We Will Not Capitulate

By Ben Caspit
Ma'ariv

Hezbollah's Triumph: Israeli Rockets Hits Lebanese Children

"We can perhaps forgive them for killing our children, but we can never forgive them for making us kill their children."

By Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Professor
The Huffington Post

Backstage at the Crisis

As the world's leaders gathered, the Middle East burst into flames. How President Bush handled the biggest foreign challenge of his second term.

By Richard Wolffe
Newsweek

Lebanon: A Jewish Moderate's Lament

By MJ Rosenberg
TPMCafe

Symposium: Proving Saddam’s WMDs

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com

'Disproportionate' in What Moral Universe?

By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post

Hezbollah proves formidable foe

Entrenched guerrilla force exposes limits of Israel’s modern army

By Scott Wilson and Edward Cody
Washington Post

If There Were A Nobel Prize For Lies…

By Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Professor
The Huffington Post

How the UN legitimizes terrorists

"If Algeria proposed a resolution that the Earth was flat and that Israel has flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 120 to 3, with 27 abstentions."

By Alan M Dershowitz
Chicago Tribune

Israel, the Model

Dictatorships and single standards

By William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn
National Review Online

Revisiting the WMDs

By John Hinderaker
Power Line

Senate passes interstate abortion bill

By Laurie Kellman

Associated Press, 25/7/06

Israel-Hezbollah conflict

“Unfortunately, the Hezbollah has hidden some of their missiles in private homes. And we are telling those persons, gentlemen, ‘Either you get rid of the missiles or leave your home. But we shall not wait until you will fire the missile over our heads,’ Peres said.

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Despite international appeals, the Bush administration has refused to press Israel for a prompt end to its campaign against Hezbollah. Instead, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is trying to drum up support for what she called a cease-fire of “lasting value” — one that envisions the Lebanese army taking over the south, where guerrillas have waged a cross-border war against Israel for years.

Rice will discuss the Mideast on Thursday evening in New York with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the European Union foreign policy chief, a U.N. official said.

She is likely to visit the region this weekend. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said only that her trip would come “in the near future,” telling CNN the timing would depend upon “when she thinks it’s most useful and most effective.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair also rejected calls for Israel to declare a unilateral cease-fire, insisting Hezbollah must first free the captured Israeli soldiers and stop firing rockets at the Jewish state.

— NBC News, 19/7/06


Israel said on Sunday it was prepared to back the deployment of a temporary international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon to ensure Hezbollah is removed from its border and to prevent the group from re-arming.

“Due to the weakness of the Lebanese army, we support the deployment in the south (of Lebanon) of a multi-national force with broad authority,” Defense Minister Amir Peretz told German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a final decision has yet to be made but that any new force should be made up of European Union members, have combat experience and take control of Lebanon’s border crossings with Syria.

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A U.N. spokesman said a U.N. observer was seriously wounded by Hezbollah fire in south Lebanon.

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In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel had “pushed the button of its own destruction” by attacking Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

— MSNBC, 23/7/06


Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Hezbollah’s de facto negotiator, rejected proposals brought by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, insisting a cease-fire must precede any talks about resolving Hezbollah’s presence in the south, an official close to the speaker said.

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The U.S. has said an international force might be necessary to help the Lebanese army move into the south. The central government has long refused to send the army in, insisting Hezbollah is a legitimate force….

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In a brazen raid into Israel on July 12, Hezbollah killed eight and captured two Israeli soldiers, provoking Israel’s biggest military campaign against Lebanon in 24 years.

— Associated Press, 24/7/06


Rice paid a surprise visit to Beirut on the way to Israel, trying to push a blanket plan that would call for a cease-fire simultaneous with the deployment of international and Lebanese troops into southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel.

Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a prominent Shiite Muslim who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah, rejected the idea and said a cease-fire should be immediate, leaving the other issues for much later.

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… U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland accused Hezbollah of “cowardly blending” among Lebanese civilians.

“Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children,” Egeland said. “I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don’t think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.”

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An Israeli tank was hit by Hezbollah fire, they said. Hezbollah released no casualty figures. It has claimed 11 dead in the entire campaign, though Israel says it has killed more than 100 of its fighters.

— Associated Press, 25/7/06


A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect
Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.

Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of the Hezbollah's political arm, also told The Associated Press in an interview that the Shiite militant group will not lay down arms.

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"The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn't even expect (this) response …that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel after the two soldiers were seized by guerrillas on Israel's side of the border on July 12.

In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon, seizing Hezbollah officials and briefly targeting specific strongholds in southern Lebanon.

Komati said his group had anticipated negotiations to swap the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese held in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it has in past prisoner exchanges.

— Associated Press, 25/7/06

Hezbollah banks under attack in Lebanon

Israel seeks to destroy group’s financial infrastructure

By Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers and the NBC News Investigative Unit
MSNBC

Senate Backs Bill Protecting Teens on Abortion, Upholds Parental Involvement

By Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com

His First Clue

By John Hinderaker
Power Line

Hezbollah's incursion warrants Israeli reprisal

By Alan Dershowitz and Mitch Webber
Democrat and Chronicle, 23/7/06

Our very strange day with Hezbollah

By Charlie Moore, CNN Senior Producer
CNN.com

In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post

Iran leader asks Germany for help on Zionism

German government official says a letter written by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Merkel asks her to help solve Palestinian problem, deal with Zionism. Official says letter ‘rather weird’

Reuters

Shimon Peres on Hardball

Hardball
MSNBC


CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: Earlier today I spoke with former Israeli Prime Minister and currently the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres. Mr. Vice Prime Minister, yesterday on the program, you told us that Israel would not engage in ground troop action on the Lebanese side of the border. Now we have a new report from the “New York Times” and the “Associated Press” of a skirmish involving the I.D.F. on the Lebanese side. Is there a change in tactic or what's going on now?

SHIMON PERES, ISRAELI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: No, we don't have the slightest intention to base ourselves again in Lebanon, on the Lebanese land. What we are trying to do is to prevent the Hezbollah from coming back to the border of Israel and deploying their forces in the way of ambushes. That's what they are doing. And we are waiting that the Lebanese will deploy itself along the border, instead of the Hezbollah, in accordance with United Nations resolution.

MATTHEWS: Do you have confidence in the Lebanese army to provide a buffer between your country and Hezbollah?

PERES: No, they won't be a buffer, but they will replace Hezbollah. We don't have the slightest trust in Hezbollah. They converted the border as a train of ambushes, shootings, trying to hijack our people. And we don't want them there. That's also the view of the United Nations.

But the Lebanese army should decide if they are an army. They have 50,000 soldiers. The Hezbollah is six or 7,000 soldiers. Now it's not the Salvation Army. It must be a fighting army — if they want to have an independent Lebanon, only the Lebanese army can provide them with independence. Otherwise, Hezbollah conquers Lebanon in fact.

They don't serve the Lebanese interests. They take orders and missiles from Iran, and they serve the Iranians. It's a foreign body. It's an army within an army. And they should bring an end to it.

MATTHEWS: Do you see any stiffening of the Lebanese government, a resolve that they hadn't had before, to truly be a government over all the territory of Lebanon?

PERES: Not really. I mean, they find it comfortable to declare their weakness. But governments must govern, must defend themselves. Look, the Lebanese came to us and say, “Land for peace.” We gave back all the land. We didn't get a piece of peace, you know? All the time.

MATTHEWS: Is there a way for Israel, unilaterally, to do the job?

Can you, using your fine air force, destroy Hezbollah's striking power?

PERES: That's what we shall try to do. At war, there is no alternative but victory. We don't fight the Lebanese. We are very careful not to hit their infrastructure, and clearly, not to hit their people.

Unfortunately, the Hezbollah has hidden some of their missiles in private homes. And we are telling those persons, gentlemen, “Either you get rid of the missiles or leave your home. But we shall not wait until you will fire the missile over our heads.”

You know, in four or five days, we have had 1,500 missiles, day and night, over the skies of the schools, over the restaurants of Israel. We've behaved with restraint — I hear that some people say its “disproportionate.” Is it proportionate to have 1,500 missiles in five days, and God knows what for? What do they want to achieve?

They are fanatics. They serve the Iranians. They destroy Lebanon. And the prime minister of Lebanon should address himself to them, not to us. We have nothing to ask of Lebanon. We would like to live in peace with Lebanon. We'd like to see an independent, prosperous Lebanon, multinational, multi-religious. They're an excellent candidate to be a good neighbor.

MATTHEWS: What can the United States government do to push the government of Lebanon to accept its responsibilities to govern its entire territories? How can Americans encourage them to be stronger?

PERES: Well, let me first of all say the following. We appreciate very much the position taken by the Americans — the administration, the Congress, the people. Your support is very dear to us, spiritually. And, you know, the right spirit is a very strong weapon as well.

We know that we have to do the fighting. We have never asked in our history an American soldier to fight instead of us. We are small, but we are determined. We are united, and we shall do the job.

The problem of the United States, in my judgment, was two-fold. One, you're engaged in many fronts: in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in North Korea. In Iran, all those evil groups raise their heads. That's one thing. And Americans and President Bush took a very clear position. But, alas, he found the world divided.

The world division created the Iranians strength. I assure you, the minute there will be a unified position by the world, Iran will return to little strength which is rather weak. If I read correctly the map, the president is trying to create a coalition with a united policy vis-a-vis Iran. Iran is the masterminding force, here.

MATTHEWS: Yes, what is the connection between America — our concern — Israel's concern — about a nuclear capacity, a nuclear weapons capacity by Iran, and this attack of Hezbollah? Are they trying to divert world attention from their nuclear program? Or what are they up to, do you think?

PERES: It may be the case because the refusal, or the negative answer of Iran was given on the 11th of July and the attack of the Hezbollah started on the 12th of July. So the proximity in time maybe tells the story. They are serving the Iranians. And the Iranians think that the world will remain divided, and they can make a mockery of it.

They don't give a damn about world public opinion or institutions. But the minute they will understand that there is a responsible world — and Iran is a problem for the world because, if Iran will have nuclear bombs, it will eventually reach the hands of terrorists, as well, as their missiles are going over to terrorist hands. And then how are we going to govern the world?

I mean, if North Korea, Iran, and if the two of them will do, other countries will follow suit. They don't have a choice. Everybody who is fanatic or has money or has a conflict or has a claim will have a nuclear bomb, it will be impossible to run the world in a normal way. For that reason, I think Iran is the world's problem.

I hope the world will unite itself and take the necessary position vis-a-vis Iran. In the meantime, we shall fight against the envoys of Iran here, and we shall win. It's costly, it's painful, but we don't have a choice. And we feel we do the right thing, deeply convinced, and deeply anxious to have peace.

MATTHEWS: One last question, Mr. Peres. Condi Rice, the secretary of State — is she coming to the region?

PERES: That's what I read in the papers, but she will always be welcome. We have the highest respect for her, as I have said, and I repeat it, we have the highest respect and thanks to the Americans for their position, for their support, for their understanding.

We know how difficult it is to fight terrorism, whether it's in America itself or in Iraq or elsewhere. It's not a simple proposition. But we have to fight, and we have to win, and we shall win, all of us, because we represent a responsible future for every person on Earth to remain free and secure.

MATTHEWS: Thank you very much, Shimon Peres, vice prime minister of Israel. Thank you very much, sir, for your time.

PERES: Thank you.

The Democrats' blame game

Editorial
Washington Times

‘Defend or Die’

In a rare display of unanimity, Israel's opinionated population is rallying in support of the strikes against Lebanon

By Dan Ephron
Newsweek online

Israel-Hezbollah conflict

During [a] six-year campaign of lukewarm conflict, both Hezbollah and Israel played according to the vague (but much-touted) "rules of the game," which were purportedly in place to prevent the type of events on view this week.

According to those rules, Hezbollah set up what it called "fishing traps" for IDF soldiers. If IDF soldiers could be baited into entering a border village on the wrong side of the "Blue Line," they were fair game. In return for such combat discretion, Israel only ever responded by hitting Hezbollah outposts and the occasional electric plant with rocket fire — staying well away from population centers.

But entering into Israel to capture soldiers — as happened on Wednesday — was a new twist altogether (though one Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah had long threatened).

— MSNBC, 14/7/06


A Lebanese TV station also showed video of what it said an F-16 fighter jet crashing in the Jamjour district near the Hezbollah stronghold of southern Beirut. Israel said none of its aircraft had been hit or had crashed. Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV said the aircraft was a helicopter gunship.

A Lebanese security official said the object was a fuel tank dropped by an Israeli aircraft over Kfar Chima, a town near southern Beirut. After it dropped the fuel tank, the aircraft fired two missiles at three cargo trucks in the area.

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An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon destroyed at least one long-range Iranian missile capable of hitting Tel Aviv. Israeli military officials said aircraft targeted a truck carrying the weapons before they could be launched.

— Associated Press, 17/7/06


Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said that his country would welcome a more energetic and decisive international effort to bring about immediate and full implementation of Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1680, which call for the disarmament of Hezbollah.

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The Bush administration … insisted the call for halting Israeli airstrikes was conditioned on Hezbollah releasing captured Israeli soldiers and ending missile attacks on Israel….

The U.S. view was supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said the soldiers must be returned unharmed and attacks on Israel must stop. “Then, of course, also the Israeli military action must be ended,” she said.

— MSNBC, 17/7/06


Hundreds of French citizens and other Europeans were evacuating on a commercial ship sent by France, which has more than 20,000 citizens in Lebanon. The evacuees began moving in buses from a Beirut school used as a gathering point to Beirut’s port, where they were to board boats taking them to the ship anchored offshore.

“Who knows when this will end,” said Habib al-Saad, who was sending his three sons. “If any of our Arab leaders had a brain this would have been resolved a long time ago. But they don’t,” al-Saad said.

— Associated Press, 17/7/06

The President: Shades of Green

By Richard Wolffe
Newsweek

Other comments

While [G8 leaders] must urge Israel to show restraint in the face of terrorist provocations to draw it into war, it is imperative that they also flex their enormous economic and political muscle to persuade the Lebanese government to clamp down on radical militias, and the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to renounce terrorism and accept Israel's right to exist."

— The Toronto Star, 14/7/06


Now French President Jacques Chirac is using unusually strong language to suggest that Israel, not Hizbullah, was undermining the new government in Beirut. “One may well ask if there isn't today a kind of wish to destroy Lebanon—its infrastructure, its roads, its communications, its energy, its airport,” Chirac told French television. “I find honestly, as all Europeans do, that the current reactions are totally disproportionate.”

It’s not clear which Europeans Chirac means. After all, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at a joint press conference with President Bush earlier this week that it was vital to remember what the root cause of the conflict was: Hizbullah. “It’s most important for the Israeli government to be strengthened,” she said, “but it’s also clearly shown that these incursions, such as the kidnapping of soldiers, is not acceptable.” While Merkel said everyone should use “proportionate means” in the conflict, she said the pressure should not be applied to Israel, but on “those who started these attacks in the first place.”

— Newsweek online, 14/7/06


People here know what it feels like to live in a besieged city that is being attacked where militia groups are in charge and there are gunmen on the streets. The Lebanese know that perhaps better than anyone else.

Those we’ve spoken to are divided about the crisis.

Although it might seem unusual, some of them support this Israeli offensive against Hezbollah because they have had enough of the Shiite militant group.

The opinions generally falls along sectarian lines. Many Christians in Beirut don’t support Hezbollah and are generally favorable of this operation. Others, mostly Shiites, oppose it.

— NBC News, 14/7/06


Iran is one of Hezbollah’s principal backers along with Syria, providing weapons, money and political support. Many believe Iran and Syria are fueling the battle to show their strength in the region.

— Associated Press, 16/7/06

Israeli official: Iran helping Hezbollah

Associated Press

Hezbollah fighters have dangerous friends

Editorial
The Gazette

The Mideast Erupts

Israel is entitled to retaliate. And then what?

Editorial
Washington Post

War and peace

Editorial
The Jerusalem Post

Battle Plans

Israel's next war has begun

By Yossi Klein Halevi
Jewish World Review, 13/7/06

Why Did Israel Bomb the Beirut Airport?

By Robert Windrem, NBC News Investigative Producer
The Daily Nightly, MSNBC

Dan Rather's Situation

The Situation with Tucker Carlson
MSNBC


(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAN RATHER, JOURNALIST: I made a mistake. I didn't did hard enough, long enough, didn't ask enough of the right questions. And I trusted a source who changed his story. It turns out he misled us, lied to us about one thing.

But there are no excuses. This is not a day for excuses. I made a mistake, we made a mistake, and I'm sorry for it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TUCKER CARLSON, MSNBC HOST: Welcome back. That was Jimmy Swaggart — I mean, sorry, that was — excuse me, that was Dan Rather almost two years ago, apologizing for his role in a discredited report on President Bush's National Guard service. That moment marked the beginning of the end of his long career at CBS News.

Well, now Rather is back with a new series on HDNet, the high definition cable network co-founded by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. But the question remains, was Rather a target of the organized right, or was he just a sloppy journalist?

Joining me he to answer that question, Matthew Sheffield. He's the executive editor of newsbusters.org, also the co-founder of ratherbias.com.

Matthew Sheffield, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me, Tucker.

CARLSON: So, conservatives have been after Dan Rather for these many decades. A lot of liberals in the press, why Dan Rather? I mean, how do we know Dan Rather is a screaming liberal?

SHEFFIELD: Well, you just look at what he says, quite honestly. I mean, he — if you compare what he says about Republicans and you compare what he says about Democrats, he pretty much — the only bad thing he ever says about Democrats is they're not liberal enough. And he said that about Bill Clinton when he did welfare reform. He was, like, so, they're going to push — he's pushing a law that's going to, by anyone's analysis, put poor children into the streets.

And then with you look at what he says about Republicans, it's just they're evil, they're taking over the world, they're destroying the Constitution. And blah, blah, blah, blah.

CARLSON: So — but you're — you're — in other words, you're inferring from his comments, what you believe are editorial comments, his political views, his own political views.

SHEFFIELD: Exactly.

CARLSON: But has he ever come out and said, you know, “I'm a Democrat, I support Democrats”? Has he ever been more explicit about it?

SHEFFIELD: Well, he actually did when he was in college. He was the editor of a student paper there, and he wrote a column, and he said, “Why I Am a Democrat.”

Democrats are the party of the people, and he just went on a long schpiel about that. And nobody has ever actually confronted him about that on the air, those former statements. And everybody who knows him at CBS, we had a number of people over the years contact us, and they agreed very much that Dan was liberal, even though he would never admit it.

CARLSON: Right. And, of course, he spoke at a Democratic Party fund-raiser in Texas…

SHEFFIELD: Exactly. Exactly.

CARLSON: …not all that long ago.

Now, to the — to the incidents that effectively ended his career in broadcast television, did he ever — did he ever concede — we just played the sort of apology a minute ago, but did he ever concede that the report, the documents that he used to attack Bush's service in the National Guard, or lack of it, that they were phony? Did he ever admit that, it was it a made up story?

SHEFFIELD: No, he actually never has admitted that outright. They said — he said — the official line is, “The documents cannot be authenticated.” And that, you know, can mean anything other than — it can mean they're true, we think they're true.

It can mean they're false. It can mean we think they're true, but we couldn't prove they're true. I mean, it's a very legalistic denial, really. So it's a non-apology apology, essentially.

CARLSON: Right. But we know I think conclusively, I believe conclusively, in any case, that they were false.

Is this such a bad idea, though, that he's going to HDNet? I mean, the complaint has always been, you know, the big three networks are liberal and they come into our houses, we don't pay for them, they kind of force themselves upon us and they push their point of view on us and we resent it. Therefore, we create FOX News, or whatever. But that's always been the complaint, correct?

But this is really narrow casting. I mean, this is going to be essentially a service. If you're liberal and you want to watch Dan Rather, you pay for it, and you can. Or you pull him up and you can.

I mean, that's not bad, is it?

SHEFFIELD: Yes. Well, more power to him. But it just shows that, you know, that's the kind of audience that he has left.

I mean, you know, if you look at the ratings for “CBS Evening News” over the — over his tenure, there was a steady trend downward. And after he left, the ratings have gone up.

So, I mean, there — there are probably some people out there that would want to watch it. But I somehow suspect that they're not out buying HDTVs.

CARLSON: All right. Well, I guess we'll get a chance to see.

Matthew Sheffield, thanks a lot for joining us.

SHEFFIELD: A pleasure.

My role in the Plame leak probe

Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources… none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

By Robert Novak
Chicago Sun-Times

Palestinian suicide strategy

By Barry Rubin
Jerusalem Post

Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit

By Edmund L Andrews
New York Times

The big-bang story of U.S. private business

By Lawrence Kudlow
Townhall.com

Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan

By Ray Robison
Fox News

Iraqi Like Me

An e-mail from a fellow researcher in Iraq reminded me of our commonalities.

By Lynne McFarland
Newsweek online

Iraq Was Hiding Chemical Weapons Facilities in 1999

By John Hinderaker
Power Line

NY Times Contradicts Itself Again

By Cassandra
Villainous Company

SWIFT Deposits

By The Prowler
American Spectator

Media Misreport Catholic Embryonic Stem Cell Research Excommunication

By Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com

The War's Left Front

By Jonathan Darman
Newsweek, 3/7/06


The talk of the blogosphere last week was "Kosola" — allegations that [Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, publisher of the popular liberal blog, DailyKos.com,] wrote favorably about candidates with whom he or his close friend and coauthor Jerome Armstrong had financial relationships. Moulitsas swore the charges were baseless (Armstrong, too, has denied impropriety), but they clearly got under his skin. When The New Republic's Web site published an e-mail from Moulitsas to a group of friendly activists urging them not to talk about Kosola and thus "starve it of oxygen," Moulitsas went berserk in a blog posting, accusing the venerable liberal journal of treason. By the weekend, Moulitsas's allies were sending each other e-mails infected with the paranoia of revolutionaries who've gained power too fast: How should they deal with traitors? How much openness could they handle? Which fellow travelers could they really trust?

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Newt Gingrich, who wins points even from liberal bloggers for his political acumen, marvels at the Democrats' embrace of the blogosphere: "Candidates out there run a risk of resembling the people they're trying to appeal to," he tells NEWSWEEK. "I think the Republican Party has few allies more effective than the Daily Kos."

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The pressure on Moulitsas — to be consistent, to be pragmatic, to win — will only grow as the fall elections approach. Already, the strain of the spotlight is beginning to show in his growing belligerence and paranoia. When Kosola broke, Moulitsas e-mailed fellow progressive activists, wondering who might be shopping the story. "I've gotten reliable tips that Hillary's operation has been digging around my past (something I confronted them about, btw, and never got a denial), and you know the Lieberman/DLC/TNR camp is digging as well," he wrote, referring to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and The New Republic. (Aides to Senators Clinton and Lieberman deny the allegations in the e-mails.)

Don't Believe the Hype

Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming.

By Richard S Lindzen, MIT Professor of Atmospheric Science
Wall Street Journal