Two dead Israelis worth 200 dead Palestinians and five live ones: In an UN-brokered and decidedly unbalanced trade, Israel turned over the remains of 199 terrorists, the living Kantar and four others in exchange for the mutilated bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Captured by Hezb’allah inside Israel in 2006, the young Israelis did not long survive capture by Hezb’allah, certainly not long enough to be

“You see the activity taking place, the people in the shops, the traffic on the streets, clearly there’s been an enormous improvement,” he said. Oh, wait: that’s Baghdad.

Shelby Steele on Jesse Jackson and Obama: And Mr. Obama is so successful at winning gratitude from whites precisely because Mr. Jackson was so successful at inflaming and exploiting white guilt. Mr. Jackson must now see his own oblivion in the very features of Mr. Obama’s face. Thus the on-camera threat of castration, followed by the little jab of his fist as if to deliver a stiletto of his own.

When will enough be enough? If just one life is saved by outlawing heavy machinery, won’t it be worth it? How many more, Mr. Speaker?

It turns out that the denizens of the Daily Kos are just as humorless as the presidential candidate they support.  Newsbusters notes that the Kos Kidz were able to bully the Austin American-Statesman into pulling a mildly satirical article on the Netroots Nation conclave in Austin.  Apparently, some could not find the humor in a piece referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “arguably so left-leaning that her parenthetical should be D-Beijing.”  Or

Or, ink is gauche if it’s not in newspapers, and besides, Americans, unlike newspapers, are financially strapped. Sonnet 111: O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in,

and just because The Surge turned out right, that doesn’t mean that the way that the administration saw things then was the right way to see things, because it wasn’t, because I was the one who was seeing things right: In an exclusive interview, Obama told “Nightline” that if elected president, “we’re going to begin to phase out our troops.” Obama is seeing a vastly different Iraq than the one

The lede from today’s New York Times: AMMAN, Jordan — For what feels like forever, Israelis and their Arab neighbors have been hopelessly deadlocked on how to resolve the Palestinian crisis. But there is one point they may now agree on: If elected president, Senator Barack Obama will not fundamentally recalibrate America’s relationship with Israel, or the Arab world. One gent is downright denouncable: “He’s like a chameleon,” said Walid

Only your divisiveness, upset, anger and disappointment will save the world: “We have one candidate who essentially is telling us every day that the world as it is just fine. That what we’ve been doing for the last eight years is fine,” Obama said. “Stay the course. Don’t make too many changes. “And then we have this other candidate — Barack Obama — who is saying every day that the

At the HuffPo, Seth Colter Walls went through Barack Obama’s June fundraising report, finding that only eight of Hillary Clinton’s 311 “Hillraisers” ($100K+ Clinton bundlers) gave money to Obama in June.  Moreover, the total they gave was a paltry $19,250.  Furthermore, only a few Hillraisers gave to the DNC or its Victory Fund in June.  Walls adds that several dozen more Hillraisers are rumored to have donated in July; some have hosted fundraisers for