revelation that White House may have destroyed emails

The Administration is really pissed that someone leaked about the leak, and they're going to subpoena journalists.

Cartoonist out on a Limb
The Joint Chiefs are horrified, along with so many military personnel and families about the Washington Post cartoon of a quadruple amputee. I'm horrified by the fact that soldiers (and civilians) are being rendered amputees, but who am I. I'm horrified that the government censors images of returning dead and injured soldiers, sanitizing war for the masses.
Remember Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, one of the quintessential anti-war books of the 20th century.

Terror
It's pretty scary, but Pat Buchannan just spoke on Countdown with Keith Olberman on MSNBC, and I agreed with everything he said. Scary.

Baiting Hugo
What's the deal with Rummy comparing Hugo Chavez to Hitler? Have they decided they're not going to get the oil in Iraq and trying to provoke war with Venezuela?