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Bush's approval rating lowest since Nixon. He has nobody to blame but himself.

Here comes the Fairness Doctrine, another attack on free speech. There are so many anymore it's hard to keep track.

Chavez steals yet another company in Venezuela. Isn't it lovely to watch a tin-plated dictator in the making? Fidel Castro would be proud. More to follow, for sure. I wonder how much destruction he'll wage in Venezuela before he's done. Tells Washington to go to hell and calls Condoleezza Rice "my little girl."

Iran bars UN nuclear inspectors.

Bloomberg has an excellent analysis of Billary's chances.

Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution, said Clinton's statements last week left him ``with the impression that her remarks were written by a committee, measuring exactly how far she should move left, right, up, down.''

More on Billary's marriage and chances.

Then there's that husband of hers. Could there be a more complicated marriage in America?

"She doesn't fit the mold," says Elizabeth Ossoff, a political psychologist at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, N.H. She predicts "a difficult but very interesting race. A lot of things are going to get brought up, and people are going to have to face their opinions."

Clinton to focus on health care and climate change.

India returns space capsule to Earth.

Reason provides sobering commentary on Bush's new Iraq strategy, and why we should try it.

In effect, Keane appears to be saying that the plan works at an acceptable cost only if the United States can pacify the Shiite militants without forcibly confronting them. To me, and possibly also to the Sadrists, this looks like what gamblers call a bluff.

Trying to re-establish education of the classics on American campuses.

Slate discusses the history of the Vietnam War, but draws a very mistaken, liberal apologist, conclusion. Kissenger has it right, not Slate. Cutting off the funding doomed the South Vietnamese. That it was predictable just points out that liberal treachery on the issue was predictable.

"Soon after the agreement was signed," Kissinger wrote in his memoirs, "Watergate undermined Nixon's authority and the dam holding back Congressional antiwar resolutions burst." He claimed, "The war and the peace ... won at such cost were lost within a matter of months once Congress refused to fulfill our obligations."

It is true that Congress restricted U.S. operations and cut aid to the South, and these moves did indeed facilitate the eventual Northern victory. But these events were entirely predictable; the settlement the Nixon administration negotiated left the South vulnerable to future attacks.